By Berengaria Brown (Guest Blogger)
When I was small my Mom was quite ill.
My Dad had never had to look after me for more than an hour or two at
a time until then, and he wasn’t too sure what to do with me. The
first day he bought me a wonderful set of blocks with bridges, and
towers, and awesome things in the box, and I played with them all
day. I’m pretty sure he enjoyed playing with them too. At least for
the first hour or so. But by the second day he was once again at a
loss to know what to do with me.
He loved reading, so he sat me down and
taught me to read. I was already fascinated that the black squiggles
on the pages of my books actually meant something, and picked up the
idea fairly quickly. My Mom was ill for several months. Long before
she had gotten better I was reading voraciously. All the kids’
books I owned, I could now read, and I read them over and over. When
I got tired of that, Dad took me down to the local library, and
signed me up for a membership card. That worked well for several
years, until I’d read everything in the children’s section. Dad
didn’t even blink. He just handed me his adult borrower card and I
started to read the adult collection.
Some people were horrified that I might
read something that little girls shouldn’t know about. Dad wasn’t
worried. “If she doesn’t understand it, it won’t hurt her. And
if she knows what it means, there’s no need to hide it from her”,
he said.
Likely that explains why I write FF,
and MM, and ménage, as well as MF romance. I like to read all genres
so that’s what I write.
Aquamarine: Courage and Comfort by Berengaria Brown
Blurb
Edmund’s sister Mavis was tragically
widowed by a hit-and-run driver, when her husband was rushing to the hospital
for the birth of their son. Now Mavis can’t cope with the loss of
her husband and a new fatherless baby to care for.
Mavis’ friend, AJ, tells Edmund that
he and his partner, Utah, must go and retrieve an aquamarine. The
stone will bring courage and comfort to Mavis. It will hold the
spirit of her dead husband and she will be able to rear their son and
have a fulfilling life.
Only
lovers can find the stone. Edmund and Utah are a little skeptical,
but very willing to try.
PG13 Excerpt
Utah just smiled at his partner. Edmund
had all the confidence in the world, and likely some naughty plan in
mind. Well, they'd soon see just how doable his plans were. One of
the things Utah loved about Edmund was his insouciant acceptance of
sex as an integral part of daily life. And Utah's dick was always
ready to get involved in sex with Edmund!
Even just looking at Edmund in that
tight, body-hugging wetsuit, made Utah's cock grow and harden, and
his balls tighten. Down boy he thought widening his stance a
little to ease the pressure on his equipment. First we find this
mystical aquamarine for Mavis. Then we fuck each other's brains out.
The more he thought about it, the
crazier it sounded. Here on a public beach where dozens, even
hundreds, of people swam every day, they were going to swim out to a
sandbar and find a precious stone. They would then give this stone to
Edmund's sister, and with no other help -- no therapy, no
psychiatrists, no lawyers, nothing else at all -- she would accept
the loss of her husband and focus on rearing her kid. When he put it
like that, it almost sounded like he was the one who needed a good
therapist. Deluded didn't come close to explaining the lack of logic
in those thoughts. Ah well, all he could do was support Edmund. AJ
had made it quite plain Edmund would not succeed if Utah wasn't there
with him. And anyway, he wanted to be with Edmund. Wanted to help
him.
Shrugging his shoulders he swung around
to look at Edmund. "Are you ready to go fetch this rock?"
"Yes, sure. But how are we
supposed to recognize it?"
"Hell if I know. Isn't it supposed
to call to you, or something?"
Bio: Berengaria is a multi-published author
of erotic romance: contemporary, paranormal (magic, ghosts, vampires,
fairies, dragons, and werewolves), futuristic, medieval, and
Regency-set historical. She loves to read all different kinds of
romance so that is what she writes: one man/one woman; two women; two
men; two men/one woman; three men, two women/one man, three men/one
woman…. Whatever the characters need for their very hot
happily-ever-after, Berengaria makes sure they get it.
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