Secrets, Vol. 23: Secret Desires - Softcover

Calista Fox; Roxi Romano; Bonnie Dee; Bethany Michaels

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603101640 ISBN 13: 9781603101646

Publisher: Red Sage Pub Inc, 2008

Synopsis

FOREVER MY LOVE-Calista Fox-For five hundred years, vampire Christian St. James has waited for witch Aja Woods to recover her powers -- and her memories of their love. When evil threatens, can Aja save not just their magical world, but a love that should last forever? REFLECTIONS OF BEAUTY-Bonnie Dee-Artist Christine Dawson is commissioned to paint a portrait of wealthy, mysterious recluse Eric Leroux. It s up to her to tear away the briars and scale the walls surrounding the heart of this scarred man. Can love rescue him from isolation and restore his life? THE SEX SLAVE - Roxi Romano-Healer and slave Lazarus Stone must escape his distant mining colony before his mistress s death is discovered. Sex trader Jaci Coe needs a hero and Stone meets all the criteria, even if he does walk away. But only together can they live free--and love freely.EDUCATING EVA-Bethany Lynn-Striving to make her mark as a scholar, Eva Blakely attends an infamous house party to research the Mating Rituals of the Human Male. Can Eva finish her project, or will her academic aspirations give way to her desire for research with the notorious rake Aidan Worthington?

About this title

From the Back Cover

Having read most of the Secrets anthologies, I had high hopes for this one and was not disappointed. Exotic new worlds, vampires, witches, erotic fairy tales, Regency romps--this book had it all. Each of the stories was well written, varied and kept my interest throughout. The female characters were all intelligent and strong-willed and actively contributed to the resolution of the plots. The male characters were quite different in personalities yet sexy and equally interesting. And the sex scenes in each story were well detailed and very hot. 4.5 - LAURA SCOTT - JUST EROTIC ROMANCE REVIEWS

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Sex Slave

Chapter 1

Lazarus Stone's sort had been bred for sex, hardwired to respond to the dictates of lust, which was why his cock twitched at the crude invitation issued from the dark alley. But he passed the street-sexer, his step measured rather than faltering. He was thinking with a more evolved head tonight. He had to. He needed to find the one man who could get him off this foul outpost of a moon before someone figured out what he was and sold him to the highest bidder. That was why he'd come to the underbelly of this goddess-forsaken moon in the dead of night. Men who did business on the edge of the law did their business in places where even the law didn't venture after sundown. He turned up the collar of his greatcoat and strode through the smog hanging between the buildings, his target the faint glow of a streetlamp that marked the corner. There were a half-dozen more dives yet to check, three of them on the next block. He hoped to find Marco in one of them. The debris rustled ominously where it was gathered against the curbing of a street built in an era that accommodated wheeled vehicles, and Laz's greatcoat billowed around him. Nice as it was to have his heated body cooled, any time a breeze blew across this barren moon, it meant a storm was brewing. He lowered his head as he stepped into the dim glow of the corner mounted streetlamp, letting his hair fall around his face like a dark veil. Sometimes light wasn't a man's friend. The thought had barely crossed his mind when a girl with wild ribbons of blonde hair skidded around the corner, stutter-stepped to halt just short of running into him, and grabbed him by his coat front. "You gotta help me," she demanded. "I don't have to do anything," he said, tugging at the hold she had on him. Footfalls echoed off the buildings lining the side street, muffled by the smog bank that hung over the city night and day. He glanced over her head at the corner. From the sounds of those rapidly falling feet, there were at least two of them and one of them sounded decidedly large. They were fast closing on the corner. Laz scowled. He didn't have time to play the rescuer. Hell, his own freedom was at stake here. "If you don't help me," she panted, "they're going to catch me." He looked down at the girl, her forehead barely reaching his chin, well short of the women whose company he kept. A pair of huge waif-like brown eyes pleaded up at him. Maybe she was younger than he thought--a child even. The feet of her pursuers pounded closer. He groaned. By the Goddess's blood, he was going to regret this.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Sage Pub Inc
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603101640
• ISBN 13: 9781603101646
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326