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Genre: Tainted Love
Pages: 256
Written: 2009
Some explicit sex
Additional Tags: romance
Cover Blurb:
A teenaged young man, a teenaged young woman, and a summer vacation without parents. Result: a
teenaged holiday romance. Simple – or is it? Jeff is white, Jasmine is black, and the time is the mid-60s,
so pressure from society is against them already. Yet those are simple distractions compared to their other
problems. Jeff is only 15 while Jasmine is 19. Love could keep them together, but society breaks them
apart. Their paths converge a quarter century later when Jeff has a passionate affair with Helena. Can
they survive not only the pressures from society, and the discovery that Helena is Jasmine's niece, but
also the dawning true reason for Jasmine breaking off their original romance?
This was first day of the first holiday without having his parents presiding over his every move, and he
had just blown his first chance to get laid. Girls were like London buses. None for ages, then two come
along together. Jeff blamed his hesitancy on surprise rather than lack of nerve. He had expected to settle
in, have a meal, then for him and Ralph to go on the town this evening. Down a couple of drinks, then
pick up the first likely pair of girls they saw. Buy them a drink, have a dance, and back to the caravan
for some hot necking. A perfect start to a perfect holiday.
Plans always have a way of going wrong. Instead of taking their time and getting a meal cooked,
Ralph had insisted on dumping everything from their rucksacks into whatever drawer and cupboard
space was available, then finding a fish and chip shop. Ralph looked like he had just finished a hot
soak and put on clean clothes, instead of dishevelled after a day's travel in a smoky railway carriage.
Even his Tru-gel quiff looked perfect. Ralph never used Brylcream because it left too much grease on his
steel comb. As his friend strode from the caravan, Jeff had quickly licked his fingers and tried to smooth
his curling, light-brown hair back into place before following. If he had known the extent to which this
holiday would change his life, and that events would return to haunt him later in life, he might have
hesitated. Yet would he want to change anything?
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