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This novel, part of a series, is about a private group of people of like mind and backgrounds who share their partners with others in a closed, safe environment. Here you will find stories about your friends and neighbors (with their names changed of course) and real stories about the wonderful world of swinging (to borrow a phrase).They are local, live here, and are not into risky behavior, are healthy, loving, and protective and furthermore,can be trusted. These folks around you today, and others you may meet in the future could possibly become your very best of friends, friends you will share everything with, or they may not . . . but you wouldl have a connection with them that usually doesn’t usually exist among ‘just friends’ and surely not on board a ship or at a resort in the tropics.” “Now, Let’s take a breath. . . . this story follows three couples, just like you or me who decide to allow their partners freedom in chosing to have a relationship with others of a like mind, if only for a short while. Here in these stories each of us is free to be free, if only for the evening.

To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss casts new light on the political radicalism and social thought of nineteenth-century artist, author, and revolutionary, William Morris. Standing on the cusp of a new wave of scholarship, this book presents an exciting convergence of views among internationally renowned scholars in the field of Victorian Studies. Balancing variety and unity, this collection reappraises Morris’s concept of social change and asks how we might think beyond the institutions and epistemologies of our time. Though the political significance of Morris’s creative work is often underestimated, the essays in this volume showcase its subtlety and sophistication. Each chapter discerns the power and novelty of Morris’s radicalism within his aesthetic creations and demonstrates how his most compelling political ideas bloomed wherever his dexterous hand had been at work - in wallpapers, floral borders, medievalist romances, and verse. Morris's theory and practice of aesthetic creation can be seen as the crucible of his entire philosophy of social change. In situating Morris's radicalism at the heart of his creative legacy, and in reanimating debates about nineteenth-century art and politics, To Build a Shadowy Isle of Bliss challenges and expands received notions of the radical, the aesthetic, and the political.

Culverton, Missouri, isn't ready for Antonia Castle's new-fangled ideas about a woman's place. When her fiery speech starts a riot, Jake, the handsome town marshal, has to arrest her to keep the peace. When the judge hands down an unusual sentence, Antonia and Jake must spend 30 days together. . . .