Things are not always what they appear. Michelle and Clay Winthrop were the idyllic suburban couple from the outside: both teachers, nice house, two adorable kids. But looks can be deceiving.
Clay’s kinky new experiments in the bedroom convince Michelle that he’s cheating. It also primes her for what comes next. Enter Wes, the tall, dark, and sexy stranger who leads her down her own wild and reckless road.
Will secrets and temptations tear this couple apart, or can they salvage their 15 year marriage?
Kirsten McCurran lives in the suburbs with her husband, young children and a dog named Jake. She lives out her vivid fantasy life through her writing. Kirsten is most interested in exploring the fantasies and inner sexual lives of women like her.
Michelle and Clay have been married for 15 years and are both High School teachers, they have 2 young boys.
Clay is late 40’s and is preparing to go run a summer camp, with the kids joining him. Michelle, early ’40s is sporty, and fit having worked out during both pregnancies, she has mixed feelings about a summer alone.
Clay has arranged for a photographer to visit to take family portraits. As soon as Wes, the photographer, meets Michelle he goes in heavy with the flirting and compliments. Michelle has always enjoyed attention.
Wes is a tall, handsome, black man in his 30’s, with the build of a pro sportsman.
Recently Clay has introduced a kinky streak to their sex, buying and using a blindfold, dildo, and vibrator on his wife. What’s more, he has started to talk dirty about her having other well-endowed men, he even mentions giving her a hall pass for real.
Clay has always been fascinated by Michelle’s wild younger past, wanting to know details of her experiences which she has always carefully censored.
This sudden change in her husband has seriously disturbed Michelle and she starts to dig around for answers. What she finds leads her to think that he is either having an affair, is bi, or has a fantasy, she knows little about, of being a cuckold.
The perfect storm has arrived, her husband going away, just as she is uncovering his secret, time on her hands, and the temptation of a younger, virile, alpha male.
This is a slow unfolding story, cleverly crafted, as I would expect from two top writers in the genre. The ending, which I won’t spoil, really is just the beginning.
Both Kirsten McCurran and Kenny Wright are terrific authors individually. But when they write together, it’s magic! This book is no exception.
Sadly, this isn’t the whole story. It isn’t a cliffhanger, but the fun has only just begun.
This tale is written from the wife Michelle’s POV. She’s worried her husband is cheating, and perfect opportunities arise for Michelle through a recently hired family photographer. Michelle is thoroughly likeable; the husband Clay is an enigma; photographer Wes is a stud; and Michelle’s divorced girlfriend Violet (her husband cheated) provides a boatload of encouragement. What’s not to like?
The characters are well developed and we think we know them until a surprising revelation comes to light. We’re going to have to wait to find out how this affects particularly Michelle.
The story unfolds in a thoroughly plausible way. There are some good insights into long term couples (in this case 20 years) and some truly funny chapters. The seduction chapters are really charmingly written, and you may be surprised by the outcomes - I was.
An enjoyable book from start to finish. It’ll be tough waiting for the sequel.
Some of Michelle's choices with the bull seemed foolish and unlikely given her education and maturity. Glad the story included her best friend ridiculing her, but it still seemed off. Solid plot.
Really liked this book. The story was good and the characters were interesting and believable at least in the context of the story. The sex was hot , and not always predictable which is good. The story had some good twists and turns. Before too long you figure out what was really going on, but that just made things even more interesting. Can't t wait to read the sequel. Kristen and Kenny are so good at this.
This was an interesting adventure watching Michelle become a hotwife with some help. Kirsten McCurran writes well when it come turning devoted wives in wanton sluts and doing things with their lovers they do not do with their husbands. Wes’ seduction of Michelle was exciting and poor Clay getting accused of cheating when he was not cheating but not behaving either.
This has all the build up for a great erotic read. Beautiful husband and wife raising the kids while their sexual world is evolving. If you’ve read Kenny Wright and Kristen McCurran before you will really enjoy this!
The book engaged me but my engagement flagged at times, as she ping-ponged from desire for her demon lover back to guilt. There was too much of that, and the story stalled while that went on and on and on. I ended with not much sympathy for her. It would be easy to build a case against her. Life in her marriage is boring and dying in the bedroom. Husband introduces some sex toys and kinky fantasies to perk up their sex life. She responds half-heartedly and with suspicion, based on weak circumstantial evidence, that he's having an affair, and she uses that as reason enough to wade into an affair with a player, all the while blaming her husband for her decisions and actions, all the while lying to herself, too, to do it, an affair where she does things with zeal that she never did or did reluctantly with her husband. Some nice lady. The turn at the end of the book had me laughing at her. You get the feeling in the end that that marriage is cooked. And it deserves to be, and there's plenty of blame to go around for everybody in the story, not least for her.
This story, at first glance, appears to be similar to KW's Forbidden series. Michelle and Clay fall far short of Katie and Max.
Michelle lacks warmth, empathy, and is fundamentally cold. She thinks she's perfect and denies her own desires. What Clay did to her, was wrong. She finally gains understanding of what motivated him, but that doesn't elicit forgiveness. On the contrary. She finds a way to blame him for her loss of control.
She refuses to admit that she enjoyed a threesome in her youth. As a result, even as she learns to understand Clay, even more than he does himself, she ends by punishing him forevermore for Her susceptibility to Max. She set herself up for that and won't accept it.
In Forbidden, Katie, recognized her guilt and clung to her marriage even harder. Building a better relationship by communicating with Max.
Michele’s story is good, but the characters are flawed and hard to become attached to. I give this a generous three stars because of it.
The quality of the writing, the heat, and the use of dual Points Of View earned it the third star. in synopsis,.. Michelle - Cold. Hearted. Selfish. Bitch. She blames her husband for his mistakes, and her's too.
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