Excerpt Tour + #Giveaway: Prairie Muse by SS Hampton, Sr @GoddessFish

Prairie Muse

by SS Hampton, Sr.

GENRE: Erotic Romance

BLURB:

The fireworks are about to begin as the sexual adventure of Rachel and Burt Markham continues. Small business owners and happily married couple of 20+ years, they live in the small town of Four Corners, Kansas. The year before, with the permission and encouragement of her husband, Rachel had the freedom to explore the depth of her sensuality through having her first Bull. After saying farewell to her Bull, Rachel and Burt settle back into the routine of small town life. Then, African-American frustrated artist and new fireworks territory sales manager Horus Grant arrives in Four Corners. He is searching for new sales territory for the Missouri-based company and wants to open a fireworks stand next to Rachel and Burt’s seed and feed store. Outwardly friendly and personable, he is plagued by hidden demons. Though based in near-by Wichita, Horus finds himself returning to Four Corners again and again, and not because of the fireworks stand. Rachel is also drawn to him and soon realizes she may hold the key to Horus’s slim chance of defeating his demons, of healing, and learning to live again.

Excerpt:

…Burt liked the bistrot, especially the daguerreotype, ambrotype, and tintype photographs that the owner hung on the walls. If they never went back to the bistrot he would be disappointed.

Pioneer Suites offered them perks for being such regular customers, except for the few times that Nate paid for a room at some non-descript motel near his side of town. Apparently the Suites, though somewhat expensive, wasn’t his cup of tea for one reason or another. But then, a motel or the Suites only had one purpose and it wasn’t the appearance or comfort of the room. It was the altar-bed where Rachel and Nate played out their lust for one another.

In a way it was really strange how much Nate had become a part of their lives—he was just Rachel’s bull after all. They knew more about him than he knew about them; the extent of his knowledge was that they had two grown daughters and owned the seed and feed store in Four Corners. As long as he could fuck Rachel every two weeks he was happy enough with the arrangement and what little he knew.

Burt sipped his coffee. He enjoyed the smell of fresh perked coffee.

He wrinkled his nose and sniffed.

The loft bedroom was cool and aromatic. It smelled of feminine and masculine sweat; the delicate smell of patchouli perfume and rose petal bath oil; cologne; the strong, raw smell of masculine sex and Rachel’s own sex odor. All of the scents mingled together into an overwhelming and exciting scent…

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Stan Hampton, Sr. is a full-blood Choctaw of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, a divorced grandfather to 13 grandchildren, and a published author, photographer and photojournalist. He retired in 2013 from the Nevada Army National Guard with the rank of Sergeant First Class; he previously served in the active duty Army, and the Army Individual Ready Reserve (mobilized for the Persian Gulf War). He enlisted in the Nevada Army National Guard in October 2004, after which he was mobilized for Federal active duty for almost three years. Hampton is a veteran of Operations Noble Eagle and Iraqi Freedom, with deployment to northern Kuwait and several convoy security missions into Iraq.

         

He has had two solo photographic exhibitions and curated a multi-media exhibit. His writings have appeared as stand-alone stories and in anthologies from Dark Opus Press, Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy, Melange Books, Musa Publishing, MuseItUp Publishing, Ravenous Romance, and in Horror Bound Magazine, The Harrow, and River Walk Journal, among others.

As of April 2014, after being in a 2-year Veterans Administration program for Homeless Veterans, Hampton is officially no longer a homeless Iraq War veteran.

In May 2014 he graduated from the College of Southern Nevada with an Associate of Applied Science Degree in Photography – Commercial Photography Emphasis. He has been studying at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas with in a double major in Art and English. He recently returned from spending a cold, rainy Spring 2017 semester studying at a university in southwestern France in the shadow of the Pyrenees Mountains.

After 16 years of desert in the American Southwest, and Southwest Asia, he still misses the Rocky Mountains, yellow aspens in the fall, running rivers, and a warm fireplace during snowy winters.

Hampton can be found at:

Goodreads Author Page

Barnes & Noble ~ Dark Opus Press ~ Melange Books

Amazon.com Author Page ~ Amazon.com. UK Author Page

Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing ~ MuseItUp Publishing

Buy Links: Barnes & Noble ~ Amazon

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