Welcome Home, Amy

From the day I had been placed with the Home, following the sudden death of my mother, I had incessantly caused trouble. Janice Epstein, the Housemother, explained in a concerned tone to the tall, lean gentleman seated beside her on the couch, "You must understand, the girl is a perpetual little demon." "So I've heard," the man remarked, smiling accommodatingly....., "I think, Mr. Daniels, you should reconsider." "Thank you, but I'm not one to shirk a duty," Chris declared....Hiding behind the door, I could guess that Janice was hardput to laugh. Duty! More like a judge's sentence. One week -- give him one week with that insensitive fourteen year-old brat, and he'll throw duty to the vultures and deliver Amy Walters muzzled and on a leash back to the Home.....

The Offering

The closet door opened and she came out, the girl with the plain face and the intriguing eyes, the girl in the crowd who for an instant had eclipsed the world about him.....Reason intervened and filled him with anger. She was as he'd suspected, another idol-besotted female out for a thrill or an autograph.....

Wordplay

How do you define romance.....

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