Cornelia Quick

#5: Insatiable Ingrid’s Second Shift

Ingrid Igelstöm returns to Tender Mercy Hospital for her second night working with Nurse Nina and the controversial (and delicious …) Dr. Tikelmeister. She thinks she knows what to expect after her first shift, and hopes that there may be call for her to assist in a Code Red situation.

Surprises await, though, as soon as she reaches the nurse’s station on Ward X, beginning with a shocking change in uniform, followed by a set of patients suffering from a very different malady than she has ever encountered before.

Can she bring relief to these new patients? And what further treatments await her at the hands of the unorthodox doctor?

#4: Insatiable Ingrid’s First Shift

Ingrid Igelstöm is a little nervous about her first overnight shift at a hospital in an American city – it’s so different from the bucolic world of rural Sweden she’s left behind! Luckily Nina is there to show her the ropes, especially when dealing with Doctor Tikelmeister’s special patients on Ward X.

Over the course of the night, Ingrid discovers that she, too, has a condition that Doctor Tikelmeister is uniquely qualified to treat …

#3: Off the Leash

It was supposed to be a girls’ weekend getaway at the casino for Petra, Madeline, and Casey — a chance to have some fun and blow off some steam before Petra’s upcoming marriage to Phil. With Phil off on a solo camping trip, Petra was looking forward to hanging out with her best friends and forgetting about wedding planning for a few days.

But when they discover that their weekend coincides with a swingers’ convention at the casino hotel, the three friends are thrown into a world of excess and passion they never dreamed possible. Madeline decides to find the pleasure that has been missing from her marriage in the array of delights the convention presents; Casey seeks to learn ways to bring more desire into her own bedroom; and Petra falls under the spell of the mysterious Martin and his engmatic wife Cynthia.

Will the price of their weekend adventure be too steep for their hearts to pay?

#2: The Contours of Desire

Not every journey comes with a map

Petra has been unable to move forward from her experiences during her off-the-leash weekend: the seduction of Martin and Cynthia awakened desires she has been unable to contain, but also unwilling to embrace. When her therapist prescribes a visit to the Blue Haven Retreat Center on Lake Makanogin, she’s skeptical, but her husband Phil encourages her explore this new opportunity for healing.

Jessie has been on a journey of her own since a wild lost weekend on Lake Nakanawidah with Phil, embracing the quiet splendour of the woods and lakes. She feels complete as she never has before, working at the Blue Haven.

When a winter storm disrupts their journeys and uncovers secrets they have all been hiding, from each other and themselves, Petra, Phil, and Jessie are forced to create a new map unlike any they’ve followed before.

#1: The Heart’s Hunger

Love blooms in the unlikeliest of places …

Zoe Chapelle is ready to turn her career, and her life, around; she’s been stuck in a rut of poorly-produced films of questionable quality, augmenting her income with her cam show for a cadre of dedicated fans. When the opportunity to be part of a production by Wolfgang Zemper, one of the legends of adult cinema, comes her way, she jumps at the chance, even though she feels out of her depth.

Tommy Dare fell into the industry on a whim, and has drifted from shoot to shoot, always more of a background player than a star. When Zoe Chapelle, his biggest cam-girl crush, shows up on the set of the new Wolfgang Zemper film, Tommy hopes to finally steal a scene or two. He doesn’t bank on having his heart stolen in the process.

“The Heart’s Hunger” is a story of clashing egos and ambitions set behind the scenes of an adult film, perhaps the unlikeliest of places to find true romance.