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Ink Spots
By night, Mandi is a waitress in her best friend’s adult entertainment club, complete with long raven hair and bright blue eyes. By day, she’s a boutique jewelry maker with a flair for the occasional naughty design. She’s shy, quiet, a definitive Plain Jane—and completely in lust with the one man who wouldn’t ever be interested in her. He’s big, menacing, and inspires every one of her dirty girl desires. If birthday wishes came true, he would be hers.
Tattoo artist. Business owner. Lover of vintage cars. Drummer. Jaz is far from the average guy. Built like a brick wall and inked from head to toe, he can scare the faint of heart with just a look, but faint of heart isn’t what interests him, isn’t what fuels his fantasies and keeps him hard from dawn to dusk. It’s her—the waitress, his sister’s friend, the birthday girl.
Mandi is given the best present ever—Jaz. And she’s got one night to make every wicked thought and erotic dream she’s had about him come true.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Jan 17, 2011
Genre(s): Contemporary, Erotica / Pure Erotica
Mandi is an artist, but to pay the bills she works at her friends adult entertainment club. A wig and contacts are required, and it gives Mandi a sense of anonymity. She hardly recognizes herself. She considers herself a Plain Jane and the disguise gives her a little freedom. Freedom to lust after Jaz. He’d never want the real her, so why not fantasize?
Jaz is a multi-faceted man. A lot of depth, he ha
Arrested Holiday
Genre: BBW Erotic Contemporary
Length: Novella
A "Not Quite Christmas" Story
Holiday ‘Holli’ James looks forward the week between Christmas and New Year’s. This is her one chance to get away from the hustle and bustle of her successful decorating business. The plan this year is a trip to New York City to see the sights and the lights. The plan doesn’t include a side trip to a small town jail in the middle of Pennsylvania. Nor does it include Officer Hunky.
However...
A single police officer, Michael is working the holidays -- again. With no local family and no interest in accepting the pity invitations to Christmas dinner from his married friends, he’s content to work and earn extra cash. Besides, this year looks to be as uneventful as ever. Until he pulls Holli over for speeding, only to discover she’s wanted on charges of fraud.
Sexual tension spikes as Michael begins to investigate and discovers Holli isn't who her record says she is. While they await answers, Michael is granted permission to remove Holli from the jail and place her under house arrest.
Only his idea of house arrest is much more personal than the law ever intended.
Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: anal play/intercourse, bondage, spanking.
Reviewer: AmyC
Review: Jan 10, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary
I thought Arrested Holiday was a very hot, very spicy short. The sparks between Holli and Michael light up the pages, if only we could all find a man like Officer Hunky.
I like the way Holli was confident about being a beautiful attractive woman in the presence of Michael and how he made her feel so desirable and sexy. I’m definitely going to have to try Michael’s recipe for a BLT because it soun
Carnal Ecstasy
When good girls go bad, very, very bad…
The minute Carrie meets tattooed, bad-boy bartender Dallon, her decision is made. He’s the one, her ticket to freedom and a new, independent life. She’s tired of dictates and zero dates and following the path laid out before her by her well-meaning-but-completely-out-of touch-with-her-reality religious parents.
Dallon sees the buttoned-up, full-of-curves woman outside the grocery store and feels the flames of hell licking at his heels. When she asks him for directions to the large, nearby university where she’s starting work, his gut-twisting lust for her doesn’t diminish, but those flames start to singe his tough-as-nails hide.
With Dallon’s promise of not sleeping with anyone associated with the university his father is the dean of about to go up in smoke, Carrie takes the first exit off the Heavenly Highway straight onto Sin Street. She wants Dallon to teach her all the things a good girl should never know, and she won’t take Hell no for an answer.
Reader Advisory: What Dallon does with a beer bottle may be illegal in forty-eight out of fifty states…and at least two territories.
Reviewer: Trish
Review: Jul 23, 2010
Genre(s): Erotica / Pure Erotica
Ever have a chance meeting in a grocery store and then regret it wasn't more because you can't get him/her out of your mind? What if the person walked into your bar and asked you to teach them to be naughty, would you? What do a beer bottle and a pool cue have in common?........Read this can't put down story of Dallon and Carrie and you will find out the answers.
The Swing
Two years after his brother’s death in Afghanistan, Jethro is doing well. His handmade porch swing business is booming, his hip injury has healed and he’s still in love with Caitlyn. He knows he should resist her, but can’t, and pulls her into his darkly sensual world of sex and spankings.
Caitlyn has grieved, created a life for herself and has finally come to terms with her need for Jethro, her dead husband’s brother. With no small measure of hesitation, she takes a fateful step—daring him to turn her and their chance at happiness away.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Jun 15, 2010
It’s been two years since Marc died. The gaping hole his death left is just starting to close for Jethro, his twin. But there’s something else that keeps Jethro on edge, and that’s Caitlyn. His twin’s widow and the only woman he’s ever loved. She loves him back, always had, and he knows if he’d met her first she would have been his. But society and family opinion has kept h
Stick Shift
Genre: BBW Erotic Contemporary
Length: Short Novel
An orchestra musician, a private music teacher, and a homebody, Lily’s a full-figured, quiet woman who lives a fairly simple and solitary life. Aside from music, she has one big passion: stock car racing. She’s been a fan for as long as she can remember and makes the yearly pilgrimage to Daytona as often as she can. When she’s offered a chance to get away to North Carolina and attend two weeks of races, she jumps at it. Little does she know what that chance has in store for her…
Cam Carter is one of the most successful young drivers in the top tier of the stock car racing circuit. All over the country, he’s well known to racing fans, loved by some, respected by a few, and hated by others. He’s arrogant, strong willed, and a consistent winner. What he doesn’t have is balance…until he meets a pretty, very curvaceous, and unassuming fan named Lily.
Lily fears the difference in lifestyles, ages, and personalities while Cam in turn, embraces them. Can they find a way to cross the finish line and take the checkered flag together or will the obstacles push against them until they crash and burn?
Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Jun 9, 2010
On summer break, Lily is house-sitting for one of her best friends. This puts her in close proximity to her one great passion: stock car racing. Indulging her passion, she finds a new one in the form of Cam Carter, a hot young driver who fires all of her cyclinders. What she can’t believe is he seems to be just as fired up over her.
Cam is struck in the heart when he looks up and sees Lily. While she e
Sugar Rush
Genre: BBW Erotic Contemporary
Length: Novel
Graham Hall is twenty-six and has a dream job as a travel writer. He's come to Colorado for work and a little personal down time. With his article done and the six-month lease up on the small cabin in the valley, he's stayed around until his next assignment. In a downtown Denver bar, Graham meets Edward and after a short conversation agrees to a blind date with Edward's business partner, Jane. After all, what could it hurt?
Jane is completely oblivious to the machinations of Edward and Graham and shows up at Graham's cabin to deliver a box of handmade chocolate truffles. From the minute Graham opens the door, Jane falls head over heels in lust. A plus size, mid-thirties woman, Jane isn't sure what Cowboy Surfer, as she's dubbed him, sees in her or why he's so tenacious in his pursuit and tries throwing him off at every turn.
The inability to say continue saying 'No' leads to hot, scorching sex and a lot of follow-up phone calls opening Jane's eyes to the realization that maybe life doesn’t have to revolve around chocolate truffles, but rather around a delicious, well traveled younger man.
Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Dubious consent, voyeurism of male/male sexual interaction.
Reviewer: Cecile.Smith75
Review: Jun 15, 2010
I do not judge short stories on the rush of their relationships, because they are just that - short stories. So, yes the relationships always could have been drawn out more, yea it seems like they fall in love to fast and of course the story could have been made longer... but it is a short story. So with that said.... here is my review...
Oh man where do I start with this one. Jane and Graham.
Simple Need
Length: Novella
Exotica Line
Vinter is not your typical businessman. Tattoos, piercings and not a suit and tie in sight. One-third owner of a bar and a tattoo parlor along with being a bassist in a band, Vinter comes and goes as he pleases. He likes his beer cold, his music hard and his women scorching hot. Until he’s knocked off his game by a suburban doll he can’t stop wanting.
Elise needs a change. In men. The buttoned-up businessmen she’s been dating leave a lot to be desired—in romance, in respect and most definitely in sex. A recent text message from her now ex-lover drives Elise into a popular bar on the outside of town, where she meets one of its owners. He’s just the kind of man she’s never had and definitely the kind she’s always fantasized about. Big, bad and oh so naughty.
Unexpected tenderness. Unimaginable lust. Being dumped has never felt so damn good.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Dec 22, 2009
Dumped via a text message, Elise has had a bad day. To make it worse, she finds out her former boyfriend is actually separated from his wife, and is now going back to her. This is news. Elise was thinking future, but now she feels like a failure. Determined to try something different from her previous forays into the romantic world she goes to an unfamiliar bar and meets a man who fits what she needs. He&rsqu
The Demon is an Angel
Book Length: Novella
When ex-government assassin Delan is kidnapped by Riko, a sex demon, he’s taken care of and sexually serviced in any manner he desires by Riko’s personal sex slaves. And while not one to bemoan his good fortune, Delan is a man of action and in need of a mission. He’s about to be given one by the name of Angel.
Riko’s half-sister Angel is just that, an angel. Not just any kind of angel though, she’s a hybrid being—sex demon and sex angel. And she’s in need of being tamed. Barred by Riko from having sex with her fellow sex demons, she’s forced to suffer the inadequate fumbling of humans, both male and female.
When Delan and Angel meet, sparks fly. She’s defiant and he’s determined, but the lust and hunger hit them both between the eyes and below the belt. Sex is hard and hot, a little kinky and a whole lot naughty. But Delan needs to find something more than sex to rein her in, or she’ll destroy it all.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Dec 9, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance
Delan is pretty laid back for a hostage of a demon. When the reason for Delan’s captivity is revealed, he’s more amused than anything. Apparently he’s an offering to Riko’s sister Angel. And that’s not just her name.
Angel is the balance needed between Angels and Demons. But she’s leaning toward the demon side and that just won’t do. Whe
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