When Melanie Paxton takes over as manager of a vintage clothing shop in a small, New England Town, she makes the bold decision to add a selection of sex toys and fetish merchandise to her inventory. Sales skyrocket, and so does Melanie's popularity, as she teases sexy secrets out of the town's residents. It seems she can do no wrong until she enters into an unorthodox domestic partnership with her former college professor and his wife - both spanking fans. Then the gossip starts - about Mel's wild past and her particular experimental brand of sexuality. However she finds and unlikely and very hunky ally called Nathan who works in the history museum next door. The course is set for a curious alliance - the sassy sexpert and the antiquities scholar.

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Melanie laughed as she led her customer over to the cash register to ring up her purchase. Everything about Melanie from her black cashmere sweater trimmed with ostrich feathers to her rhinestone pendant earrings screamed 'high maintenance', but she had a rich, dirty laugh that would sound perfectly at home in any working-class bar. Though she looked like a woman who loved to be pampered, Nathan guessed that she probably took care of the pampering herself. When she wasn't smiling at her customers, her face wore a look of stubborn self-reliance that made Nathan's cock go hard as concert. Under the professional acumen was the spirit of a rebel.

And the rebel in Melanie was making the disciplinarian in Nathan go mad. As he watched her close the cash drawer and strut across the room on her high-heeled alligator pumps, legs flashing through the deep slip in her long black skirt, Nathan was already visualising the things he wanted to make for her in his wood shop. An oak spanking horse, elegant but serviceable, with dainty spooled legs and a dainty pommel to hold Melanie in the perfect paddling position. He might even have the pommel covered in black velvet, because it would make such a striking contrast with her ivory bottom. For that bottom he would craft a paddle out of bloodwood, an exotic, nearly crimson wood that he would have to order just for her. He would cover have of the paddle's face with white rabbit's fur, for soothing and stimulating her tender skin. But the service end of the paddle would see the most use.

' Miss Paxton, you don't have to steel that corset,' said Nathan Wentworth. 'I'm going to buy it for you. And, while you are wearing it I am going to punish you for planning to shoplift.'

Melanie hooted with laughter. 'You have no idea what I was thinking,' she replied with a cheeky smile. 'Even if you did, there's no law against it.'
'You're wrong there, missy,' said Nathan, his grin contradicting his stern tone. I do know what you are thinking, and if you knew what I was planning for you, you'd wish there was a law against that.'

Story Overview

Melanie is definitely the rebel of the town and very liberated however like in all towns shops like hers will get resistance. She experiments with a 3some situation, some domination which is very funny in places. However she definitely meets her match in Nathan.

Summary
I thought the book was very well written, very descriptive to the point you could almost be watching them in person. I really liked Melanie, she is like me at heart a bit of rebel.