Series: X Libris

In the soft candle light, the stranger's body looked even more beautiful than she remembered. Cherry ran her hands wonderingly over his wide shoulders. She traced the outline of his square pectoral muscles and planted reverent kisses on each of his nipples. The stranger rolled over on to his back and Cherry bent her head until her lips touched him. She wanted to taste him as well as touch him. She wanted him so much...' Cherry Valentine is the hard-partying gossip columnist for a national tabloid newspaper but the party really begins when she gatecrashes an exotic launch party by pretending to be a fashion editor. Always the last to leave, she takes someone else's lift home, only to find herself in an empty house with a sexy secret in the cellar. Who is the mystery man in the mask who understands Cherry's most intimate needs? Is he her Prince Charming or something more sinister? While Cherry attempts to unmask her lover, her nights are full of strange erotic dreams while her days are filled with her able-bodied - but ambitious - work experience boy.

Inspiration

by Stephanie Ash

Published 7 September 1995

This was how she liked to be kissed. Feeling that the other person was stealing something from her each time his tongue entered her mouth . . . as if he would never be able to touch her again and wanted to remember the way she was with all his senses . . .

They were both talented painters, but three years of struggling to make a living from art have rather taken the edge off Clare's relationship with her bpyfriend. The temptation to add a few more colours to her palette seems increasingly attractive - and proves irresistible when she meets the enigmatic and charming Steve.

But their affair is complicated when Steve's beautiful wife asks Clare to paint his portrait as a birthday surprise. Clare is more than happy to suffer for her art - indulging in some passionate studies of her model and her client - but when a jealous friend gets involved the situation calls for more intimate inspiration.

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Musical Affairs

by Stephanie Ash

Published 2 May 1996

Erotica Omnibus

by Stephanie Ash, Anastasia Dubois, and Mariah Greene

Published 1 November 2001

MUSICAL AFFAIRS by Stephanie Ash: A singer-songwriter on her way to the top, Amelia Ashton is determined to sort out her affairs, both musical and otherwise...ETERNAL KISS by Anastasia Dubois: Searching for an ancient lost book of erotic pictures, archaeologist Venetia Fellowes finds that life can imitate art...SHOPPING AROUND by Mariah Greene: Unable to decide between her would-be lovers at the large department store where she works, Karen Taylor decides that sampling the goods is half the fun...

A Slave to His Kiss

by Anastasia Dubois

Published 4 May 1995

Sleeping Partner

by Mariah Greene

Published 6 June 1996

Emma Fox, an investment banker, gives up her position on Wall Street and returns to England to work under the guise of a junior at a London property agency in which she has become a silent partner. In the process, she has a succession of sexual encounters and uncovers a fraud at the agency.