Her family had one strict rule: sex was evil; desire unhealthy. Oh well... rules are made to be broken, and Charity believed in that as much as she believed in giving (and getting) pleasure.
Peter Quinn is the author of the novel Banished Children of Eve (winner of an American Book Award) and previously served as speechwriter for New York governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo. A third-generation New Yorker whose granparents were born in Ireland, he is currently Editorial Director for Time Warner and lives in Hastings, New York.