Nobody Need Know
Honest Erotica · Blue Mountains, Jamaica
She told the man she loved it was only for a little while.
About Nobody Need Know
Nadine left the Blue Mountains at twenty-four with a job offer in her hand and a lie in her mouth. She told the man she loved it was only for a little while.
Twenty years later she is a New York executive, eight months divorced, and back on the island for the first time since her mother’s funeral, with a developer’s offer, a closing date, and a plan to be gone in three weeks. The plan has no room in it for Andre, who has spent fifteen years turning her mother’s abandoned acres into a working coffee estate, and who is still standing at the corner of the veranda when her car comes up the drive.
She sets the terms: nights, not days. Bodies, not history. Nothing that touches the land. Andre doesn’t argue. He just lets her find out, one night at a time, that she has been running her own body the way she runs a boardroom, and that he can tell.
Then she finds what her mother left for her. A photograph. A contract. A notebook in a schoolgirl’s exercise book. And a single line in pencil under the sale of her grandmother’s gold: Nobody need know.
Nobody Need Know is honest erotica for grown women: sex that doesn’t always work, bodies that have lived, and a woman who has to learn the difference between leaving and running.
Nights, not days. Bodies, not history. Nothing that touches the land.
What the book is about
- Leaving versus running
- Grown bodies, and sex that doesn’t always work
- A mother’s land, and what she kept to herself
- The terms two people set, and what they can’t hold back
Honest erotica
Nobody Need Know is the first Chasity Rivers novel written as honest erotica: desire written with the character’s history, doubt and body all still in the room. More on that standard in our guide to honest erotica, and on what makes literary erotica its own form.
For more Jamaica-rooted fiction from the House, see Caribbean fiction, and for the island’s wider tradition, our guide to Jamaican novels. For what sets erotic fiction from the islands apart from the postcard fantasy, read our guide to Caribbean erotica.
Editions
- Paperback: ISBN 978-1-971058-27-6, 5.5 × 8.5 in. Buy on Amazon
- Ebook: ISBN 978-1-971058-28-3. Buy on Kindle
Who this book is for
Grown women who want erotic fiction with a real life on either side of the bedroom door: a heroine in her forties, a man who knows her history, and a homecoming that costs something.
Browse erotica & erotic romanceFrequently asked questions
Is Nobody Need Know a standalone?
Yes. Nobody Need Know is a complete novel with its own ending. It is not part of The Haven Trilogy.
Is Nobody Need Know explicit?
Yes. It is honest erotica for grown women: explicit, and honest about sex that doesn’t always work and bodies that have lived.
Where is Nobody Need Know set?
In the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, on the land Nadine’s mother left her, which Andre has spent fifteen years turning into a working coffee estate.
Is Nobody Need Know Caribbean erotica?
Yes. It is Caribbean erotica written from inside the culture: the desire in it is bound up with inherited land, class, family and the question of whether Nadine ever really left home. More in our guide to Caribbean erotica.
What is honest erotica?
Erotic fiction that keeps the character’s inner life switched on during sex, and lets desire carry history, doubt and consequence. More in our guide to honest erotica.
Who is Chasity Rivers?
Chasity Rivers is a Black literary erotica and erotic romance author published by Maroon House Press, and the author of The Haven Trilogy.
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