You met them in Forget Me Not. Now,
hear Jack’s story.
Plagued by a dark past, Jack sees college as a way out. Desperate to escape the area where he grew up, the people who know his secrets, and his own family, he deals with his problems through alcohol and sex.
When he first sees Lily, she’s the epitome of everything he hates. Yet something about her makes Jack rethinks everything he knows and assumes about other people. Now, with the help of his best friend and lover, Jack has to decide if he wants to pursue something that he knows will only end badly.
Can Lily be one of the few people who can see Jack for who he really is – or will his darkness be too much for her to handle?
Plagued by a dark past, Jack sees college as a way out. Desperate to escape the area where he grew up, the people who know his secrets, and his own family, he deals with his problems through alcohol and sex.
When he first sees Lily, she’s the epitome of everything he hates. Yet something about her makes Jack rethinks everything he knows and assumes about other people. Now, with the help of his best friend and lover, Jack has to decide if he wants to pursue something that he knows will only end badly.
Can Lily be one of the few people who can see Jack for who he really is – or will his darkness be too much for her to handle?
- What inspired you to write your book?
I had written a short
story about Derek and Lily and their first time called “Her
Brother’s Best Friend.” It was just supposed to be a short erotic
story. But it sold well, so I thought about writing more about the
two of them. However, as I started writing Forget Me Not, the story
would not work for me. Until I found Jack. And then the novel was
over and there was just so much more to his story, so Lily of the
Valley was born.
- How did you come up with the title?
Forget Me Not and
Lily of the Valley are both flowers, and the series is called
Flowering. The reason is that it is about love, sexuality, and
growing up – sort of blossoming into the person you will be. Forget
Me Not also addresses the idea of leaving your life behind and moving
on. And Lily is the main female character, so hence Lily of the
Valley.
- Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
People are complicated, as
are relationships. The things we think we want sometimes turn out not
to be what we want. In addition, the people we think we understand
may surprise us. We can’t assume anything about love or each other.
They are too complex.
- What books have most influenced your life most?
The Catcher in the Rye,
because it was the first time I understood that other people felt
like me and it also said it was okay to be different. And The Sun
Also Rises, because there can be beauty in suffering.
- If you had to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?
Hemingway. I know he’s
dead, but he knew how to write true.
- What are your current projects?
I am writing Scandal, a
contemporary romance about a teacher and an actor who find each other
after they are both ruined by rumors, and I am waiting to release
Bitter Fruits, a New Adult paranormal/urban fantasy romance in
December through the publisher. I am also working on Immortal Star,
the second book in that series.
- What was the hardest part of writing your book?
Jack’s experiences and
emotions are really closely tied to my own and it was hard to write
some of his scenes.
- If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you?
Aubrey Plaza. She has the
same type of biting sarcasm that I do.
- If you had six months with no obligations or financial constraints, what would you do with the time?
Travel the world and write.
- What kind of people do you dislike?
Anyone who is cruel to other
people or creatures. People who assume their own reality is the only
reality. And people who don’t read.
I slip the vibrator inside of her, holding her open
to take the toy in, and my cock twitches at the wet heat of her
pussy. Jesus, I want her, but the way she groans and the way her
eyelids flutter make holding out worth it. I love being in this
position, this force that gives her exactly what she craves, without
needing her to focus any of her energy on me. She can just give
herself over to the sensations with no worries at all, and she is
eager to do that now. She grows wetter and I slide the toy in and out
a few times to ensure that she’s ready. I haven’t turned on the
vibrations yet, and I want to tease her a little.
“How does that feel?” I ask.
“Mmmm,” she says, which I take as a good sign.
I push it in a little bit deeper and then I flip the
switch to the lowest setting. Lily gasps and holds the sharp intake
of breath.
“Your pussy is beautiful, princess.”
She groans and I watch her writhe against the toy. I
meet her movements with it and she balls up the sheet in her fists.
“Oh, God,” she groans.
Increasing the speed of the vibrations, I push the
toy deeper within her and she cries out, before immediately biting
her lip.
“Go ahead and scream,” I tell her. “I
love watching you come.”
She’s breathing in short, quick gasps and I know
she’s nearly there, but I also know she’s holding back. Lily is
still, somewhere in her mind, the good girl and she clearly worries
about what other people will think. Not enough to turn down what I’m
doing, but enough to make her orgasm lesser than I want it to be, so
I slip the toy even deeper and tell her to hold her thighs together.
I get up, turning on the radio – loud - and I return to the bed.
“Don’t worry now. No one can hear you. You
can enjoy yourself, Lily.”
At the sound of her name, she jerks her hips up and
the vibrator slips out of her. I push her legs apart and rub her clit
for a few minutes. She opens one eye and I know she’s looking for
the toy again, but she can’t say anything because her clit is
swollen under my thumb and she’s too excited. I am so fucking hard
it hurts, but I don’t move to undress or do anything but help Lily
let go entirely.
“More,” she cries.
“More what?” I tease.
Sarah Daltry writes erotica
and romance that ranges from sweet to steamy. She moves around a lot
and has trouble committing to things. Lily of the Valley is her third
full length novel, although she also has several story collections
and two novellas available. Her other novels are Forget Me Not, the
story that tells Lily’s version of events, and Bitter Fruits, which
will be released by Escape Publishing in December. When Sarah isn’t
writing, she tends to waste a lot of time checking Facebook for
pictures of cats, shooting virtual zombies, and simply staring out
the window.
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