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When Melanie's Aunt Penelope dies, she unexpectedly finds herself an heir to part of her aunt's estate. Penelope left almost almost everything to charities and a nice sum to her stick-in-the-mud daughter, but to Melanie she left the house and the money to cover its expenses plus a bit of money to have fun with. To say Penelope's daughter was furious would be an understatement. Gretchen vowed to get the house back.

Melanie sees the house and falls instantly in love with it. After going home to clear a few things up, she returns to explore her new home, only to find that it already has other residents - eight males to be exact; her late aunt's harem of sexy boy toys.

At first Melanie tells the men to leave, although she is attracted to them. The sheer idea of her aunt with eight men is enough to shake her moral fiber. But when her best friend Dawn comes for a visit, she finds her eyes opened to a whole new world of possibilities.

After great enjoyment of Chris Tanglen's novel A THIRD PARTY, I was looking forward to AUNT PENELOPE'S HAREM. I couldn't wait for this novel to be out. Unfortunately, for me, it didn't measure up to the wait. I love Chris Tanglen's writing style; it's funny and sexy and totally imaginative. But this particular novel simply didn't feel right to me.

SPOILER ALERT:

The thing that put me off the most was the speed at which the "love interest" happened. I know in romantica there should be a happy ending between the hero and heroine, but to have them fall in love in the matter of a few days? While surrounded by other men? That just seemed a bit too farfetched for me.

Rated NC-17 by the publisher.

Reviewed by Michelle Houston
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted May 18, 2003

Summary

Melanie Clover has a lousy job, no boyfriend, and neighbors who like to have ridiculously loud sex. She is too shy to handle the dating scene, and has resigned herself to a chaste life spent playing mindless video games.

But when her beloved Aunt Penelope dies, Melanie inherits her home and everything in it. Now, instead of a cramped one-bedroom apartment, she has a mansion with a swimming pool, a tennis court, luxurious furniture, spacious bathrooms, a wide-screen television...and a harem.

Yes, a harem. A harem with eight handsome, muscular, sexy men, all willing to cater to her every need. Melanie is outraged to discover that Aunt Penelope's joyful nature and unmatched zest for life took this kind of direction, but her outrage turns to curiosity, and then to temptation. After all, how often does a girl have eight love slaves to call her own?

Aunt Penelope...you just got to love her ;-)

Sexual Content: NC-17. Genre: contemporary erotic comedy.