Hoay thought she knew her husband completely; she accidentally stumbled upon his secret BDSM dungeon hidden behind the bookshelf in his office. Terrified and in denial, she chooses silence. But Nick already knows she found it. Now, with calm patience, he begins the slow, deliberate process of introducing his sweet, innocent wife into his hidden world of dominance and submission… whether she’s ready or not. A sensual journey of awakening, surrender, and the fine line between love and control.
Laurie is invited to a school reunion, driving five hours to his childhood village to meet people he has not seen for forty years. A homage to Laurie Lee's eponymous book, where the real Slad becomes a fictitious Crawedon. When life is ruptured and swings in a new direction, can one ever go back?
At nineteen, I never expected to get a new brother, but that’s exactly what happens when my father remarries. His new wife brings a son along, and chaos enters my life. I’m a choir boy; he’s a troublemaker. We dislike each other from the start, and things only get worse when we’re forced to share a college dorm room. I’m convinced he’s my doom. My sensual, sexual, the darkest of dark doom. So, no one - my father, his mother, or him - should expect me to be his salvation.
This account by Elcano sheds new light on the voyage, on the tensions that existed among the participants, on the sights they saw, on the hardships and disasters they endured. It is a unique account written by the man who succeeded in circumnavigating the globe in a small wooden ship at a time when half the world had not been explored by Europeans, and when it was not even sure that it might be possible to sail around the globe. It concludes with the death of Magellan in the Philippines.
At 48, Lorraine Cortez stops apologizing for her stretch-marked, heavy-breasted, soft-bellied body. After a humiliating public exposure, she steps onto a stage naked and launches a revolution. As she builds Bare Courage Retreat, a sanctuary for women to reclaim their bodies, her brilliant young assistant Sophia becomes far more: professional director by day, devoted submissive “cunt doll” by night.
1989. In Bournemouth’s cafés and Amsterdam’s glowing windows, Sandra and Mathew discover that exhibitionism has a name — and an appetite. From teasing flashes on the promenade to scandalous performances in the Red Light District, their marriage becomes a reckless game of temptation. As the old saying goes, “if it’s not for sale, they shouldn’t put it in the window.” Just how they far are they willing to go?