Sometimes the most interesting things happen right next door.

Book number six, if you can believe it! I don’t yet know if I can. Just shy of 30,000 words, Amazon says that’s 117 pages. A pretty typical definition of a novella is 17,000 to 40,000 words, so I’m calling it a novella.

It’s a little bit of a departure for me because instead of focusing on young, single women the main characters are a little older and married. It’s a slow burn, but as one of my beta readers said it’s more like a slowly burning fuse leading up to a big kaboom. For those who enjoy the lore of the Grading Universe, there’s plenty of that. And what would a GM Mariner book be without a visit to HCI Houston?

Dani and Ben have a comfortable marriage, a pleasant suburban home, and a front-row seat to their neighbors’ increasingly scandalous private lives.

In a world where slavery is legal and sexual boundaries are very different, a little curiosity about what happens behind closed doors isn’t particularly unusual. But when their neighbor Terry brings home a beautiful young pleasure slave, the resulting upheaval threatens to destroy his marriage to Dani’s best friend, Abby.

As Abby struggles with betrayal, loneliness, and some surprisingly tempting new possibilities, Dani finds herself drawn into a world she’s always observed from a safe distance. What begins as concern for a friend gradually becomes something far more complicated – and considerably more exciting.

Before long, unexpected friendships, forbidden fantasies, and some very unconventional decisions will challenge everything these neighbors thought they knew about love, loyalty, desire… and that sometimes the most surprising desires are hiding in plain sight.

Neighbors is a slow-burn erotic novella about friendship, temptation, betrayal, and the strange intimacy of surrender – what we’re willing to give away to keep what we love.

Available to buy on Amazon and also on Kindle Unlimited/Kindle+:

Neighbors: A Grading Universe Story

She went looking for her husband’s secret. She found a secret side of herself.

My fifth published book! A novella, it features about 16000 words which Amazon says converts to 67 pages printed. I think it’s a bit less than that, but what do I know? Should be readable in an evening.

I had fun writing this one. It’s set in the Slave Grading Universe and looks at a free woman’s encounter with sex slaves. The main theme is how she learns to stop worrying and… well, see for yourself.

Here’s the blurb:

Laurie has a problem.

Her marriage isn’t what it used to be. Once, she and Russ couldn’t keep their hands off each other. Now work, stress, and routine have taken over, and Laurie can’t understand why her husband seems to have lost interest in sex.

Then she finds a mysterious receipt in his pocket.

Following the clue leads Laurie to a shabby bookstore – and to a hidden world of collars, slave girls, and men paying for anonymous encounters. Laurie is shocked. She’s fascinated. And, to her own surprise, she’s aroused.

What begins as an investigation into her husband’s behavior soon becomes an exploration of her own fantasies. Surrounded by women who have turned submission into an unexpected source of confidence, Laurie discovers that the stressed-out professional she has become isn’t the only woman inside her.

There’s another woman there.

A woman who discovers that being treated like a slave girl can be very different from actually becoming one.

But Laurie’s adventure takes an unexpected and dangerous turn, forcing her to rely on the very people she came to observe.

By the time she returns home, Laurie is no longer quite the same woman who walked into that bookstore.

Glory is an adventurous tale of sexual awakening, fantasy, submission, danger, and a woman discovering just how far she’s willing to go.

I’m trying to decide if I want to give up sales on other platforms in order to offer this on Kindle Unlimited. In the meantime, you can find it on Amazon and Smashwords. Let me know what you think!

Glory: A Grading Universe Story