“Louis Lorraine,” a presumed pseudonym, was the author of Commuter Widow, That Summer in Rome, Reckless Wives and The Split-Level Game, among many other sizzling novels of suburban angst and physical yearning. This is an AI-generated photo.
A pulp fiction classic, lost for over 60 years.
Seemingly frigid college professor Claire Frazier learns about love during a torrid summer of sex in Rome... then returns to her Georgetown campus as a new woman with a raging sensuality that radiates from her eyes, her walk, the sway of her body. She quickly seduces psychology professor Wayne Kincaid and young football star Jerry Arnold. She's happy keeping them both on the hook to slake her desperate needs. But then her wild, erotic campus escapades are exposed and she's caught in a whirlwind of passion, violence, and despair that could destroy her.
A Scorched-Sheets Glimpse of Surburbia in the 1960s
When Lelia was Spence Hawk's secretary, she went out of her way to satisfy all of his whims and physicals desires. But now that they are married, and living in a split-level home in suburbia, she's concentrating on satisfying her own, seemingly insatiable physical needs in this new, free-wheeling society where all the norms are questioned. She made a game of it -- quantity over quality, that was what counted. Spence is enjoying the freedoms too, but is also beginning to feel the price, especially after a no-rules, "trade partners" party shatters everything.
A shocking, passionate story of a bored, scorned wife who trades her experience in love for the unschooled embraces of a teenage boy. Scorching, pulp fiction that's been out of print for 60 years...and is nearly as scandalous today as it was then.
