SHE JUST WANTED A NEW NORMAL
The Bridgewater County series is an amazing contemporary adventure that is a spinoff from the historical based Bridgewater ménage series but takes place in present day. The town of Bridgewater, Montana still holds with the founding father principles of two or three alpha dominant males claiming and marrying one woman, and partnering for life. The method has proved successful for over a hundred years and why change what works? The story will read as a stand-alone.
Avery is traveling home to Bridgewater for her sister’s wedding. It isn’t a visit she is looking forward to and is already counting down the days until she can leave for her next assignment to Brazil. While she may have grown up in Bridgewater, and accustomed to the relationships of two men and one woman triad union, it wasn’t what her parents had. But then again, her parents had a very toxic marriage that was full of bickering and affairs. Avery is so jaded by how she grew up; she doesn’t do relationships, she has one-night stands and leaves before morning.
Bridgewater locals, and veterinarians, Jackson Wray and Dash McPherson, are returning to Montana from attending a conference in Minneapolis when they meet up with the girl of their dreams, Avery, in the airport. With flight delays, the three will share a room and a night of passion. “Why not have a little fun while we’re stranded?” “Our girl is definitely uninhibited. Hot. Wild. Sensitive. Easily aroused. Bold.” What a shock to wake up and she is gone. She may have left them, but they are determined when they get home to find her.
The plot will bring Avery home between assignments to more of the same with her parents, the consent fighting, name-calling, threats, and all that anger and angst is more than she can handle.
When Jackson and Dash show up on her doorstep, she will escape to Jackson’s family home for a Christmas party. What a world of difference in personalities, people, hugs, and love. It will also lead to going home with the men for a night of passion back at Jackson’s house. “I was comfortable with them. They didn’t judge, didn’t think me slutty for knowing exactly what I wanted and going after it.” “Jackson and Dash only dominated when I was willing to submit.” “My body knew these men, wanted them, despite the fact that my brains were telling me it was time to run away.”
Avery’s childhood was nothing like what she witnessed with Aunt Louise, or the Wray family, or even the others that attended the Christmas party. But she fears she will be just like her parents, or even or sister, marrying just because and even cheating days before the wedding, like it was normal. “Maybe if I ever did fall in love, I’d end up exactly like the rest of my family. Cold and bitter.”
“Being able to commit isn’t a hereditary gene. It is a choice. You can decide whether you want to be like them or whether you want to use that experience as a guide for what you don’t want in a relationship. You could learn from them and make different choices. Better choices. Besides, it’s easy to commit when it’s with the right person.” “It’s a choice, sweetheart. We’re just hoping that you choose to be with us.”
What will happen when it is time for Avery to leave Bridgewater, Jackson, and Dash? She has an assignment she accepted in Brazil. The further from her men she gets, the harder it becomes and the desire to leave isn’t there. Could she have a future with them, one that includes love and commitment? “I didn’t have to let my parents’ toxic relationship define me. I could choose a different pattern, to respect the men I chose to be with. To like them as people. As friends. As lovers, even. I could love them. It was a choice.” “We’ll always give you what you need.” “It wasn’t just double penetration. It was trust. Submission. Love.”
The story is full of passion, exploration, revelations, new beginnings, angst, confusion, and discovery. The relationship between these three sizzles with an erotic chemistry. I love how Jackson and Dash never push or try and coerce Avery, and always allow her to feel in control, offering their support, even if that means letting her go and travel. The sex scenes are explicit and include M-F-M ménage scenes.