Romance Novel Set in the Conservative 1950s, 97,249 words, 21 chapters.
Moral boundaries sometimes come apart no matter how hard you try not to cross them. Human attractions know no such boundaries.
Carol and Jimmy are an unlikely couple. Jimmy is a high school senior and Carol is married to his best friend’s father. Sometimes things just happen.
Excerpt:
I slowly put my arms around her and reached the back strap, fumbling with it, but finally unfastening it. The bra fabric, which had been taught against her skin, relaxed.
“You’re almost there,” she whispered. “Pull the straps down, Jimmy.”
“Is this what you want, Carol?”
“It’s what has to be. We both have to resolve something, Jimmy,” she said.
It was the final step I would take to cross that line away from Lakewood and into that other reality whose boundaries I had been toying with for so long. All the issues about right, wrong, and righteousness were for parents, schoolteachers, and others to debate.
I had put them aside as obstacles I did not wish to deal with, but if I had struggled with them, the result would not have changed what I was about to do. For in this place I could forget who she was. She was just Carol with the green eyes which were glowing from the flickering light of the fire reflecting in them.
I stared into those soft glowing green eyes as I reached up and gently grasped her straps, never looking at what I was doing, just staring into those beautiful eyes.
Slowly I slid the straps off her soft shoulders and down her arms, then released them letting the garment drop to the floor. Still I looked into those eyes, not wanting to leave them. It was her alone I wanted, not the resolution to the mystery. Nothing else mattered………
Description:
A high school senior and an older attractive young woman fall in love in the autumn of 1958 in a small conservative Maryland town. Both know the relationship is wrong and struggle to keep it a secret and somehow bring it to an end and put it back the way it was.
A mysterious gold chain around Carol’s neck disappeared under her dress and captured Jimmy’s imagination. Her skin had the scent of vanilla pudding and it seeped softly and deeply into Jimmy’s being. He was attracted to her and she to him.
