The hotel bar buzzed with holiday cheer. Jasmine Jones sipped her second glass of mulled wine, the warmth spreading through her as laughter from her office party echoed around her. At 42, married with two kids, she rarely let loose like this, but the Christmas party had pulled her away from the daily routine. Her petite frame, wrapped in a tight pink dress that hugged her sexy curves, drew glances from colleagues. She fel...

Amber stepped out of the Uber and onto the sidewalk in front of the towering skyscraper that housed the Washington Corporation. Her heels clicked on the pavement as she purposefully strode up to the revolving doors, head held high. She had received an unexpected email from her DNA match, Isaiah Washington, requesting a family meeting at the company headquarters. Her mind raced back to that fateful day when she discovered...

The motel room smelled faintly of bleach and stale air conditioning, but Alexis barely noticed. Her bare back arched off the sunken mattress as her latest hookup—a fit, dark-haired man in his mid-thirties—thrust into her with rhythmic force, his abs flexing with every motion. “God,” he groaned in her ear, gripping her hips tightly. “You are… unreal. I’ve never been with anyone as beautiful as you.” Flattery like that didn...

Both my sister and I stared at the status board in disbelief. Our flight to England to see our father had just departed, and we were stuck at the airport for the night. The next available flight was twenty-four hours away. "Crap! I knew this would happen. Our layover was too tight to begin, and then our flight was late." My nineteen-year-old sister had made the reservations, and now we were paying the price. We were stuck...

It was one of those days. If it could go wrong, it did. What should have been a quick, routine flight to end the day had dragged into hours stuck on the tarmac. We couldn’t leave the gate because the plane would be due for routine maintenance upon arrival at its last stop, and there was nobody in the small town who could complete it. Rather than switch all the passengers and luggage to a new plane, the airline decided to...