Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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Suki Cunningham

When London actress Holly Parker arrives in a remote Cornish village to begin rehearsing a new play, everyone there - from her landlord to her theatre director - seems to have an earthier attitude towards sex. Brought to a state of constant sexual arousal and confusion, Holly seeks guidance in the form of local therapist, Joshua Delaney. He is the one man who can't touch her - but he is the only one she truly desires. Will she be able to use her new-found sense of sexual adventure to seduce him?

Opening Acts

Emma Holly

Bookstore owner Kate comes home from work one day to find her two flatmates in bed...together. Joe - a sensitive composer - is mortified. Sean - an irrepressible bad boy - asks her to join in! 
 
Kate's been fantasising about her hunky new housesmates since they moved in, but she was convinced they were both gay. Realising that pleasure is a multi-faceted thing, she sets her cares aside and embarks on a ménage à trois with the wild duo. Kate wants nothing more than to keep both her admirers happy, but inevitably things become complicated, especially at work. Kate has told her colleagues that Joe and Sean are gay but the gossip begins when she's caught in a clinch with one of them in her lunch hour! To add to this, one of Kate's more conservative suitors is showing interest again, but she's hooked on the different kind of loving that she enjoys with her boys - even though she knows it cannot last. Or can it?

Menage

Jean Aveline

Anton and Magdalena are brother and sister, separated at birth but reunited as teenagers. The forbidden nature of their love for each other only serves to intensify their passion for experimentation - for the most perverse sexual games. Working as dancers, they fall under the spell of the manipulative Sophie and the masterful Dieter, both of whom secretly foster the darkest plans for the couple.

Exposing Louisa

G Edenbridge

Medieval Britain: Frank du Bois, an orphaned young nobleman, abandons his hopeless love for Rob, a young woodcutter, believing they are half-brothers. But, through a mysterious journey that includes his induction into a bizarre phallic cult, the Brothers of the Tree of Life, Frank learns all bout sex magic. He learns, too, the obscure details of his past and concludes that he and Rob may not be related after all. .

Brotherhood

Alison Tyler

Jessica Taylor is an LA girl through and through: ambitious, stylish and not afraid to ask for what she wants. And what she wants more than anything is to become a reporter. Her editor-in-chief Dashiell Cooper holds that key, but is only willing to give it to her at a price. Finding Jess's ruthless nature too enticing to ignore, he uses a whole repertoire of charmer's tricks to try and seduce her, but she challenges him at every turn. 
 
In a game of kinky cat and mouse, Jess finds her pleasure elsewhere through X-rated games with sultry-looking guys who resemble James Dean. But as Dashiell teases her with the life she wants, surrounded by glamourous parties and LA gossip, can Jessica get there herself without giving in to Cooper's erotic obsessions? Can she prove that the only thing naked is her ambition? 
 
Rouge romance - the best erotic romance novels, perfect for fans of Sylvia Day’s Crossfire series.

Sweet Thing: A Rouge Erotic Romance

Monica Belle

This is the story of Lucy Doyle, a red-haired and hot-tempered London Irish girl with her eyes on the prize- and young men's trousers. Her family have got her a job in a Parochial House in North London for the summer, between leaving school and going to university, but she signs up as an office temp, faking her reference and chancing her luck. Along with fellow recruits - the ladylike but filthy Bobbie and the completely dirty Sophie - this cheeky 'flower of Erin' carves a swathe of debauchery through London's office land, collecting lovers, outraging her bosses and drinking far too much as she causes havoc in the way only a bad girl can

Office Perks

Aishling Morgan

This novel traces the history of the innocent but wilful Octavia Challacombe as she is corrupted by the wicked Maray family. Along with Polly Endicott and a group of other buxom Devon girls, she is cajoled and teased into providing increasingly perverse services for the Squire and his family. 
Part of the Cream Series. Other titles include Peaches and Cream and Cream Tease.

Devon Cream

Bad girls and beautiful bodies dazzle in downtown LA in this story of naked ambition. 
 
Jessica Taylor is an LA girl through and through: ambitious, stylish and a big fan of old Hollywood movies. What she wants more than anything is to become an ace reporter. Her editor Dashiell Cooper holds that key, but what he wants most of all is her. Jessica is starry-eyed but not as easily pinned down as the cynical Cooper would like. He uses a whole repertoire of charmer's tricks to try and seduce her, but she challenges him at every turn, finding her pleasure playing X-rated games with sultry-looking guys who resemble James Dean. What transpires is a game of kinky cat and mouse set in the hush-hush world of LA gossip columns and glamorous parties. Can Jessica get what she wants without giving in to Cooper's erotic obsessions?

Sweet Thing

Wendy Swanscombe

Three sisters. Anna, Beth, Gwen. Blonde, red, raven. They are hired as secretaries by a wealthy European artist and collector who seems obsessed with their hair - and the whiteness of their skin. They travel to his remote château in the Black Forest, and are sucked into a vortex of erotic obsession and S&amp;M as they learn that their employer means to change their lives - and their bodies - for ever.

Disciplined Skin

Jack Gordon

When Robert McLeod and his flatmate Angelo travel to a remote Scottish island, they anticipate a relaxing holiday in Robert's newly inherited cottage. Kelpie Island has a strange, rocky beauty, the natives are friendly, and welcome the blond Englishman and the coffee-skinned Argentinian with open arms. 
 
But all is not what it seems. Robert's secret feelings for the handsome Angelo continue to grow, whilst Kelpie Island and its inhabitants are keepers of a more ancient secret, their hospitality hiding a deeper motive. 
 
As Angelo becomes increasingly beguiled by the domineering rulers of the island - and Robert wrestles with pangs of jealousy while assuaging his desires with its willing inhabitants - it becomes apparent that there is more to the island's traditions than either man could ever imagine.

Dark Rider

Jan Smith

In 1314, as a bitter Highland winter draws in, Lady Blanche McNaghten, the young widow of a chieftain is rediscovering her taste for sexual pleasures. Then fate throws her into the path of Black McGregor, a sworn enemy. 
 
Can their mutual lust for each other diminish the natural antagonism?

To Take A Queen

Rupert Thomas

The year is 1924. James Cardell has just left school and is preparing for Oxford. However, before the strict routine of university life begins, he is allowed to spend the summer holidays with his cousins in a tiny village in the Kent countryside. There he can pursue his frowned-upon love for painting, and begin to explore his secret obsession with the male physique. 
 
Through his cousin's guidance and the mysterious activities of the village lads, James comes to discover the pleasures of his forbidden impulses. There is one boy in particular whom he longs to possess - the beautiful, muscular Gabriel. Before long, they both find themselves entwined within a web of youthful folly and dark erotic initiation.

Customs Of The Country

Patty Glenn

In order to win back her inheritance, bad girl Martha will agree to anything to help her stay on the straight and narrow - including accepting a dangerous job and a marriage proposal from a dark strapping stranger with almond-shaped eyes and a taste for the nasty. She's been living on the wrong side of the tracks, slumming it with Hollywood hustlers, but now it's reckoning time. 
 
Private investigator Joaquin Lee reckons he can help Martha to get what she wants, and when the sexual attraction is this intense, she's not about to argue. But is Lee really as honest as he makes out? Or is he looking to pocket a cut of her money for himself. 
 
A dynamic battle of wills between two very stubborn, very sexy characters.

The Reluctant Princess

Doug Crandell

Brad Orville has always wanted hair - lots of it, preferably thick and wavy - but he started going bald in the seventh grade. What makes it worse is the fact that his smart and charming brother Compton has a full head of gorgeous locks, still going strong as they enter middle age. But then Compton suffers a traumatic brain injury and Brad must take care of him 24/7. Yet Compton - even in his addled state - seems to somehow thrive, marrying the woman of his dreams, Peaches, while Brad turns to booze, Internet dating, and a toupee for solace. Happiness however might be a lot closer than Brad ever imagined, and it doesn't even involve fake hair.

Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed

Tina Troy

Lili wrestles men for money. And they pay well. She's the best in the business and her powerful body and stunning looks have her gentleman visitors begging for more rough treatment. Her golden rule is never to date a client, but when James Travers starts using her services she relents and accepts a date. 
 
Lili cannot help but be intrigued by his mystery, power and obvious wealth. But is she doing the right thing by getting involved with a stranger? Always a control freak, she discovers her own pleasure is in submission of a different kind. It is a conflict that's difficult to live with.

Playing Hard

Anna Clare

Claire Sawyer is a PR queen with the breasts of Venus di Milo and the morals of Attila the Hun. At the sharp end of the celebrity food chain she is amoral yet pragmatic. 
When the opportunity arises to make a star out of James-a scruffy sociology student-Claire and her friend Santosh waste no time in giving the young man the make-over of his life. He soon becomes the beau of the London celeb circuit, fraternising with louche young rock stars and models. What Claire and Santosh don’t bank on is their living boy toy having a strong mind and sexuality of his own.

Make You A Man

Michelle M Pillow

Just what the Doctor ordered...? 
 
Super smart Dr Victor Richmond doesn't make time for women or dating. He is obsessed with his research. 
 
Kat Matthews is a free spirit who believes that life is an adventure. When she meets an eccentric, rich couple they make her a bizarre proposition. They want to hire her to date their son. And not just date him. They want her to train him in how to date so he'll continue doing so afterward. 
 
But underneath his super-nerd exterior this scientist is super hot...and Kat's about to get more than she bargained for... 
 
Book one in the Matthews Sisters series.

Bit by the Bug: A Rouge Erotic Romance

Tesni Morgan

Amber, Sue and Diane - three women from an English market town - are successful in their businesses, but all want more from their private lives. When they become involved in the Silver Banner - an English Civil War re-enactment society- there's plenty of opportunity for them to fraternise with the handsome muscular men in historical uniform. Thing is, the fun-loving Cavaliers are much sexier than the puritan Roundheads, and the tensions are rivalries are played out on the village green and in the bedroom. 
 
Great characterisation and oodles of sexy fun in this story of three friends who love dressing up for a romp.

Heat Of The Moment

Truscott faces the prospect of living on his brother's charity. His efforts to make his fortune lead him along a path of debauchery and perversion, from stripping girls in a brothel to indulging three at once in a Belgravia drawing room. Meanwhile, his wife is pursued by the sadistic d'Aignan. 
Part of Aishling Morgan's Truscott saga.

Purity

Anna Lieff Saxby

An erotic 18th Century-set romp. 
 
The year is 1720 and Lady Celine Fortescue is summoned by her father, Sir James, to join him on St Cecilia, the turbulent tropical island which he governs. But the girl who steps off the boat into the languid, intoxicating heat isn't the same girl who was content to stay at needle work in a dull Surrey mansion. 
 
On a moonlit light, perfumed with the scent of night blooming flowers, Celine liaises with Liam O'Brian, one of the ship's officers to whom she became secretly betrothed on the long sea voyage. Their plans are thwarted , however, by her father and at the hands of Lord Odo Wraxall, a debauched rake with a penchant for nubile girls. Celine is thrown into confusion by Wraxall, whose arrogance and cruelty betray his preference for darker pleasures. 
 
Exotic and opulent, this story of indulgent luxury is stimulation for the senses and not without a wicked streak of humour.

Lord Wraxall's Fancy

Robert Black

Three men are committed to Her Majesty's Prison Cairncrow on the same day. There's Paul - a young, tough inner-city robber. Simon, by contrast, is gentle, feminine, and obviously gay, and the third, John, is an ex-vicar. The prison is a corrupt and cruel institution, run by sadistic officers and bullying hard men. It's also a sexual minefield - the old-timers prey on the newcomers and the guards prey on everybody. Will the three new inmates find their niche in this brutish new environment?

Hard Time

A shiver passed through her body as she thought of what favours she might offer, and how she could hint at what she desired, yet still feign reluctance and into the most delightfully improper acts. She knew enough to populate her imagination with highly vivid scenes. A man was not strictly necessary, although she wanted one very badly indeed. 
In a foggy Victorian London, gambler Edward Trent manages to lose all his worldly goods and the right to Nell's virginity to the money lender Daniel Quilty. Charles Truscott rescues Nell from her fate but cannot resist taking advantage of both her innocence and her voluptous body, as does just about everybody she meets as she flees London for Plymouth with Quilty in pursuit. 
Part of the Truscott Saga series - historical erotica following the depraved adventures of the Truscott family from the eighteenth century onwards. Other titles in this series include Demonic Congress, The Rake, Purity, Velvet Skin, Conceit and Consequence, Beastly Behaviour and Portrait of a Disciplinarian.

The Old Perversity Shop

Morgana Baron

As Charlotte travels to Europe to claim her share of her father's legacy, her thoughts turn inevitably to Veronica, her sensual, sadistic stepsister, whom she will be seeing again for the first time in years. Charlotte's fear and hatred of Veronica is tempered by insurmountable lust, and by her taste for submission, bondage and masochism. 
 
The sisters' destination is Steinreich, a tiny self governing principality which, for centuries, has been a haven for some very unlikely refugees. Its inhabitants seem happy to live according to its bizarre laws and customs and Veronica, too, seems quite at home there. 
Charlotte, however, dreads to think of what she will be forced to endure for the next month, in order to qualify for her inheritance.

Rue Marquis De Sade

Conceit and Consequence follows Lucy Truscott and her three female cousins through a series of romantic entanglements- some more bizarre than others - with spankings and other assorted humiliations inflicted on the girls by the bossy Lucy on the way. 
Smuggling, swashbuckling and sodomy mix in a plot that's tighter than Mr Darcy's breeches. 
Part of Aishling Morgan's Truscott saga. Other titles include Purity, The Rake and Beastly Behaviour.

Conceit and Consequence

Juliet Hastings

Young academic Catherine de la Tour is not content. Her lover James is a thousand miles away and she needs to get a grip on her work, her man and her life. When she accepts a post as artist-in residence at Cambridge she thinks it'll be just the break she needs. But once there she soon gets involved in the world sex lives of both her male and female students.

Dreaming Spires

Jack Stevens

The Fellowship of Iron. What is it? Who is it? Why do the men involved with it end up dead? 
 
Mike's a professional bodybuilder. Richard's an up-and-coming journalist. They're very much in love. But their world is torn apart and their lives put in danger when Mike's former lover and bodybuilding mentor is found dead, and they learn for the first time of the Fellowship of Iron. Suddenly the two young men are caught up in a vicious game of revenge, lies and betrayal that threatens to destroy their relationship as they are plunged into a world of dangerous men, sweat and pumping muscles.

Fellowship of Iron

Helena Ravenscroft

It is 1745, and Lydia Hawkesworth feels torn between her love for highwayman Drummond and her passion for his decadent younger brother Valerian. 
 
With the arrival at Hawkesworth Manor of the icy French beauty, Madame de Chaillot, Valerian's plans to steal his brother's inheritance turn down a sinister path - one which Lydia is drawn to follow.

Stand and Deliver

Silk &amp; Strangers is a collection of eight short stories set in the world of adventurous, uninhibited sex. Wife-swapping, swinging, dogging, exhibitionism and voyeurism are all explored in vivid detail by some of the best erotic writers around, including Lucy Felthouse, Monica Belle and Cat Scarlett.

Silk & Strangers

Mathilde Madden

The first in a werewolf paranormal trilogy from the acclaimed author, Mathilde Madden 
 
Eleven years ago a powerful ancient werewolf ripped Iris's life apart. One full moon night it attacked the two people she loved most in the world, killing her twin brother and leaving her boyfriend Alfie changed forever. Iris and Alfie vowed revenge on the Beast, but when Alfie began to show a twisted loyalty to the creature who had made him, Iris lost him too. 
 
Now, Alfie is back in Oxford where Iris - still haunted by her dead brother - is heading up the Vix, a shadowy organisation dedicated to killing his kind. But Alfie needs Iris's help or what the Beast did to him that night may yet prove fatal. His only hope of keeping his deadly beast under control is the Silver Collar - an ancient artefact currently owned by the Vix. But Iris isn't prepared to help Alfie secure it until he agrees to defy the rules of his kind and help her avenge Matthew's death.

The Silver Collar

G C Scott

Richard and his German girlfriend Helena have cocooned themselves in the English countryside, to live out their private - and elaborate - fantasies of submission and domination. But their rural idyll is threatened by the arrival of Helena's aunt Margaret - an imperious woman with very strict house rules and some very shady friends, who always gets what she wants. And what she wants is Richard...

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