AGONY/ECSTASY is just a cool book. One cover depicting Agony
with ten stories associated with the feeling and the
opposite/upside down cover depicting Ecstasy with ten more
amazing stories, this volume is a treasure trove of
delights.
Jane Little has found twenty excellent works from multiple
perspectives that Read more...
Often, erotica anthologies can read like bad fan fiction:
choppy, repetitive, and, basically, boring. However, Rachel
Kramer Bussel's collection is an excellent change to this
stereotype. WOMEN IN LUST takes a look at different aspects
of
lust or different ways women approach lust. Some are first-
person points of Read more...
Wraith is a ghost, sort of, who cannot feel touch without
pain. She has no memory of her life before, but she knows
she
is running out of time: she is showing signs that wraiths
demonstrate before they die for good. An associate in the
Para-Ops team, a team Read more...
Risa Jones, because of her hybrid nature of half werewolf
and
half Aedh, can see the supernatural creatures who escort
souls
of the dead, the reapers. However, this comes with a price,
as
she realizes she is not only being followed, someone is
stealing souls from around her. In fact Read more...
Queen Mab believes her high-spirited (but less intelligent)
nephew Seoc has taken a gate to the mortal realm and sends
the
captain of her guard, Luc, to find out what's going on. It
seems that some of what is going on is that Seoc is being
quite indiscreet Read more...
Marguarita has a connection for the tame and wild animals
all
around her home in Peru; Zacarius De La Cruz is as wild as
any
animal she has seen, and despite his exhortations to leave
him, she refuses to let him die. She cannot speak to others
after a vicious Read more...
Jim Heron is very interested in Thomas "Veck" DelVecchio,
Jr.,
who has just been found at the scene of a crime; a crime Jim
hopes Veck didn't commit. Jim Heron is interested because he
is equal parts good and evil and hopes to win Veck's soul
for
the Read more...
The recently released monsters, Civil and Red (those who
feed
on blood), are trying to figure out who is on what side, how
they should create a society, and life in the aftermath of
meeting their psychopathic creator. Mariah's powers, always
different, have magnified because of her connection to Read more...
Alec Darwin saw his Beloved killed before his eyes; however,
Cora Ferreira dreams of the moments after, when he went on a
murderous rampage in response. How is he supposed
to woo her, the woman he believes is his Beloved returned,
when she fears him? Granted, he was unhappily "resuscitated Read more...
Running from the repercussions of a dark crime, Anne
Beddington takes the place of the Devon Audley's mistress.
The
thing is, Devon is determined he doesn't want anything but
carnal favors from his mistress; even though he can't see
the
pity after a war injury, he doesn Read more...
One would think that when a demon inhabits your body half of
the time, absolutely nothing could freak you out. One would
be wrong. Eden Riley has had a crazy year. She recently
learned that she is nephilim (a child of a human woman and
an angel father), a black Read more...
PROWL THE NIGHT consists of two novellas by Crystal Jordan.
Both take place in a different world connected to Panther
shapeshifter Prides.
In Crave Me, Tomas Montoya's alienation from his
mate, Ciri, not only resonates with cultural
misunderstanding, but also the generational pressure. Steamy
and detailed, Read more...
Even though her cousin asks her to uproot her life and
relocate to St. Paul, Minnesota, Rachael isn't as upset
about
it as some people might be: her cousin, Michael, is the
leader
of the Wyndham Pack of werewolves, and his requests are
closer
to politely phrased commands. She Read more...
Alec Munro is known through the land as a libertine of high
order, so much so that wild and saucy Zelda MacKenzie's
cousin, one of Alec's friends, warns her away from the
unhappily married man. However, their mutually aggressive
dedication to getting their own ways draws them to Read more...
Situations of mass hunger drive scientist, Jane Frederickson
is dedicate to working long hours toward finding ways to
benefit humans and non-humans, but she fears the company
that
allows her to do research is corrupt. Tech master Slade
Johnson is running out of time to save his baby nephew Read more...
Caleb Black is asked to do a huge favor: go home. No longer
officially affiliated with his undercover job, his ne'er-do-
well reputation will allow him to explore a potential drug
ring in his home town. Unfortunately, he has to investigate
his father, a man who runs the Read more...
Jenny Lincoln is excited to have a new benefactor for her
family's big cat rescue, but she gets nervous when she
discovers what she has to do for the second portion of the
donation: attend sexy Noah Diaz's sex club. She doesn't
realize that his club is Read more...
David doesn't understand why he was given a reprieve from
his
post-torture isolation, but he does know he has to give his
demonic Master a young girl, his newest mark, or he'll be
sent
back to the sensory deprivation from which he was ripped.
Being deposited straight Read more...
Marjorie M. Liu's Dirk & Steele works are always excellent,
but Eddie's story is the one fans have been waiting for. His
present is marred by the horrors of his past, actions he
did,
opportunities he thinks he missed; the rage and stress
inside
him erupts in fire, so Read more...
Abby Winchell is all set to dislike the fancy
anthropologist her grandfather's neighbors have hired to
rip his Big Foot picture to shreds. When she visits one of
his talks denying Bigfoot, Abby is struck by two things:
the unbearable hotness of the academic and the fact that
she Read more...
Vicky Gilpin
Dr. Vicky Gilpin teaches Composition,
Literature, and other courses at Cerro
Gordo High School, Millikin University,
and Richland Community College. She
recently took the course Vampires in
Literature and Film through Harvard
University Extension School and teaches
an English 101 course with the theme of
vampires. When she's not teaching,
reading, writing, and taking courses,
she spends time with her husband and
their six animals.
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