Part Two The morning, then early afternoon, passed uneventfully. As the hot Andalusian sun began its first, late afternoon moves towards dusk, Beth spotted Lucas through the vented shutters of her guesthouse, wandering back from the beach. He was wearing the same white swimsuit as before and looked so beautiful still -- so sexy and bronzed. Beth might have swooned were it not for the fact that walking next to him again, w...

Part One Beth and Claire had not crossed paths, except for phone calls, FaceTime, and email exchanges, for almost half a decade. Despite the long intervals between in-person visits, the two friends remained close. It had been that way since their university days in England. The two women had both “married well” and settled into their lives on opposite sides of the Atlantic -- Beth in Los Angeles, Claire in Paris. They had...

Part Three: Club Eros Having spent the night together, the pair awoke the next morning and spent the early part of the day in domestic bliss. Perhaps owing to Julian’s young age, Nicole’s maternal instincts took hold, and she spent the morning fussing over him, cooking him breakfast in the modernist kitchenette, serving him coffee, and tidying up his teenage mess. Despite the forty-four-year gap in their ages, they happil...

Part Two: Club Au Naturel Nicole awoke late the next morning and sat with her coffee and croissant on her private deck overlong the secluded stretch of beach beyond, the aqua-coloured ocean lapping gently at the pristine shoreline. It was going to be another glorious day of blue sky, tropical heat, and uninterrupted sunshine. As the reality of her plans for that day sank in, that she would be revealing her sixty-two-year-...

Part One: Club Soleil A gentle Caribbean breeze wafted through one of the resort’s shaded, open-air lounges, providing the assembled patrons with fleeting respite from the midday tropical heat. Ornate, curvilinear, and exquisitely crafted bamboo installations created canopies above, shielding those who sat beneath from the intense sun. It was just before noon, and the assembled guests were attired in various accoutrements...