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In the roaring '20s, Charlie Doyle, the ink still wet on his Dartmouth journalism degree, answers an ad for a job as secretary to Edward Kilsby, Lord Withycombe and renowned flying ace of the Great War. The ad leads him to expect excitement, but Charlie never expects quite so much. When Edward is hired to find missing archaeologist Sir Alexander Spencer, Charlie is about to go for the ride of his life.

Tey arrives in town unprepared for the sight of a pretty young woman being attacked by her own father. He quickly finds the appealing blonde is on his mind day and night, and before long he is smitten. Tey has his work cut out for him on two fronts. Uncover the identity of the thieves and convince Sunny that while he adores her dancing skills, he wants to be the sole member of her audience. Will Sunny allow herself to believe she can be loved even though she is a fallen woman - often falling over the handsome gunslinger's lap?

Married once to a Baron who needed a young bride to bear him an heir, Cordelia Astley found herself in an untenable situation after his death, until Philip Stanley, the Marquess of Dunbury, asked her to be his bride. She knows he didn't marry her for love, but he was her white knight, and once they're married, she finds herself falling in love with him. It would be a fairy-tale ending if it wasn't for her stepdaughter, Gabrielle.

Victorian England is not kind to those born without privilege, and yet Lillian Lancaster has made a home for herself and a scrawny feral cat. Lilly is happiest working in the gardens, knowing she can never match their beauty. She is one of the flower-girls on the streets selling the bouquets she makes with love for mere pennies.

Spirited Chelsea decided she'd sooner run away to London than return to her vain and selfish guardian Aunt Augusta. But in her wildest dreams, she never imagined her dear godmother would arrange a Season - or convince the town's most eligible bachelor to take her under his wing.

Married young to a man hand-picked by her father, Elizabeth Petre is an ideal Victorian lady. She has borne two sons and endured 16 years of selfless duty in a passionless marriage. Craving a man's loving touch yet loyal to her wedding vows, Elizabeth is determined to seduce her coldly indifferent husband. She knows of only one man who can teach her the erotic secrets of love. The bastard son of an English countess and an Arab sheik, Ramiel Devington was reared to embrace both Western culture and Eastern pleasure.

Fleshtown, grosse bourgade du Kansas. Deux dangereux pervers se sont échappés du bagne. Darling est seule : tous les habitants sont partis faire la fête à la foire des éleveurs de porcs. Pendant toute une longue nuit, elle va devenir la proie des deux forcenés. Dehors, la vie continue : le shérif Prentiss enquête sur un café-billard tenu par Sam, mari complaisant qui essaie de détourner la loi... en se servant de sa femme.

The widowed Duchess of Sailer has desires that are hard to fill in polite society. To that effect, she visits a brothel to have her bottom reddened. If word got out, her reputation would be ruined. So, when a member of society is murdered, and her name turns up in the books he is using to blackmail people, the metropolitan police show up on her doorstep. Olivia does the only thing she can to keep her name from being dragged through the mud: she agrees to take the investigator into her life so she can help him find a killer. Inspector Rupert McKinley expects to get in and out, and figure out who killed Lord Ethan. He doesn't care about Olivia's desires...until he starts to spend time with her, and realizes she's more interesting than he ever expected her to be. When their business relationship turns into a personal one, Rupert is determined to find the murderer before someone else - like Olivia - is killed.

On the surface, Mildred Abbott is a proper Regency miss. But secretly compromised, she longs to explore the pleasures of the flesh. Engaged to an uninspiring sycophant, she asks the influential nephew of her patroness in debauchery to interfere and break her engagement. When her appeals to him fail, she decides to take a singular opportunity--a visit to the Chateau Debauchery--to experience one night of pleasure before she submits herself to a life of wedded dullness.

Englishwoman Grace Ellington has made a home in Scotland, but to escape from the meddling people around her who seem to think she needs to wed right away she volunteers to journey north to aid a friend in childbirth. Keir MacKinnon, the younger brother of the MacKinnon clan chief, has been raised to strike fear in people, on and off the battlefield. Trained to uphold MacKinnon law, he has hardened into a lethal warrior. Caught in a Highland blizzard with the feisty Grace, Keir realizes the beautiful woman who saved him can also save his nephew's life.

Love doesn’t come easy. That is what Jonathon Edward Railey, eighth viscount of Aunton, found out the hard way. With his burden of family debt and eight younger brothers to feed, what woman would stick around? Miss Isabel Hathaway might have loved the viscount once, but she would be damned if she would allow him to marry her for her money. Better to have never loved at all then to have him bought. When fate throws them together again, will the love they once had be enough to see them through a new storm? Or are they destined to a life of want and heartbreak?

In this scorching-hot regency romance, the Marquess of Alastair has doubled the dowry he is providing Miss Abbott because the sooner she is married, the sooner she is out of his care - and his fantasies. To Mildred Abbott's dismay, her dowry is now attracting numerous unwanted suitors, and she has no interest in marrying. What she wants is an encore of her night at the Ch'teau Debauchery, where Alastair once fulfilled her most decadent desires.

This classic Victorian tale of a nubile girl's awakenings is a captivating, lighthearted and often humorous romp that explores her ever growing sexual desires. Innocence meets experience in this lusty narrative as she learns to shed her inhibitions with both men and women. A stimulating look at the breathless pursuits of young adulthood, My Grandmother's Tale is an outrageously unrestrained memoir that details the passions of a young woman learning the forbidden pleasures of the body.

"L'amante di Lady Chatterley", dello scrittore inglese D.H.Lawrence, è uno dei romanzi erotici più celebri e scandalosi del Novecento...

L'amante di Lady Chatterley, di D.H.Lawrence, fu definito "il più indecente romanzo del mondo", tanto è vero che nonostante sia stato scritto tra il 1926 e il 1928, fu pubblicato soltanto nel 1960. Quest'opera fu infatti proibita per molti anni, a causa della sua esplicita rappresentazione del sesso, e fu al centro di un sensazionale processo per oscenità che fece molto scalpore nell'Inghilterra di quell'epoca, in verità, neanche troppo lontana.

Scappato da un'infanzia difficile, Jimmy O'Brien si trova nella cerchia di George Finn, boss irlandese e braccio destro di Bugs Moran, famoso rivale di Al Capone. Da quel momento, Jimmy diviene parte di un mondo fatto di violenza e cieca fedeltà al capo, pur con il tormento interiore che alcuni incontri gli provocheranno. In questo mondo per "veri uomini", in cui non c’è spazio per la debolezza, Jimmy si troverà a dover lottare per la propria vita e quella delle persone a cui tiene, tenendo a freno le sue passioni e i suoi desideria più privati.

Novela clásica de la literatura erótica, Fanny Hill: Memorias de una mujer de placer concilia la narración sensual y la fábula moralista en los recuerdos de una joven inglesa que, de burdel en burdel y de amante en amante, va aprendiendo los secretos de la vida y del sexo, a la vez que experimenta, unas veces con placer y otras con dolor, las diferentes formas y posibilidades de la relación amorosa.

La Contessa vedova Anna von Silfverhuus aveva passato anni e anni sposata con un uomo che aveva perso da tempo ogni interesse in lei. Adesso che lui era morto, lei poteva abbandonare la sua vecchia vita e ricominciare da capo. Vendette subito il Castello di Mangeby dove avevano abitato insieme, e si avviò alla conquista di Stoccolma: delle sue attrazioni culturali e dei suoi uomini. La città ospitava una miriade di uomini che avrebbero fatto la fila per corteggiare una donna bellissima e benestante come lei.

Anna e Gustaf giocano insieme da bambini e quando si incontrano nuovamente da adulti il loro gioco prende una nuova piega eccitante. Tuttavia, la giovane coppia non può restare unita, perché la ragazza deve sposare il senescente Conte von Silfverhuus e per molti anni vivrà insieme a lui e soddisferà i suoi appetiti. Un giorno il Conte muore e Anna prende una decisione: viaggerà per il mondo, realizzerà i suoi desideri e non dovrà dare più nulla in cambio. Ora tocca a lei divertirsi.

"Notò la camicia stretta sui due bei seni che aveva visto poco prima ondeggiare liberamente sotto la camicia da notte, così leggera e consumata da sembrare quasi trasparente. Il pastore le aveva visto tutto il corpo e ora le sembrava che la ragazza fosse nuda di fronte a lui. Così bella e allettante, ma completamente fuori dalla sua portata". Il pastore vive da molto tempo con sua moglie, il cui temperamento è stato indurito dalla vita. La moglie è fredda e rancorosa e altrettanto fredda è la loro vita amorosa.