"A chance meeting with a old encounter brings opportunity and the conclusion one step nearer"
A thick fog had descended on us. It came creeping off the Thames at dusk and now clung to every corner of the city, still and unmoving. It was Saturday night, October 31st, Halloween. I was sitting in the back...
"The difference between erotic and kinky... erotic is using a feather, kinky is using the whole duck"
Teddy Carson had always moved through the upper echelons of polite society. His father was an Earl and Teddy was really just playing at being a student until he inherited the title and the seat in the House of Lords....
"Joseph discovers that in this secret world of the privileged, money can buy anything or anybody"
Sunday morning My dad always called my mother a witch. You see, she has this sixth sense, ‘a feeling,’ she calls it. She instinctively knows when something, normally bad, is going to happen, and that is what I was experiencing at...
"As Nick is inducted into the fellowship, he is forced to watch his wife’s very public submittance"
Late eveningThe soft lapping of the water against the side of the boat and the rhythmic putt putt of the motor were failing to be a calming influence as I fought against the waves of claustrophobia. I’m not sure exactly...
"Joseph discovers that all is not as it seems"
SummerLate AfternoonThe girl carefully left her sun lounger, and although the pool’s edge was only a metre or so from where she lay, walked its full length, completely aware of the attention that she attracted, as men and women alike...
"Apprentice ostler ignores warnings in associating with a rebellious upper class young lady."
Having spent the morning tending to the horses and cleaning out each of the ten occupied stalls, Jack Wetherly, apprentice ostler on the Brandling estate, closed the large stable doors. The rough mix of straw, hay and horse shit was...
"We meet the sisters and see a glimpse of the scandal to come...."
A single oak leaf, the briefest sign that the summer was drawing to a close, ended its fluttering descent on the pages of Lucy's open book. Despite the month, the temperature was still far too hot for a lady of...