At fourteen Clare was older than most when she had her first encounter with porn. She was a good Catholic girl and knew that it was sinful, but the effect it had on her was so very hard to resist. Her mother, meanwhile, was having her own issues.
That probably wouldn't have been how Maria would have described it as she lay on the floor, nursing her injured hands. But when she got back from the hospital and realized that she couldn't take off her own panties, possibilities did start to occur to her.
To this day, I will never know why she chose me. I was sitting in my local pub in my hometown when she came over and sat opposite me. It was 1980, and what she said next changed the rest of my life forever.
At 49, Jed Lambert is a burned-out hospital CFO in Phoenix, trapped in routine and regret. Two passionate lovers, Monica, a traveling sales rep, and Karen, his best friend’s wife, keep his fire flickering. When Karen dangles a high-stakes CFO role at Nexlify, Jed must decide: stay safe in the ashes of his dead-end life… or leap into the flames of ambition, desire, and danger.