Sandy S.
WITH THE LIGHTS ON is the second instalment in Jackie Ashenden’s contemporary, adult PLAYING FOR PLEASURE erotic, romance duet. This is billionaire Trajan Howard-Smith, and escort Maggie Burgess’ story line. WITH THE LIGHTS ON can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story line is revealed where necessary. Some of the events of WITH THE LIGHTS ON run parallel to and cross over with the events in book one IN THE DARK. Maggie ‘Honey’ Burgess is best friends with Vesta (In the Dark). Told from dual first person perspectives (Trajan and Maggic) WITH THE LIGHTS ON follows twenty four hours in the life of billionaire Trajan Howard-Smith, and escort Maggie Burgess. Maggie ‘Honey’ Burgess works as an escort for Company of Strangers but has found herself falling for her client Trajan Howard-Smith. Known only as ‘Honey’ to Trajan, Honey had crossed a personal line, and felt it was time to stop seeing the man with whom she was falling in love but Trajan wanted something more,something that included an exclusive arrangement with our story line heroine. Unable to say no, Maggie agreed to one final night, a night where Trajan’s secrets will be revealed, exposing himself for the world to see. The relationship between Maggie aka Honey and Trajan begins as a professional arrangement, an arrangement of friendship only but two weeks before Maggie realized she could no longer remain neutral against her attraction to our story line hero, an attraction of which she struggled to ignore. Trajan wanted something more permanent with his current companion, a permanence that frightened a man whose secrets, once revealed, could never be taken back. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense. WITH THE LIGHTS ON is a story of secrets and fantasies, hope and happiness, revelations, relationships, family and love. the premise is engaging and captivating; the romance is steamy and seductive; the characters are damaged, determined and animated.