Pushing the Boundaries Boxed Set: What Caroline Wants, What Piper Needs, What Emma Craves: Books 1-3

by Amanda Abbott

Knock your socks off sexy! All three novels in one place. What Caroline Wants (Pushing the Boundaries #1) Caroline and Jason Stratton have always been hot for each other. Married right out of college, they’ve had a great sex life in the bedroom. But when they discover that their best friends and neighbors, Piper and Michael Collins, have experimented with a few extracurricular adventures during their ten year marriage, Caroline and Jace’s sexual world is rocked to the core. The Strattons quickly find that inviting others into their bedroom is something they might want to consider. But getting Caroline to reconcile her Southern guilt is an issue, so they decide to take it deliciously slow, exploring every avenue. All their adventure leads them to Emma and Pete, and after a fun, sexy dinner date out, and an incredibly hot car ride home, they’re in. But once they decide to scale that mountain, all bets are off. In the end, Caroline must make a decision—and it’s one she’ll have to live with forever. What Piper Needs (Pushing the Boundaries #2) Piper and Michael Collins have it all. They’re in love, both have successful jobs, live in a nice neighborhood, and have a great sex life—that is, up until recently. Over the past six months everything has started to drag. Even though they’ve led an “extracurricular” lifestyle for a long time, things have gotten boring. It’s up to Piper to liven things up, which she does with a little encouragement from her pal Caroline at their weekly happy hours. She jumps in without pause and sparks between her and Michael’s fly. First with hot selfies, office sex, and later with some much needed risk-taking. From there, Piper and Michael decide to make a Top Ten Sex List and start ticking off their wildest fantasies. Piper is fearless, but when they both arrive at the same number ten, is Piper really ready? What Emma Craves (Pushing the Boundaries #3) It took a lot for Pete Slater to convince his wife, Emma, to move to the suburbs. But once she arrived, she found there was a deliciously steamy underbelly. Her neighborhood is filled with hook-ups, affairs, and scandal. But Emma and Pete have no need for all that, because they’ve built their own Pleasure Paradise inside their own home. After all, they’ve been living the swinging lifestyle for too many years to count. But even with all that, Emma finds she isn’t satisfied any more. She’s drawn more to what’s outside her doors than inside. With help from Piper and Caroline, she decides she needs to explore that place she once had with Pete when they first started dating. But to get there, it’s going to take a lot of experimentation—with and without the neighbors.

492 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 22, 2019

About the author

Amanda Abbott lives in the Midwest. She's the author of many books, both on her own and some published in New York. She loves traveling, seeing the world, and above all she loves to write. These stories have blossomed out of her pure love of all kinds of romance, but especially humor + sexy combined. Taking the question of "what if" and making it real was an absolute thrill to write. And there's more in the hopper! To keep up with new series and new releases, be sure to sign-up for her NEWSLETTER. That's the place you get to hear from her personally.

Reviews

[Mojo_Mama · Rating 3 out of 5]

This entire series is more like lessons in not opening your relationship than it is pro-polyamory. Since polyamory seems to be what the author promotes with her various workbooks on poly relationships I find it interesting.

Living in NOLA and surrounded by very bohemian people with a rainbow of relationship types I’ve seen both sides of this coin. The failures and the successes. Tho successful permanently open relationships seem few and far between in my circle.

My hubby and I were never open so I do not speak from personal experience, but I do know a thing or two about that lifestyle. Like all relationships, communication is paramount. From what I’ve witnessed, so often it starts to breakdown at one point. Jealousy is not allowed, but that’s human nature, and the partners I’ve had private discussions with often feel they can’t express jealousy properly and let it slide to the point the relationship is irretrievable. Often they feel their partner makes light of or doesn’t see the problem. Which makes me wonder how often people get into open relationships to please their partner rather than themselves.

Where I have seen it work are triads where the relationship is closed to only the three partners. I’m wondering if it’s because, in the end, it’s still a form of monogamy.

Before I’m hit with ugly comments about my intolerance I feel the need to say I give zero fucks what others do in (or out) of the bedroom…but I feel those that are successful at open relationships are truly the unicorns.