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On the brink of losing her position as a maid and with no prospects to go on, the offer of a place at Rooksgrave Manor - a house of ill and unusual repute - sounds like a perfect fit for a young woman with Esther’s inclinations. Even better, the invitation comes by the hand of the handsome Dr. Underwood, a delicate gentleman with a ferocious alter ego who knows exactly what he wants from Esther. Upon arrival, the men and the daily decadence of the manor feel too good to be true for a girl of Esther’s station.

The widowed Duchess of Sailer has desires that are hard to fill in polite society. To that effect, she visits a brothel to have her bottom reddened. If word got out, her reputation would be ruined. So, when a member of society is murdered, and her name turns up in the books he is using to blackmail people, the metropolitan police show up on her doorstep. Olivia does the only thing she can to keep her name from being dragged through the mud: she agrees to take the investigator into her life so she can help him find a killer. Inspector Rupert McKinley expects to get in and out, and figure out who killed Lord Ethan. He doesn't care about Olivia's desires...until he starts to spend time with her, and realizes she's more interesting than he ever expected her to be. When their business relationship turns into a personal one, Rupert is determined to find the murderer before someone else - like Olivia - is killed.

He was as her friends described him: Tall, handsome, powerful; and riding on a strange, huge beast. While his lance impaled her husband, she felt adoration of his dominance and strength. And she wanted him. When he ordered her submission to intercourse with him and his fellow Conquistadores, she obeyed; proud to please her new God. Nine months later she birthed a beautiful, crimson-skinned baby girl; a new bloodline race. Six centuries of refined mixings of Irish and Negro blood with that original Mestizo bloodline created a spectacular beauty: an irresistibly voluptuous sexpot, femme fatale.

Beauty tames the beast when a marriage of convenience becomes anything but convenient for a duke with dark secrets. Haunted by a dark secret, Dorian, the Duke of Rath , is consumed by wrath and guilt. The powerful lord will endure any torture to atone for his sins, even marry a perfect stranger—his victim's little sister—to save her family from ruin. He vows not to touch her and to protect the innocent girl from his depraved sensual pleasures. But she must stay for one year and follow his strict rules.

Daphne Thorndale takes her readers on an erotic journey through the privilege and decadence of the Roman patricians Lady Valeria and her intimate friend and guest Lady Lydia. Twenty-one thousand words open up a world of opulence, lust, and indulgence for the privileged few, as a vast retinue of slaves caters to their every whim. Female intimacy abounds, and their luxuriating has no limit.

Kate Collier is still recovering from the trauma of her rape and trying to make a success of her dress shop when Jason Randall and Anthony Richards return to London from the Continent, intent on winning her. She's known them for years, ever since they served with her late husband in the Peninsula against Napoleon. She'd been in love with them for almost that long. To discover they feel the same is a shock, but Kate isn't ready to turn her life back over to any man.

Miss Mary Marlow had been warned away from Lord Andrew Framlington. Drew had a reputation that could not be ignored: he was a rogue of the highest order. But attraction between two people cannot be ignored. Despite all of the warnings from her family, Mary’s heart was ruling her head. Would Mary live to regret her involvement with Drew? Could he ever be trusted?

Unwilling to be sold as brood mare in an arranged marriage, Lady Juliana Sinclair decides her own future, and runs. But disaster strikes, leaving her at the mercy of the first man that finds her. Leonard Notley is tortured by his past and living in hiding with a young ward that he knows is better off without him. While hunting in the woods, he comes across a lost woman and feels compelled to help her.

Two stern lords, two naughty wives, and Fifty Shades of Hot! This collection of two full length historical romances and one novella will have you reaching for your smelling salts...

Aurora Lane isn’t just any woman—she carries the power of a glowing crystal that warps her through bodies, times, and desires. Each warp leads to a new life… and a new forbidden temptation. When Aurora awakens in wartime London, she inhabits the body of a married woman whose stockings and secrets stir the longing of her weary neighbor, Margaret. With husbands away at war and ration books leaving love cold, Aurora discovers that stockings can ignite more than envy—they can unlock hidden hunger.

Husband and wife both kept their secrets closely guarded, but it all suddenly changed when Jacob catches his cheating wife red-handed in the arms of another man!

Clamorosi successi commerciali, questi romanzi-scandalo per eccellenza del Novecento vedono come protagonista la selvatica Claudine, fanciulla e poi giovane donna di spregiudicata sensualità, impegnata a districarsi tra amori saffici e uomini viziosi. Al di là delle presunte scabrosità cui pure devono la fama, contribuirono a diffondere l'immagine di una femminilità nuova, aperta al piacere e non sottomessa al volere maschile né alle convenzioni della società borghese.

Cathy, 26, tall and curvy, had sex with two men by the time she was 21. One she'd known just long enough to get pregnant, and Dan who is the love of her life. They'd spent Cathy's last year in college flashing and having sex in public places just for fun. When Cathy's mother died, Dan married her, moved her daughter in with them, and they settled down, Cathy teaching school and raising Molly, and Dan as a program manager for a start up.

Fire and ice. Powerful forces on their own. Combined? Invincible passion. When mighty Thorburn MacDougall, commander of the Lord of Argyll’s warriors, overpowers the canniest Norwegian he’s ever battled, he rips off the man’s helm to savor the look of horror right before delivering the killing blow.

Rex Timberlake, purplish poet, raconteur, and industrial menace, has captured the world with his libidinous poetry, even as the Timberlake Factory's unorthodox publishing methods quietly triggered an ecological disaster of staggering proportions. One evening in Timberlake's enigmatic island estate, deep in the Pacific, four privileged socialites find their fates entwined as a violent storm gathers—secrets surface as sexual desires fracture alliances. A new societal order threatens to rise from this wreckage.

Fifteenth-century Scotland is a tough place to be a woman in charge. Brianna MacLeod, new laird of her clan, needs a child to establish her position. And the best way to do that is to demand the sexual services of her sworn—and very sexy—enemy! Ewan Fraser never foresaw being kidnapped, tied up and expected to perform stud service. Yet being bound for the delicious Brianna's pleasure isn't all bad. In fact, the more time he spends in her bed, the more he's determined she'll be the one who ends up enslaved….

A recently acquired and defiant slave will be brought to heel by two Roman patrician matrons. They will make a game of his submission while enjoying their time luxuriating together. The Lady Lydia and her entourage arrive at her friend Valeria’s sprawling estate to be reunited for a fortnight of fun, laughter, and indulgence. A bevy of slaves cater to their every whim, but one remains obstinate. While the stubborn slave is fanning her, Lydia toys with him, and a clever thought comes to mind.

West Virginia. 1968.Ed is the new teacher at a one-room schoolhouse in a sawmill town in central Appalachia. Ed wants to settle down, find a wife, and move past the psychological and physical trauma of his time in Vietnam, but something is amiss in this town. His neighbor is a nudist, and a student tries to seduce him the first time they meet. He attempts to attend the church, but it’s invite only. When he finally joins the congregation, he realizes it’s a swingers' church run by a cult leader, Pastor Sisler.

When Lady Viola is left at the altar, she feels it is a dream come true. But the disaster of her engagement doesn’t stop her mother from trying to push her into marriage. In an effort to thwart her parents’ plans, Viola proposes a scheme to Lord Byron, the fourth son of a duke: act like he is her suitor for six months and she will give him her virtue at the end. But Byron has other ideas. If he is to take part in her plan, he wants to play with her body before the six months are out.

As Europe tore itself apart during the First World War, one woman danced and ignored the horror. At least until the truth was exposed. Mata Hari, famed dancer and courtesan, finds herself facing a death sentence for spying, but the British Secret Service makes her an officer she can't refuse. She can avoid a hangman's noose on the condition that she kills a German general. The problem for Mata is that the man in question is the man she loves.