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Cleopatra's Perfume, April 2009
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Cleopatra's Perfume
Jina Bacarr

One whiff and every man was her slave...

Spice
April 2009
On Sale: April 1, 2009
Featuring: Lady Eve Marlowe; Captain Chuck Dawn
416 pages
ISBN: 0373605307
EAN: 9780373605309
Paperback
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Romance Erotica Sensual | Romance Paranormal

Europe 1939

The world may be teetering on the brink of war, but that's no reason for the privileged classes to deny themselves the satisfaction of their deepest lusts. In exotic and exclusive clubs, they pursue the delights of the flesh with little thought to the world crumbling around them.

Eve Marlowe has everything she needs to lead the most decadent of lives: money, nobility, nerve…and an insatiable appetite for sexual adventure. She also has a singular treasure: a fragrance of ancient origin said to have been prepared for the Queen of Kings herself. Seductive, irresistible, even mystical—it is the scent of pure sensuality.

The power of this elixir is such that it sweeps Lady Marlowe into a game much more dangerous than those she played in the darkened rooms of kinky bars. As the Nazis devour Europe and North Africa, she embarks on a fevered journey, with sizzling stops in Cairo, London, Berlin—each city filled with new perils and pleasures for one anointed with pure lust.

Comments

12 comments posted.

Re: Cleopatra's Perfume

I like it when a character gets into your mind and won't let go. Keep up the interesting stories.
(Karin Tillotson 12:56pm April 23, 2009)

Having a character you can't get out of your head is exactly the reason that I LOVE series arcs.
(Kelli Jo Calvert 1:20pm April 23, 2009)

Thankz, Karen!! I'm totally enjoying learning more about Eve and Count von Stryker and writing future episodes about their adventures in Berln.
(Jina Bacarr 2:08pm April 23, 2009)

Kelli, your comment about series arcs is right on. Weimar Berlin was such a fascinating time, it's exciting for me to see what my characters will do next...
(Jina Bacarr 2:13pm April 23, 2009)

An interesting piece of history I wasn't
familiar with. Thanks.
(Patricia Barraclough 9:48pm April 23, 2009)

Hi Jina! I always wondered how it went for you as an author reading your own book. Do you get the joy too from reading it or more so catching what you wrote rather?

I so love getting within a story! I do get there and like a fly on the wall watching it unfold. Then I can be sitting a few days later and a scene would come to me and so feeling along with it. Especially those historical setting and fantasy! So would love to read this book. Great to meet you.
(Cathie Morton 10:18pm April 23, 2009)

Thank you, Patricia, for your comment. The Weimar Republic was a wild, raucous time--Berlin in the 1920s was the third largest city in the world with a population of 4 million.

Film and music flourished under the guidance of such luminaries as Ernst Lubitsch and Bertolt Brecht--it was also the time of cabaret stars such as Anita Berber and nightclubs that catered to every sexual taste and perversion.

Naughty, erotic, saucy--that was Weimar Berlin.
(Jina Bacarr 12:59pm April 24, 2009)

Hi, Cathie, great to meet you, too.

Re: getting into a story--I think there are three stages when I'm writing a book: 1)first is that wild, creative high we all get when we can't get the story down fast enough as it unfolds; 2) next is the gritty part--making certain all those wonderful scenes advance the story, dig deeper into the characters, their motivations, goals, conflicts, then layering in the emotions, fact-checking, research then more research--all this involves the craft of writing; and 3) lastly, that sublime time when you're finished and you haven't picked up the m/s for awhile and you start reading then find you can't put it down...that's what happened to me with Cleopatra's Perfume.

Btw, I'm also recording audio/video podcasts (using visuals with my voiceover) of Eve's Berlin Sex Diary. Check out the link in my blog and that will also take you to the podcast(s).
Thankz!
(Jina Bacarr 1:08am April 24, 2009)

I love the cover of your book. It's sexy and alluring. I am looking forward to reading the book and its prequel.
(Robin McKay 3:17pm April 24, 2009)

Hi, Robin,
Thank you for stopping by. I love the cover, too. The pearls on the cover play a role in Cleopatra's Perfume when my heroine, Eve, is in Cairo and performs her erotic dance in the Cleopatra Club.
(Jina Bacarr 12:35pm April 25, 2009)

I like the cover! Thank you writing a book set in such a controversial time, it has piqued my interest! I will pick it up.
(Mari M. 11:27pm May 4, 2009)

Hi, Maribelle,
Thank you so much for your comment! I've started a daily blog [click on the link for the "Berlin Sex Diary of Lady Eve" referenced above in my blog] for the month of May about Lady Eve in Weimar Berlin in 1928 (Cleopatra's Perfume opens in 1939). This is a younger Eve, discovering this wild, erotic playground, meeting the artistes and literati of the era while the stage is being set for war.
(Jina Bacarr 2:58pm May 9, 2009)