Goldberg Variations

By Lisabet Sarai

All great music is born of passion

For twenty-two years the Goldberg brothers – Richard on cello, Harvey on viola and Albert on violin – have made music together, earning a decent living and a modicum of respect in the classical music community. When Richard’s sudden demise forces Harvey and Al to find a replacement cellist, neither can imagine how their new colleague will shake up their middle-aged lives.

Deidre Rasinovsky-Corbatta is an unlikely addition to the Goldberg Trio, a shapely siren with purple hair, scarlet lips and a rose tattooed on her ample breasts – but she plays cello like an angel. The passion she pours into her music spills over into her relationships with the two brothers. When both Al and Harv fall in love with her, will this tear the trio apart – or to transform it?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lisabet Sarai
• Release date: Jul 25, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005949648

Lisabet Sarai

I became addicted to words at an early age. I began reading when I was four. I wrote my first story at five years old and my first poem at seven. Since then, I have written plays, tutorials, scholarly articles, marketing brochures, software specifications, self-help books, press releases, a five-hundred page dissertation, and lots of erotica and erotic romance – more than fifty single author titles including eight full length novels, plus dozens of short stories in various collections. My credits include contributions to the Lambda winner Where the Girls Are and the IPPIE Best Erotic Book of 2011, Carnal Machines. My gay scifi erotic romance Quarantine won a Rainbow Awards 2012 Honorable Mention. I have also edited a number of acclaimed erotica anthologies. Currently I am responsible for the charity erotica imprint Coming Together Presents, which as of December 2014 has published six volumes by top erotic authors, supporting causes such as Amnesty International, Planned Parenthood, and the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America.I have more degrees than anyone would ever need, from prestigious educational institutions who would no doubt be deeply embarrassed by my chosen genre. Aside from writing, travel is one of my most fervent passions. I’ve visited every continent except Australia, though I still have a long bucket list of places I haven’t been. Currently I live in Southeast Asia with my indulgent husband and two exceptional felines, where I pursues an alternative career that is completely unrelated to my creative writing.For more information about me and my writing, visit my website (http://www.lisabetsarai.com) or my blog Beyond Romance (http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com). Join my VIP email list here: https://btn.ymlp.com/xgjjhmhugmgh I also hang out at Goodreads, (http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/83387.Lisabet_Sarai) because I love the idea of a social network focusing on the love of reading. I’m not on Facebook, because I don’t trust it.

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Goldberg Variations

Lisabet Sarai

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Goldberg Variations originally appeared in The Mammoth Book of Threesomes and Moresomes, edite by Linda Alvarez. Robinson Publishing, 2010.

Contents

Goldberg Variations

About the Author

Blurb: Dragon Boat Blues

X-Rated Excerpt from Dragon Boat Blues

A Final Message from Lisabet

To K, and J.S. Bach

Goldberg Variations

Harvey and Al stood in the chill drizzle beside the muddy grave.

Damned inconsiderate of Richard, dropping dead without any warning, said Al, after a few minutes of morose silence.

I’m sure that he didn’t do it deliberately. Certainly he would much rather have attended one of our funerals than vice versa, observed Harvey.

No doubt. He only cared about himself.

Well, to be fair, he put a lot of effort into the trio.

"Right. His trio, he used to call it."

Whatever. It’s been our bread and butter for twenty-two years, so don’t knock it.

Sure, but what are we going to do now? There’s no work for a violin/viola duo.

Harvey sighed. "Obviously, we’ve got to find another cello. I’ll put an ad in the Times next week. It shouldn’t be too difficult; there must be hundreds of starving musicians in New York."

Yeah, but can they play Bach? We don’t want someone whose repertoire is restricted to ‘Yesterday’ and ‘Endless Love’.

Harvey had a pounding headache, and the rain was beginning to drip down underneath the collar of his topcoat. His brother’s negative attitude