The Para-Portage of Emily
The Shadow Seduction
Series
By
Muffy Wilson
@SexyMuffyWilson
Emily Macque, a young, beautiful
junior partner in her father’s law firm, is but a heartbeat away from love or
destiny. Duty brings Emily to a frozen Island estate two hundred and fifty
miles north of Chicago. Devotion requires she delve into the property history
to settle an estate probate. Death lures her into the arms of the shadows
seduction created by the flickering light and dark shadows.
What flames the
timeless passions spanning the decades? Love, desire or obsession?
Colin Jorgenson, once a Great Lakes
mariner, is a strong man haunted by love and loss. How long will he return each
night, gripped by desire, hoping to find the woman he has loved for a
century?
Beneath the pristine Island beauty, passions
hungered, lingered in the ardent darkness. His passions, fueled by decades of
loneliness and longing, could no longer be denied. Will they face eternity
together or love in secret as dark things are to be loved between the shadows
and the soul?
I just finished The
Para-Portage of Emily. Quite the
page-turner!!
I was gifted a free copy
by the author and found it to be a
cleverly woven
plot with descriptive characters you won’t soon forget. I’m not
one to give out
spoilers,
but if you like paranormal
intrigue, hot romance, and
mystery, you will
love it. Looking forward to more works by Muffy Wilson as I’m
sure they will be
just as brilliant.
~ By Love To
Read
“Tell me what you know about Mariner’s Maiden
please, Kirby.”
Kirby took a long draw on his beer before he began
his narrative.
“It was years ago, around 1800 Miss Emily, when
the original land owner arrived on the Island with settlers from Norway.
He’d claimed five hundred acres on this southern point of the Island for
himself. He became wealthy in cattle, wheat, timber and cheese. As his
family grew and were educated on the Mainland, they moved, one by one, off
Island. They were a wealthy, hard-working lot, but needed less and less of
the acreage they owned.
Much of the
original plot was donated to the Town throughout the years. Some sections
were sold. “It got down to the last hundred acres when
Colin Jorgenson bought the property, around 1890 or 1900. I am not exactly
sure. The main house was much smaller and less grand than it is now, for
sure.
“Now, Colin was a Maritime Captain and often he’d be gone
for months at a
time. He sailed the Great Lakes several times a year with supplies,
spices, fancy goods and ‘fortunes of bounty’. That’s what they called it
then. It was for sale to rich settlers throughout the Great Lakes.
He’d earned all his wealth in trading by the turn of the century. He came
and went for several years until, in his mid-thirties, he met and married
a much younger woman, Amalya, and came back to the Island with her.”
Kirby sat back, drained his beer and continued.
“The property was called Mariner’s Cove then. He spent two years with
Island tradesmen rebuilding this house for his wife. To honor her, and
before his return to the water, he commissioned a maritime woodcarver to
create the figurehead of Amalya you saw yesterday on the tree marking the
entrance.
He had the figure of Amalya mounted on the bow of
his ship and apparently felt she was always with him in his travels. She
died one summer, pregnant with their first child, shortly after his
returning from his last trip of the season. He shut himself away in this
house—a broken man, left forlorn and alone, to die years later of a broken
heart as a recluse. It’s said he returns night after night trying to find
his Amalya, his beloved.”
“But that’s just old folklore, Miss Emily,
there’s nothing to it but made up stories from the past by gossips and
romantics. This place has never been haunted—no one has ever said it was,
anyway. Even though he was long dead, this property was held in Old
Colin’s estate until your uncle bought it around 1955, I think. I suppose
there is more you can find out at the Archives office in the Island library
at the town offices, if you want. That’s about all I know and it ain’t
much.”
Refusing
a second beer, Kirby was off to finish his chores. “Thank you, Miss
Emily,” Kirby said as he stood to leave.
Emily walked him to
the door with Barkley in tow.
“Oh, there is one more thing” he added. “There
is supposed to be a crypt on the property somewhere. I heard tell that Old
Colin buried his Amalya in there and when he was dying, he crawled into it
to die on her casket. Creepy, but no one’s ever found it to my
knowledge—and between me and my dad, we’ve covered this property as
caretakers for over fifty years.”
Emily extended her hand in gratitude for the
information and company. “Thank you, Kirby. All of that is so very
interesting. He must have been deeply in love with
Amalya.”
Kirby, a middle-aged man, stood and shook Emily’s
hand.
He turned to
leave, stopped and dropped his head as he hesitated at the bottom of the
steps. A simple country man, this time was no
different.
“Miss Emily…” He looked up at her rather sheepishly,
and stuttered slightly, “Forgive me, Miss Emily, if I offend you. I have
been a bachelor all my life and never had a way with women or much of a
need for them.
Oh, don’t get me wrong,
I like ‘em well enough, but I never was able to pick the right words in
their presence. If…if you don’t mind my saying…you look an awful lot like
those paintings in the house of Miss Amalya.”
“Oh my word, Kirby, how you flatter me! It is purely
a coincidence, I assure you.” Emily smiled, as she dismissed the
compliment and waved good-bye at Kirby. As he left, she thought about the
love shared between these two remarkable people, Colin and Amalya. Amalya
and Colin.
She had forgotten to ask what became of the
baby…
This is a story to savor. Ms. Wilson's descriptions are
poetic and
enthralling,
placing the reader in the
midst of the story, and the
relaxed pace of
the story does not lessen the power of suspense. Shrouded in
mystery, romance,
and eroticism, "The Para-Portage of Emily" is a
treat for the
senses,
a haunting indulgence. Despite
hints throughout, the
ending still
surprised me, and though
satisfied,
I regretted the
literary journey's end. Highly recommended.
I look forward to more from
this promising
series.
~ By Jordan Stringfellow
Muffy, author of
erotic, romantic stories about love, sex, hope and passion, was born in
San Antonio, Texas, to traditional parents. With two older brothers, she
was the youngest, the family "princess," indulged and pampered.
She adored her older brothers, following them everywhere and was
surrounded by love, stimulation, and pets. Her father was a career
Colonel and pilot in the U.S. Air Force which required the family to
travel extensively. The family lived in most points between Alaska and
France. Muffy spent her formative years in Europe and came of age in
France.
Returning from
France with her family, Muffy finished high school in
Northern California and attended the University
of California, Davis, and
majored in Business Management.
Muffy
entered the work force, independent with a fierce work ethic, and
retired at 39 from IBM as a Mid-West Regional Director in the Real Estate
and Construction Division. She and her husband moved to a small Island in
northern Wisconsin where they owned a historic tavern, restaurant and
resort business which they since have sold. They now live a charmed life by
the water in SW Florida. Muffy pretends
to be a serious real estate business person but, in real life, indulges
her private interest in writing sexy novels and sensual romantic
literotica ~ Live, Laugh, Love with Passion.
I really enjoyed the
Para-Portage of Emily... a skillfully
and imaginatively
told tale of love, lost and found. Mysterious twists kept me
turning the pages
until the end.
Love conquers all, AND it was
hot!
~ By Barbara A.
Lyle
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Should John Grisham and EL James have a secret love
child,
she would no
doubt pen legal thrillers with a luscious layer of the erotic.
They would name
their child Muffy Wilson and send her to Stephen King for some
pointers in the
paranormal.
Wilson, in the obliquely titled "The Para-Portage
of Emily",
interweaves these
three diverse genres into a compelling, magic carpet of a
novel that takes
Emily Macque from Chicago to a bitter island estate two
hundred miles
north in the frozen sea. Emily is the striking junior partner in
her father’s law
firm, her mission, to settle the probate on an estate, her
destiny to fall
into the arms of Colin Jorgenson, a seaman haunted by a past
love that
torments his life.
Intelligent, well-written, with fully fleshed out
characters and a story with
more twists than
a spiral staircase, "The Para-Portage of Emily" had
me gripped until
the very last page.
~ By
Chloe
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