Hendon House Rules 1

The house in Hendon was supposed to be a fresh start. For David Miller it was an anchor after three years of lonely quiet. For his children Emma and Jake it was an intrusion. For Sarah’s daughters Chloe and Mia it was an uprooting. None of them were ready for the final item on Sarah’s list of house rules.

The Blended Family is the first book in the series, covering the first week of the new household, in which Sarah Miller establishes the hierarchy with the composed certainty of a woman who has thought this through and is not going to negotiate any part of it. David has given his support. The four young adults, ranging from eighteen to twenty-two, have been told what the consequences for breaking the rules will be. Emma, twenty-two and certain she is too old for any of this, tests the boundary before the first week is out. She is wrong about being too old.

Natalie Archer writes the blended family dynamic with the specific understanding that what each of these young people discovers during their first week in the Hendon house is not simply that Sarah means what she says. It is that their own bodies have a response to what is happening in the living room and the bedroom and over Sarah’s knee that none of them had any preparation for, and that the shame of that response is inseparable from its heat.

David discovers something about himself that three years of quiet widowhood had covered over. Sarah is building something she has planned for a long time. The four young adults are finding, one by one and sometimes together, that the lines between punishment and arousal are not blurred in this house. They are simply absent.

This book contains explicit M/F and F/F erotic spanking, bare bottom correction, hand spanking, hairbrush use, blended family discipline dynamics, incestuous themes between adult characters, full nudity, and graphic sexual content between consenting adults.