Princess Bound: Naughty Fairy Tales for Women - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1627780351 ISBN 13: 9781627780353

Publisher: Cleis Press, 2014

Synopsis

Face it, fairy tales were always kind of kinky: from beautiful queens tied up in knots by wicked sorcerers to a wide variety of naughty and nice scenarios. Someone was always getting tied to a bed! In this new anthology of erotic romance fairy tales from the editor of the best-selling Fairy Tale Lust and Lustfully Ever After, the fairy tales are naughtier and have a BDSM twist. Retellings of the classics are joined with clever original tales, making for a darkly sensual and intensely romantic collection. Cathy Yardley, author of Crave: The Seduction of Snow White, introduces this compilation of enticing out-of-this-world erotic romance.

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About the Author

Kristina Wright is an award-winning author whose erotica and erotic romance fiction has appeared in over seventy-five anthologies, including three editions of Cleis Press’s Best Women’s Erotica, including the forthcoming Best of Best Women’s Erotica 2, and four editions of Best Lesbian Erotica. Her work has also appeared in Bedding Down: A Collection of Winter Erotica (Avon Red); Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women (Seal Press); the Black Lace collections Seduction, Liaisons and Sexy Little Numbers; and five editions of the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica. Kristina is a member of the Erotica Readers and Writers Association, Romance Writers of America, and Passionate Ink. She also received the Golden Heart Award for Romantic Suspense from RWA for her first novel Dangerous Curves. With a BA in English and MA in Humanities with an emphasis on women’s studies and popular culture, Kristina teaches both English and Humanities at the college level. She lives in Chesapeake, VA.

From the Back Cover

Once Upon a Bedtime
Why is it that Goldilocks climbed into so many beds? Face it, fairy tales have always been kinky--from beautiful queens tied up in knots to the wolf that makes Red Riding Hood blush. In this distinctive collection of racy romances, Kristina Wright seduces us with tales that are playful, supernaturally sensual and very, very naughty. The beauty in "The Seven Ravens," by Ariel Graham, uses a series of magic keys to finally unlock the door to her secret wish. A lonely maiden sneaks into the Winter Ball in Valerie Alexander's "Mine Until Dawn," and binds her new love in a devastatingly erotic story of dominance. A brawny beast of a man sweeps an aristocrat off her feet and right into his bed in "Black of Knight," by Victoria Blisse. Submit to the spell of "A Princess Bound."

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In the Palace of Gods and Monsters

Michelle Augello-Page

Long ago, in a forgotten time, a princess awoke, startled by ink-black darkness, grasping for where she was. She was blindfolded. She was naked. She couldn’t move; her arms and legs were stretched out, bound with rope to wooden posts. She pulled and twisted her body, but her movement caused the ropes to pull painfully on her wrists and ankles. She cried out, and an unfamiliar voice, dark and honeyed, filled the room.
“You truly are beautiful, princess.”
His hand traced the outline of her body, and she shuddered at the whisper of his touch. She struggled again, fear rushing through her, as the full weight of her situation grew clearer in her mind.
“Be still, my bride,” he said, hushing her as he advanced towards the bed. “I have come to welcome you. I am not going to harm you.”
The princess cried, barely able to process what was happening. Just that morning, she had awoken in her own bed, in her own home, safe and happy and cared for. Now, she was held like a prisoner by a man who assumed to be her husband. The arrival of the messenger had turned her world upside down. Her mother and father had thrown her away, ignoring her pleas, and forced her into the marriage in exchange for all the wealth they had hoped she would bring.
The family had fallen in nobility, and depended upon her marriage to restore their fortune. Tales of her beauty spread far and wide, and the princess was shielded from the world, sheltered in a remote castle tucked into the craggy cliffs overlooking the sea. Those who braved the journey were rewarded by her other-worldly beauty, but the princess had kindly rejected all offers of marriage.
“I will recognize my love when I see his face,” she had insisted.
Her fate changed when the messenger came to the castle. He brought an offer from the king of a faraway palace, and enough riches and jewels to reclaim the fullness of the family’s royalty. Her mother and father were desperate. They tried to persuade her. They tried to reason with her. But the princess had been raised on fairy tales; she believed in love.
The offer stood until the sun went down. There was nothing to pack, nothing to bring; the messenger said that the master of the kingdom would provide all and more for the princess. The king and queen would not, could not, allow her to refuse.
Her dreams shattered, the princess was betrothed, sight unseen.
“You have had a long journey. You need rest. You need some time to acclimate. I am not a monster.” He cleared his throat, and continued. “But I am not ordinary man either, and there are rules to be followed, now that you belong to me.”

Edition details

• Publisher: Cleis Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1627780351
• ISBN 13: 9781627780353
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Wright Kristina