The Para-Portage
of Emily
The Shadow Seduction
Series
By
Muffy Wilson
@SexyMuffyWilson
Emily
Macque, a young, beautiful junior partner in her father’s law firm, is but a
heartbeat away from love or destiny. Duty brings Emily to a frozen Island
estate two hundred and fifty miles north of Chicago. Devotion requires she
delve into the property history to settle an estate probate. Death lures her
into the arms of the shadows seduction created by the flickering light and dark
shadows.
What
flames the timeless passions spanning the decades? Love, desire or obsession?
Colin
Jorgenson, once a Great Lakes mariner, is a strong man haunted by love and
loss. How long will he return each night, gripped by desire, hoping to find the
woman he has loved for a century?
Beneath
the pristine Island beauty, passions hungered, lingered in the ardent darkness.
His passions, fueled by decades of loneliness and longing, could no longer be
denied. Will they face eternity together or love in secret as dark things are
to be loved between the shadows and the soul?
I just finished The Para-Portage of Emily. Quite the
page-turner!!
I was gifted a free copy by the author and found it to be a
cleverly woven plot with descriptive characters you won’t soon forget. I’m not
one to give out spoilers,
but if you like paranormal intrigue, hot romance, and
mystery, you will love it. Looking forward to more works by Muffy Wilson as I’m
sure they will be just as brilliant.
Excerpt
“Tell me
what you know about Mariner’s Maiden please, Kirby.”
Kirby
took a long draw on his beer before he began his narrative.
“It was
years ago, around 1800 Miss Emily, when the original land owner arrived on the
Island with settlers from Norway. He’d claimed five hundred acres on this
southern point of the Island for himself. He became wealthy in cattle, wheat,
timber and cheese. As his family grew and were educated on the Mainland, they
moved, one by one, off Island. They were a wealthy, hard-working lot, but
needed less and less of the acreage they owned. Much of the original plot was
donated to the Town throughout the years. Some sections were sold.
“It got
down to the last hundred acres when Colin Jorgenson bought the property, around
1890 or 1900. I am not exactly sure. The main house was much smaller and less
grand than it is now, for sure.
“Now,
Colin was a Maritime Captain and often he’d be gone for months at a time. He
sailed the Great Lakes several times a year with supplies, spices, fancy goods
and ‘fortunes of bounty’. That’s what they called it then. It was for sale to
rich settlers throughout the Great Lakes. He’d earned all his wealth in trading
by the turn of the century. He came and went for several years until, in his
mid-thirties, he met and married a much younger woman, Amalya, and came back to
the Island with her.”
Kirby sat
back, drained his beer and continued. “The property was called Mariner’s Cove
then. He spent two years with Island tradesmen rebuilding this house for his
wife. To honor her, and before his return to the water, he commissioned a
maritime woodcarver to create the figurehead of Amalya you saw yesterday on the
tree marking the entrance.
He had
the figure of Amalya mounted on the bow of his ship and apparently felt she was
always with him in his travels. She died one summer, pregnant with their first
child, shortly after his returning from his last trip of the season. He shut
himself away in this house—a broken man, left forlorn and alone, to die years
later of a broken heart as a recluse. It’s said he returns night after night
trying to find his Amalya, his beloved.”
“But
that’s just old folklore, Miss Emily, there’s nothing to it but made up stories
from the past by gossips and romantics. This place has never been haunted—no
one has ever said it was, anyway. Even though he was long dead, this property
was held in Old Colin’s estate until your uncle bought it around 1955, I think.
I suppose there is more you can find out at the Archives office in the Island
library at the town offices, if you want. That’s about all I know and it ain’t
much.”
Refusing
a second beer, Kirby was off to finish his chores. “Thank you, Miss Emily,”
Kirby said as he stood to leave.
Emily
walked him to the door with Barkley in tow.
“Oh,
there is one more thing” he added. “There is supposed to be a crypt on the
property somewhere. I heard tell that Old Colin buried his Amalya in there and
when he was dying, he crawled into it to die on her casket. Creepy, but no
one’s ever found it to my knowledge—and between me and my dad, we’ve covered
this property as caretakers for over fifty years.”
Emily
extended her hand in gratitude for the information and company. “Thank you,
Kirby. All of that is so very interesting. He must have been deeply in love
with Amalya.”
Kirby, a
middle-aged man, stood and shook Emily’s hand. He turned to leave, stopped and
dropped his head as he hesitated at the bottom of the steps. A simple country
man, this time was no different.
“Miss
Emily…” He looked up at her rather sheepishly, and stuttered slightly, “Forgive
me, Miss Emily, if I offend you. I have been a bachelor all my life and never
had a way with women or much of a need for them. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I like
‘em well enough, but I never was able to pick the right words in their
presence. If…if you don’t mind my saying…you look an awful lot like those
paintings in the house of Miss Amalya.”
“Oh my
word, Kirby, how you flatter me! It is purely a coincidence, I assure you.”
Emily smiled, as she dismissed the compliment and waved good-bye at Kirby. As
he left, she thought about the love shared between these two remarkable people,
Colin and Amalya. Amalya and Colin.
She had
forgotten to ask what became of the baby…
This is a story to savor. Ms. Wilson's descriptions are
poetic and enthralling,
placing the reader in the midst of the story, and the relaxed
pace of the story does not lessen the power of suspense. Shrouded in mystery,
romance, and eroticism, "The Para-Portage of Emily" is a treat for
the senses,
a haunting indulgence. Despite hints throughout, the ending
still surprised me, and though satisfied,
I regretted the literary journey's end. Highly recommended. I
look forward to more from this promising series. ~ By Jordan
Stringfellow
Author Bio and Links:
Muffy, author of erotic, romantic stories about love, sex,
hope and passion, was born in San Antonio, Texas, to traditional parents. With
two older brothers, she was the youngest, the family "princess,"
indulged and pampered. She adored her older brothers, following them everywhere
and was surrounded by love, stimulation, and pets. Her father was a career
Colonel and pilot in the U.S. Air Force which required the family to travel
extensively. The family lived in most points between Alaska and France. Muffy
spent her formative years in Europe and came of age in France.
Returning from France with her family, Muffy finished high school in Northern California and
attended the University of California, Davis, and majored in Business
Management. Muffy entered the work force, independent with a fierce work ethic,
and retired at 39 from IBM as a Mid-West Regional Director in the Real Estate
and Construction Division. She and her husband moved to a small Island in
northern Wisconsin where they owned a historic tavern, restaurant and resort
business which they since have sold. They now live a charmed life by the water
in SW Florida. Muffy
pretends to be a serious real estate business person but, in real life,
indulges her private interest in writing sexy short stories and sensual
literotica ~ Live, Laugh, Love with Passion.
I really enjoyed the Para-Portage of Emily... a skillfully
and imaginatively told tale of love, lost and found. Mysterious twists kept me
turning the pages until the end.
Love conquers all, AND it was hot!
Author Links
Previously
Published:
Secret Cravings,
Oysters & Chocolate, Decadent Publishing, Ravenous Romance, Yellow Silk
Dreams
Coming
Soon:
Moonbeams
of Unintended Consequences ~ TBA Spring
2015
Cheerleaders
in Heat ~ TBA Summer 2015
Should John Grisham and EL James have a secret love child,
she would no doubt pen legal thrillers with a luscious layer of the erotic.
They would name their child Muffy Wilson and send her to Stephen King for some
pointers in the paranormal.
Wilson, in the obliquely titled "The Para-Portage of
Emily", interweaves these three diverse genres into a compelling, magic
carpet of a novel that takes Emily Macque from Chicago to a bitter island
estate two hundred miles north in the frozen sea. Emily is the striking junior
partner in her father’s law firm, her mission, to settle the probate on an
estate, her destiny to fall into the arms of Colin Jorgenson, a seaman haunted
by a past love that torments his life.
Intelligent, well-written, with fully fleshed out characters
and a story with more twists than a spiral staircase, "The Para-Portage of
Emily" had me gripped until the very last page.
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Interview with Muffy Wilson ~ May 2015
Could you reveal any personal juicy stories about you?
Thank you, so much, for opening your
cyber-home to me. It is a pleasure to be here with you, my dear friend. Well, I
was raised in a military family so there are plenty of stories about men in
uniform. Who doesn’t love that?! My father was a USAF Colonel whose work took
us to all points from Alaska to France. We moved every two or three years, so I
don’t have what most would refer to as a traditional childhood, more like Leave
it to Beaver meets the Jetsons. Many of
my ‘firsts’ were in France as my formative years developing were north of
Paris. So, my first kiss, my first taste of escargot, my first hot dog on a
French baguette was at the top of the Eiffel Tower, my first bikini (I was
thirteen) was on the French Riviera and I fell in love with a thirty-something
lifeguard named Aldo. I thought my father was going straight to an early grave.
My mother thought it charming and funny since I wound up looking like a
blistered, crying lobster with the worst sunburn ever. No need to worry about
Aldo. A few years later, my mother and I were shopping in Paris; it was the day
she bought me an alligator handbag, a small one, with a bright red leather interior.
I still have it. We were on the Champs Elysees on a corner and everyone was
wailing and crying. It was 22 November 1963 and I was 14 years old. It was the
day John F Kennedy was assassinated and I witnessed as the world was crushed
and Camelot fell. I think I grew up a lot that day. We had to hurry home, 90
miles north. The Base was on lock-down and red alert. It was a day the world
stood still yet was fiercely frantic beneath the surface.
You
are a mother. Could you tell us about your role as a Mom?
I
met my husband in California, on a day that I was none too happy with men. I
was thirty-five and working in San Francisco as a Sales Manager for Honeywell and
my father had a heart attack in Georgia. I wanted to explore the possibilities of transferring
to Georgia to be closer to the first man I ever loved, my dad. “The Silver Fox,”
as my boss at the time was fond of being called, made a pass at me and told me ‘why
bother, as my dad wasn’t going to live forever?’ I was stunned and profoundly
moved by a myriad of feelings. Funny that I should meet the two most important
men in my life from that day forward on a day like that - my husband and his
youngest son, then 13. It was the greatest gift. We got married three months
later and the three of us honeymooned in Niagara Falls. My husband is from
Buffalo, NY, and had been married twice before (his first wife died and the
second, VJr’s mother ended in divorce when he was just 6). I had never been
married, so they were my first. When I was very young, and in college, I fell
in love and got pregnant. He was my first, not my first love but my first lover,
and for all my worldly experience, I was still pretty naïve - even in the ‘70s.
Clearly, there is a whole lot more to this story but suffice it to say that
decisions you make in your youth affect one’s entire life. I had an abortion and
dropped out of college. The gift of my husband and his son, who fast became my
own son, I felt, was God’s way of forgiving me. So, my role as a Mom is one I
cherish, given it was my second chance and my redemption. Life has been good to
me because of them. He has enriched my life beyond measure.
You
have a very long list of projects consuming your time, but I would like to
offer you the chance to show off and promote your writing career. You may
include any exotic stories of your life if you wish.
I
released The Para-Portage of Emily on
March 24, 2015 to a warm reception and wonderful reviews. It was released in
ebook format and will be released in print in June. I have two more books that
will be released by Summer 2015. If I am lucky, they will all be available at
once and cause a wonderful stir among fans of literotica. Beyond that, I have a
control list of about fifteen projects which will be concluded throughout 2015-16
and 25-30 projects that will require my attention for 2016-17. Only another
Virgo will appreciate how organized I am about my work. Some refer to it as
being obsessive compulsive—anal, even. I can role with that.
When
did you decide to write? And what genre and style did you prefer when you first
started? What style and genre do you prefer to write currently?
I
have been in sales and marketing my entire business career. Writing was a
necessity and I was good at presenting technical detail. English was always a
love and focus of mine throughout my education, but I only wrote proposals, presentations,
technical material and project material. In private I wrote poetry as a
developing young woman. I really never thought about writing personally’ until
I met up with an old school chum, an old boyfriend. It was never a calling to
me as it is for some writers. He wrote and it spurred me on. I slipped into the
world of Erotica, not by choice or design, but quite by accident…and I loved
it. Turns out I was pretty good at it, too, or so people commented. But, my
style has changed, developed a lot since then. What I wrote in the beginning
was raw and erotic. Now, I like to think I am more of a literoticist in that I
write erotic romance. The plot drives the story, the story drives the
characters and the erotic romance is really an extension of the developing
relationships. I don’t write groin-grinders, although they have a place in our
genre.
What
genre, books, and authors do you like to read?
I
love crime, thrillers, edge-of-your-seat whodunits. I also love period pieces,
non-fiction, poetry and autobiographies. When I was very young and we lived in
France, there was no television, at least not in English or in our house. The
only television available to us was in the local pub. I will never forget
seeing Steve McQueen say, “Sur la route”, in French on his Wanted! Dead or Alive
series! I believe I giggled until I had cramps! Anyway, I read everything,
absolutely everything almost insatiably. I wanted to be a criminologist or a
medical examiner. Or a veterinarian. As well an actress and Ella Fitzgerald! It
was not until I was in high school that I wanted to become a law enforcement
officer—a Homicide Detective! But, I do love to read good literotica. I am not
a fan of jump-and-pump but a love story with great, eloquently involved sex is
a real page turner for me.
4. Do you have a person, real or fantasy, you
would like to be?
Barbra
Streisand. I always wanted to sing. My aunt sang torch songs and played piano
in smoke filled supper clubs and piano bars. Isn‘t that romantic, a la Billie Holiday?
I always wanted to do that. When I was ten or so, I was a little pudgette and
my mother wanted to send be to dance classes; I wanted singing lessons. We
settled on a set of bongo drums. Many years later, we were out schmoozing
together at a piano bar and I took the mike with My Funny Valentine. Now, I just sounded like me, but she dropped
her jaw. It took her four more martini’s to recover. She admitted I should have
had singing lessons. We laughed our asses off, but of course, that was the four
more martini’s!
You
have experienced many adventures in your life and have lots of energy, but what
would you like to do if you had any free time?
I
would love to learn to play piano, learn Spanish and brush up on my French. But
I am enjoying my life now. I work in Real Estate in SW Florida and try to find
time to straighten my office. There’s that Virgo nag again.
Could
you tell us about your new book, The
Para-Portage of Emily, and the story behind it? You may include a brief
synopsis and an excerpt. What or who inspired you to write your story?
My
first book, Memories & Kisses,
released last year in September 2014. It was about love lost and regained
decades later. Do you have memories of a love that once was?...of a love that
was lost?...of, perhaps, a rekindled love that survived decades of longing? I
think we all have longings, not regrets so much as just simple, what if’s? and
that caused me to think in terms of a stronger longing not over decades but
centuries. I started Emily in 2010,
but I really did not know where she was going to take me until I really got
into Memories. Within a month, Emily was done.
It
is a haunting love story about a Great Lakes seafaring captain that marries
finally in his thirties to the daughter of one of his suppliers on the St.
Lawrence Seaway whom he has watched blossom and grow into a beautiful woman
since she was very young. He marries her and starts a life he has planned with
her on a small Island in Lake Michigan at his estate, Mariner’s Maiden. The
story is as much about them as it is about the young woman who comes to settle
her uncle’s estate, Mariner’s Maiden, after his death. I love this story.
Blurb:
Emily
Macque, a young, beautiful junior partner in her father’s law firm, is but a
heartbeat away from love or destiny. Duty brings Emily to a frozen Island
estate two hundred and fifty miles north of Chicago. Devotion requires she
delve into the property history to settle an estate probate. Death lures her
into the arms of the shadows seduction created by the flickering light and dark
shadows.
What
flames the timeless passions spanning the decades? Love, desire or obsession?
Colin
Jorgenson, once a Great Lakes mariner, is a strong man haunted by love and
loss. How long will he return each night, gripped by desire, hoping to find the
woman he has loved for a century?
Beneath the pristine Island beauty,
passions hungered, lingered in the ardent darkness. His passions, fueled by
decades of loneliness and longing, could no longer be denied. Will they face
eternity together or love in secret as dark things are to be loved between the
shadows and the soul?
Where
can we purchase The Para-Portage of Emily?
You
are so kind to ask. Thank you, I would be honored. If readers are interested,
they can buy my work at the following retailers or on my website:
Do
you have future writing projects you plan to publish?
Yes,
so many! I am releasing Moonbeams of
Unintended Consequences in May 2015 and Cheerleaders
in Heat this summer. My brain explodes with ideas and always when I don’t
have a pen or paper handy!
Please
share your recent publications.
Released March
2015
The Para-Portage
of Emily
Buy Link at Amazon
Released September 2014:
Memories &
Kisses
has three stories of old loves remembered; a grieving woman rescued from the
sea, two childhood friends growing old friendship into passionate loving, and
two long separated teenagers finding that time has mellowed them both and
maturity has brought a passionate intensity they had never imagined. All three
stories are of rekindled love that survived decades of longing and is now ready
to burst into flame.
What
do you think? Is she thinking about memories of love lost? Perhaps the memories
made trying to forget a lost love? Even old memories revisited by old friends,
united in a kiss that rekindles flames, passions and desire, too. Old memories
are like old red wine - all the richer for time passed. And the kisses taste
sweeter too. Three romantic and very sexy stories take us back to things
as they once were, and forward to the wonderful times to come. Buy
Link at Amazon
Released October
2014:
Also
featuring Muffy's work in this anthology of of adult Grimm's Fairy
Tales, Once Upon a Menage: An
Anthology of Fairy Tale Threesomes edited by Rachel Kenley (Ravenous
Romance), Muffy has two erotic adaptations, “The Prince, The Mermaid and
The Siren” ('The Little Mermaid') and “The Prurient Puss” ('Puss
and Boots'). They are sexy, just a little naughty and best of all, they are
threesomes!! Buy Link at Amazon
Released Christmas
2014
The
Naughty List features six Yellow Silk Dreams authors, including Muffy Wilson plus guest
writer Nina Pierce, got together to compile a sparkling ezine in celebration of
Christmas. Or any other day of the year you feel you need to dip into a good
read.
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Previously
Published:
Oysters
& Chocolate, Decadent Publishing, Secret Cravings, Ravenous Romance, Yellow
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