In the Garden of Sin (two stories)
by Louisa Burton
The English Courtesan
Highborn Englishwoman Hannah Goodchild changes her last
name to Leeds
and offers herself as an erotic arts apprentice in Italy to
gain access to the
Duke of Buckingham. Britain is at war with Spain and the
information Hannah
must deliver is crucial to saving a life; however, the Duke
has been avoiding
her. She arrives at the French chateau where he is staying
and discovers him
surrounded at all times by bodyguards who prevent unwelcome
guests from
getting close to him. Hannah devises a scheme but her
antics are discovered
by the Duke who is very displeased with the lengths she has
gone to see him.
This is an enjoyable love story about trust and loss with a
bit of espionage.
Hunger
Two vampires: the 600-year old German, Turek, who pretends
to be British
and his partner Galiana Solsa, an Etruscan, scour the New
York streets by
night hunting blood prey. But when the beautiful succubus,
Lluti-Lili returns
after more than a century, Turek renews his obsession to
possess her. Soon
old friends become enemies in this BDSM-flavored story of
deceit, betrayal,
vengeance, and unfulfilled love.
Louisa Burton is a gifted novelist and is published under
several other names.
She understands the general ingredients necessary for good
fiction, but two
things she does well are characters and descriptions. Her
concise, yet good,
character and scene descriptions draw the reader into the
story. For example,
a minor character who appears for a few short pages is
described thus
"...swastika neck tattoo, studded motorcycle jacket,
striped stovepipe pants,
the clown boots, and chopped-up lampblack hair that had
been waxed and
sprayed into a calcified semblance of disarray." In another
scene you can hear
the sound effects: "The crack-crack-crack of Galiana's
stilettos grew louder,
underscored by thudding from the big, multi-buckled
boots..." This is the
fourth book in the Hidden Grotto Series. This erotica is
not just about the
sex. The characters, craft and story matter.
Two linked tales are set in an ancient castle where four
exquisitely beautiful beings who thrive on carnal energy
entice and ravish their human guests.
Hannah
Leeds is The English Courtesan, a seventeenth-century
maiden who apprentices herself as a courtesan-in-training to
Venetian nobleman Domenico Vitturi, offering her body in
exchange for his patronage. Don Domenico has resigned
himself to a life without love, his once-handsome face
having been disfigured by the scars of war. He brings Hannah
to the Castle of the Hidden Grotto to be tutored in the arts
of love by its insatiable and inventive residents, little
knowing that she has come for more than just an erotic
education….
In Hunger vampires Anton Turek
and Galiana Solsa satisfy their voracious erotic appetites
while feeding on their prey. Weary of playing lapdog to the
powerful, sadistic Galiana, Anton renews his quest to
possess Lili, the beautiful succubus with whom he’s been
obsessed for centuries—while Galiana sets her sights on the
godlike, sexually ravenous Elic, whom Lili loves but can
never make love to. Desire and vengeance reach a fever pitch
at the Castle during an invitation-only Renaissance festival
with a BDSM twist.
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