Lance’s spare time is dedicated to the cult of his body and writing a how-not-to book entitled Sexual Secrets of a Sexual Surrogate.
His personal life consists of Sunday tea with his grandmother and a
monthly night out with his best friend, George. Oh, and no sex, none
whatsoever.
When a wealthy, ruthless mother offers him an enormous sum
to seduce and impregnate her thirty-six-year-old daughter, Millicent
Deafly, a debt-ridden Lance hesitantly agrees.
However, Millicent is not into sex, and definitely not into
Lance. She’s chosen the other end of the sensuality spectrum and is
heavily into food. She is bright, bouncy and joyous, uninhibitedly
plump, natural, and completely dedicated to her palate. The only way
Lance will get her attention is if he dabs soy sauce on his pulse
points.
Determined to get close to her, Lance creates an alter
ego—sweetly shy Wilfred Pecklise—and takes a job at Millicent’s dinner
club, Guilty Pleasures.
Guilty Pleasures caters to the flamboyant and the
eccentric: supermodels pigging out, trash-metal rock stars with
penis-piercings and their loving grannies, the widows of billionaires,
and many more oddities.
Lance finds himself immersed in a sensuous world of scents,
tastes, and color, and befriended by Serge Moreno—a homosexual black
dwarf who has had a colorful life as a prostitute in Istanbul, a fluffer
in skin flicks in Vegas, and is now a celebrity chef in London.
Ironically, Lance isn’t just failing to seduce Millie, but falling madly in love with her.
Balancing the two lives of Lance and Wilfred becomes next to
impossible when his geeky best friend, George, suddenly marries and
decides to hold the reception at Guilty Pleasures. Will the truth be
uncovered?Publication date: Dec 5, 2013
Author bio:
Manuela Cardiga was born in Mozambique and raised in South Africa where she studied fashion design. She moved to Europe where she worked as a fashion designer, then moved to the crazy world of advertising as a graphic designer and copywriter. Manuela is a designer by profession, a cook by vocation, and a writer by compulsion. She currently resides in Lisbon, Portugal where she writes contemporary and historical fiction, designs book covers, illustrates children’s books, and mothers a gorgeous daughter while juggling a day job. She also dabbles enthusiastically in exotic, experimental cuisine, much to the discomfort of family and friends.
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This book sounds absolutely amazing!!! Thank you for sharing your talent of writing.
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