Season of Choice
by Nathaniel Banks

THE STORY: College-aged Jason Redwine is about to depart for a European trip with his cousin, Cassandra, a teenager, who is madly in love with him.

But their trip is interrupted when Jason learns he is about to become the father of Dolly Lumpkin's child, and he decides to stay and marry her.

Nineteen years later, Jason is now forty and the father of Harriet.

She follows family tradition by becoming pregnant by a local high school athlete who doesn't meet the Redwine's social standards.

What Jason really wants to do is run off with Cassandra, who has remained a single and ageless expatriate, and let Harriet marry a fluffy cousin who is willing to oblige for a consideration.

But in the end he is far too noble; he gives his daughter in marriage to the worthy commoner and faces his future and responsibilities with a dreary wife.