Features three Anita Shreve stories: 'Eden Close', 'Strange Fits Of Passion', 'Where Or When'.
'Eden Close'
When Andrew returns to upstate New York for his mother's funeral, he does not intend to stay. But the dreams and memoirs of seventeen years ago persist, and he relives that hot, bloody night when Eden Close was blinded - by the same gun that killed her father . . .
'Strange Fits of Passion'
A young, successful journalist Maureen English appears to have it all. But in private, Maureen's husband has a tendency towards alcohol and violent abuse. When the situation at home becomes unbearable, Maureen takes her baby daughter and flees . . .
'Where or When'
When faithfully married real-estate agent Charles Callahan chances on a newspaper photograph of Sian Richards, a woman he loved when they were both only thirteen, he is hardly in a position to do anything about it. But Charles cannot bear his curiosity, and decides to get in touch . . .