Review: Sizzling ménage. . . in a Civil War setting? Gotta love it.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 13, 2012
Molly has been in love with the three brothers for a long time. After she gets caught making out with the youngest, a hasty marriage is necessary, until Witt goes off to war. Her reputation ruined, Molly takes refuge in the family home with her drunken father-in-law and the middle brother, Greer, and the family housekeeper/mammy. The oldest, Hardin, takes off to war as well.One day Hardin returns, rushing up to Molly and warning her that something dangerous is going to happen and that for Witt's sake, she should be strong and refuse to say anything that could endanger him, no matter what. (The mystery here is what exactly he thinks she knows that she shouldn't tell. Oh well.) Hardin rushes off (after feeling her up a bit and giving her a guilty thrill) and then a Yankee captain appears at the house and demands that Molly appear before him and tell him where her husband is. When she refuses (because she really doesn't know anything), he forces her to strip before his men and endure their lecherous comments about her body and what they would like to do with it. Fortunately, it never comes to anything more than that, but long afterward, Molly is humiliated and shamed, especially after word gets spread around town. Unfortunately, that's the same day Witt is killed in a particularly gruesome fashion. Soon after, word arrives that Hardin has deserted the rebel army, and the family suffers more shame.During her mourning, Molly finds herself more and more attracted to Greer, and he, having loved her before her marriage to his brother, finds her difficult to resist. Being the consummate gentleman and very conscious of propriety, he tries to avoid her and temptation, determined to wait to offer her marriage until her mourning period is over. Molly is really a very lusty woman, and she doesn't want to wait to have sex with him. In the middle of this, Hardin--who has been off on a vengeful quest to murder all of the Yankees who humiliated Molly--returns briefly and is unable to hide his own feelings for her. Even after they make love--and are interrupted and then joined by Greer--Hardin insists that Molly marry Greer, as he expects to be caught and hung before too much time passes. Molly insists that she cannot marry Greer, or choose between the two of them; she wants BOTH. Greer and Hardin worry that her reputation will be further destroyed if she were to become pregnant.While it's true that the time period seems to make such a scenario unlikely, Ms. Glass's writing skills convinced me to suspend belief and enjoy the story. Well, it doesn't hurt that I'm drawn to MMF ménage tales. . . and spicy hot sex scenes! It's the first I've seen that involved brothers, though, and gives a whole new meaning to the whole idea of siblings learning to share their toys. . . .