Candy Buckley

A hitman, his boss, an art dealer and a money-laundering scheme that accidentally turns the assassin into an overnight avant-garde sensation, one that forces her to play the art world against the underworld.

Three friends are asked to be bridesmaids at a wedding of a woman they used to ridicule back in high school.

A high-priced call girl, shocked by her mother's death, decides to get out of the business and have a baby.

A young woman seeks to rebuild her life when she takes work at an antique store. She regains her confidence from the kind souls who own the shop, until faces from her traumatic past start to surface.

Inga is a mother with the soul of a poet at a crossroads. Her estranged husband Hermann is bereft of emotional support for her in the wake of her recovery from breast cancer, let alone her passion for buying and restoring and house that reminds her of her childhood home. She shares a close bond with her eight-year-old daughter, and though she is troubled by her decaying marriage, she retains a strong spirit of optimism, as expressed in her own writing.

Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.

Expecting parents learn about a new prenatal test from their private practice doctor.