Author: Oliver Barkley

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1477123458

Tingleville is a transformational romantic love story about two young adults. Joe is a dynamic lawyer who is recovering from the pain of a failed marriage. His ex-wife Mary Ellen was a sexual connoisseur who kept Joe so whipped that he was blind to her adulterous ways until she was able to replace him with a richer man. After a two-year vengeance filled sexual rampage through many of the most desirable ladies of Richmond, Joe realizes that he will never find love between silken sheets. Only by facing his fears and being semi-celibate, can he hope to find the perfect person to love. Lucy, an assistant professor of law at Richmond University, is also recovering from a failed marriage. Her pain was both physical and mental because her marriage to her high school sweetheart ended by annulment while she was still recovering from the first and last beating her husband gave her. After two years as an associate at a major Chicago law firm and another couple in private practice, she abandoned the courtroom for the classroom. The loud ticking of her biological clock and the emptiness of her life has her thinking of finding someone to love. A conference that neither wanted to attend resulted in their paths crossing and becoming intertwined. After a slow start, they race to see if the emotions they feel are real. One slow dance was enough to ignite fires of passion and put both of them on a quest for understanding. Joe hoped to find a woman to love that would love him exclusively, and be as skilled in the arts of love as his former wife was. He sees potential in Lucy. Lucy’s mother told her that sex was as natural an act for a woman as washing dishes or doing the laundry. According to Mrs. Bishop, sex was a chore. It was a woman’s obligation to please her man and take her pleasure from the happiness of her husband. She assured Lucy that the act was more pleasurable for men than women. Lucy’s first sexual experience and subsequent ones proved her mom correct. One dance with Joe proved her mom wrong and set her on a quest for the paradise named Tingleville.