Romance Book Club (17 page)
Authors: Michelle Hughes
chapter Twenty
Epilogue
Sitting down at her computer, Jessie smiled at the finished rough draft manuscript filling the screen. Fifteen years ago she married the most wonderful man, and her life had been so full of great memories. Eventually she decided to write them all down.
Chase had given his blessing on the project, and even agreed to personally help her research if there were things she'd forgotten. Some interesting nights came from their so-called research. Glancing over at the still handsome man across the room in bed, she smiled lovingly.
She'd taken over Amanda's fathers company when he passed away three years ago, so the writing was just a part-time hobby. Amanda was enjoying her inheritance and had recently called from Paris telling her how much
she enjoyed travelling now that she wasn't tied to a company she never wanted.
Chase had signed over Sensation's fully to Carolyn, and it was flourishing well under her ownership. His own business was doing even better than he'd considered possible, so they both had full lives outside of their marriage.
Their twins were almost teenagers now, and even though it was hard working away from home, they were doing well with the arrangement. Life had turned out just the way she'd always dreamed.
Saving the document to her hard drive, she couldn't wait to hear what the publisher thought. Romance Book Club, it seemed a fitting title to a romance that encompassed everything she was. Walking back to the bed, she slid in quietly beside Chase.
Book Club Group Guide
ROmance
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Michelle Hughes
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Jessie discovers there's more to reality than what you read in the pages of a romance book when her book reader's club decides to take their research into the real world of BDSM. Being a self-titled recluse does nothing to prepare her for the sensual world she's exposed to at the dungeon club, Sensations. Closing her heart off for years after her long term boyfriend admits his homosexuality; she discovers a world of temptations with the offer to explore them all thanks to club owner, Chase Davenport. Chase fits none of the stereotypes for the egotistical alpha males they've read about in the romance novels, and if she takes the chance her own perceptions of self may soon become something she can soon leave in the past as well.
- Romance Book Club's back theme is about women who enjoy meeting to discuss their love of great romance novels. Would your reading club ever take the research of a book as far as they did? How do you think the members in your book club would react if they walked into a real life BDSM dungeon?
- As avid readers, what fantasies have you thought of exploring thanks to the pages in a book? Do you think the
reality
would be as exciting as the novel?
- In Romance Book Club the woman are all professionals in one capacity or another. Do you think that a status of a person makes a difference when it comes to how they would approach a BDSM Relationship?
- Did you discover anything about BDSM in this book that changed your perception of the lifestyle? If so what were some of those things, and what did you think before?
- Romance Book Club stayed away from the egotistical alpha male type hero in this book. We wanted to show a softer side instead of what the majority of books are portraying now. Was it hard to accept that a man could be dominant without having an emotional hang up from the past? What about the confidence Jessie discovered thanks to his teaching, was that something you'd considered possible in this type of relationship?
- BDSM is no longer a taboo discussion for the most part, due to the mainstream media's recent fascination. What books other than Romance Book Club have you discovered that recently interested you about this once secretive topic of conversation?
- Chase is considerably one of the most respectful men you could hope to meet in today's society. After getting to know him in the book do you think he secretly embraced the BDSM lifestyle at first to show his independence from his father's conservative values?
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