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Perdition House Part 2...An Erotic Saga
Welcome to Perdition House…a house of sin, secrets and seduction.
Not all ghost stories are frightening, some are downright erotic…
Perdition House Part 2: An Erotic Saga
In this exciting conclusion to Faye's story from Perdition House Part 1:
Faye Grantham has chosen to stay in her inherited mansion with the lively spirits of the hookers who once lived, worked, and fell in love in the world-famous elite bordello Perdition House.
She struggles to control her “spirited” libido, the dreams visited on her by her ghostly live-in companions, and even her own thoughts.
But Faye must also learn the secret of the screaming woman she glimpses in her nightmares.
How can Faye continue the traditions of Perdition House and maintain the spirits’ only refuge?
The time has come to choose her exclusive lover or lose them both.
Faye has the devil’s own time picking between Liam Watson and Mark McLeod, two very different men with varied and exciting talents.
In this rousing “happy ending”, Faye and the “girls” find the one thing they never expected in a bordello: everlasting love!
Please note that this books has previously been published under the title MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS II.
Bonnie Edwards
Not all ghost stories are frightening, some are downright erotic…
Perdition House Part 2: An Erotic Saga
In this exciting conclusion to Faye's story from Perdition House Part 1:
Faye Grantham has chosen to stay in her inherited mansion with the lively spirits of the hookers who once lived, worked, and fell in love in the world-famous elite bordello Perdition House.
She struggles to control her “spirited” libido, the dreams visited on her by her ghostly live-in companions, and even her own thoughts.
But Faye must also learn the secret of the screaming woman she glimpses in her nightmares.
How can Faye continue the traditions of Perdition House and maintain the spirits’ only refuge?
The time has come to choose her exclusive lover or lose them both.
Faye has the devil’s own time picking between Liam Watson and Mark McLeod, two very different men with varied and exciting talents.
In this rousing “happy ending”, Faye and the “girls” find the one thing they never expected in a bordello: everlasting love!
Please note that this books has previously been published under the title MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS II.
Bonnie Edwards
How far would you go to get the truth?
Parlor Games: Tales of Perdition #4How far would you stretch the elastic band around your principles if your whole career, your future, your sense of fulfillment depended on doing one wrong thing?
And how would you respond if you learned that all was not as it should be in this world?
What if you learned ghosts exist?
In my erotic romance, Parlor Games...
Matt Crewe is on the hunt for information on sex clubs in modern society for a non-fiction book.
The only way he could get inside the mysterious mansion, Perdition House, was to apply to be one of the bachelors on auction. Matt’s convinced the charitable bachelor auctions are a front for an exclusive sex club that caters to women only. These powerful women’s lives and careers could be irrevocably damaged if their membership became public.
Carrie MacLean is convinced the so-called charity is a scam and that the business women are being conned. She plans to get the evidence to prove it and take her journalism career to the big time.
The only problem is that from the moment they enter the grounds of Perdition House, their bodies and even their thoughts don’t feel like their own.
Carrie and Matt respond to each other in a way neither has ever experienced before. Lust at first sight creates a bond that makes them inseparable. When the auction begins they manipulate the bidding so they have exclusive rights to each other over the weekend.
Their electronics don’t work. No phones, no email, no contact with the outside world is allowed.
Carrie loses track of her questions, can’t focus on anything but sex with Matt. As the mysteries of the house slowly reveal themselves, Matt and Carrie come to the same conclusion:
They are being dallied with, coerced, and sexually aroused by the spirits of the hookers who lived and worked in the former bordello.
Finally, when they each find their “truth”, they make a mad dash for the gates of Perdition, fighting all the way to save their sanity and whatever it is they’ve found in each other.
Because the real truth of Perdition House is that love found there is eternal.
And how would you respond if you learned that all was not as it should be in this world?
What if you learned ghosts exist?
In my erotic romance, Parlor Games...
Matt Crewe is on the hunt for information on sex clubs in modern society for a non-fiction book.
The only way he could get inside the mysterious mansion, Perdition House, was to apply to be one of the bachelors on auction. Matt’s convinced the charitable bachelor auctions are a front for an exclusive sex club that caters to women only. These powerful women’s lives and careers could be irrevocably damaged if their membership became public.
Carrie MacLean is convinced the so-called charity is a scam and that the business women are being conned. She plans to get the evidence to prove it and take her journalism career to the big time.
The only problem is that from the moment they enter the grounds of Perdition House, their bodies and even their thoughts don’t feel like their own.
Carrie and Matt respond to each other in a way neither has ever experienced before. Lust at first sight creates a bond that makes them inseparable. When the auction begins they manipulate the bidding so they have exclusive rights to each other over the weekend.
Their electronics don’t work. No phones, no email, no contact with the outside world is allowed.
Carrie loses track of her questions, can’t focus on anything but sex with Matt. As the mysteries of the house slowly reveal themselves, Matt and Carrie come to the same conclusion:
They are being dallied with, coerced, and sexually aroused by the spirits of the hookers who lived and worked in the former bordello.
Finally, when they each find their “truth”, they make a mad dash for the gates of Perdition, fighting all the way to save their sanity and whatever it is they’ve found in each other.
Because the real truth of Perdition House is that love found there is eternal.
Historical Research for the Contemporary Writer by Bonnie Edwards
Bonnie Edwards
I write contemporary romance but a few years ago I got a blindingly complete idea for a paranormal erotic romance that my editor snapped up for the Aphrodisia line at Kensington Books.
I was so excited by the idea that I sent an email that said something like, “What would you think about a book set in a haunted bordello where the dead hookers tell their stories?” Four minutes later a response came asking for two books.
My first series was born, but wow! Dead hookers? A hundred-year-old mansion? The spirits of the hookers who worked in Perdition House each had a story to tell. Since they lived in the mansion pre-WWI I had some major work to do.
For the first time ever, I found myself writing historical fiction. Why? Because each story is told in real time by the women while the contemporary heroine is sleeping. In other words, Faye Grantham falls asleep and dreams a vignette out of a woman’s life.
So, while Perdition House has a contemporary heroine, it also has several historical heroines as well. Confused yet? I never was. As I said above, the idea came to me in blinding clarity.
Back to research…
One question on the net about brothel museums led me to The Montana Historical Society at the state website.
I learned that Butte, Montana had a reputation for its bordellos and vice dens. I also learned that the crusader Carrie Nation had met her match in madam May Maloy. The women scuffled in a saloon and Ms. Maloy emerged the winner.
Butte became the perfect place for me to find my madam. Not a prostitute, I decided, but a kept woman, raised by a single mother who'd embraced the Free Love movement that rose in the years following the Civil War.
So, I had the real Carrie on one side of the movement for social change and Belle, a fictional forward-thinking free love advocate who also needed to make a living. I used Carrie's appearance in Butte as a ticking clock.
In one vignette signs appear that Carrie's due to arrive. In another, I show the scuffle that ended Carrie's time in Butte. Carrie Nation is a catalyst for change within the novel's historical setting. Belle, my fictional madam, sees Carrie's interference in Butte's business as a sign that it's time to move on. She decides to collect several women and head west to Seattle to build a fine mansion dedicated to elite businessmen and powerful politicians.
Oddly, months after completing the first story (then titled by Kensington as Midnight Confessions) I fell across the book: Stella, by Linda J. Eversole. This is a creative non-fiction biography of a madam, Stella Carroll, who operated brothels from San Francisco to Victoria, BC.
Reading the account of Stella's life sent chills up my spine. Her reasons for choosing her locations were exactly the reasons I chose to set the mansion where I did. Her attitude toward living the high life, having the best wines, the best foods, fine clothes were shared by my fictional heroine, Belle Grantham.
Creepy? You bet. The real story of Stella Carroll proved that I'd come at my characters correctly. They felt real to me and then, having read about Stella, I hoped my characters in Perdition House felt real to readers as well.
Perdition House An Erotic Saga Part 1 is FREE and available for download at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LDBRD0U
And for iBooks, Nook, Kobo and other retailers here: https://books2read.com/u/bpDwXb
I'm showing you the cover for Part 2 because I love it so much!
I write contemporary romance but a few years ago I got a blindingly complete idea for a paranormal erotic romance that my editor snapped up for the Aphrodisia line at Kensington Books.I was so excited by the idea that I sent an email that said something like, “What would you think about a book set in a haunted bordello where the dead hookers tell their stories?” Four minutes later a response came asking for two books.
My first series was born, but wow! Dead hookers? A hundred-year-old mansion? The spirits of the hookers who worked in Perdition House each had a story to tell. Since they lived in the mansion pre-WWI I had some major work to do.
For the first time ever, I found myself writing historical fiction. Why? Because each story is told in real time by the women while the contemporary heroine is sleeping. In other words, Faye Grantham falls asleep and dreams a vignette out of a woman’s life.
So, while Perdition House has a contemporary heroine, it also has several historical heroines as well. Confused yet? I never was. As I said above, the idea came to me in blinding clarity.
Back to research…
One question on the net about brothel museums led me to The Montana Historical Society at the state website.
I learned that Butte, Montana had a reputation for its bordellos and vice dens. I also learned that the crusader Carrie Nation had met her match in madam May Maloy. The women scuffled in a saloon and Ms. Maloy emerged the winner.
Butte became the perfect place for me to find my madam. Not a prostitute, I decided, but a kept woman, raised by a single mother who'd embraced the Free Love movement that rose in the years following the Civil War.
So, I had the real Carrie on one side of the movement for social change and Belle, a fictional forward-thinking free love advocate who also needed to make a living. I used Carrie's appearance in Butte as a ticking clock.
In one vignette signs appear that Carrie's due to arrive. In another, I show the scuffle that ended Carrie's time in Butte. Carrie Nation is a catalyst for change within the novel's historical setting. Belle, my fictional madam, sees Carrie's interference in Butte's business as a sign that it's time to move on. She decides to collect several women and head west to Seattle to build a fine mansion dedicated to elite businessmen and powerful politicians.
Oddly, months after completing the first story (then titled by Kensington as Midnight Confessions) I fell across the book: Stella, by Linda J. Eversole. This is a creative non-fiction biography of a madam, Stella Carroll, who operated brothels from San Francisco to Victoria, BC.
Reading the account of Stella's life sent chills up my spine. Her reasons for choosing her locations were exactly the reasons I chose to set the mansion where I did. Her attitude toward living the high life, having the best wines, the best foods, fine clothes were shared by my fictional heroine, Belle Grantham.
Creepy? You bet. The real story of Stella Carroll proved that I'd come at my characters correctly. They felt real to me and then, having read about Stella, I hoped my characters in Perdition House felt real to readers as well.
Perdition House An Erotic Saga Part 1 is FREE and available for download at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LDBRD0U
And for iBooks, Nook, Kobo and other retailers here: https://books2read.com/u/bpDwXb
I'm showing you the cover for Part 2 because I love it so much!
