5 Best Romance Novel Series

The best romance novel series capture your heart on page one and refuse to let you go, a thousand pages later. Just as television programs are beginning to seriously compete with films, romance series are giving readers the opportunity to get much deeper into a character’s life and psyche. They’re hard to write and as … Continued

One Summer – Part One

Warning: This older woman/younger man short story is erotic in nature, and contains graphic content. Part One “Jump, jump, jump!” The chant morphed into a roar as Jimmy stepped to the edge of the roof and peered into the pool. Elle had watched her son leap plenty of times, but never with a plastic beer … Continued

One Summer – Part Two

Warning: the following erotic short story contains adult content. This is part two of Elle and Chis’ story. Click here to read Part One   Roland Matthews took a slow draw of his wine, assessing her as one might a fine painting. Considered, but detached. “So what do you do?” Elle hated that question. No … Continued

One Summer – Part Three

Warning: the following chapter contains adult content. This is the third and final part of Elle and Chris’ story. Click here to read Part One Click here to read Part Two “So darling, was he salivating all over you? I mean, he’s divine, you’re divine. It’s too bad you can’t have more children.” Susie’s nasal … Continued

Enter Mr. Extrovert

The first thing I noticed about my partner was his smile, easy in its own outrageousness. Naturally I was dubious, but after weeks of him acting like it was totally insane for us to not be together, I started to agree. The rest as they say, is history. Extroverts can be annoyingly magnetic, and by … Continued

When Your Lover is Out of Your League

At seventeen, I was an XS blonde wrapped in an XXL ego… I’d read things like “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” and pity women without a two-finger gap between their thighs. I didn’t even have to diet; my teenage metabolism took care of that. Most of my friends still lived at home, but … Continued

To Love and Honour

I stared at my boyfriend in disgust… We were lining up to enter a nightclub, and the cretin behind us had made an obscene comment about my dress, or more specifically, lack of said garment. The whole nightclub queue heard it, but my errant knight was more concerned with his friend’s critique of Apple versus … Continued

A Sonnet Like No Other

As a story developer, I help craft perfectly imperfect heroes and relatable heroines… …the realities of war, corsets, and chauvinism cast in the delicious glow of fiction. Why stare at the dirt, when you can look up at the sky, in wonder? Of course, my eyes have to return to the ground when I trip … Continued

My Sadomasochistic Knight in Shining Armour

Courtly love, or corrupted lust? In 1936 C.S Lewis described courtly love as, “love of a highly specialized sort, whose characteristics may be enumerated as Humility, Courtesy, Adultery, and the Religion of Love.“ But wait a second Sir Lancelot…Adultery? I’d always imagined that the knight in shining armour swept the lady off her feet and … Continued

For the Love of God

Look at this picture; what do you see?     It is a familiar subject; two lovers in a warm embrace, the man’s faint smile met by the woman’s earnest entreat. There is however, a fatal twist. Note the white sash she holds at his arm, as it is in this small detail that their … Continued