A year after their paths first crossed during the infamously decadent Carnival in England, Alaric and Jane are still traveling together in their red silk hot air balloon, love and trust growing between them with each city they land in. And the stronger trust is, the harder it can be tested.
Lilith Duvalier is a shit-broke 20 something who regrets her college double major at least twice a week. After graduating in the worst of the recession she bounced around the state of Minnesota doing jobs that have given her the weirdest resume of anyone she knows. In the course of doing what it took to make rent, Lilith has been vehemently sworn at in most of the USA's regional accents, crashed a 50,000 dollar car into a lamp post, lived in a basement room built out of plywood in an illegal boarding house and was once paid 20 dollars out of the till to leave a Jimmy Johns. During those events she started writing erotica, figuring that her life couldn't get any weirder than it already was, and that the royalty checks would be worth being introduced to people as "the one I told you about".
Mild Femdom - no clue why it is on Goodreads Best Domme / Fem-Dom Books. Started out great, but the second part became a little difficult to follow, still not sure what she was trying to say with her characters.
A close friend and I were talking about kinks (as ya do, when you're a certain kind of friend). I couldn't quite wrap my head around his passion for intoxication, or how it could fit into D/s. Then I remembered this short piece, which was one of the first free ebooks I downloaded for my Nook when I unwrapped it one Christmas day. I shared it with him. "That's it," he told me. "That's exactly what goes into an intoxication kink."
This steampunk short is sensual, lovely, with a warm and trusting relationship at its center. 10/10, would read and bring up in kink conversations again.