As an erotic novel, Candlelight City works. The writing is stimulating; the characters are well drawn; and the plot moves forward at a good pace. The only beef I have with it is that it requires a very high suspension of disbelief because of the public nature of some of the sex scenes. I realize that almost all erotic writing is fantasy, but just a little mention of, say, a recent court case overturning the local public decency laws would have gone a long way toward making these situations somewhat believable. I mean, how did our heroines and heroes not get arrested multiple times? I have read some of this author's later stories, and those stories don't seem to have this problem. And it is those other stories that will keep me on the lookout for more of her work...