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MR CHAMBERS
Alice had a secret. At just seventeen she had found and fallen deeply in love with the perfect man. The kind of man you don't ever forget, the kind of sexual experience you can never replicate, but that man had been her teacher.
Fourteen Years later - married and a mother - Alice reluctantly attends her high school reunion and although bringing back bitter sweet memories of her clandestine adolescence, she leave the party with a gentle closure on the part of her past that she couldn't, until now, put to rest.
On the short car ride home, stopping briefly for traffic she glances behind her.
There, through the dark windscreen, dim shadows and the sudden shroud of her unexpected tears she's met with the face of the man that had filled her dreams for over a decade...
Tom Chambers.
He had taught her how to love. Both inspired aand pushed her fledgling sexual journey to its youthful limits and made her beautiful over all others. He was temptation itself, and he was here.
On the night she had decided to let it all go, to let him go...he was refusing to let her.
'The beautiful and unapologetic honesty of true love, raw sexual ownership and internal struggle - are all emotionally alive here. Delicately dissecting that hidden, duplicitous part within us all that we're never fully comfortable to recognise or accept.'
​THE NOT GATE
Hardworking, erudite and sometimes serious Alice Rutherford is a model student, studying A-levels at Claude Bennett School. But during the fading months of 1995, her life is unexpectedly turned upside down by the arrival of an impossibly handsome and charismatic new teacher, Mr Chambers.
A strange attraction quickly develops between Tom and Alice, and almost immediately every situation they find themselves in is heightened by temptation and desire.
During a school trip and thrown together accidently, Tom briefly lets his guard down and they share an honest moment that permanently shifts their path. What ensues is a secret, deeply passionate love affair, neither thought possible.
But as their paralleled obsessions grow more ardent, the moral and social danger it presents becomes ever more tangible and soon they're forced to confront the inevitable.
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Should you give up something so incredable just because its so wicked?
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"The Not Gate is a nostalgic, thought provoking and seductive tale of first love, forbidden sex and human fragility and the guilty tie that binds them all."
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RIGHT BEFORE I JUMP
Former Paratrooper Captain Will Wallace, jaded from a decade on the front line returns home looking for fresh start. However, finding himself in the back of beyond, ruffling local feathers and falling in love was the very last thing on his mind.
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That might have to change.
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Young, idealistic and innocent, Seren Thomas has lived all her life in the same small Welsh coastal village, without any chance of escape. Hopelessly in love with an older man that doesn't know she's alive. Her fledgling career, a non-starter. Her experience with men, pitiful. Her future appeared both boring and hopeless.
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Until he arrived and upended her life without ever asking permission.
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A long hot summer with a handsome stranger sounded like a naughty dream, and one she'd be foolish to refuse, right? But trusting him would mean trusting herself.
When loyalties and love go head to head, and the past threatens to drown them. Will they sink or swim.
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How far would you go to keep the one you love?
'Gratifing, controversial and sexy - accurately recapturing the euphoric highs and tormenting lows of a first romance.'
'Simply prickling with sensual anticipation on every page.'
'The one that got away is back!'
'Hottest Vanilla ever!!'
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