"Pleasure comes in many forms."

The Quest -- Marilyn Lee
Five years ago, Jemi Hunter's husband Cody died from injuries after a high speed police chase. His last words were they would be together again. It took years for Jemi to stop grieving. Then the letters started, followed the dreams. Dreams filled with a dream lover whose face she could never see. One night after her dream lover gave her pleasure like she had never had, she got a glimpse of him. It/he looked like a large cat. The last letter arrived asking her to meet Cody at a ghost town. When she arrives a giant cat appears, claiming to be Cody. Scared, she falls and the cat lies over her. The next thing she knows she wakens in a strange hut, feeling like she had just been satisfied sexually. Somehow she is sharing a body with Jerone, the daughter of Liege Lord of Votair Donaun. The large cat she saw in her dream is also here. He is Hunter, A Carnivore of Tern terra, and he wants Jemi. Ever since Cody had merged in his body, he had been coming to Jemi in her dreams -- this time he wants her for real.

Sensuality: Rated NC-17 by the publisher. Explicit sex, interspecies sex, multiple partners.

Return from Exile -- Mary Winter
One night Rina, a Major in Yelexian army, hears a noise. She catches the heir to the Emperor's throne trying to assassinate his father. Because she is guilty of striking the heir, she is permanently exiled from her homeland, thus sparing her the death sentence. When faced with the choice of his career or leaving with Rina, her lover Ter decides to stay.

Three years later Rina is a successful captain of a cargo transport. She is happy, but still misses Ter. Suddenly Ter is back. The heir is now on the throne and the High Council wants her back. Can she trust Ter this time? As much as she misses home and Ter, she doesn't think she can stand being betrayed again.

Sensuality: Rated NC-17 by the publisher. Explicit sex, bondage.

The Offering -- Christine Warren
Eve, a major in the army, had spent her whole adult life working up the ranks only to have it destroyed. When General Mokollek pushed his army into an uncover operation that went bad, Eve managed to save most of troops, but in doing so she made an enemy of the general. For revenge, Mokollek made her a gofer and finally found an undercover job he knew she would hate. She had to become a Nitra, an Ankharan slave. She would become a gift to the Ankharan Prince, Michael Taggert. Her job was to find evidence against Michael. But that could be a problem -- Eve doesn't have a clue how to subservient. After a little enhancement she is now a man's perfect sex toy.

Sensuality: Rated NC-17 by the publisher. Explicit sex, light bondage, spanking.

PLEASURE QUEST is a great anthology. I was totally enchanted with Hunter from The Quest. I also love the strength of the characters of both Rina and Eve. You have three very different authors with totally different styles. There is something for everyone.

Reviewed by Patricia McGrew
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted August 11, 2003

Summary

Marilyn Lee, The Quest 1: Hunter's Passion

Publisher's Note: this is a reissue of Ms. Lee's story formerly published by Ellora's Cave

I miss you. I'm working on a way for us to be together again. Get ready...
Those were the words in the last letter Jemi Hunter received from her husband Cody-five years after his death. His last living words to her were that he would find a way for them to be together. Now, on Valentine's Day night, she is waiting in a dilapidated shack in the middle of nowhere, questioning her sanity...
Genre: Futuristic. Rating: NC17.

Mary Winter, Galaxy Rogues 1: Return from Exile

Being exiled from her beloved planet was hard enough for Major Rina Corvalano. Leaving the man she loved, Lieutenant Terrastan Ilykianoiselle, broke her heart in two. Death would have been more merciful. A chance meeting with Ter in a bar seemed like a fluke, until he shows up at her ship the next morning with a dire warning: return to Yelexia with him and face the High Council, or die. Rina can no more refuse the order than she can Ter's body...
Genre: Futuristic; Rated: NC17

Christine Warren, The Offering

Eve Cartwright has landed herself in a bit of a bind. After making an enemy of her superior officer and half the Protectorate government, she discovers her latest undercover mission involves digging up the dirt on suspected smuggler and rebel leader, Michael Taggart. And she has to do it while posing as his sex slave. Now Eve is left wondering if it will be tougher to find the evidence of Taggart's crimes, or to find the strength not to submit completely to his erotic domination...
Genre: Futuristic; light bondage. Rated: NC17.

Sexual Content: NC-17. Genre: futuristic.