I’m back with another short excerpt from Miranda’s Masks, for this week’s Book Hooks blog hop. This book is definitely X-rated, but today’s excerpt is PG. If you want something spicier, check out my Sizzling Sunday post from last weekend!
When you’ve
finished with my hook, I hope you’ll visit some of the other
authors “hooking” today. You’ll find their links at the end of
the post.
Blurb
Shy
and
serious
by
day—insatiable
by
night.
Betrayed
and abandoned by her first lover, shy and studious Miranda Cahill
freezes in response to any sexual attention from someone she knows
and likes.
During
the day, she works diligently on her doctoral thesis. At night, she
finds herself drawn into increasingly extreme sexual encounters with
strangers. Public coupling, multiple partners, age play, spankings,
bondage, lesbian lust—each experience reveals new dimensions of her
depravity. Her anonymous secret life begins to take over when she
discovers that the masked seducer she meets in a sex club and the
charismatic young professor courting her are the same man.
Dickens
scholar Mark Anderson seems like an affable, uncomplicated
Midwesterner, but he has hidden depths, myriad talents, and an
unlimited appetite for erotic variety. With Mark as her guide,
Miranda gradually comes to understand and accept the intricacy of her
own desires, as well as to trust her heart.
The
Hook
“So,
weather hot enough for ya?” Mark drawled, adopting a Midwestern
yokel accent.
“This
is bizarre. It’s only May and it feels like July. I hate to think
what July will be like.”
“Well,
who cares, we’ll be in cool, foggy London in July.”
Miranda
sighed. “Maybe you’ll be in London. As you may recall, the AML
rejected my submission. I’ll be toiling away here, in boiling
Cambridge.”
Mark
grabbed her hands unexpectedly. “Didn’t Harold tell you?”
“No.
Tell me what?”
“He
wants you to go to London and present his research. He doesn’t feel
like making the trip.”
“Really?
You’re not pulling my leg?”
“No,
really, I was just talking to him about it today. He was looking for
you, to discuss the paper, but he couldn’t find you in your
office.”
No,
thought Miranda with a twinge of guilt, because I was in the
library, playing with myself. She forced her attention back to
her companion.
“So
Dr. Scofield is really sending me to London?” Miranda thought her
face would split, her smile was so broad. “I can hardly believe it.
I wanted to go so badly!”
“He
told me that he’s also arranged for you to sit on a panel
discussing Victorian erotica. You should be getting a formal
invitation from the panel moderator soon. So you see, you’ll have
the chance to expound on your theory after all.”
Miranda
felt deliriously happy. She grabbed Mark’s hand and squeezed it.
“And you’ll be there, too?”
Mark
looked devilish. “I will indeed. And I’ll show you the many faces
of London, as I promised.”
Buy
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4 comments:
What an intriguing snippet. Book sounds really interesting.
Beautifully written, Lisabet!
Very intriguing, Lisabet. It leaves me wanting more.
Intriguing snippet. Love the cover! Masks are so cool
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