Ivory Lace Press Publishes boutique novellas for discriminating adults.
The Westridge Ladies Academy Series
The Westridge Ladies Academy Series chronicles the challenges and triumphs of Sarah Kellar and Benedict Hart as they navigate relationships, sexual attraction, fluidity, and morality, set against the backdrop of the City of Sydney, with its waterfront, restaurants, law firms, and exclusive high society.
Authored by Anna Sinclaire
The Proposition
'Sex is always a transaction, Ben...'
Some arrangements change everything.
When ambitious young lawyer Benedict Hart accepts an invitation to lunch from the sophisticated and dangerously persuasive Rachel Keller, he expects a discussion about a legal case, or perhaps a job offer — not a proposition that will fundamentally alter the course of his life.
Rachel wants Ben to guide her nineteen-year-old daughter Sarah through an unconventional sexual education: discreet, structured, and carefully controlled. Sarah is studying the arts at an elite ladies academy in Sydney, and Rachel is concerned she has fallen victim to the feminine temptations of her classmates. Rachel sees Ben as the solution to Sarah's 'women problem'.
Rachel's offer is generous. Ben takes her beautiful daughter, along with money and status, but the price - and the entrance exam Ben must pass - present him with a transgressive moral challenge.
What begins as a transactional arrangement between consenting adults soon becomes something far more emotionally volatile as attraction deepens, boundaries blur, and the carefully negotiated rules begin to fail.
Set against a backdrop of elite academia, Sydney law firms, harbourfront apartments, and privileged lives, The Proposition is an explicit, psychologically layered erotic novel exploring power, vulnerability, manipulation, obsession, and the dangerous moment when desire becomes genuine connection.
Provocative, emotionally charged, and deeply addictive, The Proposition is the first novel in the Westridge Ladies Academy series.
When does sex come without a cost?
Waking Sarah
Sarah Keller thought she finally understood the rules.
Her arrangement with Benedict Hart had become something real. They were no longer playing games, no longer pretending. For the first time in her life, Sarah felt certain about where she stood.
Then she made a mistake.
As Sarah struggles with guilt, loyalty, and the growing certainty that Ben has become far more than just a lesson, she finds herself caught between the person she wants to be and the choices she has already made. Meanwhile, Ben must decide whether what they share is strong enough to survive honesty, while Sarah's irrepressible best friend Melinda continues to complicate everything in the most unexpected ways.
Set against the backdrop of Sydney's elite academies, harbour-side apartments, law firms and sporting fields, What a Thing is a provocative romantic novella about trust, forgiveness, and the uncomfortable realization that loving someone means risking telling them the truth.
What a Thing is Book Three of the Westridge Ladies Academy series.
Sarah Keller thought she knew exactly what she was getting into.
After all, the arrangement had been her mother's idea - spend some time with Ben Hart.
Learn a few things, and have some adult fun.
It wasn’t anything serious…
But somewhere between a bottle of pinot, a disastrous first date, and an improvised gourmet dinner that was never supposed to matter, Sarah discovers that Ben is becoming something far more dangerous than a lesson.
He is becoming important…
Now she finds herself caught between the life she already has and the future she might want. She is torn between loyalty and desire, and beneath it all lie questions she cannot quite answer:
Did she choose Ben for herself? Or did her mother choose him for her?
And most of all – did it even matter?
Set against the backdrop of Sydney's elite academies, harbour-side apartments and professional circles, Waking Sarah is a provocative romantic novella about attraction, agency, and the moment a carefully planned arrangement begins to develop a life of its own.
Waking Sarah is Book Two of the Westridge Ladies Academy series.
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