Passion and violence in South America's Wickedest City. Back in print for the first time in over 60 years.
Decades before The Love Boat and Dr. Odyssey, there was Ship's Doctor, lost for nearly 70 years.
Love means everything to Jacqueline Shannon. But her husband is too old, and too tired, meet her raging lust...so she turns to other men. But even that is not enough. She's driven by a seething, emotional hunger that has tortured her all of her life. It drove one lover away, another to brand her as insane, and another to violence, physical and psychological, against her. And now her morbid love-frenzy, a woman trapped by the desperate demands of her body, could destroy her.
Kitty Grey is a young, conniving private nurse who married her much-older patient -- a rich, pudgy, hotel magnate in poor health who was desperate for a wife. She loves his money, his mansion and his servants, but he can't satisfy her raging, physical needs...and she's not willing to wait until he dies to to get what she wants. So she seduces Mike Callahan, an ex-GI with a criminal past, and convinces her husband to hire him as their driver, creating a deadly triangle of passion, betrayal and greed.
It's the 1950s, and "learn to dance" schools are everywhere. But teaching people how to be light on their feet isn't the goal; the real hustle is getting the romance-hungry students to be light in their wallets, for as long as possible...
Four powerful novels by Charles Gorham, out of print for decades, now collected in a single ebook edition.