Party Favors

by Jennifer Dunne, Madeleine Oh, Dominique Adair

Dancing in the Dark By Jennifer Dunne A humdrum life…Keri Montero lives a boring life. Work, TV, volunteering, and her quilting hardly make the stuff of fantasy and dreams. A mistaken invitation…All this changes when she receives an invitation to a charity Halloween costume party to benefit the local opera house. She decides to go, even if the tickets are $100 each. A walk on the wild side…Her costume can be anything, and Keri decides to live on the wild side for once. Going as a submissive slave girl might invite trouble. But when she meets the man of her dreams, she decides to go even wilder. Keri wants to submit to his every…sexual…whim. Louisiana Heat By Dominique Adair Having met the man of her dreams online, Kay travels to Bayou Blue, Louisiana, to explore the possibilities of furthering their relationship. The moment David sees her, he decides to impersonate his cousin Remy, the man Kay is searching for. Having been obsessed with her for the past six months, David seizes the opportunity to get to know her better and to explore their seemingly mutual desires. Trick or Treat By Madeleine Oh Katie Fairfax jokingly asks her cousin for "A gorgeous, exciting, bedworthy man to make all my wildest dreams come true," not expecting to be taken at her word. When she first meets Jud Carlton, she finds the man pushy and overbearing. But as Jud bulldozes into her life, she finds his special way of loving is what she's always longed for. Review quotes for Party Favors 4 Stars! "Louisiana Heat" arguably the most romantic..." ~Catherine Witmer, Romantic Times

Genres: Anthologies, BDSM, Romance, Erotic Romance, Erotica

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 2003

About the author

Jennifer Dunne wrote her first “book” at the age of four, telling the story of a lost little girl and the helpful elephant who leads her home. She was all set for a career in the literary arts, to begin in that far off misty future after kindergarten — then she discovered a book about “the new math” on the coffee table, and fell in love with numbers instead. After getting a degree in math followed by a masters degree in artificial intelligence, she joined IBM and devoted herself to doing neat things with computers, all the time continuing to write stories as a way of balancing so much logical brain activity.

She is the author of over a dozen novels and novellas spanning the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and romance. (She’s either a unique individual who is difficult to categorize, or easily bored – you decide.) Beyond that, there’s no point describing her hobbies or activities, since they’ll have changed by the time you read this. (Score one for “easily bored”.) She recently relocated to Colorado, to play the lead role in her very own love story, thankfully with fewer explosions, occult happenings, and dire situations than in her fiction. Although, there was that one time...

Reviews

[AgentScully · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an exciting, sexy trio of stories with hot, dominant men and lots of steam. You won't be disappointed.

That said, the first story by Jennifer Dunne was my least favorite. It started off well but got bogged down in business talk. The heroine was an efficiency expert, some background was nice but just too many pages were given over to discussion of business strategy. The sex scenes didn't quite do it for me either: hot wax and being wrapped in plastic like a leftover sandwich - so not my thing. 3 stars

The next story by Madeline Oh was livelier. Lots of sexual tension and build-up, until both the heroine and I wanted to strangle the hero and tell him to get on with it already. But when Jud finally shows up in a pirate costume and "captures" his helpless "maiden", yowza! Let's just say that Black Jack and Lady Katherine have a rip-roaring good time. Their antics left a huge grin on my face. Nice spanking too! 5 stars

The final story by Dominique Adair may be my favorite. I loved the Cajun setting and the Cajun hero. David saw what he wanted and went after it, er ... her. Nice spanking scene here too! This story is quite a bit shorter than the others and I wished it had been longer. 5 stars

[MelissaB · Rating 3 out of 5]

The stories were okay but nothing special.

[Carole-Ann · Rating 4 out of 5]

Three very good (but light) stories.