This idea came from my then agent when we were discussing the offer. She said something like “Play to the fantasy of an older woman with five children getting railed by a well-hung stableboy.”
So I did. I made the heroine the wife of the vicar for an added taboo element.
Winnifred does not want to get pregnant, however. The gossip alone would have killed her, but she also had five mouths to feed and her husband had humiliated her by running off to be with the mother of his second family.
I wound up doing some deep dives into early contraception, the production, use and availability of early condoms, and the dangerous use of pennyroyal. I even took a hilarious side trip through the ‘female predicament’ of menstruation how it was managed.
Mostly, however, like the rest of the stories in this collection, it’s about a woman taking her destiny into her own hands–which includes getting railed by a well-hung stableboy. I hope you enjoy it as much as she does 🙂