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What Sort of Woman: an erotic memoir is a gripping exploration of desire, trauma, and recovery. It traces a woman’s life lived at the thrilling edges of convention—where power and intimacy reshape survival. Here, readers are initiated into worlds rarely spoken of.

About the Book

What Sort of Woman
an erotic memoir

About the Author

Élise Lamoureaux

Behind the magnetic honesty of What Sort of Woman is Élise Lamoureaux, a Los Angeles-based memoirist and poet emerging as a compelling new voice in steamy romance and erotic memoir.

Élise holds a BA in French and Linguistics and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is a former Sugar Baby and Submissive, and has worked as a date-for-hire and lingerie lap dancer. She is a mother and longtime public-school educator who spent nearly thirty years teaching languages in California schools.

Élise is a voice that dares to speak the truths many women silence: sexuality, addiction, abuse, and the long, painful climb toward healing. Her writing becomes a lifeline, pulling readers into the unfiltered journey of a woman reclaiming her body, her desires, and ultimately her life.

With a style that is both fiercely intimate and elegantly articulate, Élise crafts a memoir that transcends genre and lingers long after the final page—perfect for anyone seeking courageousunapologetic self-expression through story.

Her unique perspective and brave storytelling speak powerfully to readers drawn to complex erotic nonfiction, substance abuse and trauma recovery narratives, and darkly intimate memoirs about desire, addiction, and healing.

Élise’s writing illuminates the intersections of vulnerability, strength, healing, eroticism, and the spectrum of human connection. With lyrical detail, she opens the door to a shadow world she once inhabited—one shaped by sensual power exchange—allowing readers to witness a transformation forged by questioning norms, breaking cycles, embracing the forbidden, and finding freedom in self-acceptance.

She connects with readers who understand that true liberation often requires confronting shadows and celebrating the glorious, complicated whole of who we are. What Sort of Woman is the stunning result of that confrontation: her first book.

Behind the magnetic honesty of What Sort of Woman is Élise Lamoureaux, a Los Angeles-based memoirist and poet, gaining attention as one of today’s most compelling voices in steamy romance and erotic nonfiction.

Élise holds a BA in French and Linguistics and an MFA in Creative Writing. She is a former Sugar Baby and Submissive, and has worked as a date-for-hire and lingerie lap dancer. She is also a mother and longtime public-school educator who spent nearly thirty years teaching languages in California schools.

Élise is a voice that dares to speak the truths many women silence: sexuality, addiction, abuse, and the long, painful climb towards healing. Her words become a lifeline, pulling readers into the unfiltered journey of a woman reclaiming her body, her desires, and ultimately her life.

If you go to my Master’s office, you might also disappear. First, you will hear next nothing—then the dancing of the breeze in the eucalyptus trees. The carpet will swallow your footsteps. Percolating coffee scents and the spice of a man’s cologne. He’s seen before he’s heard. You will say hello, and he will say follow me. You will find him handsome. He will regard you over his shoulder and warn, the first time: You walk in here like you own the place. Then you will remember. Take the length of the hallway on your knees…

If you go to my Master’s office, you might also disappear. First, you will hear next

nothing—then the dancing of the breeze in the eucalyptus trees. The carpet will swallow

your footsteps. Percolating coffee scents and the spice of a man’s cologne. He’s seen

before he’s heard. You will say hello, and he will say follow me. You will find him

handsome. He will regard you over his shoulder and warn, the first time: You walk in

here like you own the place. Then you will remember. Take the length of the hallway on

your knees…

About the Book

What Sort of Woman
an erotic memoir

If you go to my Master’s office, you might also disappear. First, you will hear next nothing-then the dancing of the breeze in the eucalyptus trees. The carpet will swallow your footsteps. Percolating coffee scents and the spice of a man’s cologne. He’s seen before he’s heard. You will say hello, and he will say follow me. You will find him handsome. He will regard you over his shoulder and warn, the first time: You walk in here like you own the place. Then you will remember. Take the length of the hallway on your knees…

Experience the Book

Dive into a Sugar Baby memoir soaked in desire, control, vulnerability, and self-revelation. Here’s a sneak peek inside this sensual romance novel:

“Like anyone, I had a public face, a private face, and a secret face. I thought I was allowed. But someone had decided my life was their business. I made a cold calculation: I would lose everything if I lost Seth—the stability, the money, the life I’d built on our arrangement. What sort of woman moves her kids in with a john?”

Find this BDSM memoir on Amazon and wherever else books are sold. Soon available on audio.

Like anyone, I had a public face, a private face, and a secret face. I thought I was allowed. But someone had decided my life was their business. I made a cold calculation: I would lose everything if I lost Seth the stability, the money, the life I’d built on our arrangement. What sort of woman moves her kids in with a john?

Find this BDSM memoir for adults on Amazon and wherever else books are sold. Soon available on audio.

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