David and Amanda are two of a very odd kind, though at the start of this romantic tale neither of them knows it. What each of them does know is that in spite of their success and good looks, a vital spark has eluded them in their separate quests for sexual and relational fulfillment. In David's case, the 35 year old handsome and successful entrepreneur has no shortage of desirable partners, but always loses interest within a few months. When his business is purchased for many millions of dollars, he is presented with the opportunity to turn his wealth and talents toward understanding his lack of success in romantic endeavors. Some world-class psychotherapy leads him to a repressed memory of a sizzling teenage sexual encounter with his beautiful French stepmother as the origin of his erotic complexity, which includes a fascination with giving and receiving spankings. As David comes to understand how his adolescent experience led to his fetish, he decides to use his talents to pursue becoming as successful in love as he has been in business.
Amanda has followed a similar course in a city hundreds of miles away from David's home in San Francisco. The 37 year old willowy blonde literature professor is also fed up with a love life in which she alternates betwee nice men who end up boring her and bad boys who turn her on but otherwise leave her cold. She has known for years that her own rather kinky disciplinary experiences at the hands (and mouth) of a nun at her Catholic girls' school left her with a craving to be sexually dominated. But no man has been able to figure out the formula for combining the exercise of erotic power with sophisticated relationship skills in order to hold the interest (and capture the heart) of the beautiful and impetuous teacher.
Both of their frustrations end as Amanda runs across David's carefully designed internet posting offering a life of total erotic focus in complete luxury to the right woman. Within hours an increasingly exciting email exchange leads to an impassioned first meeting as David flies to Portland to woo his fascinating new lover. Their first sexual encounter is sizzling hot but pure vanilla in content, leaving them both breathless to explore the darker side of their sexualities with each other. By the second day, Amanda finds herself topped in a subtle, psychologically powerful way that gives her the best sex of her life as her masterful partner meticulously tests the limits of pain and pleasure of her bound, helpless body. The next day, the roles are switched, and the powerful entrepreneur is allowed to revisit and painstakingly explore his own submissive vulnerability, with the aid of erotic toys purchased from Mistress Jillian, the beautiful older proprietor of a local sex shop.
Totally in love, the couple have some interesting in-flight entertainment on a flight in David's private jet back to San Francisco. There they settle in to a life of daily exploration of each others' darkest desires, abetted by various equpment they purchase and improvise. They also impulsively acquire a spectacular yacht on which they envision unfettered pursuit of open-air BD/SM while cruising the South Pacific. On their return to Portland, the couple enlists Jillian to join in their games, and soon she becomes a regular feature as the implacable domme to the couples' submissive sides. Through the Mistress they recruit the final piece to their erotic puzzle, a totally submissive young Latina named Estela whose youthful beauty and complete willingness to offer herself up joyously for violation makes her into the sexual centerpiece for the three older members of the odd family. In the end, the foursome cruises off into the Pacific sunset for a life of total erotic intensity.
Readers should note that the psychology of BD/SM is deeply explored by all of the willing participants, and that extremely explicit and challenging BD/SM is enjjyed by all in many complicated scenarios.
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