I should have known my friends had something foul planned from the moment I set foot inside. But I had been dipping rather deep during our earlier revelry, and was therefore in a liberal mood and easily swayed to attend one last club in order to see me off from bachelor life.
If only I had been firm, I would not have found myself in my current predicament!
Everyone had congratulated Hugh Rawdon on his marriage to the sweet and beautiful Miss Mary Carstairs. The whole town agrees that they make the perfect couple - he with his dark, brooding looks, she with her kind and charming disposition.
But little do the townsfolk - nor indeed the new Mrs Rawdon - realise the perverse lusts that beat in Hugh's heart: the desire to be taken rough and hard by his wife, and in the most unnatural of places....
Warning: This story contains explicit scenes of m/f and f/f sex, female dominance and pegging. It is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.
Isabelle Arden is a good girl by day - but when she gets home from work, she likes to kick off her sensible heels and write some seriously dirty fiction.
Isabelle writes a wide variety of stories, from gay to straight, historical to contemporary, kink to vanilla - but she's always a sucker for a happy ending.
Any comments or questions at all, please never hesitate to send her a message!
I need to stop taking one for the team when it comes to anything involving Pride and Prejudice. I'm not giving this a rating either. Haha. This actually had nothing to do with the source material...just borrowed the title. It made me laugh even though it's not my cup of tea. The author got the regency language down and that's what matters.
Arden has mastered the Austin-esque voice one would expect of an Pride and Prejudice erotic re-imagining. This story is a light-hearted sexual look at a marriage caught in a society where honesty between couples is indelicate and improper. As with Arden's other works, characters have sexual tastes out of the heterosexual norm and find themselves trapped in societal boundaries that do not allow for full exploration of these desires, or even a vague understanding.
But Arden's characters always find comfort, security and sexual satisfaction in one another. And, most importantly, understanding. Arden isn't interested in the suffering that comes with alienation, the punishment and abuse that an ultra conservative society can inflict upon her characters. Arden wants celebration; celebration which does come with struggle, but the struggle occurs only as a means for the characters to earn the refuge they find in one another. And the stories are better for this.
The erotic scenes are deftly written and with glorious detail. They begin hot, and get hotter. My biggest hope is that she continues her work and spreads more sexual pleasure with her words.
This definitely could have benefited from being longer. It would have worked out all the kinks (haha) with logistics and been a more enjoyable read. Also it has nothing to do with Pride and Prejudice so I resent the title making me think it did. But it was still fun.