Hugh Or Valerie

One evening, up north in the countryside, Hugh and Valerie reconnect. Valerie has inherited her father's home and all the disturbing journals he wrote before his suicide. Hugh is bombarded by the impassioned emails of his distant paramour. All the while an abused housekeeper flees her captor. Police sirens bare down on the small stage. Erotic encounters pass by. The Doctor is phoned; a little girl, Valerie's daughter, stops by.
"You make a sad, sad…"
"I make a sad, sad what?"
The government may be involved. The helicopters arrive.
This small novel is a discrete jewel. It creeps up and then creeps away. Join Hugh and Valerie, the sun is setting.