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Celebrated for more than fifty years as a world-renowned novelist, essayist, and political figure and commentator, Gore Vidal is less known for the exquisitely crafted short fiction he wrote as a young man. Like the work of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams, his stories have been overshadowed by the author’s triumphs writing in other genres. Still, Vidal’s short fiction offers us a portrait of the young artist in the 1940s and 1950s. His subtle and comic tales often center on adolescence and homosexual themes.

When Sarah Walsh flees an abusive marriage, billionaire Alec Harrow gives her shelter for the night. She’ll do anything to escape the man hunting her…but the last thing she wants is to trust a wealthy, powerful man—especially one as good-looking as Alec. Alec knows he’s playing a dangerous game when he learns that Sarah’s husband never married her at all, and her ex holds the key to ruining Alec’s hotel empire. The logical choice is to let her go. But as her kindness heals the loneliness of his past during the Christmas holidays, he questions whether the feelings are real.

Prep school sweethearts Ian and Andi Copeland are envied by everyone they know. They have successful businesses, a beautiful house in St. Louis, and their eldest daughter, Cassidy, is following in their footsteps by attending prestigious Glenlake Academy. Then, a submerged car is dredged from the bottom of a swimming hole near the campus. So are the remains of a former writer-in-residence who vanished 20 years ago - during Ian and Andi’s senior year.

Lawyer Robert Tarza is surprised when his young, beautiful and wealthy French girlfriend, Tess, proposes marriage. It's not that he doesn't love her, but even after five years, there's a lot about her he doesn't know.