After a depressing divorce, I needed a Midlife Renewal ...

I found a new best friend after suffering a divorce and moving to a new town.

The first three chapters, published last summer, describe the leadup and the tentative action as my best friend, in a loving but platonic marriage, makes himself available, and we start to fill the holes in each other's lives ... and bodies.

• Is my best friend flirting with me (MM)? Awareness

• Getting hands-on (MM):Handy Men

• Mouths where our hands were (MM): Blow Bi Blow

The fourth chapter, also published last summer, describes how we internalize our attraction:

• Friendship, internalized (MM): Internal Affair

Now I've picked up the story where it left off, in the middle of the night of the first encounter and then a blazing lunchtime encounter. I will continue Joe and Rick's ongoing adventures in further chapters that are in the works.

• Renewal renewed! Nocturnal Missions (MM): Dreaming and Creaming

• Sex on a dessert (?!) island (MM): Island Pleasures

The next chapter is here! In Teasing Tori, Rick and his family have gone to Europe, leaving me alone for a couple of weeks. But not too lonely, once my path crosses Tori's! She is very excited to learn about Rick's and my new relationship.

Now Tori teases the truth out of me! In Telling Tori, she is ravenous for all the deets on how Rick and I got together. With both our regular lovers out of town, we are also ravenous for each other.

Tori also shares some juicy info about her husband Eric, planting the seeds for some exciting future encounters.

In Getting Rick Back, the latest story in my Midlife Renewal series, Rick has come back from his trip to Europe with a confession to make: he had sex with someone else. As it happens, I must confess to my fling with Tori while he was away.

I haven’t bothered entering this in the Unleashed competition because the punishment is so mild, but Rick and I do dish each other some consequences for our indiscretions.

As with the other stories in this series, don’t feel like you need to read the other ones first. Just jump right into the action and I’ll catch you up!

MY NEWEST STORY is A Plan Cums Together. I have the perfect plan to get Rick together with Eric, the longtime target of his desire. As we spill loving spoonfuls into each other mouths, I also spill the plan into his ear.

Just published: Tiles and Smiles. Their wives conspire to finally get Rick and Eric together after years of lusting after each other, a consummation in the shower that turns steamy before they even turn on the water.

The hot, steamy shower action between Rick and Eric continues in my next Midlife Renewal installment, Meatier Shower.