title: Desperate Characters: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)
author:  Paula Fox 
description: Meet the Bentwoods, Sophie and Otto, "both just over forty," living in Brooklyn sometime in the '60s with neither hope nor children to encourage them to work on their suffocating marriage. Such are the central subjects of Paula Fox's enthralling <i>Desperate Characters</i>, first published to much acclaim in 1970. The novel's action unfolds in a single weekend, and includes Otto's torturous breakup with his longtime business partner, Charlie, and a visit the Bentwoods make to their country home, which they find vandalized. Everything pivots around an occurrence so ordinary as to make us marvel at the power it wields under Fox's brilliant pressure: a cat bite.
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  # Rescuing Rita - A SANCTUM Novel
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Pepper North
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Cover Artist Allysa Hart
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Text copyright ©2019 Pepper North
  
  
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  # Author’s Note:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The following story is completely fictional. The characters are all over the
  age of 18 and as adults choose to live their lives in an age play environment.
  This is a series of books that can be read in any order. You may, however,
  choose to read them sequentially to enjoy the characters best. Subsequent
  books will feature characters that appear in previous novels as well as new
  faces.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Other titles by Pepper North
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Zoey: Dr. Richards’ Littles
  1](https://alsoby.me/r/amazon/B071WXD91H?fc=us&ds=1)
  
  