Buying Venus

Armed by a friend with the knowledge of a dilapidated Italian villa in Calabria that can be bought for a song, an unmarried English businessman sets off to purchase it.

But the villa itself is not his main aim.

For its garden hosts a certain water-feature and a carving of the goddess Venus.

A carving he knows will reap him a financial reward far, far, greater than any rustic pile of bricks and mortar.

But there’s a problem.

The sensuous and imperious aristocratic woman who owns the property and her two female assistants have a secret.

A secret that lies in a sealed room in the villa’s cellar.

And a secret that will fill his reality with horror while ensuring his life becomes an eternal commitment to sensuous service.

If you enjoy stories that, without being unnecessarily explicit, trigger those more stygian and erotic areas of the imagination while invoking the spirit of assertive women, and are as believable as they are dark, it’s more than probable you’ll delight in Mr Menton’s stories from a female-led perspective on the subject of crime, horror, the occult and the erotic domestic and sexual bondage of man to woman.