Fantasy You have nothing to lose but your inhibitions... "Luisa's Desire" by Emma Holly An exotic vampire romance set in Renaissance Tibet. Will Luisa's desire prove too much for a humble monk? "The Widow's Auction" The widowed Isobel Lamberton, Lady Kingsley, and Justin Antony, the Marquess Warbrooke, always clash over the running of a charity they're both involved with. But secretly Isobel is attracted to the marquess, despite her realization that her dark past and his political aspirations would prevent them from ever being together. Then Isobel allows her fellow widow and friend to talk her into participating in a scandalous auction of masked merry widows at a gentlemen's club. When the fearsome marquess shows up and actually bids on her, she's torn between panic and an urge to give in to her desires for just one night. Justin has other reasons for being at the club than the widows' auction . . . until a beautiful masked woman named "Bella" opens her mouth on the dais. Realizing she's the same Lady Kingsley who's bedeviled him for months, he sets out to win the bid. He plans to teach the lofty Lady Kingsley a lesson about participating in dangerous private auctions. Instead, she teaches him that appearances can be deceiving, and desire is a danger all its own. But can he convince Isobel to let go of her past and embrace a future with a man so different from herself?
Jove, April 2002 |






