A Feast For The Senses

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Martina Marquand is the author of Animal Passions, A Feast of the Senses and Unhallowed Rites, all available from Black Lace.

Virtuous Clara Fairfax leaves her ordered life in Georgian England to embark on the Grand Tour of Europe. Instructed by her mysterious fiancé, Count Anton di Maliban, Clara travels through the cities of decadent Europe, from icebound Amsterdam to sultry Constantinople, undergoing a series of lessons in pleasure and pain. 
 
By making Clara explore each of the five senses in the most perverse but delightful ways he can devise, Anton awakens the sensualist within her.But Clara longs to submit the Count to the most delicious torment. Will he be able to restrain his pupil once she has learnt her final lesson?

Unhallowed Rites

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The young Allegra di Vitali bored with life in her guardian's Venetian palazzo until the day sexual curiosity draws her to look at the depraved illustrations he keeps in his private chamber. Awakened to womanhood she tries to deny her new passion for the flesh by submitting to the life of a nun. 
 
The strange order of the Convent of Santa Agatha provides new tests and temptations, encouraging her to perform ritual acts with men and women who inhabit the cloistered world. As the Unhallowed Rites unfold, Allegra undergoes bizarre ceremonies before finally confessing to her own ravenous sexuality.

Martine Marquand

Jo is too young and adventurous to submit to the stifling morality of the religious mission house where she's grown up.When her friend Emmi runs away to live in a pagan community in the depths of Yorkshire, Jo follows, keen to open her mind and body to the realities of the wild, untamed sex they practise there. 
 
Michael is the charismatic leader of the group, who promises her the ultimate exploration of her newly awakened animals passions.As the summer heat intensifies, and preparations begin for their orgiastic midsummer festival, Jo is expected to play a central part in the cult's increasingly bizarre rites.Will she ever re-adjust to normal society?

Martine Marquand

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