Against All Odds

A Gilded Age Romance

by James Darwin and Barbara Moore

Genres: Erotica, BDSM

Published: 3 / 2022

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STORY DESCRIPTION

It's 1892 - the Gilded Age, and New York is the center of it all. The lovely, but rebellious Barbara Moore arrives in the city with her father from Minnesota, where he has made a fortune in timber and iron ore. His fondest desire now is to gain acceptance into high society by marrying Barbara off to a young man from a well-regarded old money family.

They install themselves in a penthouse suite at the Plaza Hotel and Barbara is introduced to a string of 'eligibles', all of whom strike her as pompous and boring. Instead, after a chance encounter in a restaurant, she finds herself irresistibly attracted to someone who is completely unsuitable-Stan Goldman, a stock jobber, racetrack gambler and patron of brothels-and he is similarly smitten with her.

Of course, the structures of society at the time make it almost impossible for the two of them to be alone together, despite their best efforts. Finally, just when Barbara meets a socially acceptable young man whom she actually finds interesting, the opportunity for her and Stan to be together presents itself and they seize it. Unfortunately, they are discovered in mid-tryst and publicly exposed in the yellow press. This is the final straw, and Barbara is shipped off to the Darwin Institute for Wayward Young Women where she is supposedly to be cured of her 'excess libido'.

The 'treatments' there involve stimulating the over-sexed young women to orgasm and then subjecting them to unpleasant punishments with the goal of training them to associate sex with pain rather than pleasure so that they can be obedient and faithful wives to their future husbands.

Will these treatments work or will Barbara remain enthralled with her socially unacceptable paramour? Will she ever be able to escape the clutches of the evil Dr. Darwin? Read this highly charged tale of love and eroticism that will both excite and charm.