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Captive Desires

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Captive Desires is related to Diane Whiteside's fantastic story Bound by the Dragon which was in the Anthology Captive Dreams with Angela Knight.

In Captive Desires, Danae Livingston is a famous dancer. She's also a fan of the Torhtremer saga books and has been writing fanfic about one character in particluar, Torhtremer General Alekhsiy Alexandrovich and the High Kings half-brother.

Danae is off to meet her friends at GriffinCon, a science fiction convention that is going to have a special preview of the upcoming Torhtremer movie.

Alekhsiy is on a mission. He has to find out who's going to be the next Dark Warrior, and the sorcerer who will bring the Imperial Terrapin back to plague his land.

He's been watching Danae and little does she know but her stories have saved him numerous times. There's a powerful attraction between them and together they have to stop the Dark Warrior and save Torhtremer.

Captive Desires is a non-stop erotic adventure and you won't want to put it down until it's over. Great story!

Danae Livingston writes fictional accounts of her warrior hero Alekhsiy in a fantasy realm filled with her desires. However, although she has wet dreams about her hunk, she knows he does not exist except in her libido.

She soon revises her opinion of what reality is when Alekhsiy arrives on Earth needing her help to save his world from evil. He is taken aback to see the woman who haunts his nocturnal desires in the flesh as is she. However, at a fandom fantasy festival, a fanatic demands she writes of the destruction of Alekhsiy's realm or else face his wrath.

This is a very exciting romantic suspense fantasy with the premise of a writer seemingly having the power of God; although the premise has been used before and Alekhsiy's realm never comes to life. Still, the story line is fun to follow as a fanatic demands death to Alekhsiy's world or death to the "creator", which leads to all types of metaphysical questions. Well written and enlightening, Captive Desires is an engaging heated thriller.

Harriet Klausner

Danae Livingstone is a successful dancer, but that is not her only passion, she is a popular fanfic author of erotic stories revolving around the fantasy world of Torhtremer, most especially the warrior, Alekhisy. Only once a year do her worlds merge, at GriffinCon, a huge sci-fi convention. GriffinCon is much more exciting this year, as she realizes that what most take as pure fantasy is actually becoming reality for her.
Alekhsiy has come to Earth to save his world from the evil Azherbhai, who is determined to destroy Torhtremer. Landing in the midst of GriffinCon is a convenient cover for his appearance. Meeting Danae is an added bonus, but can she help save his world from the sinister Azherbhai? Together they will fight to save their worlds with magic, steel, and an ingeniousness writers creativity.

CAPTIVE DESIRES is succulent tale full of action, adventure, fantasy and passion. The chemistry between Alekhsiy and Danae sears the pages. Unfortunately I had a difficult time getting into this book from the start. I was put off with Danae's quick acceptance of Alekhsiy being her warrior from Torhtremer. I felt that it would have added some depth and believability to the story if he had had to work a bit to prove who he was and why he was now in her world, but her practically falling on her knees to worship him immediately just didn't work for me. I was also put off with how easily she fell into bed with him. Yes, I know that this is an erotic romance, and I enjoy many erotic romances, but the rush to bed didn't click for me. I also enjoy fantasy, but with that, I still need plausible situations that can pull me into the world. There was just to much silliness that I found hard to process and enjoy.

Reviewed for: Night Owl Romance

Not much to say... I really liked "Captive Dreams", but this this book was not the same. Really boring. The only parts I liked were when the characters from the first book appear.