Book Description
Product Description
A Gothic tale of suspense and submission, set in the Yorkshire Dales
A visit to Heddlestone, a remote village in the Yorkshire moors, changes librarian Kate Carter's life forever. The place has an eerie yet erotic charge and when Kate is later offered a job in its puppet museum, she leaves London and her boyfriend to take up the post.
Jake, the strange and beautiful curator and puppeteer, draws her into his secluded sensual world, and before long she's sharing his bed and discovering a new and frightening side of love and lust.
But Heddlestone is a village with secrets and Kate is haunted by a surreal holiday memory of a cool handsome man dominating a woman dressed like a crazy ballerina. The man is Eddie, Jake's brother, and when Kate is seduced by him and his reckless Ukrainian wife she becomes involved in a second dark relationship. Split between the two men, Kate moves closer to the truth of Heddlestone, sensing danger but not knowing if the greatest threat comes from ghosts or reality.
From the Back Cover
No man had ever touched me like that. My desire for him was so sudden and all-consuming I was frightened for myself. For the first time in my life, I thought, I am known. This man sees something in me he can reach, and I will never escape him. And it seemed I would always be on the run, always fleeing the Jakes of this world because they have the power to devour me. I'm enthralled as much as I'm scared by that. I will always run from them and yet I will always seek them out.
I was beginning to understand what had brought me to this place.
A visit to Heddlestone, a remote village in the Yorkshire moors, changes librarian, Kate Carter's life. The place has an eerie yet erotic charge and when Kate is later offered a job in its puppet museum, she flees London and her boyfriend in order to take it.
Jake, the strange and beautiful curator and puppeteer, draws her into his secluded sensual world, and before long she's sharing his bed, going deeper into new and at times frightening explorations of love and lust. But Kate is also seduced by Eddie, Jake's brother, and his wild Ukrainian wife, and she becomes tangled in a second dark relationship. Split between the two men, Kate moves closer to uncovering the truth behind the secrets of Heddlestone, ever sensing danger but not knowing whether the greatest threat comes from ghosts or reality.
Previous Praise for Kristina Lloyd's Asking For Trouble:
'Lloyd's page-turner is a flawlessly written excursion into a world of erotic humiliation ...'
Romantic Times, 4 ½ Stars
