From the author of the USA Today bestselling Priest and New Camelot series comes a high-heat, gothic, dark academia fairy tale full of lantern-lit rituals, foggy moors, and obsessions that last for a lifetime.

Twelve years ago, she left Thornchapel--and the two boys she gave her heart to--behind.

Now, Proserpina Markham has returned, hopeful...and wary. Because it's so very easy to be drawn back into the world of the seductive and elegant Auden Guest...and into the world of his worst enemy, St. Sebastian Martinez. The beautiful and brooding St. Sebastian is as irresistible as he ever was, and Auden is just as handsome and arrogant, and the three of them can't seem to unknot themselves from each other.

From the hasty promise they three made all those years ago.

As Thornchapel slowly tightens its coil of truths and lies around them, the reluctant threesome starts unravelling into filthy, holy pleasure and pain. Together, they've awakened a centuries-old fate that will either bloom like a rose...or destroy them all.

The erotic tales presented reflect the incredible variety of sexual inclinations and uninhibited, unrestrained bodily lust. The geographic setting changes in each story. The protagonists include writers, sculptors, vacationers, ladies of the day and night. The love scenes and stories leave nothing to be desired. Lively action flows from London to New York, Tennessee, Montreal, Ibiza and Mallorca. The encounters include hetero, homo, bi-sexual, lesbian, and diagonal relationships. The tales deal, among other things, with the seduction of a convent girl by a rich older lady; with the fascination of a female professor and her husband for what is locally called a hillbilly; with the falling in love of two couples with each other; with the formation of threesomes and foursomes; with a successful wife swapping attempt; and other stories. The characters depicted engage in all kinds of passionate behavior to satisfy their sexual needs and desires; and be they not so strange.

I wonder if Janie will come. It was Parker Thomas's first thought as he prepared to head back to his alma mater for a twenty-two-year college reunion. Parker was forty-four, but he could still remember his days half a lifetime ago as a party boy in upstate New York. He could also remember Janie-the one that got away. Parker didn't have much to complain about; he was a successful businessman-but sometimes, he felt lonely. Janie Farwell had similar thoughts. She, too, had found success in the business world, so why did her life still feel empty? Why did she so often reminisce about the past and about a handsome boy named Parker? Of course he would be at the reunion, she told herself. She had to believe it. She wanted to see him again; she only wondered what might happen when she did. Would she feel the same way about him, twenty-two years later? The night draws nearer, until finally, Parker and Janie meet face-to-face. As their fellow graduates catch up on careers, families, and old friendships, Parker and Janie can only see each other. But can love weather the years? Does a spark survive a twenty-two-year gap, or will college grudges and youthful indiscretions come back to haunt them? Only the night of the reunion can tell, and what happens may chance both of their lives forever.

After the intervention of an Olympian goddess, a male chauvinist wakes next morning a beautiful woman. An initial panic is followed by the need to face what he once regarded the great taboos or burdens of womanhood: makeup, hormonal swings, period pain, hair salons, dancing backward in high heels, makeup, waxing, sex from a new perspective, birth control, and more. The compensations are discovery of the importance of shoes, suddenly being found attractive rather than ordinary and what? After each challenge she faces, Mika's body gradually takes control, and she becomes more feminine. Unfortunately, a part of her previous male self remains in her head, complaining about every female activity he has to endure. She finds memories of life as a red-blooded womaniser are sometimes a weak defence against the type of man she once was. Can she cope with what all other women seem to take in their stride?