Thirty-nine-year-old Elaine Metcliffe awakens in another century, in another woman's bed, inside another woman's body, married to another woman's husband. Charles Mortimer, a virile 19th century English baron, is a far cry from her own 20th century husband. Bent on seducing the resentful young bride he believes her to be, Charles educates Elaine in practices of physical pleasure she has never dared imagine. Torn between fidelity to the passionless man she left behind and the exquisite temptation of Charles's touch, Elaine must uncover the dark mystery responsible for her transport to another time and place - and chart the course of her own destiny.

AN EDUCATION IN PLEASURE. Married young to a man hand-picked by her father, Elizabeth Petre is an ideal Victorian lady. She has borne two sons and endured sixteen years of selfless duty in a passionless marriage. Craving a man's loving touch yet loyal to her wedding vows, Elizabeth is determined to seduce her coldly indifferent husband. She knows of only one man who can teach her the erotic secrets of love. A LESSON IN LOVE. The bastard son of an English countess and an Arab sheik, Ramiel Devington was reared to embrace both Western culture and Eastern pleasure. Scorned by society and challenged by prim Elizabeth's request, he undertakes her instruction in the art of sensual delight. But when the lessons become a temptation neither can resist, Elizabeth is forced to choose between obligation and forbidden passion...

UNA EDUCAZIONE AL PIACERE. Sposata giovane ad un uomo scelto dal padre, Elizabeth Petre è l'ideale signora vittoriana. Ha dato alla luce due figli ed ha resistito a sedici anni di dovere in un'unione senza passione. Desiderando il tocco amorevole dell'uomo, tuttavia leale ai suoi voti di nozze, Elizabeth è determinata a sedurre il marito freddamente indifferente. Conosce solo un uomo che può insegnarle i segreti erotici dell'amore. UNA LEZIONE IN AMORE. Figlio bastardo di una contessa inglese e di uno sceicco arabo, Ramiel Devington è stato allevato per abbracciare sia la coltura occidentale che il piacere orientale. Disprezzato dalla società e sfidato dalla richiesta di Elizabeth, intraprende la sua istruzione nell'arte del piacere sensuale. Ma quando le lezioni si trasformano in in una tentazione che nessuno può resistere, Elizabeth è costretta a scegliere fra l'obbligo e la passione proibita...

Cover Art by John Ennis

Review by Giorgia77

A Lady’s pleasure in Captivated: Tales of Erotic Romance Anthology (1999)

Seeking shelter from a storm, Colonel Robert Coally intrudes on Abigail Wynfred while she is reading a book that would surely raise more than one eyebrow in London society. When the lonely Abigail confides in him that she aches for the touch of a man, Robert takes her on a breathless journey filled with sensual surprises surpassing even the most scandalous of fictional exploits.

Thirty-six-year-old Anne Aimes is a spinster whose only attraction is her wealth. But her plain looks mask a passionate woman who yearns to know a man's intimate caresses. Michel des Anges - Michael of the Angels - is renowned for his ability to bring women to pleasure. All it will cost her is ten thousand pounds...

Driven by vengeance, Michael seeks to lose himself in a woman who will demand only physical pleasure. A woman who won't suspect his own aching needs - or his true motive for accepting her terms. Unable to resist the lure of Anne's guileless desire, he plunges her into a deadly web of deception and revenge where the price of carnal ecstasy is life itself...

Man and a Woman in Fascinated Anthology (2000)

Hoping to experience once again the intimacies shared with a man, widowed Megan Branwell engages in a charade with Connor Treffrey that will take them both on a breathless journey of indescribable pleasure.

Destitute and terrorized by a nameless pursuer, thirty-four-year-old Victoria Childers has only one thing of value left - her innocence. Its price will buy her safety. But Gabriel doesn't want her virginity - he wants the man who stalks her. Trapped together in a house where every desire can be fulfilled, Victoria and Gabriel are plunged into a deadly game of passion and pursuit, where the greatest threat is carnal hunger and the only rule is survival.

In the 1880s, country bumpkin Frances Hart, before she turns fifty, decides to travel to London to explore the city as a widow with few restraints except those she places on herself. She recognizes that having wedded as a young teen and been married for over three decades that just her restricted roles as a mother and wife for over two thirds of her life will be hard to overcome, but she is determined to do so especially the sensual sexy side of the city. With the accidental death of his wife of twenty-four years, the mother of his two children, London barrister James Whitcox concludes he never really knew her. He feels sad and a bit depressed but not out of grief for her death, but because he never took the time to truly be with her beyond his duty as a spouse and father. He joins the Men and Women’s Club, a group that openly discusses sexual intercourse. When Frances Hart accidentally enters a club meeting, James feels that he found someone to put into practice the sexual relation discussions even if she is an older woman that turns them into SCANDALOUS LOVERS. Though a historical erotic romance as hot as a novel gets, the deep look into Victorian society makes for a complete delightful tale. The two souls feel they failed at inter-gender relationships their first time around, which adds fathoms of depth to the lead protagonists having a second chance with experience, each vows to flaunt the restrictiveness of proper society and go after passion and perhaps love. After reading this heated insightful story fans will agree that this is an author who shone quite a powerful light on 1880s English society. (Harriet Klausner)

Intorno al 1880, la campagnola Frances Hart, prima di compiere cinquant'anni, decide di andare a Londra per esplorare la città come una vedova con poche limitazioni se non quelle che si pone lei stessa. Riconoscere che essersi sposata da adolescente e rimanere sposata per oltre trent'anni costretta nel ruolo di madre e moglie per oltre due terzi della sua vita sarà difficile da superare, ma è determinata a farlo specialmente nel lato sensuale della città. Con la morte accidentale della moglie di ventiquattro anni, la madre dei suoi due bambini, l'avvocato di Londra James Whitcox conclude che non l'ha mai realmente conosciuta. Si sente triste e un poco depresso ma non troppo addolorato per la sua morte, ma perchè non si è mai preoccupato di stare davvero con lei al di la del dovere come marito e padre. Si aggrega al Men and Women's Club, un gruppo che discute apertamente di relazioni sessuali. Quando Frances Hart partecipa per sbaglio ad un incontro del club, James sente di aver trovato qualcuno con cui mettere in pratica le discussioni sulle relazioni sessuali anche se lei è una donna anziana che li trasforma in amanti scandalosi. Sebbene sia un romanzo erotico storico caldo quanto può essere un romanzo, la profonda introspezione della società vittoriana lo rende un racconto completamente delizioso. Le due anime sentono di aver fallito nelle relazioni interpersonali la loro prima volta, che aggiunge profondità ai protagonisti che hanno una seconda possibilità con l'esperienza, ognuno votato ad ostentare la rigidità di una società appropriata e andare oltre con la passione e forse l'amore. Dopo aver letto questa storia passionale le fan saranno d'accordo che questa è un'autrice che illumina con una luce potente la società inglese del 1880. (Harriet Klausner)

The Men and Women's Club in Private Places Anthology (2008)

Four all-new hot tales of yore, by the queens of erotic fiction.

In The Men and Women's Club, USA Today bestselling author Robin Schone shares a tale of a man and a woman in a notorious club, who learn how very dangerous desires of the flesh can be.

Rarely does such blush-worthy, heated erotica exist—and almost never all in one book.

Quattro racconti tutti nuovi di passione, dalle regine della narrativa erotica.

In The Men and Women's Club, l'autrice bestseller di USA Today Robin Schone condivide una storia di un uomo e una donna in un famigerato club, che imparano quanto pericolosi possono essere i desideri della carne.

Raramente un tale erotismo sexy e da arrossire è esistito - e quasi mai tutto in un unico libro.