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Best Gay Romance 2010 covers every romantic possibility with first love, true love, wake-up sex, makeup sex, and everything in between. Richard Labonté has gathered a sensational collection of stories about finding love at home, at work, at any age, and often in the most unexpected places. Contributor David Holly's "meet cute" hook-up in "Guy Sydney" is a thoroughly modern love story, while Elazarus Wills's dramatic "A Companion for the Road" shows that many things get better with age.

Best Women's Erotica 2010 delivers ecstatic, heady, and heart-pounding thrills. From the sparks between strangers to the knowing caresses of longtime lovers, the characters in these steamy stories revel in erotic adventure. Lovingly selected by best-selling author Violet Blue, Best Women's Erotica showcases the most daring, best-written erotica of the year.

Imagine 24 hours of sex, from early morning wake-up calls to afternoon quickies, and dinner in flagrante delicto! Best-selling erotica writer Alison Tyler has assembled stories of scorching hot sex -- any place and any time of day (or night). Andrea Dale serves up bondage in "Breakfast in Bed." Quinn Gabriel's "Matinee" brings hew meaning to the afternoon movie date, while "Nooner" is Bella Dean's take on a working girl's daily pick-me-up. From predawn passion to late night lust, Afternoon Delight is your guide to a 'round-the-clock good time.

Sexy, smart, and literate: Best Women's Erotica 2012 presents the year's hottest bedside reading. There's a hungry audience of readers who demand smart, literate, emotionally charged women's erotica - stories that tell the truth about women's sexuality in all its variety and emotional depth, with all its surprises and twists and turns.... Best Women's Erotica 2012 is just for these readers. 5-star editor Violet Blue delivers exactly what readers want - fantasy-fueled, pulse-racing reads that push boundaries and are "let's try this as home" aspirational.

The dance between the viewer and the viewed drives the stories of I Like to Watch, the first-ever anthology of erotica for gay voyeurs and exhibitionists. In the words of editor Christopher Pierce, "The possibilities are as varied as the individuals who have watched and performed this ritual since the first Cro-Magnon man accidentally saw two men getting it on and decided to stay and watch the show." No fantasy is left unfulfilled in this collection devoted to spying, ogling, teasing, flaunting, and showing off for a lover - or a stranger.

Brains, muscle, tenderness, kink. Like the perfect lover, Best Gay Romance 2012 captures the raw energy of man-on man desire like no other. Once again, award-winning editor Richard Labonté has gathered hot, heart-pounding, tent-raising, gorgeous stories of no-holds-barred sex between men that will grab your senses, and send you into the sweaty backrooms of your erotic imagination.

In Best Women's Erotica 2011, women are ready to stake their sexual claims like never before - with characters created by some of the most famous names in the erotica genre. Alison Tyler's naughty roommate threesome get more than they bargained for in the dangerous and delicious "Want"; an athlete in Sommer Marsden's "Laps" finds herself doing anything to please her trainer; and a mistress in Rachel Kramer Bussel's "Espionage" commands her lover for herself, if only for a searing moment, during a dinner party where she meets his wife.

Nothing delights the erotic connoisseur like a good spanking, delivered or received. In Spanked, Rachel Kramer Bussel offers stories that celebrate the pleasures of an inviting bum turned rosy red by hand, crop, whip, or paddle. Whether for spicing up a relationship, indulging in a playful diversion, or punishing a transgressing lover, Spanked offers stories so vivid you just might find your cheeks sore after reading it! Includes "Indulgences", "Spanking You", and "Reunion".

In "The Office Grind" by R.G. Emanuelle, a stressed-out businesswoman loses herself and her heart in the startling green eyes of a sleek butch in a bar. .B. Potts's "The Angel Connection" takes age and power differentials and turns them upside down in an all-girl repair shop. Compiled by Lambda Literary Award-winning editor Sacchi Green, the relentless, raw stories of Lesbian Lust are the ultimate in eroticism.

Bad boys and the men who love them are the subject of this uninhibited set of stories, Wild Boys. Richard Labonté unleashes fierce fiction depicting lives lived in defiance of the rules. These independent wild-at-heart boys fascinate the men who tame them and we also have tales of the man whose heart, and body, those wild boys tame. A one-night stand turns into committed romance; a Daddy subdues a recalcitrant son; a relationship-shy guy is brought to the altar; and more.

The Victorians wrote some of the best and most enduring erotica. For such a tightly-laced age, people spent a lot of time thinking about things carnal. Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, et al enthralled us with their visions of new possibilities. The rich and slightly decadent visuals of the steam age lend themselves perfectly to the new carnality of post-punk era. And, of course, what is repressed will be even more exciting once the corset is unlaced.

Anything for You is stimulating reading, both for experienced players and those just discovering the joy of tying up your lover or bending over for the one you love. These explicit stories of obsessive desire unlock the door to a world of obsessive desires, the passion that lies just beneath the skin.

The hundreds of end-of-time prophecies splashed across the consciousness from the time of clay tablets to our Internet have had something besides hysteria in common: every one of them has been wrong. Here is a survey of three millennia of apocalyptic prophecies, tracing one of the most remarkable threads of our cultural history: our long and unproductive fascination with apocalyptic myths and miracles that can solve our problems without requiring committed action in our own lives.

Steamy encounters in the bathhouse have been the stuff of erotic legend for centuries, just ask Spartacus! Shane Allison turns the stereotype on its ear in Steam Bath, a rollicking romp of pretty boys and dashing daddies doing it. From fresh faced twinks to to silver foxes and beautiful bears, Shane delivers sensational stories where every man is naked all the time! A towel-snapping good read, Steam Bath is filled with sizzling porn bodies, sexy boys next door, and tantalizing tricks that fully capture the erotic dynamic of between men.

Called "consistently outstanding" by the Lambda Book Review and cited for "glorious approaches to gay male sexual writing, " by the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Richard Labonte's Best Gay Erotica series sets and raises the bar in the 2012 volume. Gathering the hottest, freshest, and most literary fiction for the year, Best Gay Erotica 2012 captures the tenderness and raw energy of man-on-man desire. From the innocent but oh-so-beautiful boy next door to the "seen it all" gritty street hustler, these provocative and potent short stories will grab your attention and your erotic imagination.