So Bethany, what do you have to share with us today? I hear you've got a new book for us to enjoy huh?
Lady Cassandra has been warned that ‘the betrothal
is the hardest thing a woman goes through’ – but it’s not until she’s caught
attending a forbidden rally that she discovers the painful truth behind those
words.
So what's it about?
Lady Cassandra is betrothed to the
man she loves – but she doesn’t think it right that he will inherit her
family’s estate one day. So, with two friends, she attends a Freedom for Women
League rally. Lady Margia and the Freedom for Women League are fighting for the
right of women to vote, own property, and not be subject to the discipline of
their menfolk.
The campaign could change Lady Cassandra’s future –
but when she gets caught attending the rally, it makes her present life a lot
less comfortable…
Excerpt 1
Now that we were betrothed, Edmund too had the right
to punish me physically; though he still needed to obtain permission from
Father, who would punish me, too. That was why Mama had warned me about the
betrothal. “Even though once you’re married, your husband can bare your bottom
to spank you, at least you’ll know while he’s disciplining you that there isn’t
a second punishment to come,” she’d told me. “Instead, what usually comes after
a marital spanking is infinitely more delicious. As you’ll find out at the
Bedding Ceremony.”
I’d had a horror of the Bedding Ceremony since I was
a child and attended a wedding on the other side of town. After the Wedding
Ceremony, everyone had gathered at the married couple’s new home for the
Wedding Feast. Before the feast was served, the groom had carried the bride
over the threshold and up to their bed chamber. There had been silence in the
great hall while everyone listened to the thwacks and squeals coming from
upstairs. Presently, the groom had appeared on the gallery, brandishing the
paddle he’d been given by the bride’s father in one hand, and a blood-stained
sheet in the other. All the adults had clapped and cheered and stomped.
Horrified, I’d asked Mama if the bride had been spanked until she bled; Mama
had laughed, hushed me and whispered no, of course not; a good, loving husband
would spank his wife hard if she displeased him, but he would never really hurt
her. Later, in my bed chamber, she explained about the blood.
It
still mystified me how Mama could say a husband would “never really hurt” his
wife. The spankings and canings I received from Father always hurt, and they
were over skirts – and I’d often heard Mama yelling and crying when Father
paddled her. Yet, at every Bedding Ceremony I’d attended, the bride always
looked radiant when she came down to the Feast, even if she did have to sit on
a cushion.
And because I love all my readers out there so much, I'm going to gift you a second excerpt.. Why? Because this is my blog. And I can do what I want... *stomps foot*
Apparently I need a spanking... *wink*
Any takers?
Well... any who... here's the second excerpt! Enjoy!
Excerpt
2
“It’s a cooling ointment,” Mama said. “I only use it
to help with the sting from your father’s worst spankings. But it’s essential
during the betrothal period, when you’ve been punished by two men. Put some on
and you’ll start to feel better.”
She crossed over to the window to allow me some
dignity while I applied the ointment. It felt refreshingly cool on my throbbing
bottom and thighs. “Where did you get this from?” I asked.
“I have a supplier,” she told me. “A woman at the
town market.”
“Can I meet her?”
“Maybe. In time. She has to be careful who she
trusts. If the police knew she was selling ointment to ease the pain from a
spanking, she’d been taken to the court.”
“Why have you
never let me use this before?” I couldn’t believe the difference in soreness
level already; I’d need to get some of this for when I was married.
“I told you – it’s for the very worst spankings,”
she said. “It’s far too expensive to waste on a few light taps.”
Go one-click this story folks! It sounds pretty hot to me... *wink
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Author Bio
Bethany Leigh is a newbie erotic romance writer
published by Blushing Books. Her first novella, Freedom, is an Edwardian era historical with a kinky twist, and her
second, At Dead at Night, is a murder
mystery set in present-day England. Her short story anthology, A Cure for All Ills and Other Stories,
will also be published by Blushing Books, and includes contemporary, historical
and time-travel stories set in Australia, England and the Czech Republic.
She enjoys writing (and reading!) about
strong-willed heroines crossing swords with alpha heroes.
Author links
Twitter: @writerbethany1
Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/Bethany-Leigh/e/B018Z9NLSK/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1449447482&sr=8-1
Sounds like you're off to a great start!
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