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Lovers' Wheel #1
Summer Seduction
Book 1 of the Lovers’ Wheel series.
Shy and self-conscious librarian Liz Haven has lost her job and home, and is desperately grateful when a long-forgotten relative invites her to come live at her eerie old house in rural England. Liz hasn’t been there since childhood, and her memories of the place are strangely blurred. When she does return to Enniswitrin House she finds herself the focus for the attentions of a series of handsome but strange men, yet she also realizes that great-aunt Moira is far from the harmless old lady she seems. Moira has plans for Liz that she is not telling, and there is magic at work here. Real magic—dark and thrilling and primal as desire itself. Each of her would-be lovers needs something from Liz that goes deeper than just the hot and increasingly transgressive sex. Liz is being seduced into a role she could not imagine, at the center of a web of ancient legend and mystery that will change everything.
An Exotika® paranormal erotica story from Ellora’s Cave
130 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 17, 2014
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Janine Ashbless
67 books134 followersJanine Ashbless is a British author of erotica and hot romantic adventure. Janine likes best to write paranormal- and dark-fantasy-themed fiction and has a lifelong interest in mythology, folklore and history.
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September 21, 2016
I love a good fairy tale, erotica, a great plot, and evocative settings. I also love anything that turns convention on its head in a graceful, natural way.
Oh, and I'm a sucker for just about anything British.
So I loved this book.
Summer Seduction opens when mild-mannered librarian Liz Haven, who's just lost her job and her flat in London, receives a mysterious invitation to join her great-aunt Moira in the fabulously named Enniswitrin House.
Ashbless' descriptions bring this house to life, and it's exactly the kind of place where I wish I'd spent my childhood: the perfect rambling, mysterious, old English house in the country that I've pictured since the first time I read C.S. Lewis, with an overrun garden, an apple orchard, and a really fantastic kitchen.
Liz doesn't exactly find a magical passage to Narnia waiting for her in Enniswitrin House... but what she does find might be even better.
The magical world Ashbless creates in Summer Seduction is fascinating and believable, in the way that dark, old fairy tales and myths are believable. And this is some seriously fabulous erotica; these are the most exciting and imaginative sex scenes I've read.
In addition to having great sex, this novel gleefully ignores conventional romance tropes.
Instead, Ashbless subverts expectations to create a fascinating story about a woman finding herself, literally and figuratively, in a world full of magic, danger, and sex. And I get the feeling things are only going to intensify in the next book...
Check it out - Enniswitrin House is worth a visit!
Oh, and I'm a sucker for just about anything British.
So I loved this book.
Summer Seduction opens when mild-mannered librarian Liz Haven, who's just lost her job and her flat in London, receives a mysterious invitation to join her great-aunt Moira in the fabulously named Enniswitrin House.
Ashbless' descriptions bring this house to life, and it's exactly the kind of place where I wish I'd spent my childhood: the perfect rambling, mysterious, old English house in the country that I've pictured since the first time I read C.S. Lewis, with an overrun garden, an apple orchard, and a really fantastic kitchen.
Liz doesn't exactly find a magical passage to Narnia waiting for her in Enniswitrin House... but what she does find might be even better.
The magical world Ashbless creates in Summer Seduction is fascinating and believable, in the way that dark, old fairy tales and myths are believable. And this is some seriously fabulous erotica; these are the most exciting and imaginative sex scenes I've read.
In addition to having great sex, this novel gleefully ignores conventional romance tropes.
Instead, Ashbless subverts expectations to create a fascinating story about a woman finding herself, literally and figuratively, in a world full of magic, danger, and sex. And I get the feeling things are only going to intensify in the next book...
Check it out - Enniswitrin House is worth a visit!
June 7, 2016
Usually I wouldn't give 5 stars to an erotic fantasy, since most of them are not that well written or they just severely lack plot and character development. But this book really surprised me and within its genre it definitely deserves top marks.
It reads almost as a sort of erotic version of The Wickerman. A young woman is invited to stay with her great aunt in the English countryside. Little does she know that her aunt has plans for her that involve green knights, sex and magical rituals.
It reads almost as a sort of erotic version of The Wickerman. A young woman is invited to stay with her great aunt in the English countryside. Little does she know that her aunt has plans for her that involve green knights, sex and magical rituals.
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