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Wonder
Whether it’s werewolves, vampires, shapeshifters, angels, ghosts or aliens—these are stories with all of those strange and wonderfully sexy creatures that fascinate the human psyche! Come on a spicy, paranormal journey that ventures into titillating realms bound only the imaginations of your favorite eXcessica authors! A dozen stories included in this volume by Wynter O’Reilly, Selena Kitt, D.B. Story, Sommer Marsden, J.M. Snyder, Dakota Trace, Piers Anthony, Roxanne Rhoads, Elise Hepner, Darcy Sweet, Christabel Rouseau and Erin O’Riordan.
- GenresParanormalEroticaRomance
254 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Selena Kitt
415 books2,631 followersSelena Kitt is a NEW YORK TIMES bestselling and award-winning author of erotic and romance fiction. She is one of the highest selling erotic writers in the business with over two million books sold!
Her writing embodies everything from the spicy to the scandalous, but watch out-this kitty also has sharp claws and her stories often include intriguing edges and twists that take readers to new, thought-provoking depths.
When she’s not pawing away at her keyboard, Selena runs an innovative publishing company (www.excessica.com) and bookstore (www.excitica.com), as well as two erotica and erotic romance promotion companies (www.excitesteam.com and www.excitespice.com) and is now head of the Erotica Readers and Writers Association (www.erotica-readers.com).
Her books EcoErotica (2009), The Real Mother Goose (2010) and Heidi and the Kaiser (2011) were all Epic Award Finalists. Her only gay male romance, Second Chance, won the Epic Award in Erotica in 2011. Her story, Connections, was one of the runners-up for the 2006 Rauxa Prize, given annually to an erotic short story of “exceptional literary quality.”
She can be reached on her website at www.selenakitt.com
Her writing embodies everything from the spicy to the scandalous, but watch out-this kitty also has sharp claws and her stories often include intriguing edges and twists that take readers to new, thought-provoking depths.
When she’s not pawing away at her keyboard, Selena runs an innovative publishing company (www.excessica.com) and bookstore (www.excitica.com), as well as two erotica and erotic romance promotion companies (www.excitesteam.com and www.excitespice.com) and is now head of the Erotica Readers and Writers Association (www.erotica-readers.com).
Her books EcoErotica (2009), The Real Mother Goose (2010) and Heidi and the Kaiser (2011) were all Epic Award Finalists. Her only gay male romance, Second Chance, won the Epic Award in Erotica in 2011. Her story, Connections, was one of the runners-up for the 2006 Rauxa Prize, given annually to an erotic short story of “exceptional literary quality.”
She can be reached on her website at www.selenakitt.com
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October 22, 2010
Wonder is probably not the sort of book I’d normally choose, but I like to wander into different worlds of reading, and this was an enjoyable excursion into the realm of sexual intimacy with paranormal overtones.
Editor Selena Kitt has done a wonderful job of putting this anthology together. From the start, the stories complement each other, with the initial innocence of Winter O’Reilly’s Sweet Revenge followed by the singular guilt and brutal violation of Selena Kitt’s On Cherry Hill. DB Story’s twisted modern-day logic and delightful mystery in Where I Am lead the reader to dark ambiguity and hypnotic love in Sommer Marsden’s Mark, closely followed by the oddly wounded Conner in JM Snyder’s One of Us.
Taking center place, Claimed by Dakota Trace, is a truly fascinating tale that blends myth and legend into wounded characters mirroring human frailty with animal strength. Then Piers Anthony’s disconcerting scifi Medusa seduces the reader with experiment turned to intimate connection from an alien planet, only to bring us straight down to earth with the gritty vampire of Roxanne Rhoad’s Overkill, and the Shifting Desire of Elise Hepner’s tale which never goes quite where the reader expects.
While the stories in this anthology plumb the depths of intimate physical processes, they also tread wisely on the plains of rejection and the dry deserts of humiliation and inadequacy. Love is no simple emotion here, nor intimacy undertaken without care. “I planned for the least and expected the worst. Wanting led to nothing but disappointment,” says the protagonist in Darcy Sweet’s The Choosing, with its intricately imagined world providing ironic background to Talia’s longed-for independence. In the next story, Christabel Roseau’s Perchance to Dream tells of dreams in a much more modern setting with some seriously surprising consequences. And then, the final entry, Butterfly Boy, is by my friend on Gather, Erin O’Riordan, who kindly gave me this book to read and review. (There; that’s the disclosure out of the way!)
Butterfly Boy is a delightful place to end. Erin’s errant butterfly threads enthralling metaphor and symbolism into a magical tale, with gentle hints foreshadowing danger and love. It leaves the reader with a pleasant feeling of having been transported to a mystical place, only to find it reflected in the flowers of the back yard; a masterful close to a fine collection, though not one to let your mother or sons catch you reading.
Editor Selena Kitt has done a wonderful job of putting this anthology together. From the start, the stories complement each other, with the initial innocence of Winter O’Reilly’s Sweet Revenge followed by the singular guilt and brutal violation of Selena Kitt’s On Cherry Hill. DB Story’s twisted modern-day logic and delightful mystery in Where I Am lead the reader to dark ambiguity and hypnotic love in Sommer Marsden’s Mark, closely followed by the oddly wounded Conner in JM Snyder’s One of Us.
Taking center place, Claimed by Dakota Trace, is a truly fascinating tale that blends myth and legend into wounded characters mirroring human frailty with animal strength. Then Piers Anthony’s disconcerting scifi Medusa seduces the reader with experiment turned to intimate connection from an alien planet, only to bring us straight down to earth with the gritty vampire of Roxanne Rhoad’s Overkill, and the Shifting Desire of Elise Hepner’s tale which never goes quite where the reader expects.
While the stories in this anthology plumb the depths of intimate physical processes, they also tread wisely on the plains of rejection and the dry deserts of humiliation and inadequacy. Love is no simple emotion here, nor intimacy undertaken without care. “I planned for the least and expected the worst. Wanting led to nothing but disappointment,” says the protagonist in Darcy Sweet’s The Choosing, with its intricately imagined world providing ironic background to Talia’s longed-for independence. In the next story, Christabel Roseau’s Perchance to Dream tells of dreams in a much more modern setting with some seriously surprising consequences. And then, the final entry, Butterfly Boy, is by my friend on Gather, Erin O’Riordan, who kindly gave me this book to read and review. (There; that’s the disclosure out of the way!)
Butterfly Boy is a delightful place to end. Erin’s errant butterfly threads enthralling metaphor and symbolism into a magical tale, with gentle hints foreshadowing danger and love. It leaves the reader with a pleasant feeling of having been transported to a mystical place, only to find it reflected in the flowers of the back yard; a masterful close to a fine collection, though not one to let your mother or sons catch you reading.
March 10, 2012
This is a collection of various authors, writing paranormal erotica tales. I like this collection, I picked it up because I'm a fan of Selena Kitt and she is the title author in this montage. From this collection I found two new authors (Darcy Sweet & Sommer Marsden) that I order books from. Darcy Sweet's contribution to this book was a fable called, “The Choosing”, I actually order the rest of that book and read it in a day; I have a review on that too.
February 3, 2011
This is an erotica anthology. There were some really great stories like The Choosing, Marked, and Overkill. Then there were some others that were creepy like On Cherry Hill and Medusa. These were all paranormal stories, and was less than $3 on my Nook.
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