Includes an excerpt from Overcoming rejection.

Sent to San Francisco to live with her beloved aunt and uncle, newly orphaned Emily expectantly enters their once-happy mansion only to find unimaginable horrors.

The Parlor is a futuristic novel that explores a world in which males and females live completely separated in order to achieve permanent peace and prosperity. Readers dive into this progressive society through the eyes of Andrea, an eighteen-year-old girl who is about to come face to face with a man for the first time in a mandatory meeting. Once Andrea meets a male, she discovers that this civilization isn't as perfect as it seems from his point of view. In a struggle to find the truth, Andrea must choose if she wants to forget all that she has learned or act on the humanity that she feels inside.

Emily Luccock is looking forward to living at Sugar Hill Hall....She remembers her aunt and uncle's grand old mansion well, with its enormous, elegant parlor, marble fireplace, and white china cups filled with hot chocolate. But this time things are different. Her aunt's once bright and lively home is now dead with silence. Evil lurks in every corner, and the dark, shadowed walls watch and whisper late at night. And no one ever speaks. Everything's changed at Sugar Hill Hall, and Emily knows something awful is happening there. What's become of Uncle Twice? Why is Aunt Twice a prisoner in her own home? Emily is desperate to uncover the truth. Time is running out, and she must find a way to save the people and home she cares so much about.

As winter arrives and the local school closes until summer, the Fairchild children continue their schooling in the parlor with the oldest, Althy, teaching.

Set in a world of glamorous, gifted, intelligent people, the novel is a psychosexual drama about the close and sinister relationship between Maggie Newman and Peter and Gail, brother and sister, whose love, when threatened, degenerates into possessiveness and then darkest evil.