No-vi-ti-ate (nō-vish'ē-it, -āt') n. The period of being a novice. Ten stories, ten waypoints, ten steps along a path. The stories collected in Novitiate represent the first leg of C.C. Williams' journey from a sometime storyteller to a published writer. From the sweet, simple beginnings portrayed in "Midnight"; to a rough and rocky courtship in "Busting the Greenhorn," an AllRomanceEbooks(tm) Category Best Seller; to the dark and edgy...