Curse
Samaritan, #1
by
Serafina Silk
Date of Publication: November 15th 2019
Publisher: Serafina!
Genre: Erotica/Supernatural/Thriller
Tagline: How far would you go to help someone get over their ex?
BLURB
When Chris gives a deathbed kiss to her best friend her safe world is turned upside-down as a strange sexual obsession and compulsion begins.
But what is driving it? And how will it affect her safe but boring marriage?
The Sex Samaritan series combines erotica and mystery as Chris' journey takes her into a dark and sensual world in which more than her family life is suddenly threatened.
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Excerpt:
With a hand on
Evan’s shocked face, I reached in and pressed my lips against his. He was
shaking, like he was trapped. When our lips touched, he became still. Once
again, it was as if there were two worlds: the one in which we were Evan and
Min, and the one in which Evan and I were sexless old acquaintances. There
wasn’t time now to wonder how or why.
Unable to cut the Min side out, I just wanted to savour not being Chris
the Reliable, Chris the Predictable, Chris the Wife.
I could feel it.
The incredible heat between Min and Evan was something exciting I had never
experienced in my own sex life. Sure, when Arron and I first got together, he
took me to new places. Sex with him in the early days was mind-blowing, but
this was an upgrade, no question. No wonder Evan had given up trying to match
the experience in the years since she left him.
He broke from
increasingly urgent kisses to whispers. “Why did you leave, Min? God, I love
you. You will always be the love of my life.” After every line he returned to
my mouth, unable to keep from the “sweet communion of a kiss,” as Judee Sill
memorably described it.
It’s interesting
that we kiss and eat with our mouth, isn’t it? It means that you can say things
like, “we devoured each other.” It makes perfect sense - I understood that now.
We were devouring each other. Our arms pulled each other tighter. We were both
slim. Only my swelling breasts separated us. Our hands strayed across each
other’s backs, giving our arms the support they needed to pull-in a fraction
closer. The kisses, the sighs and the whispered phrases of loss from Evan,
seemed to go on, deliriously, forever. Yet, my body needed more. Min may have
been driving this, but Chris also had to know - I knew I could not carry on
without feeling what Min and Evan had felt together.
It was me who
lowered my hands first, to squeeze Evan’s arse. His soon followed suit and his
hands pushed flat against my back and dove behind my jeans, under my panties.
He tease-bit my lip, upping the ante. I groaned as, for the first time in 15
years, a man who wasn’t my husband, touched my aroused, naked flesh. And boy,
was it aroused.
Constricted by
the material, Evan could do no more than feel and knead my cheeks, but my pussy
throbbed at the thought of what I hoped was to come. Unable to wait, I brought
my hands to the front, unlatching the clasp of his trousers, pulling the zip
down an inch or two. There was just enough room to slip my right hand into the
top of his boxers.
Author Info
Like the hero of the Samaritan series, Serafina Silk has been a highly successful reporter and journalist, working both local and national newsrooms in America and the UK.
Like Chris, Serafina has two children and is happily married.
Also like Chris, she has interviewed many celebrities.
Cursed is her first novella – Book 1 of the ongoing Samaritan series.
The Book Junkie Reads . . . Interview with Serafina Silk . . .
How would you
describe your style of writing to someone that has never read your work?
Thank you for
inviting me and for the interesting questions. I’ve been writing for a living
since I was 18. I can put a sentence together. I hope. My style is quite
conversational, with an eye for the unusual. Fiction is life with the boring
bits taken out, correct?
As a journalist,
you mostly skip the lyrical in favour of facts. As an author, you mostly skip
the facts for the lyrical.
Samaritan, my debut
trilogy of of eroticas, (Cure, Caught, Cure), are how I find life to be:
awkward, puzzling, sexy, funny, depressing, unpredictable. So, yes, there is
erotica in there, but as I was pleased to hear a BBC friend say to me, “dial
the language down and this is a cracking TV series.”
What are some of
your writing/publishing goals for this year?
If Samaritan does
well, there will another trilogy to follow this one. The story is certainly
unresolved at the end of book 3. I am also working on a thriller which has no
erotica content.
Do you feel that
writing is an ingrained process or just something that flows naturally for you?
I wrote my first
“novel” aged 12. I still have it. I don’t get writer’s block, never have, I
just have the occasional moment where I stop and have a think about how to
progress. I’ve developed quite a few techniques for this over the years. For
example, the brain simply requires stimulus to create complex webs. So, I write
down 6 numbers between 1-500, go to a dictionary, chose the best words on those
6 pages and look at them.
If you were writing
a love story and the list of words you randomly pulled up included (for
example) aeroplane, biscotti, diamond, ketamine, labrynthine, zoo... well, that
has got to set your mind racing for new plot developments, hasn’t it? I use
this technique all the time. Often it’s only one word that sparks you off, but
that’s enough.
In answer to your
question: writing has always flown naturally for me.
Do you have a
character that you have been working on for a long time that still isn't quite
ready, but fills you with excitement to work on the story?
Not really. I
rarely start a story with more than 4 lines of backstory anway. I want to
discover them as I write. Character driven plots are the best, though one
should never discount the element of plot that is random and not character
driven. I don’t think it’s binary choosing between the two. For example,
the underlying plot is that California is breaking away from the coast of
America. That will lead to any number of increasing jeopardy situations.
However, the fun thing is also to create a character driven plot that sees a
cowardly firefighter still recovering from a fire in which he let his best
friend die, finally finds his courage and makes amend for his earlier
disgrace.
If you could spend
one-week with 5 fictional character, who would they be?
Ooh. Nice question.
It’s gonna be an answer heavy on detectives and the Classics.
Sherlock Holmes –
as a young woman, I was obssessed with Holmes, both in book and TV form, and
was madly in love with Jeremy Brett. I’m now madly in love with Benedict
Cumberbatch instead.
Lizzie Bennett –
what an inspiring character. There wasn’t much to do in those times, but I’ve
always been curious how her married life with D’arcy panned out for her. My
biggest fear has always been that she died a few years into her marriage during
a labour that went wrong.
Cormoran Strike – I
loved Harry Potter but JK’s crime series under the moniker Robert Galbraith are
even better. I love flawed heroes and none more than Cormoran.
Bryant & May –
Christopher Fowler’s incredible series of novels about the oldest detectives in
London, are some of the wittiest, sharpest and labrynthine books I’ve ever
read. Each is a delight and I would most certainly love to hang out with the
venerable gentlemen.
Lucy and Susan from
Narnia – ok, I know Susan ends up shut out from heaven because she doesn’t
believe any more, but what a joy it must have been to run with Aslan.
Where would you
spend one full year, if you could go ANYWhere? What would you do with this
time?
I’m currently on a
sabbatical, spending 6 months in America. I’m actually writing this in Monterey,
California, though my home is in London – just like Chris, the heroine of the
Samaritan series. My family have been amazing in letting me go to pursue my
dream to write. I’m poor as a church mouse, and hopping sofa to sofa, but at
least I can do it. It wasn’t for the change of scenery – I’m still writing
about London, it was to have uninterrupted time. I can’t imagine being away for
a year. I’m ¾ of the way through the six months and miss home so much.
Can you share you
next creative project(s)? If yes, can you give a few details?
Yes, I’m making use
of the time on this trip and have been editing the audiobooks of Samaritan 1-3
, writing book 4, and writing a standalone thriller.
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