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An Introduction to Pleasure
An innocent lady’s education could be a gentleman’s wicked seduction. Lysandra Keates is running out of options. Her father is dead, her mother is ill, and her efforts to find respectable employment have ended in failure. With her small savings bleeding away, she swallows her pride—and her terror—and turns to Vivien Manning, an infamous courtesan, to match her with a wealthy protector. For years, Viscount Andrew Callis has lived a monastic existence at his country estate, hardening his body against the snobbish, lazy young man he once was, hardening his heart against grief over the deaths of his wife and infant son. When Vivien asks him to spend one month training a young woman in the ways of a mistress, his mind resists…but his body responds with an ache he thought long dead. As Andrew begins his gentle tutelage, he finds himself falling under the spell of Lysandra’s innocent charms. And as they give in to the powerful hunger, the last thing Andrew ever expected, or wanted, forms between them. An emotional connection that could carry them well past the training period—if only Andrew can open his heart to the possibility of love. Warning: Includes training in all kinds of sexual positions and delights, as well as an emotional romance. May produce swooning.
Reviewer: Terri
Review: May 20, 2012
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Historical Romance, Regency
Lysandra Keates is out of options. Her father is dead and her mother is sickly. She had found work as a lady’s maid but when she turned down her employer’s advances she quickly found herself unemployed and without references. Not only that, but he spread rumors which meant no one would hire her. She has no choice but to ask for help from Vivien Manning.
Vivien is a well-known courtesan. She no longer ha
Seven Nights
Five years ago Leah Prescott left her fiancé Sean Dalton’s ring on their kitchen table with only a note of goodbye. Now a travel writer, she has just penned a scathing report on the false promise of fantasy resorts and the entire travel industry wants her head. She gets roped into spending a week at the newest of these kinds of resorts, only to find her former fiancé is the owner. Now trapped on an exotic island for seven nights with a man she loved and left, Leah is bombarded by his erotic fantasies designed just for her, surrounded by his presence…. and left wondering if there could be a second chance for first love.
Reviewer: Angi
Review: Oct 21, 2011
Leah Prescott never dreamed that when she wrote an article criticizing "fantasy" resorts that she would actually end up spending a week at one of the newest, hottest ones around. She had no clue that deeming them useless would land her on a private island resort for a week. But when the invitation came in, her boss (and father) insisted she go and check it out. Leah would have refused if the invitation hadn't
Nothing Denied
Shrewish Beatrice Albright is beginning to realize that her difficult nature has consequences. As her seventh unsuccessful Season begins, her younger sister is taken under the wing of her elder sisters and the invitations have dried up. Terrified she’ll be forced into old maidenhood and the company of her mother, she vows to find a groom by Season’s end. Even if he is suspected of murder.
The Marquis of Highcroft, Gareth Berenger is just as shunned as Beatrice since he is thought to have murdered his first wife. But when she demands they wed since no one else wants them, he isn’t sure. Gareth is a man of intense sexual desires and dominant predilections and he’s already seen the consequences if his partner cannot accept them. He proposes instead a trial affair. If Beatrice can handle his sexuality, then they will marry. But as much as Beatrice is drawn in my Gareth’s sensual and shocking seduction, she is also afraid to trust and surrender fully. And there are darker forces sworn to keep them apart and they will use violence to take Beatrice from Gareth.
Reviewer: Terri
Review: Apr 6, 2010
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Historical Romance
They are the ones society avoids as well as they can, though they are members of the ton.
Beatrice Albright is the third sister out of four. She’s the most beautiful and everyone though she would make a match long before her seventh season. But between her shrewish ways and her meddling mother, no one is willing to even dance with her!
Gareth Berenger, Marquis of Highcrof
A Red Hot Valentine's Day
A RED HOT VALENTINE’S DAY includes the following stories: “Get There” by Megan Hart, “Hell Is Where The Heart Is” by Jackie Kessler, “By Valentine’s Day” by Jess Michaels and “Torn Desires” by Lacy Danes.
A Red Hot Valentine’s Day — Better than a box of chocolates…
Cupid Is Hot To Trot!
One fateful weekend at a country estate, a beautiful, well-bred widow is caught between a rock and a very hard place when she must choose between two deliciously irresistible lovers…in Lacy Danes’s seductive tale of courtship a la mode, Torn Desires.
Long-Distance lovers Edie and Ty are counting the hours until their scorching Valentine’s Day reunion, each titillating the other with steamy letters describing their erotic journeys. And getting there is definitely half the fun in Megan Hart’s wickedly wild Get There.
Eternal damnation has its perks—especially for a voluptuous succubus who is about to receive a very special, very hot Valentines Day “gift” from her demon lover…in Jackie Kessler’s ode to paranormal passion, Hell Is Where The Heart Is.
London’s most irresistible rake has one week to prevent the woman he loves from marrying another. And he plans to do so by adeptly employing his most well practiced arts—seduction…sensation…and erotic love— in Jess Michaels’s sumptuous feast of juicy Regency romance, By Valentines Day.
Reviewer: Rachael
Review: Jan 9, 2009
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Anthologies
A Red Hot Valentine’s day is an erotica anthology comprised of four authors’ stories revolving around Valentine’s Day.
In TORN DESIRES by LACY DANE, a widow named Sophia is trying for the affections of a prominent man, Lord Quinton, but he has other plans. He has no desire to make her his new wife and has called a matchmaker to bring him more suitable women. Along wi
Something Reckless
After witnessing a shocking scene and experiencing a disastrous marriage, somehow Penelope Norman has become a voice of those fighting against the shocking sensual excess of the Upper Ten Thousand. And Jeremy Vaughn, Duke of Kilgrath has just secretly been chosen to silence her. The Duke believes he can seduce the pretty little hypocrite into ceasing her troubling talk… or at least put her in a position to blackmail her. So he pretends to be on her side by day in order to expose her to the erotic lifestyle he’s been leading, and by night he writes her erotic letters and visits her bed as a masked lover to school her in all the sinful activities she’s so afraid of. But the closer they become, the more Penelope wants both Jeremy and her mystery lover. And the more Jeremy begins to realize that the frustrating and utterly tempting Penelope has the upper hand in every game they’re playing. Especially the ones of the heart.
Reviewer: SamanthaAnn
Review: Feb 21, 2008
Something Reckless is a fascinating journey into the lives of two people who start at opposite ends of the spectrum and end up where neither one expected. The reader is taken down each step of the path they share, never expecting to find the ending in the middle where neither has been before.
While the 19th century backdrop accentuates the story line, the true story is in following Penelope and Jeremy on
Everything Forbidden
Country miss Miranda Albright has secretly watched her wicked neighbor, Ethan Hamon, the Earl of Rothschild, as he 'entertained' lovers on the grounds of his country estate for three summers. But after her father dies and the family falls into financial peril, Miranda is driven to strike a bargain with the Earl. He will play financial and social host for a Season for each of her three younger sisters... in exchange for three months of sin with her. Miranda has always ached for the passion she’s spied upon, but she knows Ethan is the kind of man who could steal her heart, as well as claim her body. And falling in love with a man who admits she is nothing but a game to him could be the most dangerous and forbidden seduction of all.
Reviewer: Tamazon
Review: Oct 25, 2007
When Miranda Albright's family is beset by hard time she has to do something about it. Her mother is out of control and spending money like they have it, but they don't. Miranda's father passed away and they have a lot of debts. Her sisters need season's as that's the only way to get money into the family. Miranda decides to call upon Ethan Hamon, her sensual and rich Earl of a neighbor for help.
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