Bound to Love: A Collection of Romantic BDSM Erotic Stories [Paperback]

Maria Isabel Pita (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2006

BDSM is shorthand for two distinct lifestyles that can but do not always come together. B&D stands for Bondage & Domination. S&M stands for Sadism and Masochism. One of the reasons many women are afraid to explore their sexual submissiveness is precisely the BDSM acronym; they are worried one inevitably leads to the other, which is not actually the case. Every BDSM relationship is as unique as the persons involved in it. What dominant and submissive individuals do together is determined by both of them. The idea that becoming a Sex Slave means being forced to live out the full and often extremely painful and offensive gamut of Sadomasochistic activities is completely untrue; it is a negative stereotype and in no way an accurate portrayal of the sane consensual BDSM lifestyle many loving couples have been living for years.

In Bound to Love, Maria Isabel Pita has gathered together nine erotic love stories written by some of today’s hottest writers of erotica. In each story the darker side of sexuality is explored through realistic, well-developed characters deeply in love with each other and otherwise leading normal lives together. The men and women in Bound To Love are involved in serious, long-term relationships in which their deeper feelings for each other are inseparable from their erotic interaction. The stories in Bound to Love are some of the best in their genre precisely because they transcend it.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Magic Carpet Books; First Trade Paper Edition edition (September 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976651041
• ISBN-13: 978-0976651048
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,415,356 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Maria Isabel Pita was born in Havana, Cuba. Her family moved to the U.S. when she was four months old and she grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. Reading, writing and history have been her abiding passions ever since she can remember. In college she majored in World History and minored in English Literature and Cultural Anthropology. Since then she has traveled extensively and authored a series of critically acclaimed paranormal and contemporary romances. "Guilty Pleasures" is her best-selling collection of romantic stories set all through history. Maria is also the author of the historical epic "Truth is the Soul of the Sun-A Biographical Novel of Hatshepsut-Maatkare" and of "A Concise Guide to Ancient Egypt's Magic and Religion."

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally a readable BDSM book ...... for all of us, December 20, 2006

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Rudolf Spoerer "dowadiddi" (Weston, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bound to Love: A Collection of Romantic BDSM Erotic Stories (Paperback)

If you are the kind of reader that looks for BDSM books where a young girl invariably gets trussed, clamped and then has the living daylights beat out of her. this is NOT the book for you... but .... if you enjoy contemporary erotica of amuch gentler tome where the bondage is in many cases more 'perceived' or mental, then this IS the book for you.


Edited by Maria Isabel Pita, one of my favorite erotica authors this book contains nine short stories, eight of which are by new authors whose writings certainly stand well above the crowd.


In 'Summerhouse' by author Johnathan Marchant, one of my two favorite stories, our heroine, a young, agressive, take no prisoners, city lawyer is called back to her summer house in the woods to check for storm damages to her roof. Being too busy for any kind of real social life she explores her deepest hidden erotic fantasies as she prepares to meet the builder whom she hasn't seen for over a year. It's in these fabulously erotic dreams and hidden desires that the author shows us that the bondage doesn't necessary have to be ONLY physical but that we are all one way or another trussed by our erotic secrets.



The other story, 'Necessary To Her Good' by author Marilyn Jay Lewis, after a furtive three page start that I found strange, the author hits her stride when Elisa recounts her story of total submission to her deepest darkest dreams at the hands and .. well you know what I mean .. of Armand. This story is so hot it's worth the price of the book alone ...


It's most certainly great books like this that remind us that the greatest erotice is in the mind of the reader ...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars more hardcore BDSM than I normally read!, September 6, 2008

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C. Dionne "Chrissy Dionne" (Cloverdale, OREGON USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bound to Love: A Collection of Romantic BDSM Erotic Stories (Paperback)

SUMMERHOUSE by Jonathan Marchant
A phone call from architect David Riggs Mason regarding damage done to her weekend home during a recent storm is the catalyst which will change attorney Joan Roth's life. They first met two years earlier, but he'd been married at that time. Now divorced, he's ready to show Joan that his mastery is exactly what she needs.

STAYING PRESENT by Ariel Graham
Brent and Lily's marriage is based on love, trust, and discipline. They have a contract which is renewable every six months in which she's agreed to allow him to punish her as he sees fit whenever she's disobedient or anger gets the better of her. Brent's forceful yet loving dominance helps soothe her enough to calm down and allows her to focus on the present.

WHAT IT MEANS by Brooke Stern
David and Ansel are a relatively new couple about to embark on their first foray into discipline. Spanking, to be specific. Both admit to an interest in it, but they worry about what it means. Are they perverted for desiring the extra stimulation?

NECESSARY TO HER GOOD by Marilyn Jaye Lewis
A young woman recounts her journey through life craving punishment. She learned as a child that spankings spark a state of arousal and lust. Over time punishment has become a necessity. Can love go hand in hand with the sort of humiliation which she needs?

COMFY by William Gaius
Tim's search for a place close to campus leads him to Rose Ann's door where he agrees to rent a basement apartment. The rent's steep and it's far from comfy but getting to know Rose and pleasing her soon becomes a focal point in Tim's life. Can he convince her that the gap in their ages has no bearing on his feelings?

PONY PENNING DAYS by L.A. Mistral
Seeing her childhood friend, Geraldine causes a woman to reminisce about when she discovered her love for her best friend she'd called Gussy. They rode horses together and she'd often fantasize about Gussy using the crop on her. When it finally happened she was torn between pleasure and fear that it arouses her so much.

JANICE AND KYLE by Reena Anne Hovermale
Janice is interviewing for a new job which she desperately wants. Kyle, her husband and Master, supports her and does everything in his power to encourage her including helping to dress her. Their marriage is constantly evolving and they enjoy trying new things but if she's ever uncomfortable with anything they try she only has to say so.

A NIGHT WITHOUT A MOON by N.T. Morley
Before they marry, Autumn's fiancé fulfills one of her more intense fantasies - a gang bang. His love for her is apparent in the number of details he painstakingly ensures are taken care of and the manner in which he never let's her out of his sight.

NATURAL BONDAGE by Maria Isabel Pita
A submissive compares her love of bondage and discipline with her Master to the give and take present in the nature that surrounds her. When she was living in the city sex was a driving force in her life. Living in the "middle-of-nowhere" she has a sense of peace with her needs and desires.


BOUND TO LOVE covers many aspects of the lifestyle commonly known as BDSM. Maria Isabel Pita has gathered vastly different stories with varying degrees of bondage and discipline which sometimes teeter on the edge of perverse. In every case there is a semblance of love and devotion between the couples involved and all scenes are consensual. There's no shortage of emotional turmoil will make readers stop and think about the stories that they're reading and their true feelings on each one.

Chrissy Dionne (courtesy of Romance Junkies)

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great, April 18, 2008

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Bill Frye "billtahoe" (Tahoe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bound to Love: A Collection of Romantic BDSM Erotic Stories (Paperback)

These are interesting stories that cover a very wide range of experiences. That is not quite what I was looking for. In a book titled bound for love, I expected more stories involving actual physical bondage. The first story certainly provided some of this experience, but the other stories provided only psychological bondage, or none. Great cover picture (of course the bondage is implied rather than real, maybe that is a clue?).