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Hurts Like Love
12 searing tales of passionate BDSM by Dr. Elliot Mabeuse, award-winning author of A Good Student and master of erotic fiction. Collected here for the first time are a dozen of the Doctor's hottest and most arousing tales of dominance and submission, many of them no longer available, each with introductory comments by the author, Included in this book are—
Hard Boiled Dick — in which a noir-era private eye administers rough sexual justice to the girl who betrayed his partner…
Good Girl — where a curious young woman's visit to a bondage club leads to a shattering confrontation with her own hidden desires…
Surrender — the intimate confessions of a male Dominant as he teaches his lover the difference between abuse and the ecstasy of surrender…
Another Shade of Red -- a perverse Valentine's day card for those who like their hearts with an edge, and their flowers with thorns…
From brute seduction to delicious surrender; from the mystical eroticism of A Heart Made of Branches to the cold, sharp thrill of iron manacles closing on tender wrists in After the Lecture, they're all here, 12 tales from the shadowlands of forbidden desire.
Hard Boiled Dick — in which a noir-era private eye administers rough sexual justice to the girl who betrayed his partner…
Good Girl — where a curious young woman's visit to a bondage club leads to a shattering confrontation with her own hidden desires…
Surrender — the intimate confessions of a male Dominant as he teaches his lover the difference between abuse and the ecstasy of surrender…
Another Shade of Red -- a perverse Valentine's day card for those who like their hearts with an edge, and their flowers with thorns…
From brute seduction to delicious surrender; from the mystical eroticism of A Heart Made of Branches to the cold, sharp thrill of iron manacles closing on tender wrists in After the Lecture, they're all here, 12 tales from the shadowlands of forbidden desire.
- GenresBDSM
298 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 13, 2012
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About the author
Elliot Mabeuse
21 books72 followersDr. Mabeuse is an award-winning author with four books published by Ellora’s Cave, including Overcoming Abigail, nominated for a 2005 Cupid and Psyche Award for BDSM from the Romance Studio and A Game of Dress-Up, winner of a 2006 EcataRomance Critic’s Choice Award. He’s also published with Renaissance, eXtasy, and makes his debut with Harlequin in May of this year.
Of his biography, Dr. Mabeuse says:
“Everyone connects to the world in some way, and I seem to connect through sex. I’m drawn to the extreme and the extraordinary in all things, and I like to explore the farther edges of passion and desire in what I write. What interests me now is not so much the things people do, but how they feel about what they do—male and female dynamics, how we connect to ourselves and each other and to the world at large. I tend to be intense and my writing shows that, but I really value my sense of humor above all, and I expect it to sustain me should the fires of sexual passion ever burn out.”
Of his biography, Dr. Mabeuse says:
“Everyone connects to the world in some way, and I seem to connect through sex. I’m drawn to the extreme and the extraordinary in all things, and I like to explore the farther edges of passion and desire in what I write. What interests me now is not so much the things people do, but how they feel about what they do—male and female dynamics, how we connect to ourselves and each other and to the world at large. I tend to be intense and my writing shows that, but I really value my sense of humor above all, and I expect it to sustain me should the fires of sexual passion ever burn out.”
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August 30, 2015
This is an anthology of stories by Dr. Elliot Mabeuse. All the stories I found to be good, and some better than good.
There's dub con, and rape fantasy, intro to BDSM that is quite realistic, oh, and there's a real Halloween story with an end twist that sort of freaked me somewhat as it was set in my ultimate fantasy of a masked ball situation. Mine, however, would be back in the eighteenth century in Venice and BDSM sex set to Vivaldi at a masked ball...oh well, almost :)
I enjoyed reading this, as it is written by a man, and as well as from the story also gives a short prequel with this man's point of view. Descriptions of how he sees the sex play and encounters and activities leading to bliss are quite rare and to be savoured and help me in understanding the male in their sexual role.
It was good enough for me to buy other stories by Elliot Mabeuse, despite occasional typos that have me itching to edit it ;)
Definitely hits 4* from me.
There's dub con, and rape fantasy, intro to BDSM that is quite realistic, oh, and there's a real Halloween story with an end twist that sort of freaked me somewhat as it was set in my ultimate fantasy of a masked ball situation. Mine, however, would be back in the eighteenth century in Venice and BDSM sex set to Vivaldi at a masked ball...oh well, almost :)
I enjoyed reading this, as it is written by a man, and as well as from the story also gives a short prequel with this man's point of view. Descriptions of how he sees the sex play and encounters and activities leading to bliss are quite rare and to be savoured and help me in understanding the male in their sexual role.
It was good enough for me to buy other stories by Elliot Mabeuse, despite occasional typos that have me itching to edit it ;)
Definitely hits 4* from me.
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