Four classic novels of sex, betrayal, adultery, romance and passion in the suburbs
THE KEY GAME by Don James
Len and Maxine Vember are known for throwing the best parties in town. After the drinks and polite laughter come the real invitations: husbands drop their house keys into a bowl, and wives draw for the night’s partner. It’s what passes for freedom and sophistication in the swinging 1960s.
For some, it’s the greatest sex of their lives. For others, it awakens desires they’ve buried for years. But for too many, it becomes a nightmare of fear, jealousy, and quiet coercion. Everyone pretends they’re choosing freely—until rumors spread, accusations surface, and the private games spill into daylight, leaving nobody untouched.
THE SPORTING PARLOR by Wanda Lane
Wanda Lane agrees to take a job in a brothel on Green Street because she thinks it will save her marriage. It doesn’t. What she finds instead is a rough trade of cash, desire, and danger—run by Grace, a sharp-eyed Madame who knows exactly how the game works. Wanda dives into a world of fast hookups, fast money, and faster trouble. Her nights get hotter, her choices get riskier, and she learns just how easily she could lose herself….unless she finds a way to demand money, control, maybe even desire on her own terms.
“Wanda Lane” was a pseudonym…but for whom is unknown. The novel was released in 1960 as “The Red House on Green Street”
THAT FRENCH GIRL by Joseph Hilton
Marie Courcel arrives in Paris with nothing but a farm girl’s stubbornness and a desperate need to reinvent herself. She finds work, learns fast, and discovers how charm, discipline, and intelligence can open doors that once seemed locked forever. By the time an American businessman crosses her path, Marie has become a woman who knows exactly what she wants—and what she’ll never return to.
Across the ocean, in the polished suburbs of Old Haven, she faces a different kind of scrutiny: the gossip, the curiosity, the quiet hostility toward a woman who refuses to play the role assigned to her. Marie builds the life she dreamed of anyway…until one violent night and a looming threat from the past force her to protect everything she’s fought for.
THE PITCHMEN by Don James
The Colton agency is fighting for survival, chasing a lucrative women’s-wear account that could keep the doors open. But the real battle is inside the firm—where desire, jealousy, and ambition burn hotter than any sales pitch. Murch Colton’s wife, Diana, slips into a dangerous affair with TV athlete Rick Andes. Her reckless passion collides with the agency’s future, even as office loyalties crack and private scandals edge toward daylight. Rivalries sharpen, marriages buckle, and every bedroom secret threatens to poison the presentation that might save them all. In this world, the big thrill isn’t the business—it’s the people willing to gamble everything in the bedroom.
Don James, Joseph Hilton Smyth, Wanda Lane /
Anthologies, Romance, Sexy Fiction
