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Hotbed (Black Lace) by Portia Da Costa

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Also by Portia Da Costa:

A Gentlewoman's Pleasure, February 2012
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Intimate Exposure, February 2012
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Shadowplay (Black Lace), December 2009
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Kiss It Better, August 2009
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Twice the Pleasure, May 2009
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Lust At First Bite, January 2009
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In Too Deep, November 2008
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Magic and Desire, July 2008
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Gemini Heat, June 2008
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Gothic Heat, June 2008
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Lust Bites, January 2008
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Hotbed (Black Lace), November 2007
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Continuum, February 2007
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The Devil Inside, August 2006
Paperback
Entertaining Mr. Stone, May 2006
Paperback

HOTBED (BLACK LACE)
By: Portia Da Costa

Virgin Books
November 2007
On Sale: October 30, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0352341505
Mass Market Paperback
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Disaffected journalist Natalie is on the trail of an expose. Her quest for a juicy story leads her to discover that her staid academic hometown has become a hotbed of sleaze and hidden perversity. Quickly drawn in, Natalie soon falls under the spell of Stella Fontayne - a glittering drag queen at the centre of an erotic underworld. Her sister and rival Patti is in on the action, too, and nobody is quite who or what they seem. Explores a world where transgressing sexual boundaries is the norm.

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