"Are these heroine's destinies in the stars--or right next door."

Having just lost their jobs, Marisha, Samantha, and Michelle are not exactly on top of the world on this Valentine's Day. However, it appears fate has more in store for them than they ever dreamed of.

Out of Time by Treva Harte

Marisha is 34, unemployed and unattached, and about to be out on the street or back home with her mom and step- father. Walking home alone bags her a knot on the head and a strange hallucination, because she's rescued by Lord Stephen. However she's carried home by her good friend Tim. Tim has wanted her since he was a freshman in high school and she was a senior. Tim, who is so much more than she ever realized, who tends her through the night and, when she mysteriously disappears, hunts for her in his dreams...

Great younger man/older woman paranormal romance. The twists and turns this story takes are fantastic. I enjoyed all the manifestations of the hero. Were her visions real? You decide. Only one complaint. No birth control mentioned, ever.

Sensuality--NC17. Digital anal penetration; consensual bondage; oral sex; voyeurism; descriptive sex; sex with non- human; monogamous relationship. Sexually explicit scenes: 4.

The Jewel by Sherri L. King

Samantha finds herself unemployed, drunk, and alone on this Valentines Day which is also her birthday. After falling asleep and having the most erotic dream she awakens in -- well, not in her bedroom, but a place that was truly out of this world. Finding herself one of a "collection", will she ever be able to get back home? Will she want to?

This story is well written with some wonderfully sensual descriptions, but the story line was just not one I care for.

Sensuality--NC17. oral sex; digital anal penetration; non-monogamous sex; anal sex; voyeurism; crude language. Sexually explicit scenes: 5.

Learning to Live Again by S.L.Carpenter

Finally getting the courage to leave her jerk of a boyfriend, Michelle quits her job and heads for a new one in Ontario, Canada. First, though, she will take a trip home. Traveling by train, she is not at all pleased when a large male partygoer ends up napping in her bed. However, after she gets to know him, she discovers she's not at all pleased about having to leave him behind.

This was a sweet romance, hot and sensual in the sex department, though. I really liked the hero and the way the story ended. The choices that the heroine had to make, and the courage she showed in making those she felt were best for her, made this story more than just a girl-meets-boy, girl-and-boy-have-sex romance.

Sensuality--NC17. Oral sex; some crude and some clinically descriptive language; monogamous relationship. Sexually explicit scenes: 6.

Reviewed by Flora Bell
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted May 6, 2003

Summary

Out of Time By Treva Harte
Marisha is out of work and out of her mind! Is a knock on her head responsible for these fantasies? Or has she really been making love to the medieval Lord Stephan, a dragon, and her young rescuer? She needs to know before she's...out of time.

The Jewel By Sherri L. King
Samantha is having a bad day. She's just lost her job and is spending yet another Valentine's day alone. After passing out on her couch, she awakens in a harem in the loveliest place in the world...only to find it's another world entirely. To make matters worse, it's her birthday and she knows she's not getting anything. As a matter of fact, she's a present for someone else...an alien king with his own birthday plans.

Learning To Live Again By S.L. Carpenter
A chance encounter on a train ignites passions and emotions buried deep and the fire quickly engulfs Michelle in sexual escapades and desires thought extinguished long ago. Even though everything seems so right, she can't ignore her last relationship and the scars it left behind. But maybe this is the man she belongs with. Now she has a choice to make: stay and forget her dream or go and leave behind the one man that showed her how love could be.

Sexual Content: NC-17. Genre: paranormal.