Menage (Black Lace) [Mass Market Paperback]

Emma Holly (Author)

Book Description

Series: Black Lace | Publication Date: April 22, 2010

Bookstore owner Kate comes home from work one day to find her two flatmates in bed...together. Joe - a sensitive composer - is mortified. Sean - an irrepressible bad boy - asks her to join in! Kate's been fantasising about her hunky new houseshares since they moved in, but she was convinced they were both gay. Realising that pleasure is a multi-faceted thing, she sets her cares aside and embarks on a menage a trois with the wild duo. Kate wants nothing more than to keep both her admirers happy, but inevitably things become complicated, especially at work. Kate has told her colleagues that Joe and Sean are gay but the gossip begins when she's caught in a clinch with one of them in her lunch hour! To add to this, one of Kate's more conservative suitors is showing interest again, but she's hooked on the different kind of loving that she enjoys with her boys - even though she knows it cannot last. Or can it?

Editorial Reviews

Review

"'Female fantasy off the leash' New Woman 'Sizzling... the most sexually explicit reading material available' Cosmopolitan"

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A beautifully written story of the complexities of modern-day sexual relationships. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Black Lace (April 22, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0352341181
• ISBN-13: 978-0352341181
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 0.8 x 7.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (83 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #383,863 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Emma Holly is the USA Today bestselling author of more than thirty very hot romantic books, featuring werewolves, faeries, and just plain extraordinary ordinary folks. Her favorite things are reading, coffee, long daydreamy walks, plus whatever show she's currently infatuated with on tv. She loves sinking into the worlds of her stories and hopes you do too!

Customer Reviews

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75 of 78 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging, Sexy and Well Written, October 29, 2003

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Kim "Kim" (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Menage (Black Lace) (Mass Market Paperback)

I read a lot of erotica, sadly, a lot of it is just lame. The sex is not interesting, the characters are stilted, the story is flimsy and just exists to jump from one sex scene to the next and the dialog makes me cringe.

Thank goodness for writers like Emma Holly who know how to write sexy books - as in books with well written and hot sex in them but are literate and stand out as more than just a series of sexual encounters.

Kate Winthrop lives with two young men, Joe and Sean who are in a relationship. Kate comes home to find them having sex in her bedroom and when Sean teasingly invites her, she jumps at the chance and the three of them begin a relationship.

I can't say that I've really sought out a book with homoerotica in it, this book changed my perspective and although I've since read other books with gay (male) scenes, none of them have been as sexy as the ones Holly wrote in Menage.

So thanks Emma! Keep em comin! (no pun intended)

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Introduction, May 29, 2002

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123Roar (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Menage (Black Lace) (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was my first stroll into the erotica section of the bookstore, and what an introduction! I read the whole thing in about one night.
Not only was the sex between Joe, Sean, and Katy hot, but I really liked them as characters. In the space of a few hundred pages Ms. Holly manages to create characters with amazing depth and dynamic. So not only was I rooting for them during the intense loves scenes, but also for them to all be happy in the end.
I loved the ending too. I kept trying to figure out how this menage could possibly end for the three, and I must say not only was I suprised by the turn of events, I was delighted.
I think that I'll trip over to the bookstore now and look at the other books in the Black Lace line.

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Than You'd Expect, March 20, 2000

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Kelly Maenpaa (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Menage (Black Lace) (Mass Market Paperback)

When Kate Winthrop discovers her two male boarders in a romantic tryst in her bedroom, she accepts their offer to join them and thus begins an adventure for all three. Kate, a successful bookstore owner, finds herself attracted to the dominating, masterful Sean, who takes liberties with her body, but from whom Kate keeps her heart and soul at a safe distance. With Joe, Kate finds a sensitive, giving partner, one who cares for her needs and works to heal her from the wounds of her miserable marriage and divorce. This was my first Black Lace book, and I can see why they have such a following. The sex is hot - definitely some of the best written - but not at the expense of a good plot and character development. Kate is a character we all can identify with - smart, sexy, but emotionally gun-shy from a bad relationship. Both Joe and Sean are truly likeable characters, and appealing to me for different reasons. The combination is a one-two punch.