Synopsis:
When journalist
Iris Ellis visits a sleepy seaside town to interview recluse screenwriter Paul
Archer, he offers her insights into never acted upon fantasies of dominance and
submission. Too curious to deny herself a taste of them, Iris gives herself up
to Paul's gentle guidance, but when she realizes that a taste can never be
enough, she must find the courage to ask for what she needs or risk losing it
all.
Called a "gem
for fans of BDSM romance and the perfect starting point for readers new to the
genre" by RT Book Reviews, Driftwood Deeds is a novella of sexual
awakening as well as consent and communication in bdsm.
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Synopsis:
Love, they say, is
magnified by absence.
After the
dream-like quality of Iris' visit at Paul's sea-side home, she is back in the
routine and drudgery of her city life. Struggling to put a label on what they
have together, they phone and write letters, trying to sustain the flame, until
they can make time to be in each other's arms again. But once they are, how do
you pull back into proportions a love so magnified it burns?
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Synopsis:
In this last
installment in the Breaking in Waves series, Paul takes the helm and tells the
story of how he and Iris move in together. Two decades of a bachelor's
lifestyle are not easy to merge into a life together, and Paul goes on a
journey of embracing Iris in his seaside world. Without holding back and without
fear.
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About the
author:
Laila Blake (lailablake.com) is an
author, linguist and translator. She writes character-driven love stories,
co-hosts the podcast Lilt and blogs about writing, feminism and
society.
Her work has been
featured in numerous anthologies. Keeping a balance between her different
interests, Laila Blake’s
body of work encompasses literary erotica, romance, and various fields in
speculative fiction (dystopian/post-apocalypse, fantasy, paranormal romance and
urban fantasy) and she adores finding ways to mix and match.
A self-proclaimed
nerd, she lives in Cologne/Germany with her cat Nookie, harbors a deep fondness
for obscure folk singers and plays the guitar. She loves photography, science
documentaries and classic literature, as well as Doctor Who, Game of Thrones
and The Big Bang Theory.
You can find her
across the web. To stay up to date with her most recent publications, please
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Excerpt:
If I was writing a film about us, my kitchen would be
the central location. Good sex and good cooking are linked for me, inextricably
together. They trigger the same areas of the brain-- taste and smell and
texture and pleasure. I think of sex when I eat good food, and I want good food
when I lie there spent after an orgasm, something full of life and flavor and
color to recuperate and start
again.
We’ve
always spent a lot of a time here. In varying states of
undress.
She feels it too, I think. That’s why her breathing is a little
shallow. That’s
why she steals a slice of zucchini as I layer it piece by piece between the
eggplant, the yellow squash and the bright tomatoes. She has that glint in her
eyes, small and wicked, and even now, after all this time, she looks hesitant
when she tries to push boundaries. She still stops short of actually pushing
them.
Iris loves to be good, to be praised, to be my
beautiful, precious girl. She hates displeasing me, even as a game. But neither
can she come out and ask for it, tell me about the tingling between her legs,
the longing, the ache that only the crack of my belt can mend. And so she steals
bits of zucchini, or switches the radio away from my favorite station just as
we drive into my street. She criticizes books she knows I love, or picks them
up and leaves them on a different shelf-- like I had any order in mind to begin
with. They are little things, so minor I would miss them all the time, if it
wasn’t for that look in her
eyes.
It’s
the look of guilt and desire, of fighting against her nature and fearing the
consequences she’s
trying to induce. It’s
a look that makes my cock hard, that squeezes my chest almost
painfully.
I listen to the zucchini crunch between her teeth. She
eats it slowly, eyeing my profile as though wondering if I noticed anything at
all. Sometimes I like to indulge her, I like to give her what she wants even
though she can’t
ask for it, even though she’s
trying to manipulate the circumstances. It feels good sometimes, to let her out
to play.
Today I don’t.
She picks the next slice out of the casserole, right out
from between a slice of tomato and a slice of yellow squash, where they nestle
in colorful stripes. She knows I can’t
miss this one, and her hand hovers there a moment too long, just like she’s waiting for me to catch up and slap
it away. But again, I don’t.
I watch her bring the slice to her mouth from the corner
of my eyes. She places it on her tongue like a communion wafer, with intensity
and slow purpose. She shudders; it’s
a marvel to watch that change. A few seconds ago, she was my sweet girl,
leaning next to me, relaxed and happy. Now, she’s strung tight, nervous and needy,
like she exchanged her body for a different
one.
“Are you bored?” I
ask her. I look down at the pattern of vegetable slices, at the spot where she
messed it up. When I drag my gaze up to her face, there are red spots on her
neck, white teeth-marks on her lower lip.
She shakes her
head.
“I think you are. You want attention,
pet?”
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