I love the beach and love reading and writing stores set there so of course, I’m pyched to feature Libby Campbell’s box set featuring three hot romances at the coast. The stories in Libby’s Romancing the Coast Box set are set in the Pacific Northwest, featuring feisty, financially independent women who have their lives shaken up by sexy, alpha males who aren’t intimated by these women’s success and aren’t afraid to deliver some corporal punishment. Enjoy! Disclaimer: As always adults, eighteen years old and older, only please!
Romancing The Coast – Box set
Includes: Seeing Ronnie, Holding Cynthia, and Trusting Ingrid
by Libby Campbell
Release date: May 24, 2019
Length: 205,000 words – 684 pages
Publisher: Blushing Books
Disclaimer: The Romancing the Coast boxset contains fantasy themes appropriate for mature
readers only. Nothing in collection should be interpreted as Blushing Books or the author advocating any non-consensual sexual activity.
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Book One Blurb: Seeing Ronnie
Aloof and beautiful, society blogger Ronnie Flynn only agrees to go out with Del Franklin
because he has an invitation to the biggest social event of the year. But it means spending a
weekend with him on gorgeous Seguro Island. Before that weekend is over, Ronnie is in deeper
than she ever imagined possible. Enthralled by her beauty and intelligence but less impressed
with her snark, Del decides the only thing she needs to make her a good partner is a lesson in
manners. That’s a lesson he’s happy to deliver, as often as she needs it.
Excerpt
[Del catches Ronnie snooping at the house where they are attending the engagement party]
“Let’s put it this way, you can take a spanking and we’ll draw a line under this incident.” Del
stepped closer to her. “Or I can march you downstairs, past all the guests, and we’ll show Simon
how I just found you and what you had in your hand.”
Ronnie pictured all the gathered dignitaries: people of wealth and influence from all walks of
life. Politicians, business people, artists, dancers, writers, musicians, all milling around
downstairs. Everyone who was anyone for a hundred miles was at this party.
Her face burned at the thought of the public humiliation. She’d be ridiculed for months to come.
“Okay I’ll take the stupid spanking—on one condition.”
“Which is?”
“You can’t tell a soul.” Her voice came out wheedling, but his expression didn’t change. In the
midst of her anger and bluster, another sensation simmered, a strange, tangled response to his
threat, to the way he stood in front of her, his face stony and resolute.
Moistness dampened her panties and her nipples tightened.
Del seated himself at the end of the bed. “That’s fair enough. For now. If you behave for the rest
of the day, you have my word that this will stay between the two of us. Now take off your hat,
lift your skirt, and lie across my knees. You may leave your panties on. This time.”
“This time?” she snorted. “Like you really think this is ever going to happen again?” Ronnie’s
face was so hot she was sure it would combust.
“The longer it takes you to present yourself, the worse this is going to be.” Del’s voice dropped
to an ominous level.
She glanced around the room to make sure no one could see or hear what was about to take
place. Without asking Del, she darted over to the French doors leading to the upstairs balcony
and closed them, shutting out the murmur of laughter and conversation drifting up from the lawn
below. She hoped fervently that she had also cut off any noise from the bedroom travelling the
other way.
When she got back to where Del sat, her mouth dry and palms sweating, she fumbled her hat off
and placed it on the chair by the fireplace. Her long red hair fell across her face, partly shielding
the embarrassed blush coloring her cheeks.
“I’ve never been spanked before,” she said in a mouse-like voice and hated herself for her
timidity. She stood before him, staring at her feet.
“Then you’re overdue, aren’t you?” Del took her hands in his. He brought one then the other to
his lips before looking up at her and speaking again. “This will hurt but it won’t be anything you
can’t bear. If it really gets to be too much, simply say safeword and I will stop. Then we will
have to find another way for you to pay for your misbehavior. I think you’ll find that a spanking
is the fastest and easiest way to atone. Do you agree?”
Ronnie nodded, biting her lip.
Book Two: Holding Cynthia
Cynthia is about to move to the West Coast to be closer her daughter. As her plane touches down
in her new city, she steels herself for the new life ahead. When she finds Antony, someone she
thinks of as a dear friend, waiting at the arrivals gate, a wave of gratitude and desire floods
through her.
She is tired and aching beyond all memory, so Antony takes charge. Very quickly, he realizes
there is something wrong, very wrong, with Cynthia’s health. He insists that she see a doctor.
She says he is overprotective. He agrees. He is also determined to look after her if she won’t look
after herself. A trip over his knee shakes Cynthia to the core. In spite of herself she likes – she
wants – this loving correction.
Is Antony too much, too soon, or is he just what the doctor ordered?
Excerpt
[Antony is about to give Cynthia a massage after her bath. He knows she is unwell and wants her
to take better care of herself.]
“Not yet,” he said. “Lie down on your stomach. I told you I’m a bit of a masseuse.” He threw
back the covers. “You’re about to get the full Antony Jacobson treatment.”
She didn’t argue even though her sulky face said she wasn’t happy about being nude. Too bad,
he liked her that way. She had a beautiful body. Not perfect like a younger woman’s, but one that
satisfied the Japanese definition of beauty called wabi-sabi, an appreciation of life’s
imperfections and impermanence. Cynthia was one of the most beautiful women he’d ever seen.
Pouring oil onto his palm, he rubbed his hands together to heat it. He started at the base of her
spine, gently moving up toward her shoulders. “I’m just doing a bit of effleurage to warm and
ease your muscles. I’m not going to do anything too dramatic today. I’m not skillful enough to give you what you really need. That’s okay because you’ll get more appointments with Tiffany
[the massage therapist] and give me the dates and times so I can make sure I get you there.”
Cynthia’s face was turned sideways on the pillow. Her garbled reply was something like, “I
don’t know if I have time for more appointments.”
He stopped massaging and with an oily hand smacked her right butt cheek. Hard.
“If you don’t have time for Tiffany, you’re going to collect a whole more of those from me,
understood?”
Silence.
Slap.
“I said, understood?”
“Yes! I understand. You’re ruining a perfectly good massage.”
“No, you are by not answering me appropriately. Remember rule number one: look after
yourself?” His hands trailed from her shoulders down to her waist. She said nothing. Antony
stopped massaging
Cynthia said quickly, “Yes, I remember.”
“After watching you today, I’ve decided rule number one is look after yourself and engage in a
program of aggressive self-care.”
“Aggressive self-care?” she said it like a question.
“By that I mean you should carve out at least one to two hours a day when you do nothing but
look after yourself. That might be napping or going for a walk. It might just be reading a book.
Find the things that you want to do, that keep you centered. Be sure to include exercise,
massages when you need them and preparing proper meals, to make sure you’re getting a decent
diet. Tu me comprends?”
She smiled at his use of the familiar noun-verb combination.
“Yes, I understand. I understand that your accent isn’t improving.”
Antony smiled too, before smacking each buttock cheek half a dozen times. She tried to put her
hands back to stop him but he was too fast.
“This is just the beginning of some changes in your life that you may not like. But you will adapt
to them or risk a lot more time over my knee. Laugh all you like but my rules are only going to
get firmer.” He started massaging the tops of her thighs. “You up to the challenge?”
“Ha. I know I am, but what about you?” she teased.
“There’s nothing I’d rather do with my time.”
Book Three: Trusting Ingrid
Ingrid Nickel doesn’t want to go into rehab. Again. She tried it once but it didn’t work.
When she meets Lachlan Morrison, the connection is electric. She sees a handsome man,
directing and challenging, who won’t be intimidated by a powerful woman like her. He sees a
woman whose bluster and sarcasm is a cover for something deep inside her that is badly broken.
The daughter of a grifter, Ingrid has grown up street-wise and lawless. Lachlan has rescued more
than one creature whose bark was worse than its bite.
Will his stern, loving magic work on Ingrid?
Excerpt
“So you can trust me, we should have a safe word.”
“Safe word?” her voice was almost inaudible.
“Yes, a word you can say to tell me that you’ve had enough. When you simply cannot stand
another second of what I’m doing to you.”
“So I can stop the spanking whenever I want?”
“That’s not the intention, but of course you could. Just as you could stop the intimacy between us
whenever you want. One won’t necessarily lead to the other, but any overuse of the safe word
would undermine what the spankings are all about. If you use the safe word more than once, that
would very likely end our relationship.” He hugged her a little tighter. “The safe word is only
meant to be used in extreme circumstances. It’s an escape hatch. You wouldn’t use it any more
than you’d call 911 because you couldn’t get a taxi on a wet day. The word will be there to help you, not carry you past some minor level of discomfort. I have years of spanking experience.
Believe me, I have a fair idea of how much you’ll be able to bear.”
Ingrid digested what he was saying, wishing to hell that he’d just get on with it and stop making
her think so much. She was thrumming from the mere idea of being over his knee. Didn’t he
warn her that cock teasing would get her spanked? How was it fair that he could make her so
horny and do nothing about it without consequences?
“What do you want to use as your safe word?”
“I have to choose one?” This was too damned hard already. She had to consent to the spanking.
On top of that, she had to choose her own freaking safe word? Then she had to not use it in case
that convinced him that she was trying to stop more than the spanking?
She wasn’t prepared for any of this, no more than she was prepared for the way he seemed to be
taking over her life. “I don’t know. I can’t think of one just like that, like pulling ideas out of the
air.”
Lachlan chuckled. “You’re pretty defenseless already, aren’t you? Okay I’ll choose one for you.
How about rescue.”
“Yes, that’s just fine. Thank you very much.”
Lachlan unwrapped his arms from around her, and taking her wrist, spun her to face him.
After what they’d just talked about, she couldn’t look him in the eye.
“You’re all shy now are you, lass?” For a second his voice took on the strong Scottish accent that
frequently crept into Glyn’s speech.
Ingrid’s body vibrated in response. Let’s get the spanking over with, she thought. I can’t wait for
the main feature.
Lachlan reached for her cardigan, pushing it off her shoulder. “It’s time for you to strip so we
can start today’s session.”
“Strip?” She tried to wriggle away, but Lachlan caught her wrist in a tight grip. “Yes, strip. For
one thing I want to feast my eyes on your gorgeous body. For another, being naked is a deeper
form of submission. Laying yourself bare is an important ritual that says you accept what is
coming.” Ingrid bristled, successfully wrenching away from him this time.
“All my clothes?”
She liked the word relationship. She wasn’t so fond of the word strip.
Lachlan stepped past her, closer to the fire. “Okay. It’s your first time. I think naked from the
waist down will be enough. Then you will come over here.”
He pushed an ottoman in front of the hearth. “You will kneel in front of this, your bottom facing
the fire, your upper body pressed into the top of it. Now you know the reason for the raised
hearth; it delivers heat to upraised buttocks without scorching the lower legs or feet.”
“It was designed with that thought in mind?”
“Absolutely. Glyn and I discussed it at length.”
The image of Glyn and Lachlan analyzing the correct height to set a hearth, so a fire could pre-
heat a woman’s bottom for a spanking, left Ingrid speechless. A faint mewing sound escaped her.
Lachlan smiled slightly. “Are you ready?”
Ingrid nodded, afraid to attempt words.
“Sit down, I’ll help you take off your boots.” His voice sounded kind, like a gentleman casually
offering to help a lady remove her coat.
Ingrid slumped as Lachlan knelt at her feet. He unzipped the boots, loosened her boot stays, and
with more tenderness than she’d have guessed possible, slid first one boot off and then the other.
He laid them on the ground beside her.
Time slowed to a crawl for Ingrid. Shocked by how direct he was, how clearly his plans were
laid out, she sat dumbfounded for a minute. Start with the easy things, she told herself and began
to peel off a sock.
“Leave your socks on,” Lachlan said.
She looked at him quizzically.
“You don’t know? I’ll explain later.” Lachlan stood, moving away from her again. “Take off
your jeans and panties. Now. Then assume the position. Don’t make me ask you twice.”
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Don’t miss these other great books from Libby Campbell and Blushing Books:
The Simon in Charge series:
Simon Says (book 1)
Winning Sadie (book 2)
Sadie Says I Do (book 3)
Three-book box set – Simon in Charge
A Time For Will
Novellas in Christmas anthologies:
Prairie Promise – A Spanking Good New Year anthology
Love at Last Flight – 12 Naughty Days of Christmas anthology
Libby Campbell in her own words:
I’m in love with love. My romance stories feature strong, self-reliant women who challenge the
powerful men who love them.
My books are set in the Pacific Northwest, a part of the world I know well and love deeply.
I’ve lived all over Canada, but the best decision of my life was when I moved to Australia to
marry my leading man. After many years there, we moved back to the Pacific Northwest. We
now live in a leafy neighborhood close to the sea.
My passions are reading and writing. I also love hiking, beachcombing, and an occasional night
of dancing.
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