This short anthology starts with a warning from the author advising readers that this is a collection of short stories intended to introduce readers to her writing style. She mentions that there have been, "comments" about how a brief the stories are, apparently thinking (or hoping) that this note to readers would prevent us from commenting on that fact in our reviews. I do understand what she meant as I often read reviews where people have posted low star ratings, stating that they did this because the book was, "too short". If I know that I am going to to be reading a short story or an anthology of short stories, I know not to expect as much detail or as much depth as I hope for in a full length book. I'm OK with that. For me, as long as a story contains a beginning, a middle and an end, the #of pages should have no bearing on its star rating.
If I hadn't needed to read this book for a challenge I participated in on Goodreads, I would have quit reading it after the very first story. The majority of the 10 stories in this collection are predictable, typical fantasies that anyone could write about. Most of the stories are about two people who morally and/or ethically shouldn't succumb to their sexual attraction to one another (ex: babysitter/dad, teacher/student, Dr./patient, neighbors etc.). The 10 stories did contain some type of beginning & Ward was able to create palpable sexual tension between the characters and a few of them. However, the body or meat of each story was simply the description of whatever sexual act or acts the characters engaged in. Unfortunately, most of these sex scenes were just average; I didn't read about anything extraordinary or markedly different from what I have read about in other erotica/erotic romances. The main problem for me though was the endings - there weren't any! In each story, as soon as the characters climaxed, the story ended. Some of the endings were so abrupt that I literally did not realize that the story was over! I listened to the first few stories using a text to speech app. When the 2nd story began, I thought I was still listening to a story about the male main character from the first story, not realizing for several pages that I was listening to the second story! Fortunately for me, this was an Amazon freebie because if I had paid for this book I would have been very, very upset!