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Meet artist Rosemary Hall and follow her inevitable downfall brought by her lust for the famous Dorian Gray - a tale both familiar and new in this brilliant erotic mash-up of one of the world’s most beloved novels. With a mix of old fashioned Victorian debauchery and erotic 21st-century lust this cleverly sexed-up classic will leave you wanting more!

This collection features four erotic reimagining for ODC. Mr. Darcy, in moonlight, entices Lizzy in one story. In another, they have a midnight liaison in the library that leads to much more than reading. Lizzy celebrates her first night as Darcy’s bride in the third tale, and the last story is all about Lizzy’s desires.

World War II changed the lives of every GI who went into battle, but Private Paulsen’s post-war transformation proved wildly more dramatic. After undergoing one of the world’s first “sex change” operations in Europe, the private investigator returns home with a splash...and a brand new identity.

Beautiful hotwife Emma has headed off seeking her old beau, someone with whom she held a special connection many years ago—Michael. James Hutchins starts searching for his wife Emma, desperate to bring her back. James and Emma’s wealth far exceeds that of their peers, but Emma wants more. Something that is strictly forbidden in society. An extramarital affair! Stunning Emma struggles to comprehend that Michael has moved on and is now married to another woman, Jenny. Yet despite this, Emma is determined to explore intimacy with another man.

Penniless and with no prospects for marriage, twenty-one-year-old orphan Jemima Cooper has no choice but to take any work she can find, no matter how shameful. When she is sent by her employer to serve the Duke of Hillcrest, however, Jemima is surprised to discover that the handsome, eccentric nobleman intends to make her not merely his concubine but also his pet.

Lydia's Penance: Lydia is desperate to escape her stepfather's household, so when she hears the Duke of Manchester say that he doesn't care who he weds, she decides his reputation for being an honorable man and his indifference to who his wife will be makes him the perfect husband. Unfortunately, the Duke is not pleased to be trapped into a marriage with a woman who is keeping secrets from him. Can love still find a way?

When her home situation becomes unlivable, Lydia hopes to escape through a marriage and her qualifications for her new husband are not long. Unfortunately she's a too-old bluestocking with nothing to tempt a man into wedding her, but desperate times call for desperate measures. The Duke of Manchester has been tricked and trapped into marriage with the quietly stunning Miss Lydia Stafford - he just doesn't know why. She's not a fortune hunter, she's not a social-climber, and she's still a virgin.

This classic Victorian tale of a nubile girl's awakenings is a captivating, lighthearted and often humorous romp that explores her ever growing sexual desires. Innocence meets experience in this lusty narrative as she learns to shed her inhibitions with both men and women. A stimulating look at the breathless pursuits of young adulthood, My Grandmother's Tale is an outrageously unrestrained memoir that details the passions of a young woman learning the forbidden pleasures of the body.

When Lady Christina Rowan began to have feelings for her current lover, Benedict Windham, brother to the duke of Manchester, she immediately cuts him loose before she can become too attached. Or so she thought. Time away from Christina has made Benedict realize how deep his own feelings for her run; not only is she the most exciting lover he's ever had, he's actually fallen in love with her. So when he returns to London for the season, he's determined to court his former lover and turn her into his wife.

My Secret Life is an anonymously penned memoir written during a period from the 1840s to the 1880s by a wealthy and sex obsessed English gentleman who refers to himself simply as ‘Walter’. Part confessional, part investigative erotic journalism, it meticulously documents every detail of the author’s prolific sexual encounters, offering us in the process an eye and thigh opening account of life behind closed doors in the Victorian age.
Women, in both mind and body, were the all consuming object of Walter’s interest.

Using the tools of hypnosis and roleplay, Doctor Damian Thatch has helped Lady Cynthia discover that the cause of her troubling dreams are her own secret desires. Since she is a countess, however, she is unable to act on them. Since the only person who now knows her secret fantasies is Damian, her physician, she turns to him to make them real for her. Damian may be willing, but he has a price. If she wants her fantasies fulfilled, the countess must become submissive to him.

It is the winter of 1896, and the happiest man in England is surely James Montague. Following the death of a distant cousin, the bachelor finds himself owner of a large estate and guardian to three nubile young women: Cathy, Victoria and Elizabeth. A lifelong disciplinarian, James has fiendish plans for his wards - plans that involve his impressive collection of canes, straps, paddles and whips. The staff must also submit to the new master's will, as maids Alice and Rose soon discover to their cost.

Broken and devastated, the former Duke of Grandhampton, Lord Spencer Seaton, returns home from the war to find he has lost everything. Nothing will stop Spencer... except Miss Joanna Digby—intelligent, cunning, and mysterious. Spencer offers a wager that makes Joanna's heart pound. If she wins, Spencer will use his wealth and influence to assist her. If he wins, she will give him what he wants more than his next breath—her virginity.

While working in the Chester household as a governess, the innocent Clara becomes sexually involved with Herbert Chester, her employer. Then, when the beautiful Catherine, Herbert's sister-in-law and secret lover, comes to stay at the house, Catherine introduces Clara into the pleasures of being with a woman. On learning how the women are enjoying each other, Herbert encourages them into a threesome with him. This spurs jealousy in Catherine, however, and Clara is dismissed.

In this sequel to Dominus, Gaius Fabius Rufus, the victorious general of Rome’s brutal Dacian Wars, finds his loyalties and his affections pulled in different directions. Should he return to Rome and secure his claim to the imperial throne, or remain at his seaside villa and protect his pleasure slave, the fierce Dacian prince, Allerix? Retaliation for the murder of his beloved friend beckons him home, but his desire for justice could put both him and Allerix in mortal danger. As Gaius’s deceptions multiply, another tragedy strikes.

Deze trilogie vertelt ons het verhaal achter het ontstaan van dit mythische werk, via het zwoele leven van Constance en haar vele minnaars. In dit deel wordt het verhaal verteld van haar vurige en dronken liefdesaffaire met Khalil, een Turks-Egyptische diplomaat, een flamboyante figuur in de Parijse elite van de jaren 1860 en de opdrachtgever van het schilderij. Dit verhaal is geïnspireerd op het beroemde schilderij De oorsprong van de wereld van Gustave Courbet, waarop enkel een vrouwelijk geslachtsdeel wordt afgebeeld.

Tess is een fraaie acrobate die zowel door haar acrobatiek als haar levendige, flamboyante charme het publiek weet te betoveren. Op tournee met haar circus komt ze Noah tegen, een plaatselijke illusionist die haar al bij de eerste ontmoeting fascineert. Vervolgens stelt ze verbaasd vast hoe ze zich probeert voor te stellen wat voor vonken de vakkundige aanraking van een goochelaar en de soepelheid van een acrobate zouden kunnen voortbrengen.

Om Khalil te vergeten, wiens huwelijksaanzoek Constance synoniem staat voor dienstbaarheid, en haar zou beroven van een vrijheid die haar erg dierbaar is, vindt Constance troost in de armen van nieuwe vluchtig voorbijkomende minnaars. Als fervente lezeres van de goddelijke Markies kent zij geen taboes, geen grenzen, behalve wederzijdse toestemming.

An epic tale sweeping across two lifetimes, Finding Mary Jane bridges the gap between the erotic haze of Brisbane’s nineteen seventies to the city's wild alternate punk scene a decade later - and takes us on a journey far beyond. Our story begins with Mary Jane - a naive nursing student who finds herself in an unspeakable situation. Then we meet Annie - a troubled young woman whose story is based in more modern times as she searches for her birth mother and, in turn, the truth of her own identity.

Sophia Perkins is a member of the Bow Street Ladies, a group of women that investigates crimes cast aside by the Bow Street Runners of the Home Office. With the help of her fellow "Ladies" Sophia is determined to uncover the truth about the murder of the Marquess of Arlington. Marcus Harrington, the Duke of Raqueport, has been fighting his past and future. With responsibilities to his family, he has found an outlet to quell his anger in the dark recesses of the London underground.