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When Greg first brought the homeless, drug-addicted nineteen-year-old away from her life on the streets, he appeared to be Ashley’s savior. But the rescuer soon turned into the jailer, forcing Ashley into a life of prostitution. Unaware she had a choice, Ashley kept Greg’s house by day and turned tricks by night. As the years passed, Greg’s control over Ashley’s mind and body seemed almost complete. Any protest was met with brutal punishment and Ashley learned to retreat into herself, more lost than before he had found her.
When she stumbles onto an intriguing romance novel at the supermarket counter, the first glimmer of realization that life could be different penetrates the young woman’s mind, lifting her spirits as she pours over the stories of romance and empowerment.
Soon boo of romantic submission. Sexual servitude at the hands of a pimp is beautifully contrasted to the luscious, sensual intensity of a loving D/s lifestyle inks become Ashley’s secret world, a place of refuge and of hope for something different. When she meets Andrew at her favorite bookstore, the potential of a different life suddenly seems possible. The romance of her favorite novels is offering itself to her in real life.But in order for romance to develop, Ashley must first find confidence in herself to escape Greg and his very real threats to kill her. Luckily for Ashley, she has already found her very own real-life romance hero.
Andrew Nolan is a sexy, exciting man who slowly introduces Ashley to the erotic possibilities
This sometimes harrowing but ultimately romantic novel. With loving honesty and courage, together they explore the passionate possibilities of a BDSM lifestyle. Ashley takes to heart the lessons of her beloved romance novels, drawing from them the universal message that in the end it is love which redeems us.
Note: This novel contains strong subject matter and is not for the faint of heart.

ReviewsReviewed by Julie Esparza for Just Erotic Romance Reviews Rating-5 Stars
Pain turning into love and realization of the ultimate desires is the road the characters take in this inspiring and rewarding book by Ms. Claire Thompson… Panting is inevitable as the sex is burning and the emotional feeling of each scene is conveyed in every word. I highly recommend this book.
Reviewed by Trang for eCataRomance Reviews Rating 4.5 Stars
I couldn't put down this beautiful story of an oppressed woman, her strength and the discovery of her love and eventual submission…You'll enjoy this story of mutual discovery since it engages all of your emotions: anger, fear, hope, love and desire.
Reviewed by Claudia McRay for Romance Junkies Rating-4.5 Stars
The story line of Turning Tricks is so very apropos in today's society. Many young people are lost to the streets and the lucky few find their way, with a little help, to a better life. The life that Ashley and Andrew embark on will teach her things about herself she never knew. They will encounter a few rough spots along the way, but... read the book and find out. Claire Thompson's books reside on my keeper shelf and I recommend them.



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ExcerptBe careful what you wish for. Another of her mother's old sayings drifted through her head. Andrew seemed to have a knack for picking just the things that somehow touched a nerve. Still there was no place she'd rather be.
Thank heavens he had decided to trust her again and more importantly himself. Something had been opened in Ashley, released somehow, and she didn't ever want to go back to the "old Ashley".
It wasn't just that she was more sexual, more sensual and just plain horny all the time! That was strange enough in itself, given that she had decided long ago that all men were insensitive pigs and she herself was sexually frigid except in the privacy of her own bedroom late at night. Even then, when she had masturbated alone it wasn't particularly erotic but really more of a sleep aid.
Even more than the constant sexual tension she felt now was the overlay of submissive feeling and desire. When Andrew walked into the room, she had to control herself not to immediately kneel down and touch her head to the floor. She knew this made him uncomfortable. He was still grappling with his own issues and also with his fears about her past.
Happily, he wasn't so constrained by his fears to keep from domming her several times a week. Tonight however, she was afraid he had bitten off more than she could chew! She'd enjoyed the couple of times he'd tied her up, tying her hands over her head and securing them to the bed posts. It was thrilling to be fucked while held down like that and she'd come hard and long, screaming her pleasure.
Tonight was different. Though she was slowly coming to accept her body as beautiful, even down there, at this precise moment she longed to close her legs.
For Andrew had remembered her remarks about the scene in Story of O, when O was tied on a dais and forced to remain so for hours after the other slave girls had whipped her inner thighs. For O the humiliation had been in the exposure of her sex. She was obviously a masochist, as Ashley realized herself to be, but she shared the same apparent aversion to others looking at her down there.
Intellectually she understood Andrew was "pushing her envelope" as he called it—taking her just a little farther than she thought she could go.
If she were honest, even though she felt nervous right now, she was also deeply aroused. Andrew had built his own little dais for her, using a desk and pulleys he'd installed in the ceiling. Chains hung from the pulleys with cuffs to hold her prisoner.
She was secured by her ankles, her body lying exposed on the desk, legs spread wide to reveal her shaved pussy. Andrew had thoughtfully padded the desk with soft quilts before ordering his slave girl to lie down. He had tied rope around her chest just above and below her breasts, knotting it under the desk. Her wrists, wrapped in soft leather cuffs, were clipped to the silver loop on her collar. Her legs were extended high and she felt vulnerable. She fancied she could even feel a breeze against her labia.
She shivered a little and tried to move, testing the cuffs on her ankles. She couldn't close her legs—she couldn't even shift her body a little to get more comfortable. And where was Andrew?
He had tied her, and then walked out of the room after kissing her lightly on the forehead. As she lay alone, Ashley considered calling out to him. Andrew, I'm scared. Come back! Untie me. She practiced the words in her head but she didn't speak them aloud.
She realized they weren't entirely true. She was scared, yes, but she also wanted this.