Angie's Romance Reviews (and trades) Please excuse the horrible grammer. I am NOT an aspiring writer, nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

Held hostage by the infamous Trimarchi brothers, Fiona Sheldon and her friend Bethany must submit to the Italians’ sophisticated desires while her husband Duncan attempts to find the money he owes them. But Duncan is more concerned to free his mistress Bethany than his quiet wife.

When wayward, sophisticated Christabel is forced to take an extended country holiday she foresees only long days of bucolic boredom and sexual ennui. But she has reckoned without the hidden agenda of Nicholas, her deviously sensual husband, and the presence of unexpected stimuli within the grounds of a brooding old mansion house. Soon, she is drawn into a web of transgressive eroticism, where power and pleasure shift and change like the shadows playing across Collingwood’s secretive walls. Drenched in this unusual and kinky atmosphere, Christabel learns lessons the jaded city could never teach her.

Cheryl and Laura decide to pool their substantial divorce settlements and buy a hotel. When the women find out that each secretly harbors a desire to run an upmarket bordello, they seize the opportunity to turn St Jude’s into a bawdy funhouse for both sexes, where fantasies–from the mild to the increasingly kinky–are indulged. But when attractive, sinister John Dempsey comes on the scene, Cheryl is smitten, but Laura less so, convinced he’s trouble. Which of the women is right? And will their friendship–and their business–survive?

Police office Cressida Farleigh is called in to investigate a mysterious art fraud at a gallery specializing in modern erotic works. The gallery’s owner is under suspicion, but is also a charming and powerfully attractive man who throws the young woman’s powers of detection into confusion. Her long time detective boyfriend is soon getting jealous, but Cressida is also in the process of seducing a young artist of erotic images. As she finds herself drawn into a mesh of power games and personal discovery, the crimes continue and the case becomes ever more complex.

Sarah’s birthday plan was to taste her first drink and lose her virginity on the same night. When her boyfriend lets her down, she goes ahead with the drink and is mistaken for a call girl, much to her delight. It is the most thrilling night of her life and leads Sarah into regular secret liaisons in top hotels with strange and exciting men, for cash. And Sarah finds she has a natural talent for satisfying her kinky clients’ fetishes. All is well until a sexy, dominant client ignites her deepest desire and then shows up as a professor at her college. Life, already complicated for this student call girl, becomes a heady mix of love and lust as she learns her lessons both in the classroom and over the knee.

Maddie is a busy girl with a dream job: location scout for a film company. When she’s double-booked to work on two feature films at once, both filmed in the English countryside, she needs to manage her time very carefully. Luckily, there’s no shortage of fit young men who are willing to help. She also makes friends with the locals, including a horny young farmer and a particularly handy mechanic. The only person she’s not getting on with is Hugh, the director of one of the movies. And it could be because the sexual tension between the two of them has reached boiling point.

When attractive, thirty-something Beth Bradley takes a job as PA to Simon Henderson, a highly successful financier, she is well aware of his philandering reputation and is determined to turn the tables on his fortune. Her initial attempt backfires, and she begins to look for a more subtle and erotic form of retribution. However, Beth keeps getting sidetracked by her libido, and finds herself caught up in the dilemma of craving sex with the dominant men she wants to teach a lesson.