The Honey Well

Book excerpt: Arnell Rayford's mother Esther is where she always wanted to be. She runs a thriving business from the mansion where her own mother once worked as a housekeeper - a business that is surely making the previous owner turn in her grave. Esther runs a brothel and not even her own daughter can stand in the way of her desire for money, which she serves not only by renting rooms to 'ladies of charm' but also by prostituting her own child. When Arnell becomes engaged to a pillar of the community things have to change and the lines between sex, hate, money and murder quickly blur..