Lawrence Block as Sheldon Lord: April North (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
THOSE BOYS AND THEIR CARS...
Danny Duncan drives his father's Oldsmobile. It's a nice respectable family sedan, and April North is every bit as respectable as the car. Until he manages to get her into the back seat. Now she's no longer a good girl, but only Danny know it, and he can keep a secret, can't he?

Well, no. He tells half the town of Antrim, Ohio-the male half, and they all come sniffing around, led by Bill Piersall, driving a homemade hot rod cobbled together from spare parts and held together with spit and baling wire. She gives Bill what he wants, but he turns out to be harder to shake than a summer cold, until a Mercedes 300 SL screeches to a stop, with Craig Jeffers at the wheel. He has money and class and sophistication, and just about everything but a functioning moral compass.

And, you know, things happen...

April North, April North. A friend of mine thought enough of Mae West to write a book with a heroine he called June East, and I gave the compass and the calendar a further spin. Thus April North, and the name does have a certain lilt to it, doesn't it? Beacon Books thought so, evidently; this was Sheldon Lord's first book for them, and they liked the title enough to keep it, and the reading public liked the book enough to spark a second and third printing. None of this did much for the author, who got a flat fee of $600 for the book. Or maybe it was $750. It's hard to remember, after all these years...

This paperback edition of APRIL NORTH reproduces the original cover, as painted by Al Rossi.

Lawrence Block as Sheldon Lord: April North. CreateSpace Publishing (Collection of Classic Erotica, #4), ISBN: 9781533625083 (June, 2016), 182 p., $9.99.

Sheldon Lord: April North (USA 1965)

From the Publisher:
After that first experience, they called her 'easy'... and that was what she was to the small-town sexpack - whose country club set gave a postgraduate course in lust... before she was through high-school..."

She learned about love first
... in the back seat of a car. Her second lesson catmee soon after, on autumn leaves no less fallen than she - and none more scarlet. From then on she had a -

BAD NAME... and the whole town whispered:

A - for the autumn when Dan Duncan brandded her with it...
P - for Bill Pearsall, whose love might redeem it...
R - for reckless, which is what she was with Jeffers...
I - for incorrigible - according to the sexpack...
L - for license and the lust in which she reveled...

N - for all the times she no longer said, "No..."
O - for all the zeros she drew for her best efforts...
R - for the repentance she simply could not feel...
T - for those tomorrows - bad as her yesterdays...
H - for her haven in the arms of a man who loved the town's whisper -

APRIL NORTH... APRIL NORTH... APRIL NORTH... APRIL NORTH... APRIL NORTH

Sheldon Lord: April North. The tragedy of our high-schools -- where the kids to often catch up with their fast-living elders! Signal Beam Softcover Library B801X (June, 1965), 182 p., $0.60.