Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Cassidy Burke has the best of both worlds - a driven and successful husband and a wild, impulsive best friend. But after a decadent Mardi Gras party, Cassidy finds both men pulling away from her. Did the three of them awaken secret desires during a split second of alcohol-fueled passion? Or is Mardi Gras a time when rules are meant to be broken without consequence? Only one thing is for certain: the chill that's descended over her marriage and her most important friendship will soon turn into a deep freeze if she doesn't do something. And soon.

The storm is coming. Lacey Salt's world shattered with the death of her brother, and now the usually sweet-tempered girl is determined to take back some control - even if that means sabotaging her best friend, Mallory, and Mallory's new boyfriend, Luis.

Marisol Moreno has spent her youth taking care of her younger siblings. Now, with her sister, Ginny, in crisis and her brother in the throes of his first real relationship, she doesn't have time for anything else. Especially not the overtures of the incredibly compelling Patrick Murphy.

A flirty game of sexual truth or dare between best man Wynton Grant and maid of honor Melissa Lockhart during their BFFs' wedding reception results in a steamy hookup. But their plans for a one and done change when a family crisis leaves Wyn shorthanded at the Grant Ranch. Experienced horsewoman Mel volunteers to help out and gets way more than she bargained for living under the same roof as the sexy rancher. Playing house has never appealed to Wyn...until now.

World champion bulldogger Sutton Grant works hard on the road, but his quiet charm has earned him the nickname "The Saint" because he's never been the love 'em and leave 'em type with the ladies. When he's sidelined by an injury, he needs help keeping his horse in competition shape, but he fears trying to sweet-talk premier horse trainer London Gradsky is a losing proposition - because the woman sorta despises him.

Get ready. The storm is coming. As the citizens of Storm, Texas, sway in the wake of the death of one of their own, Daddy's girl Dakota Alvarez also reels from an unexpected family crisis...and finds consolation in a most unexpected place.

Chelsea Crawford and Ian Rafferty are high profile ad execs in cutthroat competition for a client. When a major winter storm puts New York City on lockdown, the two rivals have to make it through the night together - oh, the many ways in which opposites attract....

"Kalopsia", a word meaning "the delusion of things being more beautiful than they actually are", is what happens to us when we think we've fallen in love. Almost-love Stories is a collection of four short stories that almost ended well. Love isn't the way romance novels make it seem. Happily ever after doesn't exist and love is blind, but perhaps we should open our eyes.

Former Russian spy, Sergei Lanksy, code name the Bear, is hibernating on the Edge of Alaska. He lures the woman he loves to the Edge of Reason Lodge, hoping enough time has passed that her heart has softened and her knives have dulled. Kate 'No Mercy' Mercer is a CIA Agent sent to assassinate him. Again. This time she intends to succeed without ending up in his bed. She has a dozen reasons to kill him and one of them is personal.

Let it…OH GOD! Add some spice to the season with our Hot Holiday Reads series. With contributions by your favorite Fuse Literary authors and more, you’re bound to (if that’s what you’re into) enjoy this blend of sexy contemporary and fantasy stories about knocking stockings.

Why should you play hard to get when you can play with fire? The forbidden has never been so appealing as it is in Alison Tyler's latest collection. In these incendiary stories that explore the taboo side of erotica, couples go about setting their boundaries aflame. Committed to each other without question, they play out their naughtiest fantasies, pushing the limits of sex, lust, and the imagination as far as they can to please each other.

Best Gay Romance 2009 is short fiction at its finest on the subject of love-first love, true love, and love everlasting (with makeup sex, wake-up sex, and everything in between). The romantic possibilities range from a surprising encounter between two blue-collar buddies to a brief airport rendezvous that become something more, and a reminder to us all that it is never too late for love. A self-confessed true romantic, Richard Labont has gathered a sensational collection of stories about finding love at home, at work, at any age, and often, in the most unexpected places.

Fast girls don't mind being the girl everyone is talking about, as long as all eyes are focused their way. They are wanton, daring, shameless, and bold. Fast Girls celebrates the girl with a reputation, the girl who goes all the way, and the girl who doesn't know how to say "no." Featuring writing by Tristan Taormino, Kayla Perrin, Donna George Storey, D. L. King, Kristina Wright, Saskia Walker, Jacqueline Applebee, Tess Danesi, and others, Fast Girls is a racy, provocative collection of erotica by the cream of the crop of female erotica writers.

Experience the thrill of submission to the woman who dominates you day and night. In this collection, naughty boys get what's coming to them from wicked wives and stern mistresses. From a naked party plaything at the mercy of a room full of powerful women to being tied up and shown how to truly please the woman of your dreams, these men get fully teased and taunted, receiving the punishments they truly deserve and crave.

No doubt about it: hotel rooms are hot. The minute you slip the key in the door, you want to strip off your clothes and dive naked between the sheets, whether there's a lover there to share in the indulgence or not. From luxe, five-star lodgings to seedy no-tell motels, hotels offer the chance to unwind, relax, and - if given the chance - become someone else altogether. This steamy collection takes readers behind those anonymous closed doors with sexy, scintillating tales of singles and couples frolicking.

One of the most prolific editors and writers of erotica today, Alison Tyler has assembled Pleasure Bound, 22 steamy stories of partners in the throes of pleasurable restraint. Intricately secured by ropes, locked in handcuffs, wrapped in leather, or bound simply by a lover's command, these men and women crave control, whether given or received. From start to finish, this solid collection of BDSM stories earns its kinky merit badge for its explicit tales of pleasure and pain.

Travel writing takes an erotic twist with these 24 tales of sexual adventure. Written to satisfy wanderlust or arouse it, Erotic Travel Tales offers explicit erotic fiction set in evocative locales, including Milan, Prague, Paris, New Orleans, San Francisco, and more. Such established sex writers as Maxim Jakubowski (the editor of Mammoth Book of Erotica), Helena Settimana, Christopher Hart, Alison Tyler, Thomas S. Roche, and M. Christian are featured.

Are you fit to be tied? In Love at First Sting, editor and bondage aficionado Alison Tyler presents a cornucopia of kink: 22 tantalizing, triple-X tales, rich in variety and saucy details of lovers put in their place - and held there firmly. A cross-dresser waiting in high heels at a rest stop attracts the cruel attentions of a hunky cop. A woman obeys her boyfriend by kissing their flirtatious waiter - but will she earn a reward or a punishment? A seductive professional assassin submits to discipline for failing to kill a man.

Craving the endorphin rush that only a well-placed slap can bring? Aching for the pleasurable restraint of your wrists in leather cuffs? In Hurts So Good, editor Alison Tyler presents tantalizing, triple-X tales that are rich in saucy details of lovers paying the price with their bodies. Whether you dream of shedding your inhibitions with the right master, finally feeling the strong hands of a hot female tattoo artist, or switching from top to bottom and back, then this heart-pounding, rush-seeking collection will give you all the joys consensual pain can bring.

The Best Erotica series is the best-selling gay erotica series in America - and with good reason. It sets the standard for erotic writing, with searing action and stories that are smart, edgy, authentic, and wickedly inventive. Designed for your listening pleasure, Best Gay Erotica 2009 includes 20 of the hottest, best-written man-to-man sex stories to appear in that year.