Fires of Beltane

In 16th Century Scotland, two accomplished story tellers seduce one another with tales of innocence and experience that range from the bawdy to the downright scandalous. Lise is healing slowly from trauma and violence. She has learned that willful forgetting is not the way to peace, but she doesn’t know how to regain her sexual self, or the intimacy she once knew with Owen, her lover. In the months leading up to the celebration of the festival of Beltane, she and Owen use the safe distance provided by stories, to help her regain her sense of self. By the time of the festival, she is ready to live out the end of the most compelling story either of them has ever known. This story fills in an erotic gap left near the end of the full-length novel Beltane, which is also available on Smashwords.