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The Master of Shilden (Black Lace)

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I have to say first off I'm a huge Lucinda Carrington fan, she's one of the few authors books that I grab without even reading the storyline, however I have say I was a little disappointed in this one. The story was a little confusing to follow. The sex scenes & fantasy scenes were mediocre at best & not really imaginative. The characters were somewhat interesting but not by much. I didn't even like the heroine in this book. I didn't like how she sacrifices her own pleasure for both of main male characters & was ok with it. I'm still a fan of Lucinda, but I was not wowed by this book as I have been of the ones in the past.

In London interior designer Elise St. John changes her mind about seeing her parents; instead she visits her boyfriend Ralph Burnes, who is not happy to see her even when she offers to striptease and make love all weekend with him. He insists that he is attending a stag party, but she orders him on the bed and starts to roughly seduce him when Jemma Harrisford arrives. She informs Elise that he only used her to get a modeling contract before dominating submissive Ralph around as a hurt Elise leaves.

Needing to get away from the city, Elise answers an ad in Plays and Players theatric magazine to design erotic rooms for guests at remote Shilden castle in Northumberland. When the job is offered she accepts. As she designs the rooms that turn her on, she finds two local hunks wanting to share her creations with her. She desires riding instructor Blair Devlin and the Master of Shilden Max Lannsen. Rather sooner than she is ready, as Elise fully enjoys the trysts with both men, she knows she must make up her mind and choose one leaving the other behind though loving the spoonfuls of orgasmic bliss each provides her.

This is an exhilarating erotic romance that will not be for everyone as Lucinda Carrington provides an ultra heated tale that grips readers from the onset when Jemma grabs Ralph's erection forcing him to submit to her dominatrix control and never cools down as Elise finds her fantasies fulfilled. With all the erotica going on, surprisingly Elise is three dimensional and her two Northumberland lovers are full blooded developed characters who bring more than just their lower head to the tale. Sub-genre fans will want to read THE MASTER OF SHILDEN while wondering who will Elise end up stripping for, if either (perhaps old George instead), permanently.

Harriet Klausner

Just what you would expect from the author of Ninety Days of Genevieve - good writing, plenty of (often kinky) sex, believable characters (and dead sexy men) plus that rareity in an erotic novel : a strong storyline! A really good read.