Synopsis:
When journalist Iris Ellis visits a sleepy seaside town to interview recluse screenwriter Paul Archer, he
offers her insights into never acted upon fantasies of dominance and submission. Too curious to deny
herself a taste of them, Iris gives herself up to Paul's gentle guidance, but when she realizes that a taste
can never be enough, she must find the courage to ask for what she needs or risk losing it all.
Called a "gem for fans of BDSM romance and the perfect starting point for readers new to the genre" by
RT Book Reviews, Driftwood Deeds is a novella of sexual awakening as well as consent and
communication in bdsm.
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Synopsis:
Love, they say, is magnified by absence.
After the dream-like quality of Iris' visit at Paul's sea-side home, she is back in the routine and drudgery
of her city life. Struggling to put a label on what they have together, they phone and write letters, trying to
sustain the flame, until they can make time to be in each other's arms again. But once they are, how do
you pull back into proportions a love so magnified it burns?
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In this last installment in the Breaking in Waves series, Paul takes the helm and tells the story of how he
and Iris move in together. Two decades of a bachelor's lifestyle are not easy to merge into a life together,
and Paul goes on a journey of embracing Iris in his seaside world. Without holding back and without
fear.
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About the author:
Laila Blake (lailablake.com) is an author, linguist and translator.
She writes character-driven love stories, co-hosts the podcast Lilt and blogs about writing, feminism and
society.
Her work has been featured in numerous anthologies. Keeping a balance between her different interests,
Laila Blake’s body of work encompasses literary erotica, romance, and various fields in speculative
fiction (dystopian/post-apocalypse, fantasy, paranormal romance and urban fantasy) and she adores
finding ways to mix and match.
A self-proclaimed nerd, she lives in Cologne/Germany with her cat Nookie, harbors a deep fondness for
obscure folk singers and plays the guitar. She loves photography, science documentaries and classic
literature, as well as Doctor Who, Game of Thrones and The Big Bang Theory.
You can find her across the web. To stay up to date with her most recent publications, please consider
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Excerpt:
If I was writing a film
about us, my kitchen would be the central location. Good sex and good cooking are linked for me,
inextricably together. They trigger the same areas of the brain-- taste and smell and texture and pleasure. I
think of sex when I eat good food, and I want good food when I lie there spent after an orgasm, something
full of life and flavor and color to recuperate and start again.
We’ve always spent a lot
of a time here. In varying states of undress.
She feels it too, I think.
That’s why her breathing is a little shallow. That’s why she steals a slice of zucchini as I layer it piece by
piece between the eggplant, the yellow squash and the bright tomatoes. She has that glint in her eyes,
small and wicked, and even now, after all this time, she looks hesitant when she tries to push boundaries.
She still stops short of actually pushing them.
Iris loves to be good, to
be praised, to be my beautiful, precious girl. She hates displeasing me, even as a game. But neither can
she come out and ask for it, tell me about the tingling between her legs, the longing, the ache that only the
crack of my belt can mend. And so she steals bits of zucchini, or switches the radio away from my
favorite station just as we drive into my street. She criticizes books she knows I love, or picks them up
and leaves them on a different shelf-- like I had any order in mind to begin with. They are little things, so
minor I would miss them all the time, if it wasn’t for that look in her eyes.
It’s the look of guilt and
desire, of fighting against her nature and fearing the consequences she’s trying to induce. It’s a look that
makes my cock hard, that squeezes my chest almost painfully.
I listen to the zucchini
crunch between her teeth. She eats it slowly, eyeing my profile as though wondering if I noticed anything
at all. Sometimes I like to indulge her, I like to give her what she wants even though she can’t ask for it,
even though she’s trying to manipulate the circumstances. It feels good sometimes, to let her out to
play.
Today I
don’t.
She picks the next slice
out of the casserole, right out from between a slice of tomato and a slice of yellow squash, where they
nestle in colorful stripes. She knows I can’t miss this one, and her hand hovers there a moment too long,
just like she’s waiting for me to catch up and slap it away. But again, I don’t.
I watch her bring the
slice to her mouth from the corner of my eyes. She places it on her tongue like a communion wafer, with
intensity and slow purpose. She shudders; it’s a marvel to watch that change. A few seconds ago, she was
my sweet girl, leaning next to me, relaxed and happy. Now, she’s strung tight, nervous and needy, like she
exchanged her body for a different one.
“Are you bored?” I ask
her. I look down at the pattern of vegetable slices, at the spot where she messed it up. When I drag my
gaze up to her face, there are red spots on her neck, white teeth-marks on her lower
lip.
She shakes her
head.
“I think you are. You
want attention, pet?”
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