Captivated: Ecstasy/ Bound and Determined/ Dark Desires/ A Lady's Pleasure (Paperback)

by Bertrice Small (Author), Thea Devine (Author), Robin Schone (Author), Susan Johnson (Author)

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"Combining the erotic with the romantic, she tests the boundaries of romance fiction".

-- The Literary Times --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Kensington (September 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0758202687
• ISBN-13: 978-0758202680
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #486,687 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the price for Robin Schone alone, August 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Captivated: Ecstasy/ Bound and Determined/ Dark Desires/ A Lady's Preference (Paperback)

Do yourself a favor. Buy this book, but save Robin Schone's "A Lady's Pleasure" for last. If only it were a full-length novel! "Captivated" by Beatrice Small seems to suggest that erotica is best served in a fantasy setting. It didn't take long before the incessant focus on the Prince's manhood became laughable. The "hero" of Susan Johnson's "Bound and Determined" was so vulgar at the beginning of the story that I never came to care for him. If you like lots of bondage and what amounts to mental abuse, you may enjoy Thea Devine's "Dark Desires." Too bad the "hero" couldn't figure out a more romantic way than keeping his unwilling wife naked and in a thrall collar to make her love him. I won't deny that the first three stories lack in plenty of sex. They're just completely devoid of heart. Robin Schone proves time and again that erotic tales can have emotional depth, that the two people involved can truly care for each other and increase the depth of that caring even as they satisfy each other sexually. In "A Lady's Pleasure," Robert Coally is a true hero and Abigail a true heroine. Their happy ending was the only one that brought me a sense of joy. Thank you, Robin.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars FOUR EROTIC STORIES, April 30, 2001

By	Mary Allen "Mary B Allen" (HARRISBURG, PA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Captivated: Ecstasy/ Bound and Determined/ Dark Desires/ A Lady's Preference (Paperback)

CAPTIVATED is a collection of four short stories written individually by four female writers who are at the erotic, passion-writing forefront.

ECSTACY, by Bertrice Smalls, is a fantasy of a magical land where female domination and male servitude are the rule. It's truly unbelievable, but just as erotic.

BOUND AND DETERMINED, by Susan Johnson, presents a situation where a princess is married to a homosexual husband, but she must produce an heir. So she kidnaps a very reluctant Marquis who is known for his sexual prowess and fertility.

DARK DESIRES, by Thea Devine, is the story of a resistant bride entering into a marriage with a man who will not be resisted. Neither is what he or she seems.

In A LADY'S PLEASURE, by Robin Schone, a woman on a month-long, isolated holiday takes in a traveler who is seeking shelter from a storm. They spend two days together that change their lives.

I can't wait to read FASCINATED by these same four women.

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars For Robin Schone's "A Lady's Pleasure"!!!!!!!!!!!, August 5, 1999

By	[e-mail] - Vickie McCloud (Sacramento, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Captivated: Ecstasy/ Bound and Determined/ Dark Desires/ A Lady's Preference (Paperback)

While the cover of this book announces it as "Tales of Erotic Romance" I found "romance" in only one of the four stories, "A Lady's Pleasure" by Robin Schone. While the other three stories were erotic and titillating there was no feeling of romance or real emotional connection between the characters where love or relationships are concerned - bondage and degredation to be sure - but not romance.

"A Lady's Pleasure" is the true definition of "Erotic Romance". It combines tenderness between two people, emotion, the bonding of two souls and beautifully written erotic sex, as well as some great subtle humor and dialogue. I do not think I have ever seen the act of sex (in all it's forms) described so graphically and in such a beautiful way. This story truly touched my soul.

The first time I read this story I loved it, the second time I savored it and felt it. It will satisfy your erotic pleasures, make you laugh and make you cry too.

Robin Schone is an exquisite writer as witnessed in "Awaken My Love" and her latest, "The Lady's Tutor", but to just describe her writing as erotic would be to do her an injustice for she is truly the reigning queen of ROMANTIC erotica. I believe that even women who love romance reading but do not particularly like erotica would adore this story as well as Ms. Schone's other work. It is tender, loving, and the sex, while EXTREMELY HOT and erotic is written in a way as to be appropriate to a loving and sexual relationship.

The hardest thing about describing Ms. Schone's writing is that it is INdescribable! Her honesty, uninhibited, and loving views on romance and sex are truly a breath of fresh air in the romance genra. Do yourself a favor, buy this book and get to know ROBIN SCHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!