Overview

Daphne Thorndale’s Wanton Abbey is a place where forbidden fruit is always ripening. This 19,000-word erotic extravaganza is replete with dozens of illustrations to bring Ms. Thorndale’s “riding crop” trilogy with Whipper-In, Pleasure Riding, and Broken-In together under one cover. Follow the sensual adventures when American oil money and lust is let loose in the opulent social circles of Edwardian England. Wealthy heiress Martha Randolph dispatches her youngest daughter Anne off to England to snare a financially vulnerable duke to marry for his title. Martha is obsessed with the British aristocracy and will deploy any means necessary to see her daughter become a duchess, and to fulfill her own cherished fantasy of bedding a duke herself. Robert, Duke of Manchester is desperate to save his family estate after squandering it all through his hopeless addiction to horse racing, and he has no other choice but to Mary Anne and submit to a life under Martha’s rule. Anne prefers feminine intimacy and is brought into the secret fold of Robert’s sister Adelaide and her skilled partner Louise. Female lust, power, and persuasion play out in an erotic drama where all strive to satisfy their social and fleshly cravings at any cost.