Magnolia Heat by Keta Diablo

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Magnolia Heat is for sure a novella that is worth of the “breeches rippers” tag I’m assigning to it. Two young college guys in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1876 are spying on the strange happenings a luxury mansion is hosting. Twice a month, good looking men gather inside the mansion and no one exactly knows what happens inside. Both Anthony than Craven are desperate to know since what they are imagining is exactly what they would like to see happen to themselves: best friends at college they also share the same forbidden passion for their same sex, even if they have never had to courage to act upon it. And so, like two kids spying on their parents party from the staircase, Anthony and Craven spy on Dominic Beresford and his friends.

But one night Mr Beresford decides it’s time to teach a lesson to the intruders: while he will deliver it himself to Craven, he gives Anthony to the care of two of his friends. During the night, the two young men, and the reader, will experience what they exactly were hoping to, and while Anthony will be end scared by it, Craven will enjoy every minute. That is, both situations are the same, three imposing men playing Master and slave with two young men, and everything will unfold according to the plot: Anthony and Craven will be forced to admit what they really want, what they were indeed hoping when they went to spy, night after night, on Beresford’s activities. But the output will be different: Anthony will enjoy the night but in the end, he will be still scared to do something for a repeat, and instead Craven will do everything to be “punished” again.

Craven was raised in a very strict environment, where corporal punishment was an ordinary thing, and in a way, he is inprinted to that: like a pavlovian dog, he reacts to the punishment with physical pleasure, and so he is the perfect partner for Dominic Beresford, who likes to play the “Master” but who, in the end, is more romantic than expected, and saving young Craven from a dull future will become his mission.

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