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Best-selling and award-winning author Lydia Michaels unleashes the “taboo” in a scorching psychological tale that breaks the rules of fidelity and redefines perfect in a dominant-submissive, poly-amorous romance that delivers!

The Weatherford Ball is the last chance Julia Beaumont has to escape the clutches of her horrid stepmother. Any potential husband will do-rich, poor, even a reasonably well-groomed walrus. But all of Julia's matrimonial chances are completely obliterated...thanks to the actions of an infuriating and utterly rakish duke. Gregory Carter, Duke of Ashworth, would never risk his cherished bachelorhood by flirting with marriage-starved debutantes. But one look at the luscious and refreshingly clever Julia, and he simply can't resist a stolen kiss-scandal be damned.

Before Sawyer Bishop, I was innocent. He was my mentor and my father’s business partner. He was never meant to be my lover. The first time he touched me I was twenty-three. As I lay quivering on the floor of my father’s study, relieved of my virginity, I recall how satisfying it felt to finally do something wrong, something forbidden, something a little vengeful to help me feel anything beyond the pain of their abandonment. But Sawyer Bishop was as ruthless as the rest of them.

After celebrating their sixth wedding anniversary, Lydia and Charlie decide it's time to negotiate their spanking contract, to avoid a repeat of the problems they faced the previous Christmas. In the meanwhile, a fellow actor develops a dangerous obsession with Lydia, enough so she must consider giving up a much-needed acting job. Lydia keeps the man's dangerous and obsessive behavior from Charlie, until the second time Charlie learns Lydia's been dishonest with him - at risk to herself. It becomes necessary to add it to the spanking contract.

After the death of a beloved aunt, Lydia must take a road trip to Chicago, and runs into dangerous trouble on the way, when no one will rent her a room as a single female, traveling alone. Her choice as to how to handle the situation backfires terribly, with Charlie, who's forced to travel by bus to Cleveland to get her out of police custody. The two argue over whether Lydia's recklessness merits a spanking, and by the time the two get to the funeral in Chicago, both humor and more misadventures ensue.

Right before Thanksgiving, she ends up repeating one old mistake that earned her the very first punishment spanking she received at Charlie's firm hand. She withholds the information from Charlie until a holiday party, where she must come clean or be "outed" by one of the people who made life so difficult during Charlie's last absence. The two end up not just arguing, but trying to work through the just and appropriate way to punish serious lapses in judgment over safety, where Lydia's not merely been warned, but actually punished before.