Someone always walks through the door.
Twelve stories. Twelve spankings. And in every one of them someone else is there, watching from a doorway, standing on a cliff path forty feet above, pressed against a corridor wall with their hand over their mouth, sitting in an armchair because they were told to sit and they did. The third presence is the specific charge of this collection. What it does to the two women already in the room when they are suddenly not alone. What it does to the woman who finds herself watching something she did not expect to find and discovers what that watching does to her own body.
You know what this book contains. The hand landing on bare skin and the colour it puts there, described precisely and without distance. The arousal traced stroke by stroke from the moment it arrives, where it locates itself, how it deepens with every stroke, what it builds toward. The sounds a woman makes when she has stopped managing herself. The dominant aroused, her breathing changed, her hands changed, her body present and wanting throughout. Every sex scene fully written. Every orgasm from the inside. Nothing faded to black.
What changes in every story is the third presence and what it produces. A flatmate who comes home from the cinema early and closes the door from the inside. A neighbour on a stepladder above a garden wall, week after week, going home to attend to what watching produces in her own body. A sommelier who retrieves her phone from the office, hears something from the private dining room and does not leave. An old friend who walks into a library at a party with a second key and turns the lock behind her. A woman on a cliff path who watches two women on a beach below and feels every stroke from forty feet above and is seen in return.
Hand and leather paddle and strap and tawse and riding crop and belt. Established partners and strangers. Discovery and desire and the specific heat of being seen and of seeing.
Twelve stories. Twelve ways of being caught. Every one of them explicit from the first page to the last.
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