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Dolphin's Playground By Jaci Burton Dr. Jasmine "Jaz" Quinlan's life's work is to care for marine mammals at the California Bay Aquarium. What she'd rather do is spend her life in the ocean with the creatures she loves, preferring their company to any human's. When a dozen dolphins beach themselves, she takes them into her care, bound and determined to save them. Triton, guardian of the dolphins and a member of Oceana, an undersea civilization, wants nothing to do with land humans—especially females. But he's forced to work with Jaz to help his sick dolphins. The moment Jaz meets Triton, he lights a fire within her that no ocean can douse. His passion and love for sea life is an equal match for hers, and when she finds out who he is and where he lives, her wildest dreams become a reality. Despite his preconceived notions, Triton finds himself falling for Jaz's passion and caring nature. She loves the sea as much as he does, awakening desires he has to fight to keep buried When two different worlds separate Jaz and Triton, love must find a way to unite them. Liquid Dreams By Cathryn Fox Ranek, protector of the underwater Bandara kingdom, has spent endless decades searching for his lost soulmate. He finally finds Katrina, a woman torn from his life centuries ago only to be reborn on land, half-human, half-Bandara. With time running out, Ranek enters her dreams and makes wild, erotic love to her, penetrating her subconscious with the life and love they once shared in their kingdom beneath the sea. He must bring Katrina's mind around slowly, taking care not to irreparably damage the human part of her. For if he does she will die, and as her lifelong soulmate, he will die along with her. Katrina must decide if the man of her dreams is just that. Is he simply a dream? Or is he the man of her past, her present and possibly her future…
267 pages, Paperback
First published January 31, 2006
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Jaci Burton
156 books8,294 followersJaci Burton is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of over 85 books. She lives in Oklahoma and when she isn’t on deadline (which is often), she can usually be found wrestling with her uncooperative garden, wrangling her dogs, watching an unhealthy amount of television, or completely losing track of time reading a great book. She’s a total romantic and longs for the happily ever after in every story, which you’ll find in all her books.. Visit her website at www.jaciburton.com for excerpts, book information and contests.
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March 6, 2008
Ellora's Cave twofer about sea creatures with stories by Jaci Burton and Cathryn Fox
First up is Katrina's story. She should be on top of the world. She's about to get married to a nice accountant with a fabulous family that accepts her. She will belong. She will be happy. She will finally have sex!...So why is she having torrid dreams about a man from the sea? Dreams that leave her aching and wet...and sandy???
Ranek has spent years waiting for Katrina's sould to return. He lost her once through treachery and will do whatever it takes to help her remember and bring her back where she belongs...with him.
Jaci Burton entertains us with the story of Jasmine "Jaz" and Triton. She's a marine biologist and he's the brother of Neptune. When a pod of dolphins beach themselves near Jaz's work, she and her team rescue them. She's working furiously to try and find the cause of their illness and how to formulate a cure.
Triton doesn't trust land humans. Especially since the woman he loved turned her back on him and their sea realm to go live on land. He's responsible for taking care of the dolphins and can certainly do a better job than any land human.
When the two meet, it's an instant conflagration...but his home is the sea and hers is the land and never the twain shall meet?
Two stories with Alpha males. One fighting to reclaim a lost love and one fighting to deny he's found love.
First up is Katrina's story. She should be on top of the world. She's about to get married to a nice accountant with a fabulous family that accepts her. She will belong. She will be happy. She will finally have sex!...So why is she having torrid dreams about a man from the sea? Dreams that leave her aching and wet...and sandy???
Ranek has spent years waiting for Katrina's sould to return. He lost her once through treachery and will do whatever it takes to help her remember and bring her back where she belongs...with him.
Jaci Burton entertains us with the story of Jasmine "Jaz" and Triton. She's a marine biologist and he's the brother of Neptune. When a pod of dolphins beach themselves near Jaz's work, she and her team rescue them. She's working furiously to try and find the cause of their illness and how to formulate a cure.
Triton doesn't trust land humans. Especially since the woman he loved turned her back on him and their sea realm to go live on land. He's responsible for taking care of the dolphins and can certainly do a better job than any land human.
When the two meet, it's an instant conflagration...but his home is the sea and hers is the land and never the twain shall meet?
Two stories with Alpha males. One fighting to reclaim a lost love and one fighting to deny he's found love.
December 10, 2010
As a first erotic novel, I believe this was a great choice. I bought this book years ago when I was still young and terrified about my parents finding out. I was just a freshman in high school looking for something that normal romance novels couldn’t give me. I was so tired of all the sugary innuendoes. If I am going to read about people having sex, I want clear descriptions about what is going on or nothing at all. Innuendoes that compare a lady’s part to food just grosses me out; and comparing an orgasm to an explosion of stars is just silly. Of course, I thought all this before I lost my
virginity at the ripe old age of 19 (yay for beating teen pregnancy?) And, I still think this today.
But I digress. This book is actually an anthology of two stories by different authors, both stories water related. Thus, the title.
The first story is titled Liquid Dreams by Cathryn Fox. From the very first page, Fox jumps right into the sex. When I first read it, I felt so scandalous that I knew my cheeks were red from embarrassment. Now, looking back, I realize how silly I was considering I have read much more graphic scenes since. Liquid Dreams does not want of sex scene. In fact, I am pretty sure that 85% of the novel is about the main characters partaking in foreplay. Another 10% is devoted to sex.
The plot consists of a young woman, Katrina, who keeps having dreams about a man that comes to her out of the sea. He pleases her, she pleases him. And then, by swallowing his semen, she starts regaining memories from a past life. Eventually, she figures out that the man, Ranek, is her lover from that. She also gradually realizes that she has been horribly miserable with her life because it is not her true life. The only problem is Ranek’s brother is hell-bent on seeing them both suffer.
A pretty straight forward plot with no twists or surprises and plenty of steamy sex scenes to call it erotic. The only problem I had with this novel was the way she covered her memories. Everything else was pretty believable for a fantasy erotic novel except that. In fact, it was pretty weird.
The second novel is called Dolphin’s Playground by Jaci Burton. At first, I was a little hesitant to read it just because of the title, but I sucked it up and read on. Unlike Fox, Burton is more about the plot-line than sex. This short story is about a marine biologist, Jasmine, who would rather spend her time with dolphins than people, especially her big wig boss who cares more about than living things. When she finds some sick dolphins, she decides to take them in much to the chagrin of her soon to be lover, Triton. Triton just so happens to be able to turn into a dolphin and is able to communicate with them. In fact, the dolphins that are now in Jasmine’s custody actually belong to Triton, who is also trying to find a cure with the diseased dolphins.
Since he can’t get the dolphins out of the facility, Triton decides to use it, and Jasmine, to his advantage in his search for the cure. They, of course, hook up during this search and do end up having a happy ending.
The writing was pretty simple in terms of vocabulary and biology terms. However, I really enjoyed Triton and Jasmine’s witty banter and that the you could cut the sexual tension between them with a knife. It was the characters that made this story, honestly.
virginity at the ripe old age of 19 (yay for beating teen pregnancy?) And, I still think this today.
But I digress. This book is actually an anthology of two stories by different authors, both stories water related. Thus, the title.
The first story is titled Liquid Dreams by Cathryn Fox. From the very first page, Fox jumps right into the sex. When I first read it, I felt so scandalous that I knew my cheeks were red from embarrassment. Now, looking back, I realize how silly I was considering I have read much more graphic scenes since. Liquid Dreams does not want of sex scene. In fact, I am pretty sure that 85% of the novel is about the main characters partaking in foreplay. Another 10% is devoted to sex.
The plot consists of a young woman, Katrina, who keeps having dreams about a man that comes to her out of the sea. He pleases her, she pleases him. And then, by swallowing his semen, she starts regaining memories from a past life. Eventually, she figures out that the man, Ranek, is her lover from that. She also gradually realizes that she has been horribly miserable with her life because it is not her true life. The only problem is Ranek’s brother is hell-bent on seeing them both suffer.
A pretty straight forward plot with no twists or surprises and plenty of steamy sex scenes to call it erotic. The only problem I had with this novel was the way she covered her memories. Everything else was pretty believable for a fantasy erotic novel except that. In fact, it was pretty weird.
The second novel is called Dolphin’s Playground by Jaci Burton. At first, I was a little hesitant to read it just because of the title, but I sucked it up and read on. Unlike Fox, Burton is more about the plot-line than sex. This short story is about a marine biologist, Jasmine, who would rather spend her time with dolphins than people, especially her big wig boss who cares more about than living things. When she finds some sick dolphins, she decides to take them in much to the chagrin of her soon to be lover, Triton. Triton just so happens to be able to turn into a dolphin and is able to communicate with them. In fact, the dolphins that are now in Jasmine’s custody actually belong to Triton, who is also trying to find a cure with the diseased dolphins.
Since he can’t get the dolphins out of the facility, Triton decides to use it, and Jasmine, to his advantage in his search for the cure. They, of course, hook up during this search and do end up having a happy ending.
The writing was pretty simple in terms of vocabulary and biology terms. However, I really enjoyed Triton and Jasmine’s witty banter and that the you could cut the sexual tension between them with a knife. It was the characters that made this story, honestly.
January 23, 2010
Two seperate stories set with underwater kingdoms. Tough the stories are unrelated, both have couples from different worlds learning about each other, and the heroine has to decide if the love she feels is great enough to leave her safe and familiar world on land to join with him below the waves. Very hot and I wouldn't mind finding a hero like the ones in the book.
May 21, 2013
I was skimming thru these pages. The story lines were just not there for me.
January 26, 2012
Definitivamente ame este libro! Jeci siempre me sorprende!
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