Foreword from Breanna Hayse:
Every day, authors of erotica receive emails asking for something different… Forbidden fruit, taboo, stories made up from hellish nightmares. Readers begging for characters like Vlad the Impaler, Pinhead, and Hannibal Lechter are flooding us with the challenge to step outside the box filled with teddy bears and bubble gum, and dive into something beyond the imagination.
We are reminded that darkness lurks inside the minds of all of us, and that many people, even the most gentle of souls, are fascinated with things of horror, are drawn to the forbidden, and delight in fear… When Carolyn approached me with the challenge to meet her in this place, I balked. Did I have the courage to sail down this river with her? If I did not, how would I ever see what lay hidden in the recesses of my own imagination? So I met her challenge…
This book is not for the faint of heart, or for anyone looking for a warm fuzzy to cuddle up to next to a crackling fire. True to the title, The Darkness Series, this is the first installment that will allow thousands of reader fantasies to be put to pen and paper. It is not a tale of romance, rather that of survival. Does good always overcome evil? Only time will tell…..
Beautiful, but rebellious young women are sentenced to an indefinite time to a privately run ‘reform school’. Unknowingly, the staff has a vicious appetite for obedience, pain and pleasure. Strictland Academy follows the horrifying journey in both the pain, and the pleasure of some of these women. They face sadistic matrons bent on teaching them to be ‘proper citizens’, embarrassing and oftentimes, painful medical exams, and the never-ending fear of being married off to a ‘worthy man.’ Their only hope of escape comes in the form of a kind, but determined, psychiatrist, and the girls’ ability to survive.
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I will be the first person to admit when I first read Strickland Academy, I was in shock. I hated it, not the writing, but what happens in this story (and therein lies the story concept.) Sometimes I have to let a story concept swirl around my mind and soak it up. I had started with a 2 star review (I know, for me that is rare) and I actually changed that review, amended what I said and it became a 5 star review. Like I said, sometimes I must dwell on a book and review. I realized when I wrote my shocked review that it was just that, not what the story was about, the concept of a dystopian future. I even confessed to BB that I changed my review after I thought about the story and concept. Having said that, what Breanna Hayse and Carolyn Faulkner brilliantly created was a story that takes the reader out of their comfort zone and makes them go to a place of horror for a little while. So when book two, Emma’s Corner, was released, I was prepared and anxious to read it.
Thank you so much Kathy!