Stories for Naughty Ladies: Tempting Tales of Tension and Tease

• When the night settles and the world softens, desire has a way of slipping into the quiet—warm, lingering, impossible to ignore.
  Stories for Naughty Ladies draws you into four irresistibly intimate encounters where curiosity deepens, tension smoulders, and every moment feels charged with promise.
• A woman caught naked in the light, revealing far more than she intends.
  A party humming with glances that last a little too long.
  A daring choice—risqué, delicious, and impossible to forget.
• These sultry tales unfold in the tantalizing space between wanting and daring… where a single breath can tip the balance, and a single spark becomes a slow-burning thrill.
• Sophisticated, teasing, and deliciously atmospheric, this collection is crafted for women who savour sensuality with elegance, mystery with heat, and stories that leave a trace long after the last line fades.
• Slip into the shadows.
  Feel the tension rise.
  Let the tease begin.

Soft Fire: 4 Elegant Tales of Desire

Dive into a new collection of sensual, sapphic, slow-burn stories crafted for readers who crave tension, temptation, and unapologetic female desire.
In Soft Fire: 4 Elegant Tales of Desire, each standalone tale offers its own flavour of seduction:

• The Librarian’s Late Returns — A quiet scholar with a secret appetite meets a woman who reads him far too well.
• The Florist’s Special Order — A fragrant misunderstanding blooms into something daring, tender, and impossible to resist.
• The Painter of Troubled Hearts — An artist unveils a muse’s hidden fire… and sparks a passion neither expected.
• Delving into the Archives —Two women review archived letters together, and develop a longing they refuse to hide.

Expect lush atmosphere, magnetic chemistry, and moments that make the breath catch. These stories don’t rush—they simmer, they tease, they build… until the tension becomes irresistible.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:

✔ Slow-burn sapphic romance

✔ Sensual tension without graphic detail

✔ Confident, complex heroines

✔ Playful heat and emotional depth

✔ Stories written to be savoured, not skimmed

Indulge in four delightfully indecent adventures you won’t soon forget.

90-Mile Beach Nostalgia: How the Sands Fought Back

A mythic memoir of childhood, memory, and the wild spirit of New Zealand’s northern coast. Through lyrical storytelling and vivid detail, Gary Ferguson invites readers into a world where sand dunes whisper secrets, and the past rises like mist off the tide. This is a journey of innocence lost and wisdom gained, told with tenderness, grit, and a touch of magic.

A Whisper in the Shadows: They Met at Twelve, then at Seventy...

A Whisper in the Shadows is a tender, time-spanning novel about memory, longing, and the quiet ache of missed connection.
When Gary Ferguson receives a phone call from Janice Green — a girl he last saw at twelve, and never forgot — the past stirs to life. What begins as a simple coffee invitation becomes a journey through decades of emotion, nostalgia, and the fragile beauty of what might have been.
From a sunlit bike ride to a quiet café reunion, Gary and Janice navigate the space between memory and reality, discovering that some moments never fade — they simply wait to be remembered.
Poignant, lyrical, and deeply human, A Whisper in the Shadows is a meditation on aging, emotional fidelity, and the grace of having loved, even briefly.

Aftermath of War: A Quiet Reckoning in 1950's Auckland

In the quiet aftermath of war, a boy visits 1950's Auckland, watching the adults around him carry silence like a second skin. From rooftop playgrounds to budgie cages, whispered conversations to fading soundscapes, he learns that memory is not a straight line—but a blur of feeling, hush, and grace.
Aftermath of War: A Quiet Reckoning in 1950's Auckland is a tender meditation on aging, loss, and the quiet beauty of blurred truths. Through evocative scenes and lyrical reflection, Gary Ferguson invites readers into a city beginning to be reshaped by modernization, where storytelling becomes a form of healing—and where the past hums beneath the surface of progress.
A love letter to Auckland’s changing rhythm and the quiet companionships that shape us, this novel asks gently: Do you remember?

Aotearoa Invaded: A Family's Reckoning with New Zealand's Colonial Past

A forgotten shoebox. A sketchbook full of questions. A speech that stirs more than memories.
When a man returns to his childhood home in rural New Zealand for a family reunion, he expects polite conversation and shared pavlova. Instead, his words awaken a quiet reckoning—one that ripples through generations and across silences.
With the help of his teenage niece, a thoughtful artist, he begins to uncover fragments of their family’s colonial past: missionary letters, a blacksmith’s photograph, and the long shadow of the Treaty of Waitangi. As they trace their ancestry from the lemon tree in the backyard to the trenches of Ruapekapeka Pā, they confront the legacy of land theft, cultural erasure, and intergenerational silence.
Through sketchbook narrative and emotional reflection, Aotearoa Invaded explores the cost of belonging, the power of listening, and the quiet courage it takes to carry history forward. For readers drawn to literary fiction, postcolonial storytelling, and New Zealand history, this is a novel of colonisation, memory, and artistic awakening.

Farewell Oriana: In the Wake of Loss

Farewell Oriana is a tender, emotionally layered novel about grief, distance, and the quiet courage it takes to begin again.
When a mother leaves New Zealand aboard the Oriana for a trip to America, she leaves behind a son still mourning his father—and unsure how to reach her. Across continents and silences, they exchange letters: some blank, some raw, all searching. As she journeys through the quiet towns of the American Midwest, and he lingers in the rhythms of Auckland, both begin to reckon with what was lost, what remains, and what might still be found.
Told with poetic restraint and deep psychological nuance, Farewell Oriana explores the fragile threads between parent and child, the ache of transformation, and the beauty of reconnection. For readers who cherish quiet literary fiction, this is a story that lingers—like memory, like light.
Perfect for fans of Maggie O’Farrell, Kent Haruf, and Marilynne Robinson.

Just Another Day at the Coalface: Quiet Tensions in Domestic spaces

Another Day at the Coalface is a quiet, sensual reckoning.
A tradesman moves through the homes of strangers, fixing blinds, hanging curtains, adjusting the light—while being drawn into moments of intimacy, ambiguity, and emotional aftermath. Each job becomes a threshold: into desire, into silence, into the strange choreography of being seen.
In these domestic spaces, nudity is not exposure—it’s presence. And the real work is not what he does with his hands, but what he learns to feel with his whole body.
Told in spare, evocative chapters, this literary novel explores the tension between privacy and vulnerability, restraint and surrender. It’s a story of quiet awakenings, of what lingers after the work is done.
Perfect for readers who love:
• Literary fiction with sensual undertones
• Male POV stories of emotional intimacy
• Slow-burn tension and psychological nuance
• Domestic settings charged with quiet desire

Naked in the Light: A Meditation on Being Seen

What if tenderness wasn’t fragile — but fierce?
In a quiet house by the sea, a woman and her partner have built a rhythm of presence, touch, and truth. But when a visitor from the past arrives, the spell is tested — not by betrayal, but by memory, by comparison, by the ache of being truly seen.
Naked in the Light is a luminous novel about the courage to remain open. Told in spare, poetic prose, it traces the emotional landscape of a relationship shaped not by conflict, but by choice — the choice to stay, to soften, to speak.
For readers of Rachel Cusk, Ocean Vuong, and Yōko Ogawa, this is a story of aftermath, of quiet reckoning, and of the fierce grace it takes to live without armour.

Risqué: 5 Erotic Escapes

In "Risqué," four evocative stories unfold across sunlit beaches, deserted shores, and secret encounters. From playful games to whispered desires, these tales capture the delicate balance between longing and restraint, the thrill of being watched, and the courage to embrace vulnerability. This collection invites you to step into a world where sensuality is both a quiet revelation and a bold escape.

She Kept My Card!: A Novella of the Endurance of Memory

The Party: A Night of Unveiling

Ten women. One invitation. A warm night with no rules — only the promise of unveiling.
When Maree hosts a mysterious party with the playful instruction to “dress for less,” her guests arrive curious, cautious, and quietly charged. But when James enters — confident, eventually naked, and unapologetically present — the evening transforms into something far more intimate.
As clothes fall and inhibitions soften, each woman responds in her own way: with laughter, longing, vulnerability, and release. What begins as a provocative gathering becomes a shared journey of sensual awakening, emotional connection, and the quiet thrill of being truly seen.
The Party: A Night of Unveiling is a bold, tender exploration of female desire, group intimacy, and the beauty of surrendering to the moment. For readers who crave erotic fiction with emotional resonance, poetic prose, and unforgettable atmosphere.

The Quiet Tenant: A Novel of Secrets, Silence, and the Rooms We Inherit

In the quiet aftermath of war, Iris tends her garden and her silence. A tradeswoman in 1950s Auckland, she lives among the echoes of men she’s lost—Thomas, Edwin, Frank—and the gestures they left behind. When a young man named Callum arrives with a sketchbook and questions he doesn’t ask, Iris begins to reckon with the spaces she’s kept closed: a fourth chair in the garden, a mirror that blurs more than it reflects, and a notebook filled with fragments from Italy.
The Quiet Tenant is a novel of quiet reckonings, elliptical memory, and emotional architecture. It’s not about resolution—it’s about what remains. Told in restrained, luminous prose, this is a story for readers who find meaning in silence, gesture, and the rooms we build around grief.

The Weight of Silence

What the Tides Remember: A New Zealand Coming-of-age; the '50s to the '70s 

The stories in this collection began as fragments—images, conversations, places that refused to leave me. A boy on a rooftop listening to the rumble of trams. A mother departing on the Oriana and a son watching the gap widen. A woman in a quiet villa confronting the truth of her marriage. A gathering of women discovering that desire does not diminish with age but sharpens, softens, changes shape.

Individually, each piece once stood alone. Some were published as small paperbacks or ebooks; others circulated as quiet stories between friends and early readers. Over time, however, I realised they were speaking to one another. Not in plot, but in tone, in the long arc of how a life unfolds—New Zealand in the mid-twentieth century shaping, constraining, and enlarging the people who lived within it.

A path is traced: from childhood mythmaking to adult awakening, from family history to the private reckonings that arrive unbidden in midlife and later years.

The opening story, 90-Mile Beach Nostalgia, begins where many memories do—on the sand, in the wind, in the space between fear and wonder. From there, the early stories explore the first ruptures: the weight of silence, the shadows cast by war, and the ways in which children learn to inhabit the emotional weather of the adults around them.

Midlife arrives quietly, then all at once. The Party steps into a room seldom described in our fiction—a gathering of women learning to recognise themselves through desire and shared courage. Other stories explore grief, separation, the roughened tenderness of marriage, and the small openings that appear when life forces us to look again.

In the later sections, the past returns in softer ways: a card kept for decades, a love that resurfaces at the bookends of life, the growing clarity that comes only after years have done their slow work. These stories ask what it means to be seen—as children, as partners, as aging adults who carry both memory and longing in equal measure.

Finally, Reflections closes the circle. Not with answers, but with the quieter knowledge that arrives after the noise has subsided. It is a reflection on what persists when stories, and the lives they hold, have finished unfolding.

Though some readers may recognise several of these stories from previous editions, they appear here in revised and reordered form. Collected together, they reveal a larger, more continuous narrative—one shaped by the tides of a country and a lifetime.

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