Replay Book 5: Night Music
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By the next day, Aubrey had recovered enough to report for hair and makeup, according to schedule. Josef gave the production’s paramedic her work slip, stipulating that she was released to return to work “as tolerated.” Fortunately, their presence was required in only a few sequences, but even that took its toll. Josef made Aubrey rest in the suite between times, while Luc stayed close to the set, ready to call if they needed to come.
Rather than depend on craft services for their evening meal, Josef had the Replay kitchen staff deliver it to their room. A cart was brought up and wheeled in, with covered plates that held bourbon-glazed salmon, herbed baby potatoes, and a grilled vegetable mix—softer foods that would be easier for Aubrey to swallow. Another platter held fresh fruits and cheeses. Bowls of lobster bisque and a basket of breads and crackers took up the rest of the space.
When the shoot ran long, Josef insisted that Aubrey eat while her food was hot but kept the other two plates covered. Their dinners had started to cool by the time Luc came. A minute in the suite’s microwave brought them to the perfect temperature.
Finished, Luc rubbed his stomach and stretched in his chair. “Aubrey, the next time someone contacts us for a movie, remind me of how I should have listened to you.” He slanted a telling look at Josef. “She did not want to do this. I am afraid that I talked her into it. I thought it would be good for her career. An accomplishment that she could be proud of. Instead she and the others are treated like cattle, and she ends up in the emergency room.”
“It’s all right,” Aubrey insisted, leaving the bed to join them at the table. “You only wanted the best for me. I think you knew, somehow, that we were meant to be here. If we had not come, we would not have made love. And we would not have met Sir Josef for months, or years—if ever. That’s the real reason we are here, don’t you think? Not the movie. Not my career. Us.”
“How very wise you are.” Standing, Josef moved behind her, wrapped her in his arms, and kissed the top of her wild mop of hair. “Someone once told me, there is a reason that we do things, and then there is the real reason. You and Luc would have eventually discovered each other, but if I had not accepted Sir Piers’s job offer, it would have taken a miracle for us to meet elsewhere. As it was, I have been here, waiting for the two of you to come. Always looking for my perfect complements. It makes me very happy that my search is over. I have found you. We have found each other, ja?”
Aubrey bent her head and kissed his hand.
Josef held his other out to Luc and drew him from his chair to join them. He kissed them both, Aubrey first, then Luc. “Danke,” he said, his voice grown rough with emotion. “We get through this movie, then we work on the rest. Moving you here. Finding you students. Helping Aubrey learn the lifestyle. Giving her the perfect collar. Would you like that, Liebchen? For Luc and me to claim you and put our collar on your neck? It may take some time to find. I want it to be as pretty as you are.”
“You think I’m pretty?” she whispered, sounding shy, and unsure of herself. “Michelle says I’m pretty.”
Luc cradled her face in his hands, his dusky skin contrasting with Aubrey’s fairness. “She is right. And when she tells you so, what do I always say? Oui, that she is. But until now, I have always waited until Michelle said it. I could not speak it for myself,” Luc confessed. “You were not ready to hear what was in my heart. I love you, ma petite.”
Moved to tears, Aubrey raised her arm and touched Luc’s face, feeling his lips, his cheek, his beard-shadowed jaw. “I love you, too. Both of you,” she said, looking at Josef. “And I love that there are people here who will accept us for who we are. What we are to each other. For that alone, I am so very, very grateful.”
They stood there for a long moment, with Josef and Luc holding Aubrey between them, secure in their embrace. And when they went to bed that night, they made certain that she fell asleep smiling, feeling cherished, knowing that she was surrounded, protected, and loved by two men who happened to love each other.
There was nowhere else on Earth that she would rather be.
REPLAY SERIES
CAST OF CHARACTERS
with main book appearances
Adriana – Sir Josef’s ex-lover; Replay Book 5: Night Music
Alexis MacDonald – daughter of widower Micheil MacDonald; Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Ashley Slade – actress portraying Marie Antoinette during filming at Replay; Replay Book 5: Night Music
Aubrey Wolfe – gifted pianist, legally blind, savant submissive, in a MMF ménage with Dr. Josef Brandt and her mentor Luc Vashon; Replay Book 5: Night Music
Breanna Campbell Falk – Replay resort musical director, married to Gunnar Falk; Replay Book 1: Viking Raid
Cade Madden – actor portraying Louis XVI during filming at Replay; Replay Book 5: Night Music
Don – period musician who plays the lute, in a relationship with Jon; Replay Book 1: Viking Raid
Eleanor (Elly) Benoit St. Leger – psychologist, friend of Rowena Campbell MacDonald and Marcus Vos, married to Replay resort owner Piers St. Leger; Replay Book 3: Honour Bound
Geoffrey – chauffeur for Replay resort; Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Ginger Owens – children’s author, pen name of Rowena Campbell MacDonald; Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Gini (Virginia) Shelton – librarian and 5K runner, in a relationship with Marcus Vos; Replay Book 4: Hooked
Gunnar Falk – Viking Dom at Replay, married to Breanna Campbell Falk; Replay Book 1: Viking Raid
Henry – Sir Josef’s ex-lover; Replay Book 5: Night Music
Ian McGregor – groomsman at the Campbell-MacDonald wedding; Replay Book 4: Hooked
Jannet MacDonald - sister to Micheil and Xander MacDonald, provided care for Micheil’s daughter Alexis after the accident that killed her mother; Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Jewell Fraser – Domme wardrobe mistress at Replay; Replay series
Jody “Savage Joe” Greene – Native American Dom, personal coach, and former MMA cage fighter; Something Special (The Three Graces Book Six), that introduced Replay BDSM theme resort
Jon – period musician who plays the bass viola da gamba, in a relationship with Don; Replay Book 1: Viking Raid
Jorge – Josef Brandt’s groundskeeper, married to Nadine; Replay Book 5: Night Music
Dr. Josef Brandt (Sir Josef) – Replay resort psychiatrist; Replay series/Replay Book 5: Night Music
Kitten – Sir Piers’s secretary at Replay; Replay series
Leda – wardrobe assistant at Replay; Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Lenore – Replay chauffeur; Replay Book 5: Night Music
Luc Vashon – French Canadian piano instructor/professional musician, aide to Aubrey Wolfe, a switch in a MMF ménage with Dr. Josef Brandt and Aubrey; Replay Book 5: Night Music
Madeleine – Chez Cuisine’s owner’s wife; Replay Book 5: Night Music
Marcus Vos – private investigator who vets members for Replay resort and provides personal protection on occasion, an amputee veteran with PTSD, in a relationship with Gini Shelton; Replay Book 4: Hooked
Melody – bookstore owner; Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Micheil MacDonald – Scottish billionaire software designer, widower, now married to Rowena Campbell MacDonald; Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Michelle – Aubrey’s friend who helps her shop for women’s things; Replay Book 5: Night Music.
Ms. Bryan – Replay attorney; Replay Book 5: Night Music
Nadine – Josef Brandt’s housekeeper, married to Jorge; Replay Book 5: Night Music
Nathan Roth – literary agent to Regina Wright and Ginger Owens (aka Rowena Campbell MacDonald); Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Piers St. Leger – British Replay resort owner, kinbaku master, and husband of Eleanor Benoit St. Leger; Replay Book 3: Honour Bound
Regina Wright – erotic blogger, alter ego of Rowena Campbell; Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Rex – Marcus Vos’s PTSD
service dog; Replay Book 4: Hooked
Rich – Replay Dom pirate; Replay Book 4: Hooked
Rowena Campbell MacDonald – Replay musician, author, artist, married to Micheil MacDonald; Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Sabrina Wright – stage name of Breanna Campbell Falk; Replay Books 1 & 2: Viking Raid and Triple Play
Samael – Replay personal assistant; Replay series
Stephen Howard – talent agent for Regina Wright, bisexual Dom; Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Trent Blackwell – assistant to talent agent Stephen Howard, a switch; Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Xander MacDonald – software designer, brother of Micheil and Jannet MacDonald; Replay Book 2: Triple Play
Author’s Biography
Nia Farrell is the author of one of The 50 Best Indie Books of 2016, a 2016 Golden Flogger Finalist, and one of Mr. Blackthorne’s Wicked Pen Writers. A multi-genre writer published in nonfiction, poetry, music, articles, and children’s books, with one documentary screenplay under her literary belt, she’s an old soul and a period reenactor who’s been into corsets for centuries, although she wears them more to Civil War events these days.
Nia has been involved in the metaphysical community for over twenty-five years. She is a Reiki Master and crystal healer whose work encompasses this and other lifetimes. In her book Something More, BDSM and submission are tools for healing post-rape PTSD, earning a nomination for Best BDSM Book of the Year, Ménage Category, in the 2016 Golden Flogger Awards.
Her debut books from The Three Graces series, Something Else, Something Different, and Something More, are kink with a paranormal twist. Soul mates, reincarnation, karmic fallout, shamanism, and psychic abilities come into play. Personal experience and extensive research go into crafting her characters, but it’s her sense of whimsy that has made fictional Posey, Minnesota, the ménage capital of the United States, with a Monty-Python-inspired diner that’s central to the plotlines.
Nia was fortunate enough to meet her soul mate early on. She married her high school sweetheart, raised two children, and began writing at her husband’s suggestion. She has been published in erotic romance since 2015.
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THE THREE GRACES TRILOGY
by Nia Farrell
Now in paperback! Contains Something Else, Something Different, and Something More. 230 pages.
Amazon buy link http://mybook.to/TGr
Three women. Six men. Things are about to get interesting.
Welcome to fictional Posey, Minnesota, home of three young women whose names all mean “grace.” Grace Murphy is the local psychic medium who’s been saving herself for the men of her dreams. Anna James is a starving artist who lives for the music she makes. Rae Simmons (aka Rachel Givens) is everyone’s favorite waitress, delivering plate lunch specials with service and a smile. The Three Graces Trilogy contains their stories, originally released as separate e-book novellas.
SOMETHING ELSE
(The Three Graces Book One)
Three soulmates forge a future from the flames of their pasts in an interracial MMF ménage erotic romance. “It’s part paranormal, part BDSM, part love story, but all good.”
Ebook buy link http://mybook.to/TG1
Author Pandora Spocks: “This is the first book in the Three Graces series and I can’t wait to read the next two. The story is at once mystical and heartbreaking, the characters rich and compelling. You find yourself pulling for Grace, Nico, and J.T. to find peace and happiness. And the sex…it’s MMF ménage at its hottest! Something Else is highly recommended!”
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
(The Three Graces Book Two)
Starving artist Anna James has sworn off men. Rock gods Jackson and Jacob Thomason just promised her the best sex of her life. Does Anna dare submit to the part-Comanche twins who perform as No Mercy? A BDSM MFM rock star erotic romance.
E-book buy link http://mybook.to/TG2
What reviewers are saying about Something Different:
“The story is entertaining, the sex is hot, and Anna is sarcastic and funny and talented!! A woman after my own heart!! She is lucky enough to meet her rock idols and go even further with them, a dream come true!!”
“From the first word, Anna’s smoldering with sexuality and sensuality. Her first exchange with the boys drips with sex. It’s inevitable, and that’s why it works. There aren’t a lot of other books I’ve read with this much sexuality in the way the narrator talks and hoo boy, this is what makes this so good, so readable, and so hard to put down…I’m a fangirl.”
SOMETHING MORE
(The Three Graces Book Three)
Finalist, Best BDSM Book of the Year, Ménage Category, 2016 Golden Flogger Awards.
E-book buy link http://mybook.to/TG3
Rachel Givens is supposed to be dead. She has post-rape PTSD and a three-year-old autistic daughter, father unknown. When her former lovers—a biker and a porn star—walk into the diner where she works, this single mother learns just how much more she can handle.
What reviewers are saying about Something More:
“The WARNING for this book should be STEAMY HOT & Panty Melting….” “Anyone can write a story that has great sex scenes but give me a story along with the sex and you’ve got yourself a HUGE fan! Rachel Givens and her daughter Hannah stole my heart immediately….Cam and Cord swooped in and not only filled Rachel’s heart with love and forgiveness but they also reached Hannah’s—which is a difficult task in itself. Just an amazing story!”
“Rachel’s story is riveting and raw…you forget she’s a mom raising a little girl while hiding in a small town. This story was so different from the others and I loved it more for that exact reason.…I was blown away by these stories and although they could be read as standalones, I would read them in sequence. Bravo Nia for giving these ladies life and us sexy hot fantasies.”
SOMETHING AMAZING
(The Three Graces Book Four)
Nico’s story—not yet released
SOMETHING AWESOME
(The Three Graces Book Five)
Jackson’s story—not yet released
SOMETHING PRECIOUS
(The Three Graces Book Seven)
Cord’s story—not yet released
SOMETHING SPECIAL
(The Three Graces Book Six)
The sequel to SOMETHING ELSE, released May 5, 2016
Nominated for Best Erotica and Best Romance,
2016 Summer Indie Book Awards
Something Special is a new age New Adult erotic romance and is a standalone sequel to Something Else, an interracial BDSM MMF ménage. Reading the first book isn’t necessary but it is recommended.
When morning sickness hits the house, J.T. and Nico bend their knees and plans are made for a very special honeymoon. They’re giving Grace the capture fantasy of her dreams at Replay, a BDSM theme resort where pat
rons role play in the past.
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What reviewers are saying about Something Special…
“I am so totally in love with Grace, Nico and J.T.!! No you did not miss books 4&5, they just aren’t available right now, but Something Special picks up right where book 3, Something More left off. We see more of the beautiful threesome and I fell right back into wanting to just devour the story but holding myself back and slowing down to appreciate all that their story has to offer.”
“Something Special follows Grace, J.T. and Nico, from Something Else (book one), after they have been together for awhile & are expecting their first child. It is told from J.T.’s POV. The author has given the readers an in-depth look at the dynamics between a triad of people in love—an alpha Dominant, a female submissive, and a second male who is both dominant & submissive. It is amazing to this reader how this female author can so thoroughly get into the male dominant’s psyche.