Beastly Behaviour

by Aishling Morgan

Genevieve Stukely is working as an erotic dancer in the American west when she learns that her uncle is dead and that she is to inherit the family estate on the borders of Dartmoor. Only when she returns to the mother country does she discover that Sir Robert Stukely did not die simply of old age, but was found with an expression of utmost terror frozen on his features. Nearby were the footprints of a gigantic hound. Now Mistress of Stukely Manor and known to have a colourful past, Genevieve quickly finds herself the centre of attention for half the rakes and ne'erdowells in Devon. Beastly Behaviour follows the Truscott saga into its fifth generation with a tale of bizarre lust and Gothic horror drawn from several historical and literary sources to make it one of the most elaborate erotic novels ever published. Other titles in the Truscott saga include Velvet Skin, The Rake and Purity.

Genres: Erotica, Historical, BDSM

272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 8, 2007

About the author

"You can have me for as long as your money burns."

This is a quote from notorious nineteenth century courtesan Cora Pearl, or so I am led to believe by the magazine article which inspired the story The Rake, originally published in the early 'nineties. It was one of many, the product of years of reading and writing, purely for private entertainment, but The Rake was expanded to become a novel, and when asked for a pen name I chose Aishling Morgan. More precisely, I had a few minutes to make my choice and quickly came up with something that sounded vaguely Celtic, vaguely romantic and might be male of female. As it turns out, Aishling is very rare indeed as a male name, but then at the time I had no idea that The Rake would be the first of many books, more than thirty in all.

Aishling Morgan is not my only pseudonym by any means, and I've now had over 100 books published, mainly novels, but also short story collections and a little non-fiction. Aishling Morgan is the name I use for my most imaginative work, done for the love of writing and of erotica, which has been my metier since long before I'd considered it as a profession. I've also been involved with the UK fetish scene since the early days, which has provided plenty of background knowledge and inspiration.

The Aishling Morgan books are diverse, with a wide variety of settings and characters, while I aim to provide sufficient plot to make each story worthwhile in its own right. Their erotic content is also highly diverse but tends to focus on power play and exotic sex, sometimes very exotic, and always an integral part of the story.

Reviews

[carol · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have just read Beastly Behaviour by Aishling Morgan, however a lot of characters and prior events have occurred so reading this as a standalone was perhaps not the best plan. I shall start with The Rake and find how this all began.

Set in Victorian times on Dartmoor it is a skit on Sherlock Holmes story The Hound of the Baskerville's, by Arthur Conan Doyle. However, Aishling's version has with lots of kink, perversions, and the way I was reading it at one point a character was having sex with a black cook...but then I realised it wasn't human lover at all!
Ayt one point I thought it was going to hit my hard limit when someone's head was about to be pushed into a piss pot of pee and poop. I so nearly stopped there as that would go beyond my comfort zone...but I am rarely a DNF'er and am glad I persevered. Aishling Morgan's knowledge of Victorian times, as well as England's Dartmoor in Devon, and the social etiquette and expectations from the different stations in life then is excellent.
Her characters love them or loathe them and there were characters like Nanna that I disliked, as well as ones so very inappropriate to the expected Victorian norms for the then expected morality I really liked, including Richard and his anally fixated brother Leopold, and Genevieve who loves sex and Lucy who is into birching, humiliation and anal attention from Leopold. Yet it is not just a skit but a farce in true comical style.

I have to say it is a 4 good star read from me, and for those not au fait with place and era a useful glossary to help you out too. The one thing I found annoying was formatting as an e-book on my kindle, new paragraphs that have switched to different place, people etc. suddenly appear on the next line, and it was a case of what the...then back and fore track to see the changes. I dropped one star for this reason and would like to see the publisher sort this out despite it being written a while ago.

[penelopewanders · Rating 4 out of 5]

Part of the erotica spiral... historical setting. Very interesting tongue in cheek (!!??) tale - "elementary, my dear Dr. Manston" says Wolfe.. And yes, a lot of it is extremely elementary, not to say base.

Murder mystery, the Hounds of Baskerville, the mad person locked up in the house... lots of different elements combined. Not to mention the footnotes to impart a more intellectual and scholarly tone.... in case we didn't know what drawers are, right? And a touch of ambiguity about just how beastly it is. Pretty funny, really.

[Dark-Draco · Rating 3 out of 5]

He he - this bookmade my giggle most of the way through! I liked the 'hound' storyline and the historical setting. Somehow, it makes these sort of books more fun!

[Aղցela W. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Spoiler Ahead This was not a book I would normally read some of the kink scenes in it I would have stopped reading it. Genevieve Stukely inherit the family estate after her uncle died only he didn't die from old age. This book was full of hot sex scenes with a kink scene that was not mine the pee and poop was something that I don't find as a turn on other than that this was a hot book. As for the story it was a little light and a bit obvious the book was well written with no errors in grammar or spelling.