Spring into Summer [Kindle Edition]

Eden Baylee (Author)

Book Description

In Spring into Summer, a collection of emotionally-charged erotic novellas, four women explore their sexual limits, marked by love, lust, and loss.

Life for Claire Pelletier is changed forever when she meets a professor who teaches her a most important lesson in "A Season for Everything."

Evelyn Sutton goes in search of a man in "Unlocking the Mystery" and discovers the key to her own heart.

With an open mind, Ava Connors attends a party but wonders if reality can ever live up to her hottest fantasies in "Summer Solstice."

In "The Lottery," Sierra Zhao sacrifices herself to numerous men to help a friend, fully aware of the consequences.

With locations in London, Dublin, Cape Cod, and Bangkok, these four women will seek pleasure to alter their lives and push their sexual boundaries.

Editorial Reviews

Review

As a poet (or hack according to my critics), my goal has always been to paint emotional pictures with words; to show how feelings look. I think that is why I both admire and resent Eden. She accomplishes what I set out to do and yet frequently fail to accomplish. Her prose is emotive but easy, and she never falls into the trap of saying instead of showing. Be it a gentle moment between two vulnerable souls or a torrid episode of wanton desire; Eden's words are unobtrusive. In reading her work I often find myself experiencing a range of emotions. Her stories flow seamlessly from sweet to steamy while never feeling forced. Men over 40 (how much over shall remain the secret of my vanity) are not exactly the target demographic for literary erotica. But if there were more of the genre as good as Eden's, I think the marketeers would need to rethink their strategy.

~ Steven Marty Grant, author of Another Hotel Room

From the Author

Spring into Summer is the companion piece to my first book Fall into Winter. The language and sexual content is different and reflects a maturity in my writing, but the stories are as sensual, if not more so. No matter your favorite season, I think you will find the four tales in this book sexy, exotic, and of course, erotic.

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Product Details

• File Size: 366 KB
• Print Length: 178 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1478257679
• Publisher: lowercase publishing (July 9, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008IJ4BNM
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #347,396 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful characters, beautiful stories, outstanding book July 11, 2012

By L. Smith

Format:Kindle Edition

What a fantastic book! Being the man that I am, I usually read erotica for the sex and hope for romance as well as I am also a hopeless romantic. These stories, especially the first one, "A Season for Everything" and the last one "The Lottery" really tugged at my heartstrings. Since I was hoping for romance, that was present in these two stories.

Claire and Stephen demonstrate what true love is in "A Season For Everything" I was so taken with their love for one another that I felt I was sharing their joy and in Claire's case, heartbreak as well.

"The Lottery" was more subtle withe the emergence of the romance, as Sierra and Theo started as business partners and with a "show" by Sierra as part of the deal. But as the story progressed, this reader could feel the change from business to romance and was feeling Sierra's pain, then elation. Another wonderful romance.

The third story, "Summer Solstice", was also wonderfully crafted with a heroine whose emotions I could certainly feel. Ava was left at the alter and was still not sure about getting back out socially until she was invited to a party with pagan rituals. It was there that she was finally able to not only live out one of her fantasies, but also find the confidence and strength she desperately needed.

However, I was absolutely blown away by the 50 year romance between Catherine and Shane in "Unlocking the Mystery" with simply letters. Heck, they didn't even progress to e-mail as the letters were still on paper in 2010 and 2011. Thiers was truly a deep, committed love to continue with writing these letters, some extremely erotic. Also, the woman who delivers the last letter, Evelyn, even gets a reward of her own...or at least it appears that way. And no, not sex...something even better....

This was not simply erotica - this was fine literary writing with sexy erotic scenes that were an essential part of the story, not just added for the thrill of it. Bravo to Ms. Baylee for writing such moving and touching stories. Every character with an important role in every story was realistic, honest, and someone who you wished you knew (with the possible exception of Stewart after he left Ava at the alter!) This is a book that you will want to read, whether you like good literature, good erotica or heck, even good sex. It has all of those qualities. Read more ›

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully Strong, Deeply Human July 11, 2012

By Wyatt McIntyre

Format:Kindle Edition

My first venture into this area of fiction, I had never read Erotica before. Outside of the artistic movement I had been completely unfamiliar with the genre of literature itself. To be introduced and acquainted with it through Spring into Summer was like finding an old friend you never quite knew you had.

Though definitely erotic Eden Baylee's book is more of a sexy and passionate study of human nature and the human condition itself. With deep and meaningful characters to lead the reader we are taken on a journey through the heart and the mind that is inescapable and that offers to the reader a deeper truth. Throughout each of these stories you see a careful evolution that draws you in and let's you create an emotional attachment because, in a sense, they could be any one of us, and, in that, they are everyone of us.

Each character devised, crafted, and honed is done so by Baylee with a deep care, much like a master craftsman sculpting the human form, and, in their labors, creating something we can reflect on and see our own purpose behind. Even the characters imperfections and flaws offer an understanding of them we could not have otherwise had.

Whether you are a fan of Eden from her previous works or, much like me, a new reader, do yourself a favor and read these four Novella's, it is well worth it, and deeply satisfying.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Raw, passionate, and unmistakably human July 12, 2012

By L.M. Stull

Format:Kindle Edition

In her latest release, Spring into Summer, Baylee has outdone herself yet again, taking her readers on a journey that is raw, passionate, and unmistakably human.

This sinfully delicious collection of novellas begins with two stories set in the spring, and ends with two in the summer. And just as the turn of each season brings with it a change in temperature, so do the stories in Baylee's collection. They begin soft and tepid, and end gritty and smoldering hot. The gradual increase of spice titillating the reader, enticing them to read just one more page. Just one more tale. And it is this gradual shift which tugs at our hearts and speaks to our most intimate of desires. A seemingly insatiable hunger intensifying as we savor each and every word, bringing us to the brink of insanity, until, finally, she delivers to us what we so desperately want - an ending so satisfying you wish it would never end. And you wonder how long you'll go before you turn back to the beginning, to tease and torture and satisfy yourself all over again.

Baylee's stories are a masterful dance of love and lust and passion and desire, and speak to more than just her reader's loins. Each word, each scene, each story, a delectable treat for all the senses - the mind, the body, the soul.

Spring into Summer is more than literary erotica, it is a magnificent piece of art which will forever have a home on my bookshelf.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing, Romantic and Erotic January 31, 2013

By Tracy Riva

Format:Kindle Edition

Refreshing is the word that comes to mind when describing Eden Baylee's erotica collection Spring into Summer. It made me believe in hot, sexy love all over again. I found Eden reached deep within herself while writing her short stories and touched her feminine heart and just poured it out on the page. I felt the intoxication of the characters, laughed with them, cried with them, heard the poetry of the Romantics whispered in my waiting ear and felt a yearning that went beyond the merely physical and touched a soul that was filled with more than just lust.

While Baylee's writing is absolutely everything that erotica should be hot, intense, passionate, it is so much more. Her depictions of her characters are so well done you can picture the shiver of anticipation that races through a woman's core, hear the deep tones of impassioned speech, picture the sweat on the entwined bodies, feel the struggle to believe in love. To hope that what you see, hear and feel is real and to discover you have a power you never dreamed you possess.

Baylee's male characters are all strong leading characters in their own right, but it is in the depiction of her female characters that she excels. They are not wimpy, needy, clinging women, but strong, passionate and possessed with a sense of their own power. They are feminine, with all of the wonderful traits that term truly engenders, and she paints accurately, the full spectrum of behavior from women who know what they want and who don't feel threatened in going after it.

I enjoy good erotica, but Baylee's tales are so much more than simply good erotica. They are stunning slices of humanity laid bare at their most vulnerable moments and shared with her readers. I cannot recommend Spring into Summer, or Baylee's talent highly enough.

More About the Author

Eden Baylee left a twenty-year banking career to write erotic literature. Incorporating some of her favorite things such as travel, culture, and a deep curiosity for what turns people on, her brand of writing is sensual, sexual, and literary. If you only want sex, please look elsewhere.

Her latest release is a book of erotic flash fiction and poetry called HOT FLASH.

SPRING INTO SUMMER is her second collection of erotic novellas and the companion piece to her first book, FALL INTO WINTER.

In 2013, she changes gears and releases a psychological thriller combining the styles of John Fowles/Charles Bukowski/Haruki Murakami and a dash of Pauline Réage.

Eden loves hearing from readers, so connect to her via her website at www.edenbaylee.com and all her social networks.