Still Aching is a standalone short story connected to Beverly Thorne’s Second Heat series.
Like the Second Heat stories, it is about a woman over sixty rediscovering desire, intimacy, and a part of herself she thought was gone.
At sixty-five, Catherine has been alone for ten years. She has built a good life—books, friends, quiet evenings by the condo pool, and an easy friendship with Daniel, her forty-two-year-old neighbor.
But Catherine misses being wanted. Not companionship. Hunger. The way it feels when a man looks at her and sees a woman he cannot stop wanting.
She has convinced herself those days are over.
Daniel knows they aren’t.
One honest conversation changes everything. Catherine admits how long it has been since anyone touched her. Daniel admits how long he has wanted to.
His answer is simple:
Come away with me.
One weekend. One room. And the exhilarating discovery that at sixty-five, Catherine can still ache with desire—and be desired just as fiercely.
Still Aching is an explicit, emotionally driven reverse-age-gap romance about rediscovering the part of yourself you thought you’d lost. Free on Kindle.
