Sarnia de la Maré FRSA Author, Musician, Artist

About the author SARNIA. DE LA MARE  https://share.google/Aw3KqzHkoM9CGcHLQ 💋 The Velvet Listener. A Contemporary Mills & Swoon Short by Sarnia de la Maré. Mara Lane had been the late-night voice of Heartline FM for three years, dispensing warm advice to strangers while living a private life that was anything but romantic. The truth was that Mara had become rather accomplished at helping other people fall in love precisely because she had stopped trying it herself. She had stopped dressing up and going out. She avoided dinner parties with friends who were forever trying to matchmake her with basically any man who happened to be single. The studio lights were low enough to be flattering in the way dim lamps flatter tired women. Her producer, Jay, waved through the glass: Caller on line four. “Heartline FM,” she purred. “You’re live with Mara.” She had perfected a sexy sultry voice that her fans loved. Little did they know, privately she had long given up any ideas of falling in...

#RomancePodcast #FictionPodcast #AudioRomance #NarratedFiction #ShortStoryPodcast #RomanticFiction #AudioDrama #LoveStories #PodcastRomance 💋 Mills & Swoon Daily #2 The Caged Bird and the Stable Boy Lady Isolde Ravenshaw entered the stables. She was a reluctant horsewoman but had made the effort because of him. Thomas the stable boy was not, strictly speaking, a boy.  At twenty-two he was marked with the attributes of maleness and beauty that were worthy of an Adonis. His muscular forearms and chiselled torso glowed in sun-browned competence.  Once she had seen him swimming on a hot summer afternoon having taken a wrong turn in the grounds of the estate. She had watched longingly, his naked body as it basked in sun and water in a simple celebration of movement, nakedness, and life itself. One did not normally encounter such thrilling attributes at London soirées. Isolde had had enough of pot-bellies and bad breath to last a life time. Thomas had flicked a switch and s...

  “Welcome to Mills & Swoon Daily — where your morning scandal is served warm, wicked, and just a little bit improper.” Today’s tale: The Duke and His Mother’s House Guest . By Sarnia de la Maré — Mills & Swoon Daily #1 Lady Elowen Hart was not accustomed to being mistaken for staff, but she had arrived at Hawthorne Hall in a travelling cloak and mud up to her silk-white stockings, so the error was, she supposed… understandable. Almost. The Duke strode into the foyer with the confidence of a man who had never once been contradicted in his life. Such entitled grandeur might have been repulsive if he hadn’t been so annoyingly well-formed. “You must be the new governess,” he announced, looking her up and down with far too much interest for a man hiring a tutor for his niece. Elowen raised a brow. “Must I?” He hesitated, thrown off-balance. “…You’re early.” “And you, sir, are mistaken,” she replied smoothly. “But I do admire a man who leads with certainty, ...