What happens to four middle-aged baseball moms when Fifty Shades of Grey hurtles into their lives?
They get hotter than a pack of June brides.
Resolving their hunger is easier said than done—and the four are soon catapulted into assessing their sex lives, desires and satisfaction with their husbands. Kelli feels neglected by her preoccupied spouse. Mel struggles to overcome her issues in the bedroom. Candy suspects her shallow husband is cheating. Lynn wants to take things to a kinkier level but her mate needs convincing.
Told from each woman’s perspective, you’ll experience what they do firsthand—including that delicious peek behind closed doors!
Will they succeed in fulfilling their own desires, or will the very foundations of their marriages be destroyed?
If you enjoy novels about women who are finding themselves again, women who are easily relatable to any reader, and a novel about marriage, sex, and finding happiness (even if their lives seems perfect to the outside eye), then this is a must read for you!
—Elle's Book Blog
I loved all the characters but the four main women were true stars, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Also, I loved how they each started reading the series with the same expectations, but they took away different lessons. There was a lot of character growth, with a touch of drama. Fifty, Four Ways is more interesting than Sex and the City and ten times more interesting than the series that inspired it! Katherine Cobb is a wonderful, funny author.
—Online Book Club
Steamy in its own right, Fifty, Four Ways starts out with four women who bond over a shared interest in the Fifty Shades of Gray book series, yet their own personal stories come into play between the lines and scenarios that made Gray the sensual hit it is. ...all four give us their own perspective, offering the reader a deeper and more honest take on what can happen when the edges of fantasy begin to blur within the realm of reality. Nothing said was veiled or shy. There are plenty of moments ... that are steamy and hot and would easily push some outside of their comfort zones, which is what I appreciated most about the novel. While most of us are content to live within our own wild imaginations, we're given a chance to live vicariously through Kelli, Mel, Candy, and Lynn. There are realistic reactions from their spouses, only adding to the depth of the story and the characters within it. ...with good forward momentum, the story never lagged and kept me more than interested... It's a strong, sexy, empowering story- one worth reading!
—Sarah Steven, Chicklit Central
CHARLES TOWN — Set in the Eastern Panhandle, “Fifty, Four Ways” is a new novel by local author Katherine Cobb.
What happens when four middle-aged baseball moms with kids on the same team start reading the “Fifty Shades of Grey?” The answers lie in “Fifty, Four Ways.”
The story follows Kelli, Mel, Candy and Lynn, whose sons play for the Washington High Patriots. After conversations at the concession stand, they each begin reading the book and get catapulted into unexpected conversations, according to a press release on the book.
“The chapters rotate, so every four chapters, you’ve continued the story for each woman while the overall plot advances. It sounds complicated, but it’s actually refreshing and dynamic,” Cobb said. “One reviewer wrote how excited she was to get back to each woman’s perspective when it rolled around. It makes the book a quick read, too, as the chapters are short.”
Cobb said the technique was new for her and that she enjoyed the challenge.
Inspired by true events, the novel is told from each woman’s perspective, so readers experience their lives firsthand.
“What did come across was how relatable the women were, and how different their stories and struggles,” she said. “Since I created four different women with equally different husbands, women should be able to find common ground with at least one.”
Cobb said she enjoyed penning this novel, which she wrote in a flurry in 2015.
“I thought this would be a funny take on what might have happened in different marriages,” she said. “After thinking through different scenarios and characters, I wrote the original manuscript in about two months.”
She spent the following years editing it and having readers provide feedback.
“Fifty, Four Ways” has received an early review rating of four out of four stars from Online Book Club.
Cobb is best known for her nonfiction contributions to publications throughout the mid-Atlantic region, including an award-winning editorial column. She has written four other books: novel “Skyline Higher”; the nonfiction two-book set of “Panhandle Portraits, a Glimpse at the Diverse Residents of West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle”; and the nonfiction “It Is What It Is, A Sampling of My Favorite Columns.”
“I am rewarded if people are entertained by what I write, and if it resonates with them, causing them to think about their own struggles or victories,” Cobb said. “In this case, I hope it will validate how marriages are all unique and multifaceted.”
Cobb said she feels as if sometimes people worry their marriages don’t measure up to others’.
“If they can find some solace in this book — and laugh, because it’s entertaining — then I’ve done my job,” she said.
Readers can connect to the author through her website, www.katherinecobb.com. “Fifty, Four Ways” can be purchased through amazon.com, or by ordering it from a local bookstore.
