Best of
Polyamory

2013

The Books of the Raksura: The Complete Raksura Series


Martha Wells - 2013
    Containing The Cloud Roads (2011), The Serpent Sea (2012), The Siren Depths (2013).

Sinfully Theirs


Serena Akeroyd - 2013
     * Mona is Miss. Average. Her ass isn't the tightest, her job sucks, and she's still getting over her divorce. Life is one long round of work, work, and more work until, one day, she accidentally falls into the arms of an ex-Marine. After an epic one-night-stand that has Mona rethinking everything she knows about sex, she learns a terrible secret. One that makes no sense. Zane Matthews? He's married. To a man. And that man? Well, he isn't about to take his husband's cheating lying down, not when he wants Mona too. For a girl who was reared in the Church, being propositioned by two men isn't an everyday occurrence. But for a love this unique, this powerful, is Mona willing to ignore society's prejudices? Or will she walk away from them both? She was always sinfully his, but will she ever be SINFULLY THEIRS? Sinfully Theirs is a 140,000 word standalone novel. It contains hot and kinky sex, MM as well as droolworthy MMF scenes, and will generally have you wishing you could fall into the lap of a lover this damn good! This book has been re-edited, revised, and re-covered. It was originally printed with the title: MONA.

Breaking Perfect


Lydia Michaels - 2013
    Inside, I’m screaming.I suffer from severe and profound OCD, triggered by a trauma I survived when I was a young girl. My husband saved me. I crave order, because chaos stirs the messy parts of my mind I’d rather keep tied down. But when my husband’s ex-lover shows up unannounced–a man I had no idea existed from a secret part of my husband’s past he kept hidden from me–tension unfolds and our perfect life starts to unravel. My compulsions come out to play. Only, our house guest isn’t like my tolerant husband. He doesn’t ask for control. He takes it. And I surrender to this stranger’s will, because the twisted parts of me have become so rigid I sense my perfect life is about to break, and choosing to break seems the only choice left within my control. Poly-amorous | D/s | Spanking | BDSM | Menage | MMF | Explicit Content | Erotic Romance

Crosscurrents


Adam Phillips - 2013
    Andy and Matt, best friends and teammates from childhood, grow together, learn together, and struggle to remain friends when their evolving relationship outpaces their ability to understand it.

No Safewords: A Marketplace Fan Anthology


Sassafras Lowrey - 2013
    The Marketplace has fans all over the world, and Antoniou invited them to come play in her fictional sandbox/dungeon. Numbered among those fans happen to be some of the top erotica and alternative sexuality writers in the world, including D.L. King, Sassafras Lowrey, and Elizabeth Schechter. The full slate of writers contributing to NO SAFEWORDS runs the gamut of award-winning authors to bright-eyed new voices, as creator Laura Antoniou explains in her introduction: "As the saying goes, 'blessed are those who embellish the tale.' So here is the Marketplace, as seen through other eyes. There are some stories that show the world exactly as I created it, and some that push my boundaries a tad. There is romance and strife, glee and despair. There is hot sex, of course, but there's also humor and melodrama. Just the way I like it. "There were some surprises for me! I was delighted to find several female dominant/male submissive stories, especially since my examples of those relationships tend to be supporting, rather than main characters. I was also pleased by the writers who weren't afraid to go a little dark; a collection of stories all about slaves misbehaving in mildly inconvenient ways and getting fantastically, erotically punished would have been tiresome. "So whether you want a rollicking Victorian flavored tale of adventure and romance or a modern, sexy welcome to a new home for a familiar character, you will find flavors here to tempt or satisfy your tastes. Return for more time travel to a world where the language we so casually use to describe our tastes doesn't even exist, but where longing for a ritualized order and discipline and a sense of belonging transcends words, and gets expressed in the rich metaphor-and reality-of a garden. "Then swerve away from romance to feel the terror of a slave newly sold to an owner who represents their worst nightmare, whether because of demographics or the enormous challenge of a language barrier. "Here, you can get into the reflection of a trainer's long career or the grief and anguish of a new owner confronted with an inherited house full of property she didn't choose. Or, watch how even the jaded, experienced ways of the Marketplace aware people become awkward in that most awkward of adult challenges-a marriage proposal. Get a glimpse into the rarefied and formal household of an owner/spotter, and then take a detour to the desolate history of a young genderqueer punk fresh from the streets, confronted with the most iconic of Marketplace characters. All of this-a synthesis of my imagination and theirs, fed by culture, fantasy, fairy tales and fears. All fiction is, in a way, fan fiction. I am sorry it took so long for me to see this and to open myself to the interesting sensations-you might call it edge-play-in giving people access to my favorite victims. But better late than never!" Full table of contents: A Thousand Things Before Breakfast by Marie Casey Stevens The First by D. Alexandria If You Try Sometime by D. L. King Her Owner's Voice by Leigh Ann Hildebrand Hiding in Plain Sex by Sassafras Lowrey Delirious Moonlight, 1916: Mr. Sloan's Boy by Anna Watson Pearls in the Deep Blue Sea by Jamie Thorsen Coals for the New Castle by Marie Casey Stevens Getting Real by S.M. Li O, Promise Me! by Elizabeth Schechter

Something Forbidden


Kenny Wright - 2013
    Swinging. Consensual infidelity. These are not concepts that Maxwell Callahan understands, let alone fantasizes about. Max has a great life: husband, father, successful bar owner. He has no plans to shake it up.And then he witnesses a couple play a dangerous game of pick-up in his bar: the wife gets picked up, the husband watches. A seed takes root and starts to grow. What would it be like to watch his beautiful wife, Katie, in the same situation?Smart, successful, yet a little conservative, he never thought Katie would entertain such an idea…until she does. This suburban couple is about to take a wild ride as they turn fantasy into reality. Don’t miss this marital adventure as Katie and Max try something forbidden.

Bee Stung


Theolyn Boese - 2013
    But the island isn't anything like she thought it would be; the residents are suspicious and Rienne is drawing more attention from the local bachelors than she knows what to do with. Just healing from a bad relationship, she isn't sure she wants to date anyone at all, let alone all four men who all seem to be vying for her attention. Even more confusing is that two of them seem more interested in each other than in her! Foxglove is drawn to the sad-eyed woman the moment he sees her. With so much competition he worries he doesn't have a chance. But a few shy smiles and stolen dances convince him that, perhaps, this time he won't just fade into the background. Lonely after generations of guarding his people, Shiloh finds a sense of home and comfort in Rienne. The more time he spends with her the more he wants her. Now if he can just convince her being with him doesn't mean giving up Foxglove.

Love, Sex, and Understanding the Universe


Harrie Farrow - 2013
    He embraces the label, but soon discovers how difficult his life is going to be. At age sixteen his formerly liberal parents turn born-again Christian. His boyfriend Rick, who is also bi and has a girlfriend, isn't ready to come out of the closet, and if his parents knew what the two of them were doing in Rick’s basement apartment, they'd never let Jim stay there. In college, Jim takes on hedonistic girlfriend, Amy, but she doesn't seem to want to know who Jim really is. After a traumatic breakup, Jim moves to San Francisco to finally be out and open but instead everything gets insanely complicated. Struggling to be true to himself in a world where no one seems to want him to be who he is, Jim spirals into mental chaos, juggling living between two lies. Then he discovers that love finds its own way, and ends up with more than he’s sure he can handle.

Held in Dreams


Ava Burquette - 2013
    At least that's what she tells herself, until she is kidnapped off of a city bus by a strange and charismatic man named Ghalib who has come looking specifically for her. Ghalib definitely isn't ordinary. He isn't even human. He's a Dream Architect, one of the beings who create dreams for humanity. His world is the realm of passion, imagination and nightmares, where humans may be kept as pets, or personal slaves. Ghalib is obsessed with Elaine, whose vivid, erotic dreams he finds irresistible. If Elaine is to contend with Ghalib on her own terms, she'll have to do more than let go of her shy, inhibited waking manner. She will have to realize her own dreams. (F/M. F/F, M/M - For content labels and excerpt, see details on publisher's site.)Novel (116000 words)Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance

Tumblr Sibling


Robert Lubrican - 2013
    My sister was adopted too, which made things twice as weird. But we got along. She had this posse of cheerleader friends who slept over at our house frequently. I saw the flashes of light under her door as cameras were used. Then I found some of those pictures online. Pictures of them naked. Doing things with each other. Talk about weird. But that was only the beginning. I decided to confront them. After all, it's crazy to put your picture online like that. So I printed off the pictures ... you know, to confront them with? Except they were spread all over my desk when the girls all stormed into my room to ask a favor. That's when things got REALLY weird.

Tropical Haze


Lexxie Couper - 2013
    Welcome to Bandicoot Cove.Afternoon Rhapsody by Jess DeeAs Bianca puts her pending divorce aside to enjoy her brother’s wedding, she unexpectedly falls in lust with Brody, a gorgeous man who’s also getting a divorce. However, personal revelations change what they thought they knew about their troubled pasts. And suddenly they wonder if it’s possible to move on.Sunset Heat by Lexxie CouperCollins never thought she’d see Luke again, much less be standing in front of him naked. Not only does he still light her fire, but so does his rake of a cousin.Luke fell for Collins months ago, yet he can’t stop thinking about sharing her with Addison. And Addison is shocked that he wants to know Collins on all levels—even the emotional kind. But desire this hot could destroy any hope of real happiness.Moonlight Mirage by Sami LeeAt her friend’s wedding, Hayley is forced to face the former boss whose rejection sent her packing. Mitch still makes her burn. Trouble is, she already has a date.Mitch knows pushing his former intern away was a mistake. Hayley’s “plus one” is an unexpected obstacle. Luckily, Mitch has never shied away from a little competition…Warning: There’s something about the air on this island that makes you do crazy things…like fall in love. Have wild monkey sex. Indulge in a threesome, exhibitionism, voyeurism, and a few other “isms” on the side. Best read with a frozen margarita in hand.

Mistress of Seduction: Number 1 in series


Emma Allan - 2013
    Not for an appointment at the home of the woman who rules their lives, Clarissa Peacham herself. In the office she is the aloof, untouchable mistress of all she surveys. But in her private time, the beautiful Clarissa requires more from William and Gloria than a worker's compliance. If they wish to keep their jobs, they must submit to her intimate and insatiable desires . . . Part one of the Seduction series. Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.uk

The Green's Hill Werewolves: Volume I


Amy Lane - 2013
    Teague's in the game for redemption -- and Jack's in the game for Teague. Teague Sullivan is damaged, haunted, and about the loneliest man Jack has ever met. But Jack sees beyond his scars and his gruffness to kind and valiant man underneath. Teague sees beneath a green idealist under Jack's overtures, and although Teague loves Jack, he makes it cleared that a scarred old dog like himself will never be good enough for a sweet young pup like Jacky. While the argument rages, Jack is injured in the line of duty and the two hunters are abruptly sucked into the paranormal world that they've been defending. Teague is forced to reevaluate everything he's believed about their relationship. While Teague is putting together his life both with Jacky and as a member of Green's Hill, Katy steps into the mix. Katy has loved Teague since she was a child, and that love has only gotten stronger now that they've both survived into adulthood. Teague Sullivan, who has made his life living "without" is now suddenly given all the things that make live worth living "with." Does Teague have the courage to reach for two lovers and a place on Green's Hill?

Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood


Shelley M. Park - 2013
    Working from an interdisciplinary framework that incorporates feminist philosophy and queer, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and postcolonial theories, Shelley M. Park offers a powerful critique of an ideology she terms monomaternalism. Despite widespread cultural insistence that every child should have one—and only one—“real” mother, many contemporary family constellations do not fit this mandate. Park highlights the negative consequences of this ideology and demonstrates how families created through open adoption, same-sex parenting, divorce, and plural marriage can be sites of resistance. Drawing from personal experiences as both an adoptive and a biological mother and juxtaposing these autobiographical reflections with critical readings of cultural texts representing multi-mother families, Park advocates a new understanding of postmodern families as potentially queer coalitional assemblages held together by a mixture of affection and critical reflection premised on difference.Shelley M. Park is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Central Florida.

Destined Union


Tina Brescanu - 2013
     Tordis is a Swedish sex therapist who comes to Ireland and begins to work in the most progressive hospital in the world, the Royal Hospital Dublin. She thinks she knows who she is, heterosexual and monogamous, because that's what she's been told from birth. When her life experiences take her off the culture lines of both Sweden and Ireland, she is surprised and delighted to finally have the honor of getting to know herself fully. "Coming out later in life is not uncommon. Many come out in their 40's, 50's, 60's, and even later. People in their 40's and older were raised in an era when heterosexuality and monogamy were the only openly accepted options for living life. People who come out later in life realize that they have always been what they thought they weren't, and finally get the honour of getting to know themselves. Some are shocked at their discovery, but most are comfortable becoming who they really are, who they have always been." - Tina Brescanu, Author of Destined Union-

A Little Weird


J.B. McDonald - 2013
    He isn't gay. He isn't bi. He definitely isn't submissive. And with an underlying case of post-traumatic stress disorder from years in the military, anything BDSM just sounds dangerous.But he also doesn't want to see his friends hurt, and he's positive that will happen if they get together with strangers from the Internet. London plays things too close to the vest for him to get a good enough read on her, but Kel trusts Ty, even if he doesn't think he'll enjoy turning over control. It'll be a one-off, it'll be a little weird, and they'll all go back to normal.He's not sure what to do when a little weird turns out to be something he wants.

Behind the Scenes


T.L. Reeve - 2013
    PLEASE NOTE THIS EDITION IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE