In the near future, pretty, young Natalie Adams has finished college, left her boyfriend, and moved 650 miles to the outskirts of a new big city to begin her career and new life. As it happens, the new life is nothing like what she’d expected. The somewhat careless 22-year-old has gotten herself into trouble with the law in her new exurb hometown of River’s Edge. Now she faces punishment beyond anything she expected or considered fair: the temporary but lengthy loss of her sight. That changes not only her life, career, and financial future, but her perception of who and what she is.

Natalie finds passion in the arms of several people. She finds love in the arms of the woman who is helping her cope with being blind. As her limitations become apparent, she’s pressured into a career as an exotic dancer, which she never would have chosen otherwise. Does the sexuality of the world that she’s attempting to navigate overwhelm her? Can the charming young woman survive the physical, social, and emotional changes forced on her? Will her sense of self remain intact as she negotiates the darkened environment of her new reality? Will she be forced to change so dramatically that Natalie will forever disappear, to be replaced by someone less innocent, more cynical, worldly, experienced, hard, and driven?

Eighteen Months - Publisher’s Summary
Eighteen Months is erotic drama at its gut-wrenching best. It takes the reader on a journey from the highest emotional peaks to the deepest valleys. This is a tale of endangered innocence within an erotic mix that few stories can match. Once again, Ms. Napoli has put the reader squarely within the mind of the heroine so that we know her every thought, feel her every experience and see what she sees … or doesn’t see. Eighteen Months is a full-length, plot-driven erotic novel built around fetishes and threatened virtue, along with titillating hetero and bisexuality. Though not a BDSM novel in the traditional sense, Eighteen Months thrusts the heroine into a world where she seems enveloped by a BDSM mist which moves into all facets of her life. The dramatic ending gives the story an element of erotic horror that the reader will not soon forget.

This is a solid, adult contemporary fantasy novel of well over 110,000 words. It contains fetish erotica including blindness, smoking, hair, addiction, body modification, sensory deprivation, and submission along with riveting heterosexuality and tasteful bisexuality.

It goes without saying that Eighteen Months is serious adult drama containing open discussions and scenes of intense sexuality, erotica and sexual relations. Parts of Eighteen Months may be too intense for some readers.