Ronald Anderson a 39-year-old artist and art professor on sabbatical since the unexpected death of his wife in an automobile accident two years earlier. The tragedy has left him dark and distant, his art becoming dark and macabre, his life a humdrum daily existence devoid of hope, until the day Allie comes to his door.

Allie (Alice May Jewett) is a 23-year-old Junior recently enrolled at the university after three years of community college in a small town in Montana. She too, has suffered great tragedy; the loss of her father during the war in Iraq ten years earlier. Naïve and quite innocent after a sheltered life spent helping her mother after her father’s death, she is on her own for the first time and learning about life and herself. Through their shared tragic histories, friendship and healing begins that quickly leads to stronger inner feelings of love and desire. Working through the nuances of generational differences, the two cling to each other, each in different ways. Ron is the nurtruing father figure Allie has never known. She is the impish, sometimes impudent girl teasing and eventually seducing the structured and romantically-resistant Ron.

Working through their conflicts they find healing and hope, but not without external opposition. Allie must convince her mother that her relationship with Ron is more than a typical coed’s crush on a professor. Ron’s daughter, nearly Allie’s age, despite her own dark secret, finds her father’s new romance revolting. A Snapshot in Time is a compelling tale of two people finding hope and happiness in each other. The characters come to life with all their dark feelings and bright hopes, making the reader fall in love with both and hope for the best.

At last... here is THE book for the woman whose husband doesn’t understand the appeal of the “Fifty Shades” experience, co-authored by a woman and wife of then 35 years, and her own reluctant husband. Like millions of women around the world, Pam was captivated by the Fifty Shades of Grey books. Not only did the story of Christian and Ana turn her on, it validated thoughts and fantasies she had long suppressed, believing them to be abnormal. As she came to grips with who she was and what she wanted, the challenge became getting her “old school” husband of 35 years to come around.

Doug was no easy conversion. He was stubbornly stuck in his traditional concepts of marriage, vanilla sex, and the roles of men and women. For more than a year the man who had spent much of his life trying to do whatever pleased the wife he loved, firmly resisted reading “those damn books.” In fact, inwardly he was angry that Pam even thought or desired the things in those books. In Section 1 of “The Reluctant Husband’s Guide to Becoming Christian Grey,” Doug and Pam share in honest and unabashed fashion, their transition from vanilla to the Dark Side. It wasn’t easy for Doug to move outside his comfort zone and become Sir D, Pam’s fantasy of Ana’s Christian Grey.

The two detail their growth, both as individuals and as a loving married couple with frankness and, from time to time, humor. Section 2 is a comprehensive look at BDSM and various types of play. It includes specific scenes with instructions on adding them to the reader’s own play time, instructions regarding safety, examination of various tools and toys, and more.

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