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Author: Nicole Austin | Website
Nicole Austin lives on the sheltered Gulf Coast of Florida, where inspiration can be found sitting under a big shade umbrella on the beach, sipping cold margaritas. A voracious reader, she never goes anywhere without a book, but started looking for something more. Something hotter.
A passion for erotic romance led to Nicole’s creation of sizzling characters and boundary pushing stories. Now she lives in an incredible world where fantasy comes to life in bold, vivid detail. Well, until real life intrudes and she has to share the computer with the rest of the family.
Published Works & Book Reviews
Hard Lovin'
After a grueling graveyard shift in the E.R. and tromping through snow, the only things on Olivia Daughtry’s mind are a nice warm fire, a glass of chocolate wine and some quality time with her vibrator. Being interrogated by a tenacious cop wasn’t anywhere on her list of things to do. There is too much at stake for Officer Hall to follow department policies or go easy on the sexy suspect. But nurse Daughtry is one tough cookie and the harder he pushes the hotter she gets. From handcuffs and an improvised gag to little blue candies, Hall will do whatever it takes to get the correct answer to his very important question.
Entwined Hearts
The Chosen. Eight strong individuals gifted with unique paranormal abilities and tasked with protecting shards of an ancient crystal-the Heart of Fire. Brought together by destiny, each couple has managed to bond and fuse their crystal pairs through a hot and intense sexual joining. The four couples have overcome great personal challenges and remained apart, preparing to face an ancient evil once again. Now the time has come for the eight Chosen to join forces and defeat Asmodeus, Prince of Hell, once and for all. Their plan is clear yet complex-activate a hidden energy network, gather on spiritual lands and fight an epic battle between good and evil, which will impact mankind for eternity. Of course, nothing ever goes as planned. And Asmodeus has some tricks the Chosen never anticipated.
Good Vibrations
Thanks to her ex-husband, Sara Cooper's personal humiliation was splashed over the covers of every gossip magazine. But then being dealt the ultimate betrayal by society's prince charming is news. Big news. And as usual, the wife is the last one to know. Recovering from the ordeal has taken two long years and now there's just one thing left on her to-do list. Get Jack Taylor into her bed. And Sara has found the perfect lure to land her best friend-sex toys. Jack's patiently waited for Sara to be ready. Ready to move on, live again, love again. The pink satin bag stuffed full of erotic toys is like a flashing neon sign. Sara wants sex and there's only one conceivable option. She'll be wrapping those long, lean and luscious legs around Jack's hips. Even if he has to battle her megalomaniac ex, Sara will be his. Jack's going to grab that bag of toys and together, Sara and he will generate some good vibrations.
Reviewer: Addysgammie
Review: Jan 16, 2012
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary
Good Vibrations is the first book I’ve read by Nicole Austin. After reading this book I’ll definitely be looking for more by her.
This book was about Sarah who has been married to Richard for 21 years. Sarah is very down to earth and Richard is a complete jerk who thinks everyone should bow and jump for anything he wants. He cheats on Sarah and gets a girl pregnant, Sarah divorces him. He still feels he can
Make Mine a Double
No doubt about it, Kaylie Ward’s a loser magnet. So she swears off men. But give her some tequila to wash away those man troubles and she’s more than ready for a hot ménage fantasy. Somehow, dream and reality collide when she wakes up with two naked hunks in bed with her—not that she’s complaining. Best friends, business partners, lovers—Max Lockhart and Brayden Sinclair share everything, including women. Like a bad country song, they went looking for love in all the wrong places, only to find it waiting for them at home, in their bed no less. Kaylie’s plans for the future revolve around having a “normal” life. Going after it means living with a broken heart, unless she can keep her double order of beefcake and have a real family too.
Reviewer: Tigger9
Review: Nov 6, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary, GLBTQ, Menage / Multiple Partners, M/M
Make Mine a Double was a great read. I really enjoyed the characters.
Kaylie has about given up on love because she always ends up with a loser. The last one took her money and now she is out of her apartment. The place she stays in is one that is offered to her by a friend. But the owners come back before they were supposed to. There is an instant attraction between them.
Max and Brayden are both instant
Make Mine a Double
No doubt about it, Kaylie Ward’s a loser magnet. So she swears off men. But give her some tequila to wash away those man troubles and she’s more than ready for a hot ménage fantasy. Somehow, dream and reality collide when she wakes up with two naked hunks in bed with her—not that she’s complaining.
Best friends, business partners, lovers—Max Lockhart and Brayden Sinclair share everything, including women. Like a bad country song, they went looking for love in all the wrong places, only to find it waiting for them at home, in their bed no less.
Kaylie’s plans for the future revolve around having a “normal” life. Going after it means living with a broken heart, unless she can keep her double order of beefcake and have a real family too.
Reviewer: Trish
Review: Sep 4, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary, GLBTQ, Menage / Multiple Partners, M/M
I was anxious to read this sequel to "My Greatest Fantasy", because I met Max and Brayden and just couldn't wait to read their story, and believe me it was worth the wait.
Ever covet what your best friend and neighbor has? Could there be a woman like Bella our there for the two of you? Would traveling the world help you find her or could it be just like in OZ, "there's no place like home? Max and Brayden are
Taken
Bound, gagged, blindfolded—Danielle Romano has been taken.
Under the skillful hands of an anonymous stranger, the lines between fear and anticipation, reality and fantasy, anguish and carnal tension are blurred. The thin edge separating pleasure and pain has distorted, reshaping into something that confuses Dani while simultaneously stimulating the scorching demands of her body.
Forced pleasure may bring sexual freedom, but the violent lust Dani craves comes with a hefty price that may be more than her husband is able or willing to satisfy.
Reader Advisory: This story contains a whole lot of fantasy about, and a little reality involving, forced sex.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Mar 7, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary, BDSM
How did she get here? Blissfully happy with her husband Mikael, Dani is shocked to find her marriage on shaky ground. Careers have gotten in the way of commitment, and both she and Mikael are guilty. But when an invitation from her husband has to be turned down in favor of work, they end their conversation without saying they love each other, and that’s never happened. How to fix this?
Our first glim
Brock's Hellion
Brock is cool, calm and in control. Except when it comes to the feisty hellion who pushes all his buttons for the sheer fun of watching his patience snap. Far worse than the intense desire to choke her is the alarming, all-consuming compulsion to tie Tink to his bed and fuck her into next week.
Tink is no wimpy damsel waiting for a big, strong man to rescue her or take over her life. Oh, hell no. She does her own thing, her own way, when she damn well feels like it. The last thing she wants or needs is some overbearing man bossing her around. Though she’d like to torture him with pleasure.
One night of explosive passion—starting with smokin’-hot lovin’ involving three men and one lucky woman—pushes Brock’s restraint past the limit. And hidden behind the cold-hearted bitch, he discovers a woman who longs to surrender to a man she can trust.
Come hell or high water, he’s going to be that man.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Feb 1, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Western, BDSM
Every have a person that just ticked you off? That person is Tink for Brock. The first time he met her his blood pressure skyrocketed. The two of them are fighting the minute they are within range. But what’s really behind all that heat?
Tink has never felt wanted and as a result has built armor against emotion. But when she meets Brock she can’t help but react. The man pushes all her buttons.
My Greatest Fantasy
My name is Isabella Blackburn, and I am a voyeur. At least that’s how it all began. Along the way, I’ve developed a taste for exhibitionism, foursomes and role-playing. Okay, I confess. I’m obsessed with sex, the more taboo the better.
If there’s a cure, you can keep it. I don’t want to be saved. Not when three sexy younger men are ready, willing and able to satisfy my carnal appetites. Yeah, baby! I’m having the time of my life and acting out all my wicked fantasies down to the most decadent details.
All three men heat me up, but one of the guys drives me absolutely wild. I might have to hang on to Rhys for a while, even if he does make me act a little crazy at times.
Don’t be jealous. Surrender to temptation and leave your inhibitions at the door. Take a walk on the wild side and have some fun. We both know you want to give in and indulge your most sinful desires.
Reviewer: Trish
Review: Sep 24, 2010
You are a kick ass lawyer. But lately work is really tough at the moment with a very hard case. Unfortunately you have not been getting enough sleep, mostly due to the 3 new hunks that have moved in next door. They at least could be a little quieter in their love making escapades on the deck next to your bedroom.
One day you decide to leave work early to try to relax and get some work done, maybe even sit
Summer of the Cougar
With the big four-oh looming, Larissa Cross is more than ready to shed the roles that have defined her and make drastic changes. Gone are the widowed Army wife, soccer mom and empty nester. She’s even setting aside the schoolteacher until fall.
A naughty challenge issued by fellow erotic romance booklovers on their blog, Tempt the Cougar, has come at the perfect time and ignited Rissa’s competitive drive. It’s going to be a glorious summer full of hot younger man lovin’ for a new cougar on the prowl. Rawr!
Tattooed and pierced fireman JD Harmon is tempting prey but there’s much more to the hunk than his bad boy good looks. A one-night stand isn’t in his plans, and sex—no matter how mind-blowing—won’t distract him from his goals. JD intends to tame the wicked cougar and stake a claim on her heart.
Reviewer: Chris
Review: Aug 24, 2010
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, May-December / Age Gap
A young Army widow with two small children, years passed without her noticing. But now Rissa has just sent her youngest off to college and is ready to live. She sold the house, bought a convertible and is on the way to the beach to snag her a younger man. Taking the advice of her Tempt the Cougar blog friends, Rissa is determined to have a very hot summer. A new cougar is about to be born.
When her new car b
Tempestuous
Once a woman’s deepest, darkest desires have been exposed—whetting her appetite for taboo pleasures of the flesh—her unquenchable hungers will not be denied.
Floggers and whips
Chains and leather restraints
Erotic rewards and punishments…oh my!
Seduced by erotic stories and the forbidden lure of Dominance and submission, Evie Sloan longs to explore the scintillating delights firsthand. While some fantasies are better left to the imagination, for the chance to visit a real BDSM club, she’s willing to take a risk.
Been there, done that, seen it all—or so jaded Dominant Niko Kovalenko thought. Evie’s arrival on the scene reawakens long-dormant passions and ramps them up to a whole new level. She’s an exciting challenge, a dangerous temptation, igniting the compulsion to posses. To collar.
Evie is no man’s submissive pet. Niko strips her bare, sheds light on all her secret desires and weaknesses, but it’s still not enough for him. To win her man, she’ll have to confront her fears and find a way to bridge the distance between them.
Reviewer: Trish
Review: Jul 23, 2010
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, BDSM
Imagine you are an erotic bookseller who dreams of experiencing some of the things you have read in the books you sell. You are at an erotic convention and make friends with a couple who practice dom/submissive and they have invited you to go with them to a private club "just to observe". Enter a male friend of theirs who has the face and body of a God and wants to become your instructor into this l
Kenna's Cowboy
Length: Novella
Cursed with unusual abilities, orphan McKenna Fulton has always been different, an outcast. But she’s been Chosen. More accurately, she is one of the Chosen. Eight individuals—four women and four men—selected at birth to guard slices of crystal. The Heart of Fire.
The whole thing is more than a little farfetched. Kenna can handle the part of getting down and dirty with the bad dude. She’s even okay with guarding a crystal. But losing her free will and being stuck with some guy, her destined mate, uh-uh. Not happening.
Local mechanic Ryker Thomas is more than he appears and has his own set of abilities. Kenna wants nothing to do with the Southern charmer. So what if he has a matching crystal and the damn thing hums and vibrates whenever they’re close together. That doesn’t mean she’ll toe the line.
He can’t be the one she’s supposed to be with. Fate wouldn’t be so cruel as to send her a cowboy when what she wants is a bad boy.
Reviewer: Trish
Review: Jun 13, 2010
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Western
I enjoyed Kenna and Ryders challenges and how they met; even tho Kenna really wanted the bad guy. Ryder soon managed to change her mind. I loved how their combined powers came together. And of course you knew it was meant to be when his favorite car had her middle name…was that fate or kismet?
Sometimes it is hard to read a book that is middle to the end of a series. Luckily Kenna's Cowboy can stand-a
Foxy Lady
Length: Novella
For Lance Corporal Renard, her career is everything and she’s anxious to tackle the latest training exercise. But the scientists at Nanotech have more in store for Shira than she could’ve imagined.
Restrained, injected with jacked-up DNA, she’s become part of a twisted experiment. Escaping the lab is only the beginning. There can be no return to her old life. No outside knowledge of what she’s become. The permanent leash around her neck is more suffocating than a hangman’s noose.
Tasked with helping Renard adjust, Army medic Lex McLean had no concept of the challenges Shira faced. Not until he receives a very personal lesson in genetic manipulation.
There’s no denying the intense sexual chemistry between them. Not even Lex’s hate for Renard has the power to curb his lust. Regardless of a rocky start, survival means joining forces and working together against the true genius behind the Predator Project.
Reviewer: Susan
Review: May 25, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance
Lance Corporal Shira Renard signed up for a special training program but what she got was strapped down and injected with an experimental drug. A special group of operatives recues her and she now faces a long life-changing recovery. Helping her adjust is Army medic Lex McLean and from the first moment they meet the conflict between them goes from explosive violence to unsettling emotions with a r
Eye of the Tiger
Length: Novella
Between working as a trauma medic and attending nursing school, Jenny Crosby has more than her share of stress. At least that’s what she thought. Then her husband packed a suitcase, withdrew money from their joint bank account and abandoned her. She didn’t buy it for a second. Nash wouldn’t run. Something horrible happened but the police won’t listen. Even her closest friends are encouraging her to get over him and move on.
A few days away from it all is exactly what the doctor ordered. She’ll sit in the hot tub, drink hot chocolate and escape her troubles. If only it were that easy.
Nash Crosby is damn good as second-in-command of security. Perhaps too good. Discovering his employer’s unethical practices turns him into a liability they can’t afford. Nothing will be permitted to stop the Predator Project. Not even a few unwilling test subjects.
Reviewer: Silvermage
Review: Apr 22, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance
Jenny Crosby is a trauma tech and is trying to get a nurse degree. Her husband Nash suddenly disappears on her. All the evidence shows that he has abandoned her and taken their money, but Jenny knows that Nash would never have done that to her.
A long time later she thinks she spots him in the middle of traffic. At the last minute she stops and figures out it's him and helps patch him up. Nash and Jenny spen
Cat's Meow
Book Length: Short Novel
Micah Lasiter won’t let age or physical wear and tear slow him down. Presented with the chance to be stronger than ever before, he doesn’t hesitate to join the Predator Project—not that refusing is an option. Too bad nobody warned him about the possible side effects.
Dr. Rebecca Southerby works with cats. Big cats. She’s not sure why a scientific research organization wants a zoologist on staff but the great perks make it easy to overlook a few peculiarities. What’s shocking is finding her one-night stand at the secret lab and discovering how much he’s changed.
Ensnared in a strange new reality, they’ll have to work together to bring down the corrupt organization and untangle a web of secrets with the power to either bind them together—or kill them.
Reviewer: Heather
Review: Dec 14, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance
Nicole Austin’s latest release, Cat’s Meow, is a beautifully written paranormal romance that will delight and enchant readers.
Ms. Austin has penned an intriguing story that captivates and leaves you longing for more. Her characters are smart, sassy, fleshed-out and real. The plot is attention getting, intelligent, and passionate. The sexual tension between the two main characters is so scorching
Flyboy
A book in The Hussiesseries.
Take an ancient Hussy warrior hunter with a Scottish castle that changes before your eyes. Mix in a computer geek with a wild imagination, an unemployed biker scarred by the past, and task them with saving the world. Add a dash of freaky past-life regression along with some cool spy stuff and you’ve got one heck of a recipe for adventure.
They just may succeed at their mission—stranger things have happened. However, the consequences are deadly and failure is not an option for Twyla or Jhett. Surviving the seedy underworld of weapons dealers requires learning to trust each other if they’re to have any chance at breaking the endless cycle of repeating their mistakes…over and over…in one life after another.
Reviewer: Kyraninse
Review: Sep 15, 2008
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance
Fly Boy starts out with an interesting premise -- past life dreams, goddesses, and enough action to make James Bond cry for mercy. However, I just couldn't get into it. It's uncertain as to whether it's because of Twyla's temper, the strange irresistible sexual cravings she gets, or the oddly placed sex scenes. Whenever the plot started to get interesting, it seemed like I would get thrown out of the story by
Trip My Switch
My ex-lover introduced me to the seductive world of BDSM and unleashed a hunger that gnaws at my soul. He insisted I was submissive, but unable to master my raging desires, he left me hanging on the edge.
Submission, dominance — I love it all, but I'm not exactly sure where I fit in. And what on earth was I thinking when I applied for the position of sex slave for a night?
The sexual extremes got me searching my soul and yearning for extra time with my anonymous Doms. Too bad I signed a contract limiting the wild fun and games to one night. I crave so much more — restraints, blindfolds, inventive toys. Bring it on!
Reader Advisory: Contains scenes of male/male sexual interaction.
Reviewer: SamanthaAnn
Review: Jun 11, 2008
I was pleasantly surprised to find this tale was as much about a person figuring out who they were and where they fit in an uncertain world.
The read was fascinating, following the lead character in learning what does and does not "trip the trigger" so to speak. When the former lover comes back and makes an offer, the excitement and anguish is felt by the reader as well. And my, my, what an arsenal tha
Rakahnja's Haven
Lost, dehydrated, mired in a fog of confusion, Anita Bennett is being stalked through the mountains by a black jaguar with golden eyes. Or maybe it's a tall, dark and handsome man with those same stunning eyes. At first it all just seems like a fantastic hallucination.
Part man, part jaguar, Rakahnja knows he cannot keep the beautiful woman he finds injured in the mountains. Anita belongs to the human world, even though she's captured his heart. But he sees no harm with indulging the carnal instincts she stirs. At least until there's no choice left except returning his mate to the city.
Anita's fight to solve the mystery of eight lost days in the mountains leads to a hunt for the jaguar-man who haunts her fractured memories. Her plan — find and seduce the lover she's certain is not a mere figment of her concussed mind. What she never anticipates is his resistance. Armed with only sheer determination and her stubborn refusal to give up, Anita finds that more than her happiness is at stake.
Reviewer: Melinda
Review: Aug 23, 2007
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance
Anita Bennett is a woman of nature and loves exploring the mountains. Her friends call her crazy to be hiking up there by herself. Now she is regretting going alone when after being in the mountains for 6 days dehydrated, hungry and most of all lost for the first time. The only thing she has for a companion is a black, sleek, gorgeous jaguar that follows her. In some way she knows it is guiding her to somewhe
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