About Our Story
Does your family history contain scandal? Ours does, as
recently as my mother’s grandfather, who was born a bastard in an era when that
status carried far more stigma than now. His mother – a logger’s daughter who
served as a camp cook – was shunned and shamed for much of her life. On the
other side, my husband’s grandfather was a bigamist. A threshing crew foreman
in the early 1900s, he married and had children in Missouri, then married again
in Kansas. My husband’s grandmother divorced him when she learned of the other
family; their son, my husband’s father, was ten years old.
We blessed—or perhaps cursed—our Through the Lens
heroine with elements of these scandals. Naturally, she’s heard some of the
stories. Through the Lens chronicles her struggle with these
long-forgotten roots. Will she claim them, or run the other way?
Blurb
Prairie roots can be deceptive. Will Ellen
Jeffers cling to the sedate past that’s familiar, or will she embrace a
different version of her history—one that includes tragedy, scandal, fortitude,
and freedom?
It’s 2002, and South Dakota third grade teacher Ellen
Jeffers has signed up for a photography summer course and assistantship at an
art academy in Minneapolis. Thirty-three, divorced for nearly a decade from her
college boyfriend, she’s not seeking major change. She just hopes the course
will enhance her teaching skills and her resume.
Aaron Brewster comes from privilege, and he has used that
status to flaunt his family’s values and carve out a successful career as a
photographer specializing in black and white erotic portraiture. Has he ever
loved? His love is for beauty, sensuality, eroticism. His new uptight teaching
assistant will never fit that vision. Should he send her packing? For reasons
he cannot fathom, he takes her on as a challenge.
Aaron’s frontal assault shocks Ellen, but it also triggers something deep inside she’s never been willing to acknowledge. Is her beloved prairie a safe refuge, or will it become a crucible for transformation? The choice is not merely Ellen’s.
Release Date: June 26, 2020
Publisher: Extasy Books
Genre: Erotic Romance; Ménage
Read an excerpt
Ellen has arranged a photo shoot with Aaron
on the open prairie, where her ancestors homesteaded. The original sod house
still stands.
“Uncle Jim asked that we not try to go in,” Ellen said,
walking around the old soddy. “I can understand why. He’s looking into how he
can shore it up without damaging the walls more.”
“It’s an amazing structure,” Aaron said. “Baked by wind
and sun, I guess. I’ve seen adobe of the southwest, but I’ve never seen
anything like this. Looks like caked mud, grasses, and I don’t know what else.”
“Anything that might stick together. I know the roof has
undergone repair, probably several times. I don’t know about the walls. They’re
very thick.”
“You’ve been in the house?”
“When I was a little girl, and then my mother brought me
out here when I was fourteen to explain Clarissa to me.”
“That must’ve been fascinating.”
“It was. I already knew much of the story, but not all of
it.”
“And this is her place.”
“The original soddy. The wood house she and Hazel built
didn’t last, but this structure did. Ironic, huh?”
“Amazing. And she would’ve used most of these things your
mother collected for the shoot.”
“That’s right. These, or others like them.” Ellen ran
fingers over the spinning wheel. “This wheel was hers. The flail comes down
from her. The hurricane lamps probably don’t. There’s an old butter churn. I
don’t know its history. But they’re all authentic pieces. None of them are
replicas.”
“Very good.”
“You do have a passion for authenticity.” She stepped
across the baked ground to squeeze his arm. “That must go along with trying to
be original and wanting to be first.” She studied him thoughtfully.
He held her gaze.
“Neither one of us seems eager to talk about last night.”
He shrugged. “Maybe we’re afraid if we do, it will
evaporate like a mirage.”
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About Adriana Kraft
When it’s Time to Heat Things Up
Award winning author Adriana Kraft is a married couple writing Sizzling Romantic Suspense and Erotic Romance for Two, Three, or More. Whether readers open our romantic suspense or our erotic romance, they can expect characters they care about, hot sex scenes, and a compelling story. Our suspense stories deliver one man, one woman, danger and intrigue. Our erotic romance is edgier and nearly always includes ménage or polyamory, sometimes with two women and a man, sometimes with two (or more) couples. We write our Erotic Romance stories to entertain, of course, but most of all we write them because we believe in happy endings for all who fall in love, whatever their gender, sexual orientation or numerical combination.
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