The Red Spot Press

Joanna Crawford is not happy to drop out of culinary school and take a job at the Armistead Mansion, but sacrificing her own desires to help those in need has always been her most basic instinct. Little can she know that this apparent setback will blossom into a life-changing sexual journey as she begins to transgress boundaries that attract the attentions of her new employer.

Joanna Crawford is not happy to drop out of culinary school and take a job at the Armistead Mansion, but sacrificing her own desires to help those in need has always been her most basic instinct. Little can she know that this apparent setback will blossom into a life-changing sexual journey as she begins to transgress boundaries that attract the attentions of her new employer.

In wake of ‘A Series of Misdeeds,’ Joanna resolves to stay out of trouble and out of the room at the top of the stairs. Yet even the best of intentions so often go amiss, and the plight of a coworker soon lands Joanna in the hot water she so wanted to avoid. As Ewan Armistead’s designs play out, Joanna is plunged into an experience that fingers the line between nightmare and fantasy.

Joanna’s worst fears have been realized. Is everything over? With her characteristic combination of courage, stubbornness, and denial, Joanna sets out to pick up the pieces and try to find in the outside world what she did not know she wanted before she went to work in the Armistead mansion. Can it truly be found again? Or is the answer to set her sights and standards lower and try to make do?

With Joanna’s submission to Ewan now established, their relationship is becoming an increasingly large part of her life. Deeper emotions begin to grow. Soon she is asking herself questions she cannot answer. Are her feelings reciprocated? Is she simply a rich man’s toy? Would he disapprove of these new emotions if he knew? With growing emotions, the chance of misstep continues to increase.

Reunited with Ewan and with their relationship elevated to a new footing, Joanna might think she has found her paradise, but is it everything she can ask for? After only a few short weeks of bliss, her own greater designs are beginning to evoke Ewan’s ire and plunge the unlikely pair back into a state of sexual contest and discipline play that verges on the frighteningly real.