"Red Sage and the Secrets authors provide another passion filled anthology"

The sensuality of seduction, the skillful way of teasing and tempting one's reader into a frenzy of ecstasy, that is the mark of a Secrets author. As you read the four novellas that make up volume 7, you become a part of the writer's sensual realm, escaping into a world of fantasy and intense passion.

Surrender to Kathryn Anne Dubois as she takes you away to a time of nobility and society setting strict standards on the behavior of ladies. Surrender to a passionate tale of an unconventional Duke determined to awaken his future wife to the splendors and sexual adventures that the marriage bed can hold. {This is Katherine's first story for the Secrets line.}

Dreams. Some can be soft and gentle, funny even. Others will wake you with your heart racing and fear causing you to tremble. But what about the dreams that make your heart race for a totally different reason? What if you dream of your past, a love so passionate that death and time have no meaning? Gray Avonaco knows what those dreams are like. Every night, The Woman of His Dreams comes to him, his next-door neighbor Joanna Morgan. Ever since he moved in next door to Joanna, her dreams have taken a turn for the erotic as well. Now all that is left is to let dreams become reality. {Jade Lawless makes her Secrets debut with this story of reincarnation and a love that lives beyond time.}

Amelia's father wagered her innocence in a game of chance, only to loose. Captain Hawke didn't intend to claim his winnings, but then Amelia's father brings her aboard his ship and he finds himself striking a bargain with her. Instead of her virginity, he asks for three days of erotic foreplay. If all goes well, she would walk away a virgin, dowered nicely and free to marry the man of her choice. If not, and Hawke claimed her virginity for his own, they would be wed. The bargain struck, they set sail, leaving only one question between them unanswered, could Hawke resist the irresistible appeal of Amelia's Innocence. {Julia Welles is the third new talent to appear this volume.}

Revenge. Sometimes evil must be destroyed for the victim to find peace. Sometimes all a victim has left is the desire to destroy the one responsible for their pain. Navy Seal Logan McLean knows well this drive for vengeance. He lives to hunt down the vampires who murdered his wife, and he thinks Virginia Hart is one of them. Virginia knows Logan's pain, she too has been a victim of an evil vampire, but she embraces another strong desire; the longing to be reunited with her lost soul mate. When she finds him in Logan, a man determined to kill her, the deadly game of Kissing the Hunter begins. She has to convince him that killing her isn't the answer. That only loving her would set him free. {Angela Knight has seduced readers with stories in three previous Secrets volumes: Roarke's Prisoner - Volume 2, Blood and Kisses - Volume 3, and A Candidate For A Kiss - Volume 6.}

Rated NC-17.

Reviewed by Michelle Houston
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted October 26, 2002

Summary

"Amelia's Innocence" by Julia Welles
Amelia didn't know her father bet her in a card game with Captain Quentin Hawke, so honor demands a compromise - three days of erotic foreplay, leaving her virginity and future intact.

"The Woman of His Dreams" by Jade Lawless
From the day artist Gray Avonaco moves in next door, Joanna Morgan is plagued by provocative dreams. But what she believes is unrequited lust, Gray sees as another chance to be with the woman he loves. He must persuade her that even death can't stop true love.

"Surrender" by Kathryn Anne Dubois
Free-spirited Lady Johanna wants no part of the binding strictures society imposes with her marriage to the powerful Duke. She doesn't know the dark Duke wants sensual adventure, and sexual satisfaction.

"Kissing the Hunter" by Angela Knight Navy Seal Logan McLean hunts the vampires who murdered his wife. Virginia Hart is a sexy vampire searching for her lost soul-mate only to find him in a man determined to kill her. She must convince him all vampires aren't created equally.