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Monica Belle

Work hard, play harder. . . 
 
Eclipsed by the high-powered businesspeople that surround her, shy Laura Irving spends her time absorbed in her own workplace-fantasies. 
 
So when the masterful and arrogant man known as ‘The Devil’ begins to show interest she is both terrified and thrilled. And there is nothing she wants more than to call him ‘Master’. 
 
A classic Black Lace tale of a love-hate affair and an explosive relationship.

To Seek A Master: Black Lace Classics

Laura Thornton

Clarissa Cornwall is a respectable university lecturer who has little time for romance until she encounters the insolently sexy Nicholas St Clair in her class on erotic literature. Suddenly her position – and the age gap between them – no longer matters as she finds herself becoming obsessed with this provocative young man. He likes playing power games and she begins to take more and more risks in an effort to satisfy her sexual appetite for his fit young body. But as the tables are turned, and Nick encourages Clarissa to explore her own erotic horizons, who actually ends up teaching whom?

The Name of an Angel

Portia Da Costa

As the metropolis sizzles in early summer temperatures, identical twin sisters Deana and Delia Ferraro are cooking up a heatwave of their own. Surrounded by an atmosphere of relentless humidity, Deanna and Delia find themselves rivals for the attentions of Jackson de Guile - a wealthy entrepreneur and master of power dynamics - who draws them both into a web of luxurious debauchery. Their erotic encounters become increasingly bizarre as Deanna and her twin vie for the rewards that pleasuring him brings them...

Gemini Heat

Janine Ashbless

Avril Shearing is a landscape gardener brought in to reclaim an overgrown woodland for the handsome and manipulative Michael Deverick. But among the trees lurks a tribe of environmental activists determined to stop anyone getting in, led by the enigmatic Ash who regards Michael as his mortal enemy. Avril soon discovers that on the Kester Estate nothing is as it seems. Creatures that belong in dreams or in nightmares emerge after dark to prowl the grounds, and hidden in the heart of the wood is something so important that people will kill, or die, for it. Ash and Michael become locked in a deadly battle for the Wildwood - and for Avril herself.

Wildwood

Olivia Knight

Three novellas of forbidden desire and otherworldly passions, from the leading names in erotic fiction, including the Sunday Times bestselling author Portia Da Costa. 
 
The House of Dust by Janine Ashbless: 
A young Queen who must descend into the Underworld to bring her lover back from the dead... 
 
Ill Met by Moonlight by Portia Da Costa: 
A handsome, yet enigmatic stranger who yearns to experience human love and desire... 
 
The Dragon Lord by Olivia Knight: 
And a Princess with a sizzling secret which is about to be unleashed...

Magic and Desire

Black Lace Classics

For Sophie Page, the job of warden at Elmcote Hall is a dream come true. The beauty of the old house and the overgrown grounds speaks to her love of nature. As a venue for weddings, films and exotic parties the Hall draws curious and intersting people, including the handsome Richard Fox and his friends - who are equally alluring and more puzzling still. 
 
Sophie suspects that Fox is responsible for the sexually charged events taking place by night in the woods around the Hall. However, he is only carrying on a tradition; Elmcote's Victorian owner - the eccentric occultist, Elgar Vaughan - used the grounds for Dionysian sex rituals, and now it's Sophie's turn to find out just how much fun can be had with the old ways of worship.

Pagan Heat

Vivienne Lafay

In Renaissance Italy, Carla Buonomi is determined to find a new life for herself where she can put her artistic talents to good use. Dressed as a boy - albeit a very pretty one - she travels to Florence and finds work as an apprentice to master craftsman, Piero Cortoni. All goes well until she is expected to perform licentious favours for her employer - who discovers her gender bending secret. In an atmosphere of repressed passion, Carla has to ensure that Piero keeps his word. If the Guild of Apothecaries finds out, she will face not only expulsion but also severe and humiliating punishment.

Artistic Licence

Judith Roycroft

Faron Lonsdale is an ambitious young reporter, always searching for the scoop that will rocket her to journalistic fame. In search of a story about celibacy she infiltrates St Peter's, a seminary for young men who are about to sacrifice earthly pleasures for a life of devotion and abstinence. What she unveils are nocturnal shenanigans in a cloistered world that is anything but chaste. And the high proportion of good-looking young men makes her research all the more pleasurable. But will she reveal the secrets of St Peter's to the outside world, or will she be complicit in keeping quiet about the activities of the gentlemen priests?

Confessional

Lisette Allen

They come from different worlds. but their paths are destined to cross. 
 
Liam is a working-class journalist fighting a passionate battle against environmental injustice. Rebecca is a spoilt rich girl used to having whatever and whoever, she wants. They are thrown into a dangerous intimacy with each other when Liam - on the run from an irate enemy - is forced to hijack Rebecca's car. Using his rugged charm, he manages to access her true sexuality - something no man has ever done. The usually cool Rebecca is forced to make a choice between her sophisticated but bland lifestyle and the exciting but unpredictable world offered by her charismatic captor.

Risky Business

Eden Bradley

Ever been tempted…? 
 
While Mia Curry’s university students cram into her class on sexuality, Mia has always kept her own private fantasies carefully under wraps – until now... 
 
Jagger James is everything Mia wants and everything that is taboo: he’s young, gorgeous – and a student. 
 
But how can Mia resist? 
 
From the bestselling author of The Dark Garden comes an irresistibly romantic tale of forbidden attraction.

Forbidden Fruit

Leonie Martell

Three top authors writing three erotic fairytales 
 
Bear Skin: Hazel is whisked away from her tedious job and humdrum life by the mysterious Arailt, to be his lover 'for a year and a day, without reason and without question.' The only problem is there is more to Arailt than meets the eye - much more! 
 
The Three Riddles: The elves, they say, know the secrets of events - but the queen has no time for superstitions. Ignoring the warnings, she deserts her childhood love, Sir Thomas, for a darkly charismatic foreign duke. As her kingdom crumbles, she longs for her lost love, but can she risk her country on a whim? 
 
The People in the Garden: The beguiling Katia seems to be everything the Count and Countess Malinovsky could ever hope for in a maid and the decadent couple soon embroil the young women in their erotic games. But then strange things begin happening in the grounds of their Gothic manor house. Local people tell of fairies, goblins and unnamable creatures, and there are stories about a girl with an uncanny resemblance to Katia, who disappeared almost a hundred years before.

Enchanted

Erotic Fairy Tales

Hot erotica from Portia da Costa - grande dame of Black Lace 
 
Jay Bentley is a man with issues. Haunted by physical and psychological demons, he seeks solace and sexual oblivion in the pursuit of an exquisite erotic daydream from his youth, and the reality of a woman who has illuminated his inner fantasies since a brief meeting years ago. 
 
Sandy Jackson has always known that a certain magic is 'missing' from her life. She's feisty and philosophical, but her dreams are filled with heated images of a handsome Prince Charming she once encountered, a man who will kiss everything better and thrill her with glorious, dangerous pleasure. 
 
But the past is an illusion, and the present fraught with conflict and uneasy compromise ... can two passionate lovers reconcile their differences and slake their burning sensual hunger for each other in a wild and daring liaison?

Kiss it Better

Talented chef Juliet Eden imagines she has the perfect marriage to Toby - a titled aristocrat - and no need to stray from her vows of fidelity. Yet when temptation comes in the form of rough sex with the barely civilised gamekeeper, Ian Marsh, she finds it surprisingly easy to give in. 
 
Naughty Juliet persuades her husband to accept an invitation to a boating holiday, only to discover that the hosts are also offering the lure of saucy delights. Neither Juliet not Toby is able to resist. But once on board, there's a clash of sexual personalities. There's a foxy minx called Annabelle in the crew, and she's got her eye on Toby. However, everyone is determined to get to grips with the notorious rogue who calls himself the spanking Major. It's full steam ahead for an orgasm-packed excursion

Wild By Nature

Mercedes Kelly

Janet McKinnon has been incarcerated in the Sultan's harem for two years. Rosemary McKinnon has recently joined her. Both women were married to a handsome but dissolute Scottish missionary based in Kenya, whose sexual tastes ran contradictory to his religious calling. 
 
Mathilde Valentine is settling into life as a medic in McKinnon's East African mission post. It's a place of mystery and danger and is warned by the rugged game warden - Olensky - to be wary of her new employer. Ignoring his advice, Mathilde is soon sent to the harem, where she has to deal with the demanding Sultan, his sadistic brother and the Sultan's spoilt and sexually rampant son. Meanwhile Olensky - her 'lion lover' - is plotting to bring about her escape. But by the time he makes it to the harem, will she even want to be rescued.

The Lion Lover

Emma Holly

Dancer Chloe Dubois is a heady combination of innocence and sultry seduction, and Japanese-American businessman David Imakita will risk everything he has to keep her: his career, his friends, even his integrity - such is her power over him. 
 
But who is this temptress and what does she want? Is it money, prestige or just love? David's ex-Sumo bodyguard, Sato, believes Chloe will cause havoc in their ordered lives, and turns up information on her that is far from pretty. The warning signs are there, but it is already too late for David, who is under her spell and besotted. Will this unrepentant temptress overturn her wild ways and accept the opportunity to change her life for the better, or will the dark family secrets of her past resurface and destroy them both?

In the Flesh

She’s a good girl gone bad... 
 
When Maria Lewis moves back to her hometown, the quiet life she is looking for is quickly disrupted by the enigmatic presence of her new boss, Robert Stone. 
 
A sexy, powerful older man, he seduces Maria into a deliciously erotic underworld. But will she ever be more than Mr Stone’s plaything? 
 
A tantalizing erotic romance from Portia Da Costa, the Sunday Times bestselling author of In Too Deep and The ‘Accidental’ Trilogy

Entertaining Mr Stone

Georgina Brown

Erotica meets bonkbuster in this steamy tale of hunks and horses... 
 
The world of showjumping is as steamy as it is competitive. Ambitious young rider Penny Bennett enters into a wager with her oldest rival and friend, Ariadne, to win her thoroughbred stallion, guaranteed to bring Penny money and success. But first she must attain the sponsorship and very personal attention of showjumping's biggest impresario, Alister Beaumont. 
 
Beaumont's riding school, however, is not all it seems.There's the weird relationship between Alister and his cigar-smoking sister. And the bizarre clothes they want Penny to wear. But in this atmosphere of unbridled kinkiness, Penny is determined not only to win the wager but to discover the truth about Beaumont's strange hobbies.

The Stallion

A lavish 18th century-set Erotic historical 
 
It's September 1792 and France is in the throes of violent revolution. Young actress Nicole Chabrier came to Paris four years earlier to seek fame and fortune with the Paris Opera but now her life is in danger from the hordes who are venting their anger on the decadent aristocracy. Rescued by a handsome stranger who has been badly wronged by the nobility, Nicole soon becomes ruled by her passion for this man. Together they seek a reversal of fortune using their charm, good looks and sexual magnetism.

Nicole's Revenge

Regina Perry

Everyone’s heard the Katy Perry song, but have you ever been tempted...? 
 
If so, you’re not alone: most heterosexual women have had same-sex fantasies, and this diverse collection of short erotic fiction takes us way beyond kissing. 
 
Indulge yourself in these kinky girl stories from around the globe and women from every walk of life and culture who are curious and eager to explore their full sexuality...with each other. 
 
Black Lace Books: the leading imprint of erotic fiction by women for women 
 
Contributors include: 
 
C. Margery Kempe 
Lousia Bacio 
Inara Lavey 
Samantha Jones 
K. Ann Karlsson 
Kilt Kilpatrick 
Nola Erus 
Farrah J. Phoenix 
Jen Bluekissed 
L.A. Mistral 
Lucy Felthouse 
Regina Perry

I Kissed a Girl

Edie Bingham

Hailed as one of the best paranormal erotic romances of the year... 
 
Beautiful tour guide Kami Osbank is known in her Turkish village as a seductive, formidable young woman. But she is so much more than that. Incredibly fit, strong and sensual. she is actually a member of an ancient race known as The Pride. She should stay with her own species, but Kami wants to live in the contemporary world and have fun, where sexual experience is part of a loving relationship. The only problem is that when Kami gets aroused she morphs into a demoness and more than one British holidaymaker has fallen for her deadly charm. 
 
Everything changes when English tourist Mark Healey arrives in Turkey. Mark is different from the other men, and he and Kami find an instant mutual attraction that shocks and stuns both of them. Yet Kami dare not go too far, or Mark's life may be in danger.

The Pride

Lessons in seduction... 
 
When Rosalind Howard takes a job as private librarian for the charming and distinguished Julian Hadey, she soon finds that cataloguing his collection of erotica will be the least of her duties. 
 
Julian requires a tutor for his wife’s cousin. Though young and beautiful, David is extremely sheltered and uninitiated in the arts of erotic love. Can Rosalind teach him all there is to know about pleasure? 
 
A kinky erotic romance from Portia Da Costa, the Sunday Times bestselling author of In Too Deep and the Accidental series.

The Tutor

Olivia Christie

A lavish erotic historical set in 20th century France 
 
Paris, 1935. Devastated by the sudden death of her husband, exotic dancer Georgia d'Essange wants to be left alone to grieve. However, her stepson Dominic has inherited his father's business and demands Georgia's help in running it. 
 
The business is an exclusive clube where women of means can indulge their sexual whims with men of their choice and take advantage of the esoteric delights Parisian nightlife has to offer. 
 
Dominic soon proves eager to take his father's place but Georgia's first lover, Theo Sands - now a rich, successful artist - appears on the scene. In an atmosphere if increasing sexual tension, can everyone's desires be satisfied?

Dance Of Obsession

Fredrica Alleyn

Classic erotica from the very first Black Lace writer 
 
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 eager to free his mistress Bethany than his quiet wife.

Fiona's Fate

Erotic Romance

Crystalle Valentino

All’s fair in love and war... 
 
Rosie Cooper isn’t afraid of getting her hands dirty. So when a rival gardening company begins stealing her clients, she doesn’t hesitate to confront the man in charge. 
 
But Ben Hunter is a charmer. Having persuaded Rosie’s female customers to switch to him, will he also succeed in seducing Rosie into submission? 
 
Black Lace Classics – our best erotic fiction ever from our leading authors.

Personal Services: Black Lace Classics

Step into the red collection… 
 
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of In Too Deep, this collection brings you a stunning array of Portia Da Costa’s short fiction – brought together in one volume for the first time. 
 
The Red Collection includes three new hot short stories and two Black Lace novellas. 
 
Discover why Portia Da Costa is the queen of erotic romance.

The Red Collection

Carrie Williams

Cocktails, room service, spa treatments: Alicia Shaw is a girl who just can't say no to the little perks of being a private tour guide in London. Whether it's the Hollywood producer with whom she romps in the private screening room of one of London's most luxurious hotels, or the Australian pilot whose exhibitionist fantasies reach a new height on the London Eye, Alicia finds that flirtation - and more - is part of the territory. 
But when internationally renowned flamenco dancer and heartthrob Paco Manchega, and his lovely young wife Carlotta, take her on as their guide, Alicia begins to wonder if she has bitten off more than she can chew. As the couple unleash curious appetites in Alicia, taking her to places more darkly beautiful than she has ever known, she begins to suspect she is being used as the pawn in some strange marital game.

The Blue Guide

Eve Berlin

Connor Galloway is about to meet his match. 
 
Mischa Kennon may be willing to let the sexy Irishman into her bed, but many a dominant man has tried to tame her and failed. 
 
Only for all Mischa’s talk she’s relatively inexperienced when it comes to intimate power games. Can Connor tempt her to surrender to her innermost desires? 
 
A dark sensual romantic novel perfect for fans of E.L. James, from the acclaimed author of Pleasure’s Edge and Desire’s Edge.

Temptation's Edge

Audrey Popkin realises she has bitten off more than she can chew when she gets embroiled with icy-cool banker, Sterling Foster. His ideas about how to have fun are more bizarre than any English Literature graduate should have to put up with! One morning she packs her bags and walks out of his luxury Florida apartment, heading back to Washington DC in search of a more regular deal with a more regular guy. But, for a girl like Audrey, this is not as easy as it sounds. 
 
When Patrick Dugan, the charismatic owner of an old-world bar with a talent for mixing the smoothest cocktails, fixes Audrey in his sights, some strange alliances are about to be formed. Within a week Audrey talks her way into a job at Patrick's bar and a room in the apartment he shares with a drag queen jazz singer called Basil - who has a great line in platinum wigs. Audrey soon realises that Patrick is not all he seems. Why is he pretending to be gay? And what is he covering up for his father, a pillar of the local community? Audrey is so besotted with the enigmatic barman that she doesn't realise they are connected by a mutual adversary - a steely, cold-hearted son of a bitch who will take them all down if he doesn't get his little plaything back. 
 
A fast-paced tale of everyday, amoral folk and the delicious cocktails they drink!

Velvet Glove

Primula Bond

Club Crème, where anything goes – as long as it’s behind closed doors 
 
Debonair Sir Simeon founded the exclusive gentlemen's club in London for men who like to indulge in old-fashioned frolics and nights of intimate abandon. When he hires spirited young Suki Summers as a housekeeper, she’s an instant hit with his punters, his enigmatic secretary Miss Sugar – and even himself. 
 
Suki revels in her new found sexual awakening, but when she has a close encounter with Sir Simeon's son, it is one step too far for her boss. Overcome with sexual jealousy, he sets an ultimatum: she must decide where her sexual loyalties really lie.

Club Crème

Angel Strand

It's the 1930s, Hitler and Mussolini are building their war machine and Europe is a hotbed of political tension. Cia, a young, Anglo-Italian woman, escapes the mayhem, returning to England only to become embroiled in a web of sexual adventures. Her Italian lover has disappeared along with her clothes, lost somewhere between Florence and the Isle of Wight. 
 
Her British friends are carrying on in the manner to which they are accustomed: sailing their yachts and partying. However, this serene facade hides rivalries and forbidden pleasures. It's only a matter of time before Cia's two worlds collide - and Britain's bright young things have to face up to their responsibilities.

Undressing The Devil

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