What if you lived in very religious, restrictive community and giving into temptation was a sin?
But what if that temptation was also reinforced by forbidden love?
Then what if late one hot summer's night you saw your beloved, dancing in the woods, nearly naked?
That is the heart of my novella that is coming July 16, 2012 to Total-e-Bound.
Sometimes
giving in to temptation is the best thing you can do...
Goodman Thomas Marlowe needs a
wife. He loves his neighbour’s bondswoman Rosalind Abramson but for all the
wrong reasons. The carnal passion he feels for her is at odds with his vision
of the perfect marriage—something shaped by the memory of the pure, pious union
he shared with his late wife. Valiantly, he fights to keep his feelings hidden.
Rosalind yearns for the handsome
Goodman Marlowe. Yet beneath his kind action lies a cool distance that tells
her he cannot forgive Rosalind’s shameful past. She’s determined to deny an
infatuation with a man who will never respect her.However, Thomas cannot focus on finding a bride while the unsuitable Rosalind is always so close and so alluring. Now he’s about to take a teaching position in another town. It’s the perfect escape for a man tormented by unacceptable desire.
Late one night, in the midst of a summer’s hot spell, Thomas spies Rosalind in the woods, clad only in her shift, dancing in the moonlight. It’s really more than a man celibate for three years can bear. Thomas is in danger of falling into a sin so powerful it threatens to challenge everything he believes in…
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Chapter One
New
Balcombe, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Summer,
1690
She was clad in only
her shift.
Moonlight illuminated
the thin cloth into a shimmering veil. The glowing ivory of her gentle,
generous curves, hints of rose-pink nipples, a shadowy triangle between her
long, lithesome legs—all teased Thomas’ imagination.
Blood rushed from his
head to fill his cock.
Heart thundering, he
leaned against the tree. He barely dared to take a steadying breath lest the
vision of that girl dancing in the clearing might disappear and prove itself a
mere figment of his long-starved lust.
Dear sweet Christ.
Not since his days at
Oxford had he seen a woman’s body displayed so wantonly, then only in dimly
lit, rented chambers. Never in brilliant moonlight.
The wind calmed. The
rustling leaves of the tall trees grew silent. Her laughter carried to him. The
sound—so free, so girlish—sent pleasurable shivers through him, sensual and
immediate, as if a woman had raked her nails softly down his back. His erection
throbbed, getting bigger, stiffer, straining his breeches. Sweating, he grasped
himself and gave his aching shaft a firm squeeze.
God. It was more than
a man, a widower of over a year, could bear.
More so for Thomas.
Physical passion had repulsed his wife. For his beloved Patience’s sake, after
the conception of his son, he’d left her in peace. Now he’d been three years
without the ease of a woman’s soft, warm body…
That girl—Rosalind
Abramson—was everything he craved.
She was within reach.
They were alone.
He wanted to go her.
To seize her. To crush that beguiling body against his own.
No! He released his
cock and took a deep steadying breath. He’d learned how to master his passions.
He was a Puritan now, no longer a libertine.
He would not yield.
He closed his eyes,
but all he saw was hair burning like flames in the noon sun. He was taken back
to a little over a year previously when he had been riding in a carriage on a
seedy London street.
He had been with
his family, on his way to board the Abigail for Boston. His son had taken ill
from the stench of the docks and had forced the stopping of the vehicle. Thomas
stood outside the vehicle, talking with the driver as they’d allowed the
interior to air.
He looked up and
saw her. Rosalind. She had worn no head covering—her curls had bounced wildly
as she’d run towards him. She’d held her skirts—the most garish hue of green
he’d ever beheld—high enough to display trim ankles and well-turned calves clad
in pale pink silk stockings that gave her legs the appearance of being
completely bare. She had lifted her knees and run like a boy. A fine sheen of
sweat had sparkled on her flushed face and on the exposed tops of her generous
breasts.
Thomas inhaled deeply
and pinched the bridge of his nose, willing the memory away. But the image only
intensified.
She had increased
her pace, though it didn’t seem possible for anyone, much less a woman, to move
that quickly.
She’d come upon him
so fast and close, he’d thought she meant to crash into him. His man’s body, so
starved for the touch of feminine flesh, had longed to feel her body colliding
with his. Such desire—it had held him immobile. At the last moment, as she’d
turned, bypassing him, her eyes, dark brown and large, had caught his—full of
terror—he could feel it reverberate in his own bones… His heart had contracted
with sympathy. A whoosh of air, scented with roses and musk, had blown over him
as she’d hauled herself into the open carriage.
The carriage where
his wife had waited.
The crack of a branch
snapped. Drawn into the present , he opened his eyes.
She was still there.
Dancing in the
moonlight.
Half naked.
As his neighbour’s
bondswoman, Rosalind was always so close, so desirable yet so utterly
uninterested in him. She was warm and friendly to others yet she dealt with him
differently. She often acted aloof, slightly superior, as if he’d never done
her any kindness.
But now she shared all
with him, however unwittingly.
They were alone.
Alone.
A Midsummer's Sin will be released by Total-e-Bound
July 16, 2012
For more information:
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This is the only time this season that I will be offering A Midsummer's Sin as a giveaway.
Contest Ends Midnight Central Time On Saturday Night, July 14, 2012.
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