Book Showcase: His Third Wife by @AdamMannAuthor #FlavoursofSage

Over 150 years ago, in fact in 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon published a book called Lady Audley’s Secret which went on the become a best seller at that time, and over the years the book has been serialized and films have been made based on this book.  The literary fashion in those days was accidental bigamy, and in the book the heroine deserts her child, pushes husband number one down a well, thinks about poisoning husband number two, and then sets fire to a hotel in which all her male acquaintances are residing.

In Adam’s novella a man whose middle name is by coincidence Audley is happily married with three daughters, and in his work as a travelling salesman he stays in various small guest houses.  Over several years he is “seduced” by daughters in each house, and when each becomes pregnant he “marries” each of them.  The “scandal” does not become public until he loses his job, sues for unfair dismissal, and after being awarded substantial damages receives huge media publicity.

Excerpt:

These Guest Houses never served dinner, so he walked along the road to a pub which served meals, and found Alicia’s other guests already there.  They asked Roger to join them, and they all laughed and chatted together.

“Alicia was kind in giving us her room,” said one, “so it just worked out.”

“She told us that she’s going to stay with a friend tonight,” said another, “but will be back for our breakfast in the morning,”

Roger was not really listening to this but he remembered later.

He walked back the house he was staying in, and opened the door.  Alicia was in the kitchen and offered to make him a cup of tea.

Roger sat down to enjoy the tea before going to his room.

“Good night,” he said as he stood and climbed the stairs to his room.

He dressed in his pyjamas, switched off the light and got into bed.  It was soft and warm and cozy, and for some reason smelled of Alicia.

About one hour later Alicia opened the door to his room and crept in to his bed.  She climbed in next to the sleeping Roger.  She wasn’t wearing too much, just a very short diaphanous nightie, and nothing else.

In his sleep Roger sensed her presence and he moved to put his arm around her, so she wriggled her body under him.

He woke up suddenly.

“Alicia!” he was startled.

“Hold me tight, I’m cold,” she complained quietly.

Purchase Link: http://www.amazon.com/His-Third-Wife-Adam-Mann/dp/0986422398/

Book Showcase: Naked on Holiday by @AdamMannAuthor #EroticRomance #FlavoursofSage

Two men who have recently retired decide to go on a seaside holiday together, which would not normally be unusual except that Horace who used to own the local pub was sixty eight, and his friend Hector was a year older. 

Hector meets Helen who gets locked out of her room at their hotel, and Helen falls asleep in on the lower bunk bed in Hector’s room whilst he tries to open her bedroom door on the floor below.  Helen, who is a spritely young 62, takes off her clothes to go to sleep forgetting that her bags are still in her room, and Hector finds himself naked and marooned in the upper bunk bed!

Fortunately their humor takes over, and they find themselves spending the week together, and frequently naked.

During their holiday Horace meets Hannah a television presenter and they are both attracted to one another but their mutual appreciation is much more complicated, although Hector and Helen do manage to lend a hand.

Again local gossip and spite raises its ugly head, but between the four of them they manage to reach a successful outcome.

This is a love story for the over sixties!  On one hand a couple are happy and unconcerned with public opinion, whilst the other couple are fraught with family problems and legal complications, not to mention gossiping neighbors. 

Excerpt:

The grass was drying out and Hector decided to leave it until it rained again.  He had several flower beds for roses which was the garden in the front of the cottage, and several long thin beds for vegetables at the back.

He had a small shed at the back of his garden with an equally small greenhouse attached to one wall, and he hardened off his young plants in a series of three cold frames.  He had been late this year with sowing some vegetable seeds, so had cheated by buying some young seedlings from a neighbour.  They were now in his open cold frames, and were growing well, provided he supplied them with water.

Helen came to see what he was doing.  He was in his shed and one side of the shed was a large old oak tree.

He kissed her;

“You smell great!” he said, and she snuggled against him.

“A new perfume I got in London last week!  I’m glad you like it, darling!”

She looked around his shed; and took his hand in hers.

“Make love to me, please!” she murmured looking coyly at him.

Hector looked around his shed.  There wasn’t much room.

“You’ve got a collapsible camp bed, darling, go and get it,” she suggested and kissed him.

Her perfume, her softness and her demeanour was having its desired effect on his penis, and he put a hand in one pocket to adjust it.

She smiled at him again.

“I was just going to dig a trench for my sweet peas,” he pleaded lamely, but as she looked at him again he ducked out of his shed and went to the cottage.

He came back a few minutes later with the folded canvas bed with the metal legs sticking out, and a blanket which he had found strangely and conveniently placed on it!

The extended bed just fitted into the centre of the floor, and Helen immediately spread the blanket over the canvas base and sat on it looking at him.  He resigned himself willingly to the inevitable and sat down beside her.

“Don’t sit on the edges as it might fall over!” he warned.

Helen held him tight and pulled him towards her, lying on her back and smiling at him as she did so.

“Sorry, darling,” she warned him, “just seeing you working in the garden suddenly made me feel very passionate and sexy!”

“Can I take my shoes off?” he joked, as he felt her undoing his belt, and then his zip.

He kissed her to make her slow down, and then kissed her cleavage, and she sighed holding his head close to her breasts.

It was then he found that she had only worn a loose fitting dress, a soft bra and panties, which quickly came off and she lay looking up at him, naked.

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