The Place on the Lake - Edwin Amboy

Thirty-seven year old Michael Dembry, a not-bad-to-look-at bachelor accountant, has spent his life obsessed with female bottoms, especially those punished to some shade of red. A hurtful experience with a cheating girlfriend many years earlier had solidified this need to see women punished the, 'old fashioned way'. Since his late teens Mike has been resigned to appeasing this craving only by watching countless punishment movies, never experiencing the real thing. He unexpectedly finds himself inheriting a sizable fortune, part of which is a very profitable rent-by-the-hour couples' motel near New York City. His initial distaste for his late uncle's business is suddenly swept aside by his realization that with little effort he could learn the identity and personal details of any number of unfaithful, adulterous women, women who by their very presence demonstrate their need for strong physical discipline. Utilizing a private investigator to get information as to which of the various women who interest him might most likely prefer backside warming for their sins and crimes rather than exposure to family, friends, or the law, Mike sets about arranging to cater to his lifelong obsession with the, 'real thing'.