In the suspenseful Strip Poker, a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men - Can she 'outplay' them? In the award-winning Smother! a young woman's nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor-mother - Which of them will 'win'? In Split/Brain a woman who has blundered into a lethal situation confronts the possibility of saving herself - Will she take it? In The First Husband, a jealous man discovers that his wife seems to have lied about her first marriage, and exacts a cruel revenge, years after the fact. In these and other powerful tales, children veer beyond their parents' control, wives and husbands wake up to find that they hardly know each other, haunted pasts intrude upon uncertain futures, and those who bring us the most harm may be the nearest at hand.
