The Young Couple – The Complete Story

Janet Harrison is fifty-two, writes erotic spanking novels for a living, and has been watching Riley Miller run up the stairs to the flat above since the day the young couple moved in. She and her husband John share exactly one preference in the bedroom: they both want to be the one holding the implement. It is a limitation they have learned to work around. Until Riley knocks on the downstairs door to explain about the rent.

The Young Couple is the complete series, following Janet and John’s evolving arrangement with the tenants upstairs across five books, from the first spanking on a hot August afternoon to whatever this has become by the end of it.

Paula Mann writes this from the inside, in Janet’s voice, with the specific warmth of someone who is enjoying herself thoroughly and sees no reason to pretend otherwise. Janet is funny and self-aware and entirely honest about the fact that she made the decision to let the flat to Riley and Peter approximately two seconds after watching Riley’s bottom disappear up the stairs on the day of the viewing. John, standing beside her, was thinking something similar about Peter. The series is written with this honesty throughout: two people in their fifties who know exactly what they want and find themselves, through a combination of luck and unpaid rent, in a position to have it.

Riley is eighteen, small, and has been spanked by her mother since childhood with a flexibility about implements and positions that is, from Janet’s perspective, entirely promising. Peter is equally small, equally cute, and equally accustomed to correction. Both of them need managing. John and Janet are, it turns out, extremely well placed to provide it.

The spankings are explicit and described from the inside, every implement named and felt, the arousal tracked directly in both the people giving the correction and the people receiving it. The sex is written with the same completeness. The series is unusual in the genre for its warmth, its humour, and its genuine affection between all four of its principals, because this is not a story about authority and submission as abstractions. It is a story about four specific people in a Victorian terraced house who have found something that works for all of them.

This book contains explicit M/F and F/F erotic spanking, bare bottom correction, hand spanking, cane, hairbrush and belt use, domestic discipline dynamics, full nudity, and graphic sexual content between consenting adults.