Lifelong Republican and Missouri-born public schoolteacher Marianne Ellington is exploring a brand new world nowadays. The lady recently divorced her husband of twenty five years, Liam Ellington, former Sheriff of Branson County, Missouri, and the grandson of deceased, downright legendary local Ku Klux Klan leader Lloyd "hang them high" Ellington. Even for couples who have been together for a long time, there is always a breaking point.
The marriage of Marianne and Liam Ellington came to an abrupt end and the scandal that followed rocked Branson County. All because the good ole former Sheriff made the mistake of impregnating Joanne Thompson, some Jamaican hussy working at the local beauty shop. For the Ellington's, a couple once considered to be pillars of Branson society, this was the beginning of the end...
Southern men have been having their way with pretty ladies of the African American persuasion for ages, but now, Southern ladies are starting to step out as well. Why is that? Oh, what goes around most definitely comes around. The lady Marianne Ellington ( nee Stanford ) never thought of herself as the sort of gal who would mess around with a black fellow, since she wasn't raised that way. How times have changed...
Marianne Ellington considered herself a hard-working, God-fearing and church-going Southern lady. One of a dying breed. Oh, she knew that her husband Liam Ellington stepped out on her throughout their marriage but he never rubbed her face in it. Men mess around with other women behind their wives backs but the smart ones were discreet about things. A lady's got to have her pride, after all. Liam impregnating that Jamaican gal was too much. Marianne, never one to forgive overt infidelity, kicked out ole Liam and took everything from him in their subsequent divorce.
With her wayward daughter Lily having left town to live with her Mexican boyfriend Juan Carlos in the town of Amarillo, Texas, Marianne Ellington had the house to herself. Liam still lived on the other side of town, and had apparently moved in with his Jamaican whore, intent on raising the product of his infidelity. For Marianne, this was way too much. Losing her white husband to a younger, exotic and yes, black woman severely damaged her pride.
Starting over after age forty isn't easy on anyone. And Marianne had her womanly needs which were no longer being met. Liam Ellington was gone and he wasn't coming back. Truth be told, even if he abandoned Joanne and came crawling back to Marianne, her pride wouldn't let her have anything to do with him. The Ellington divorce was finalized on June 17, 1984, and Marianne intended on keeping it that way. A good woman doesn't let herself get taken for granted. Still, coming home to an empty bed night after night was no fun. What's a "good" gal to do when she's bored, lonely and horny?
Decades spent being "good" and what did Marianne Ellington have to show for it? That's why she threw caution to the wind and decided to rent out the spare bedroom in her house to a handsome college man from distant Boston, Calvin Brown. The six-foot-tall, burly and handsome African-American stud from the north came to Missouri to study engineering at the University of Missouri. Sparks flew between the cautious, conservative Marianne and this handsome, cocky young brother...