Interlude, Madeline Oh’s contribution, has Alexandra Carpenter traveling to Wales to housesit for her Aunt and escape a mediocre love life. There she meets Dai Hughes, her aunt’s lawyer. The author uses humor and fantasy to draw out the tale until the couple actually gets together for a night of real passion.

Dominique Adair gives us The Cajun, a story set in the midst of a tropical storm battering Louisiana. More fantasy and fun keep this book flowing and kept me smiling. Rachel and Etienne were secretly attracted to each other in high school. A helpful alligator in the midst of the storm points them in the right direction to rediscover one another years later in a new way.

Giacomo has been trapped in Dante’s world doing penance for killing a man in a fit of anger. When Samantha finds a book about domination and submission she unwittingly frees him. He must be her Master and find a way to bring her to ultimate pleasure if he wants to win back his life in Jennifer Dunne’s Life Sentence.

These stories are set in widely diverse places with a common theme involving the pleasure the couples find using bondage and domination/submission. Each character is lovingly crafted by the authors. Wit, dialogue and artistic use of words to paint the scenes are common threads throughout all to make this an excellent collection.

Overall rating:
Sensuality rating: Explicit

Reviewer: Dee Dailey
April 24, 2008