Sensual, sweet, and beautifully illustrated, PATIENCE & ESTHER is a steamy period romance and an inspirational erotic journey across the epic sweep of history, from the end of a gilded age to the start of an uncharted future.

Cartoonist SW Searle originally hails from spooky New England but currently lives in sunny Perth, Australia. She's best known for vulnerable memoir and compassionate fiction for a wide range of audiences. Her adult-focused work can be found in the 2014 Smut Peddler anthology from Iron Circus, the Filthy Figments website, and L'Immanquable magazine. Her short comic for The Nib, The Price of Acceptance, was short-listed for Slate's 2018 Cartoonist Studio Prize.