All About Eva

" All About Eva is an intoxicating read...I am hooked!" --Dahlia Rose, USA TODAY Bestselling Author

My name is Evadne Cavell and I have an embarrassing secret. I go to dark theaters and let anonymous men fondle me in the dark. Why do I do this?

Because I’m the proverbial “good girl,” the youngest daughter of a prominent family.

Because I teach at a private Denver college and have to deal with a new administration intent on taking the “liberal” out of liberal arts.

Because I need a way to vent my sexual frustration. Men aren’t interested in big, beautiful Black women like me—not out in the open anyway.

But I have to stay in control. I lost control three years ago—in public—and live in fear of being exposed. At the same time, I want to be an object—touched, petted, wanted, desired—but by my rules.

Then I meet Joshua Delaney, a graphic artist from Texas who has me breaking my rules faster than a tornado leveling a trailer park and doing things with him I’ve never done before. We’re a good match.

But we both have secrets. I’ve caught Joshua in one major lie already. Can I really trust him at all? All this pressure is building inside me and it’s making me reckless. I can’t go on like this forever.

How can I live and love my life when society feels entitled to shame and define me?

Originally published as "Messalina: Devourer of Men" (c) 2008.