"Marlene has stolen my heart, but they have taken Marlene. Now I'll do anything to get her back!"
Chapter OneThe Port of Miami was one of the busiest ports in the United States. It serviced thousands of shipping container freighters coming in and going out of the country. Tourists loaded up on seven different cruise lines. Lorenzo stated...
"In Cold War–era West Germany, a former Stasi operative working in a Kaiserslautern brothel spirals into paranoia as she realizes the surveillance state she fled now lives inside her own mind."
The brothel crouched on a quiet side street outside Kaiserslautern. Its faded yellow stucco melted into the perpetual Rhineland fog drifting down from the Pfalz hills. December 1982. West Germany simmered with unease. Reagan’s “evil empire” speech from March still...
"The boss's wife is being hunted and I'm the only man she has left to protect her."
Chapter OneMy eyes floated over the gorgeous woman’s body as I realized the weight of what I had done. Whether the Boss allowed his wife to sleep around on her own time or not, I knew he did not allow...
"A sharp, funny Cold War era erotic tale of a savvy Southern belle in a German brothel schooling a cocky GI, where fantasy, power, and laughter collide."
Room 2 felt like a small corner of Dixie dropped into the Rhineland mist. Lace doilies covered every surface, heavy and drooping like Spanish moss. A Confederate-flag patch had been sewn, Becky insisted it was pure irony, onto a throw...
"A 1980s West German brothel, Liv transforms sex into cinematic performance, chasing artistic recognition until a client’s confession collapses the fantasy she needs to survive."
The brothel on the outskirts of Kaiserslautern was never meant to be a theater. Yet Liv Andersson had turned Room 5 into something perilously close. A battered wooden easel stood in the corner, nearly always holding a half-finished charcoal nude...
"I was lonely, my neighbor was there."
Life as an Army wife is a rewarding experience at times, but it can be so lonely. My husband is gone a lot, whether it is on a field exercise, deployment, or even just overnight for a duty shift. I...
"In the shadow of Cold War jets and a Rhineland brothel, a homesick airman gifts a desperate dreamer a ticket to Hollywood she can never use,"
The Western FrontThe brothel hunkered on the edge of Kaiserslautern like a forgotten relic, its faded yellow stucco blending into the misty hills of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was February 82, Germany felt like a pressure cooker, Cold War tensions simmering, Jets...
"A brothel worker who survives by controlling desire is shaken when a punk offers her a sexless marriage of convenience, only to vanish before the choice can harden into escape."
The Splintered VowThe winter of 1983 bit harder than usual in Kaiserslautern. January winds swept down from the Pfalz forest, rattling the windows of the brothel and carrying rumors of fresh protests in Bonn against NATO’s planned deployment of Pershing...
"Wining and dining the submissive officer, out of uniform"
Rain hammered against the floor-to-ceiling windows. The water droplets filtering Arlington's lights across the Potomac turned them into a kaleidoscope of gold and crimson bokeh. On the other side of the glass, two women sat in intimate seclusion, basking in...
"In Cold War shadows near Ramstein Air Base, a defected East German sex worker finds fleeting echoes of lost love in the arms of a homesick American soldier."
The brothel sat on the outskirts of Kaiserslautern, a squat two-story building with faded yellow stucco that blended into the misty Rhineland-Palatinate landscape. It was 1982, and the Cold War hung like a perpetual fog over everything—the American jets roaring...