Ports of Departure: Gstaad

Alyson Dobbins did not come to Gstaad looking for love.She came to earn enough money to finish a ranch in Idaho-a place of her own, with a creek running through it and nobody close enough to disturb the peace. Every ski lesson, private arrangement, and carefully negotiated encounter brings her closer to that dream.Among the silent wealth of the Swiss Alps, Alyson discovers that desire can be managed as cleanly as money. A powerful couple offers her an education in pleasure without shame. A quiet mountain man tempts her with something far more dangerous: tenderness. And an unexpected betrayal forces her to question the one arrangement she believed she could trust without verification.When the future she has financed begins to collapse, Alyson must leave Gstaad and confront what has actually been built in her name. Starting over will require more than money. It will require permits, contracts, hard decisions, and the willingness to separate the people she loves from the life she intends to own.Sensual, unsentimental, and fiercely independent, Ports of Departure: Gstaad is a story about a woman who refuses to confuse desire with dependence-or promises with proof.Because the dream is not merely to be wanted.It is to command your own passage.An explicit work of adult fiction featuring consensual sexual situations, multiple partners, and mature themes.