Private Games [Paperback]

Tawny Taylor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 30, 2005

Who would have thought a simple board game could change your life. Three women learn it can when they toss the dice, face a challenge or two, and win...love, laughter, and hot, hot sex. Playing for Keeps Maddy Beaudet needs to shake things up a bit, but playing a board game isn't exactly what she considers exciting. Jace Michael has just moved across country to recover from an ugly divorce. Anxious to dive into work with both feet, the last thing he needs is a distraction, but the minute he meets Maddy, his employee no less, and learns about the game she's playing with her friends, a whole different game comes to mind. Master May I? Britt Olsen is shocked when Andre Cruz-Romero delivers a birthday gift, mistakenly mailed to Britt's former home. Unfortunately, what she finds in the box isn't what Britt expected. Then again, neither is Andre. The sexy entrepreneur who sports golf shirts and khaki pants by day wears leather by night. And the room that used to house Britt's workout equipment now holds a different kind of...apparatus...for an entirely different kind of game. A Game of Risk Taking risks is what day-trader Olivia Blake's life is all about. Well, at least financially. Personally is another story. It takes the draw of a card for her to approach the man she's pined over, her older sister's brother-in-law. The minute she does, she wonders if she's made the right decision. EMT Ty Wilcox spends his days rescuing people who toss caution to the wind and get injured or worse in the process. Playing it safe is the only way to live. But after seeing Olivia in a skimpy dress that almost covers her vitals, he wonders if risk is the four-letter word he'd always thought it was.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Tawny Taylor has been writing erotica for women for ten years. Her first erotic romance, Tempting Fate, was published in 2004 and was an RT Reviewer's Choice nominee and highly reviewed book. To date, Tawny has over 50 published books by 5 publishers, including Pocket, Kensington, Ellora's Cave, Samhain and Changeling Press. They include several subgenres of erotica and erotic romance including paranormal, menage, contemporary, and romantic/erotic suspense. Many of her books contain D/s, bondage, and domination and submission. Among her best selling books are Dark Master (Vampire, BDSM), Decadent Master (Vampire, BDSM), and Wrath's Embrace (Menage, BDSM).

Tawny is grateful to her readers for allowing her dream of writing and publishing to come true. Her hope is to continue to write hot, sassy, sexy erotica for women for many years to come.

Tawny loves hearing from readers! Drop her a note anytime:
website: tawnytaylor.com
Twitter: @tawnytauthor
Blog: tawnytaylor.net --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Ellora's Cave (July 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419952196
• ISBN-13: 978-1419952197
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #876,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Tawny Taylor has been writing erotica for women for ten years. Her first erotic romance, Tempting Fate, was published in 2004 and was an RT Reviewer's Choice nominee and highly reviewed book. To date, Tawny has over 50 published books by 5 publishers, including Pocket, Kensington, Ellora's Cave, Samhain and Changeling Press. They include several subgenres of erotica and erotic romance including paranormal, menage, contemporary, and romantic/erotic suspense. Many of her books contain D/s, bondage, and domination and submission. Among her best selling books are Dark Master (Vampire, BDSM), Decadent Master (Vampire, BDSM), and Wrath's Embrace (Menage, BDSM).

Tawny is grateful to her readers for allowing her dream of writing and publishing to come true. Her hope is to continue to write hot, sassy, sexy erotica for women for many years to come.

Tawny loves hearing from readers! Drop her a note anytime:[e-mail].
website: http://www.tawnytaylor.com
Twitter: @tawnytauthor
Blog: http://tawnytaylor.net

Did you know Tawny also writes romance as Sydney Allan and Urban Fantasy as Tami Dane?

Sydney's Books
Rescue Me (contemporary romance)

Tami's Books
About Monday
The Real Werewives of Vampire County
Blood of Eden

Customer Reviews

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35 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Private Games Is A Blast, September 5, 2006

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Jennifer McKenzie "Jen" (Fortuna, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Private Games (Paperback)

Tawny Taylor is one of those erotic writers that makes me want to take mental notes for the bedroom. In these three stories, Ms. Taylor explores some hot ideas that were really fun. The stories all center around a new board game with "challenges" that lead her main characters into all sorts of situations and eventually to romance. As hot as she writes, Ms. Taylor doesn't ignore the romance. Her characters are fun and realistic and these stories showcase Ms. Taylor's ability to be sexy and sweet at the same time.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cheerless Porn, May 24, 2011

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Lorijay - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Private Games (Paperback)

3 short stories with very shallow ladies which would be okay if the women were involved in charming seductions, but in all three the author expects you to believe they deserve to meet the man of their dreams and fall in love. These meets are based on a ludicrous truth-or-dare type game. Now I've read short stories which were very well done, Masks by Evangeline Anderson, is one. These stories weren't charming, the women were ones I would not want to hang out with and the men, so hastily drawn as to be worthy only of a one-night stand. Didn't like it, won't read any more by this author.
Explicit language and graphic sexual situations, the first story (which was the only one I liked) contained no BDSM, and the two subsequent ones, while more adventurous, felt like cheerless porn.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good erotica, August 14, 2011

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Meghann (Arizona) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Private Games (Kindle Edition)

This book is three stories revolving around a board game that challenges women to do out-of-character things related to sex (like go to a Victoria's Secret and model clothing, get a stranger's phone number, or visit an S & M club). I thought at first that the three friends in the first story were each going to get their own story, but the game is the only piece of continuity. It fell a little flat in the last story where the game barely features and the heroine doesn't even play it.

In the first story, a woman meets a hot guy at a bar and realizes that he is her absentee boss who is recovering from a divorce and is afraid of commitment.

In the second story, a woman begins a relationship with the guy who bought her house and finds out he is into the master/slave sexual lifestyle.

In the third story, a daredevil day trader begins a relationship with a risk-adverse EMT.

While I enjoyed the sex scenes in each story, they were held back overall by the author's desire to present a perfect HEA. A HEA for a couple that has been on a handful of dates shouldn't be a long-term relationship -- that's just weird. As a result, the endings felt rushed and contrived.

I would read more of Taylor's work for the sex scenes -- I just wish she didn't have to make everything so tidy at the end.