March Hastings

The Outcasts March Hastings

An explosive novel that exposes the magnetic pull of forbidden lust...when a wife takes a mistress.

Two couples join for a weekend of escape from New York...a getaway that becomes a cauldron of boiling temptations that would ignite their long-buried desires and shatter their lives. It's the story of Leigh Whitman, a rich, married woman who has everything a woman could desire...and yet aches to indulge her repressed, compulsive desires, aroused now by Jennie Dunbar...a emotionally-torn woman trapped in a decomposing marriage and who now finds herself yearning for a different kind of touch, a different kind of love...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

"March Hastings" was one of the pseudonyms (along with Laura Duchamp, Viveca Ives, and Alden Stowe) of Sally M. Singer, a lesbian writer born in 1930s and the author of more than 130 novels, across many genres, in her lifetime. She is undoubtedly best-known for her string of ground-breaking, lesbian-themed, sexy pulp paperbacks in the 1950s and early 1960s, including Three Women, The Third Theme, Veil of Torment, and The Demands of the Flesh. She wrote many other sexy novels as Hastings, not all of them with a lesbian theme. However, by the late-60s/early 70s, the "March Hastings" pseudonym was co-opted by her publisher and became a house name for many different authors penning lurid paperbacks, diluting and confusing her early legacy as an influential author of lesbian pulp and straight erotic fiction.