Unfurl

BELLE When you've been told your whole life that something is sinful, you have two options. Avoid it like the plague. Like it has the power to destroy all that is good and pure. Or become as fixated upon it as Eve was upon that apple. I'm sick of the push-pull of terror and temptation. It's tearing me apart. I just want a bite of the apple. More than a bite. I want to devour it. Have its juices spill from my lips. And by apple I, of course, mean sex. RAFE My new neighbour is the kind of beautiful that could bring a man to his knees. But she's twenty-two. Fourteen years younger than me. That's too young. I've vowed to stay away. Until she comes to me for help. It seems she has something to dispose of. Her chastity. And it seems I have something she wants. The club I run for discerning adults. More specifically, the programme we've created for women just like Belle. A programme that will transform her from innocent to damned. Unfurl the parts of her she's denied until now. It seems I may not be the only one falling to my knees, after all. God help us both. Unfurl is a steamy age-gap contemporary romance. It's a standalone with an HEA.

BELLE When you've been told your whole life that something is sinful, you have two options. Avoid it like the plague. Like it has the power to destroy all that is good and pure. Or become as fixated upon it as Eve was upon that apple. I'm sick of the push-pull of terror and temptation. It's tearing me apart. I just want a bite of the apple. More than a bite. I want to devour it. Have its juices spill from my lips. And by apple I, of course, mean sex. RAFE My new neighbour is the kind of beautiful that could bring a man to his knees. But she's twenty-two. Fourteen years younger than me. That's too young. I've vowed to stay away. Until she comes to me for help. It seems she has something to dispose of. Her chastity. And it seems I have something she wants. The club I run for discerning adults. More specifically, the programme we've created for women just like Belle. A programme that will transform her from innocent to damned. Unfurl the parts of her she's denied until now. It seems I may not be the only one falling to my knees, after all. God help us both. Unfurl is a steamy age-gap contemporary romance. It's a standalone with an HEA.

A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emotion and activist thinking, Eli Clare invites us to unfurl ourselves into the lovely multitude of genders beyond the binary of woman and man, the fierceness of street protest, and the long slow time of granite. He sings to aquifers. Wrestles with the aftermath of child abuse and his family's legacy as white settlers occupying Dakota homelands. He leans into history. Calls the names of the living and the dead. Connects his own tremoring body to a world full of tremors--earthquakes, jackhammers, quaking aspens. Unfurl reveals deep queer kinships between human and more-than-human, sentient and nonsentient. At every juncture, these poems and essays embrace porousness and the power of dreaming. Ultimately, Unfurl is an invitation to rebellion and joy.

A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emotion and activist thinking, Eli Clare invites us to unfurl ourselves into the lovely multitude of genders beyond the binary of woman and man, the fierceness of street protest, and the long slow time of granite. He sings to aquifers. Wrestles with the aftermath of child abuse and his family's legacy as white settlers occupying Dakota homelands. He leans into history. Calls the names of the living and the dead. Connects his own tremoring body to a world full of tremors--earthquakes, jackhammers, quaking aspens. Unfurl reveals deep queer kinships between human and more-than-human, sentient and nonsentient. At every juncture, these poems and essays embrace porousness and the power of dreaming. Ultimately, Unfurl is an invitation to rebellion and joy.