Lanterna Rally

Author: Key Barrett

Publisher:

Published: 2018-02-12

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9781980269977

Four short stories all with one theme: Men learning to be submissive and women embracing their natural Authority as the head of a Female Led Relationship. Four short stories, starting with a loving tale of a May-December romance between a young cook and an older woman where submission is learned over the art of serving an authentic Italian meal, to ending with the tale of a dominant female neighbor who slowly inserts her control over a couple through the art of worship and obedience. Serving Serafina:When Joel was growing up his mother's friend Serafina held two special places in his life. First she's the best Italian cook he'd ever known and second she was his first ever sexual fantasy. Flash Forward 10 years later and culinary school isn't working out so well for Joel. When he bumps into newly divorced Serafina again at a grocery store he decides it's time to pick her brain on all matters of Italian food. What starts off as a learning dinner ends with a stolen kiss, an apology and a whole new batch of confusing feelings for both. Will Joel learn to stop doing what's expected of him and give in to who he really wants to be? Will Serafina learn it is alright to be adored? Force of Nature: Andrew is a caregiver. He loves what he does. The only think he loves more is Officer Nowicki, his neighbor at the Sunny Pines apartments in Santa Monica. Every day he sees her. No bulky uniform can hide the statuesque auburn haired beauty who lies underneath. He finally asks her out, but the date is an unmitigated disaster. Andrew wants nothing more than to make up for his mistake but Amelia won't give him a chance. That is until she sprains her ankle in foot pursuit and is bed-ridden. She begrudgingly takes Andrew's help. What starts off as a simple attempt to apologize blossoms into a relationship centered around devotion to her. As happy as devotion makes them both it confuses Andrew and scares Amelia, especially when she takes to dominating Andrew with such zeal. It takes a how-to manual on Female-Led Relationships for her to even give this burgeoning love a chance. Will Andrew accept his true nature? Will Amelia look beyond her past and trust issues and embrace who she really is? Empress Evelyn:Summer 2014 was going to be Clay's best yet. He'd turned 21 and landed the sweetest summer job: Lifeguard on an eight week cruise. His days were supposed to be filled with suntanning, and his nights filled with wrecking sweet twenty-something girls on vacation. It was all going to plan until a flu outbreak cancelled the tour. So instead of that, he was back at home on Lombard Street, AGAIN doing yardwork. To make matters worse, his best customer was a 40-year-old ice queen who insisted on things like "respect". Sure, she was cute for her age, but Clay was supposed to be swimming in cruise ship girls, not skimming a MILF's pool. But when his come-on goes horribly wrong, Clay finds himself in debt to 'Miss Evelyn'. She intends to teach Clay a little respect and humility, and if he's lucky a thing or two about devotion. The Queen of Lombard Street:Richard has everything a 30 year old man was supposed to want: A lovely wife, a great job and now his dream house at the end of Lombard street. Even his neighbors are nice, except for one, Miss Evelyn. Tall and thin and ten years older than Richard and his wife, she comes off as frosty and imposing. Nonetheless he agrees to mow the communal patch of grass behind her fence in an attempt to win her over. But when he peers through a broken slat in her fence and catches a glimpse of her sunbathing in the nude, it starts a ritual of observation that will lead to his discovery, punishment and submission. Slowly but surely Miss Evelyn forces his surrender and quietly inserts her control into every aspect of his life, including his marriage. Will Richard's guilt lead him to freedom or will he succumb to the will of The Queen of Lombard Street?