Happy Mayday! And welcome to the
200th POST and my first Book Giveaway on this blog, which will hopefully put sap in your stems and ribbons round your Maypoles...

This is my Spare Book Box. Full, isn't it? So I have
at least one copy of each of the
filthy books listed below to give to readers. Free! For nothing! There's got to be a catch, surely?
Well, there is actually. Just a little one.
I need some more reviews up on public websites - particularly
Amazon US and
Amazon UK, but there's
Barnes & Noble and
LoveHoney and
Waterstones and probably others. I want people looking at my booklists to have some idea of what they should buy and why.
So all I'm asking is that
if I send you a book
and you like it when you get round to reading it, that you put up a positive review on a bookseller's website of your choice. It doesn't have to be gushy unstinted praise (although that would certainly warm my ego) but something thoughtful and positive would be hugely appreciated.
All you have to do at the moment is
drop a comment here telling me
which book(s) you'd like, and which site you're likely to post the review on. No addresses, please. I'll be back on Tuesday (with some delayed Eyecandy) to sort out who got what.
And if you've already got all my books and keep them in gold-edged wipe-clean covers in a special velvet-lined box ... well PLEASE write me a nice review anyway: Authors love you for doing that!
Cruel Enchantment:
My first collection of short stories, all with paranormal, fairy-tale or fantasy themes. Black Lace calls it "a stunning collection of unique and breathtakingly beautiful erotic fairy tales. Seductive, dazzling and strange." Contains the infamous story about the dragon!! (and an undead story that is not to everyone's taste - you have been warned). Let's see ... there are Greek gods, rugged warriors, succubi, magicians, wicked stepmothers, a very scary teenaged princess and a whole bunch of medieval werewolves. Some f/f, F/m, spanking, non-human (obviously), threesomes, romance and an orgy.
Dark Enchantment:
This year's follow-up short story collection. Again, all have paranormal or fantasy themes. Black Lace describes it as "seductive and stylishly written stories that will tease, tempt and transport you to fantastic realms where dreams - and nightmares - can come true." There's a steampunk one, and a ghost story that
Madellyne Ellis raved over, a djinn, a minotaur, Death .... and the Devil. M/f, F/m, cuckolding, romance, plus a femsub gangbang story.
Divine Torment:
This is a fantasy novel, but low fantasy (swords and sandals, not magic and elves). Black Lace describes it as "Like
Gladiator set in a mythical realm" and that's pretty accurate. General Veraine is sent to hold a city against the oncoming barbarian hoard, and promptly falls for the forbidden high priestess of the Goddess of the Cruel Earth. Is she a divine incarnation or human? Will she return his passion? Will they ever get it together, since everyone in the city is trying to stop them? You'll like this one if you like: Spartans, ethnic tension,
The Tombs of Atuan.
Burning Bright:

A direct sequel to
Divine Torment, but can be read seperately as the two lovers have run away to a jungle realm and then been split up. Veraine, injured, has lost all memory of who he is and knows only that he must search out a woman he does not remember. She meantime has been captured by the inhuman Tiger Lords and must survive the cruelty and madness of their palace and bring down their reign.
I really want at least one decent review of this up on Amazon.com because at the moment there's a particularly poisonous review that claims "the entire book is about the heroine being tortured and raped as a slave" - which is an outright f**king
lie. She doesn't get raped. Not once. I promise you, and I should bloody know. She has to go through some fairly scary and painful stuff, but so does he. My heroes are
tough.
Wildwood:
A contemporary fantasy set in Britain's West Country. Avril is a landscape gardener torn between her sexy but bad
(Boo! Hiss!) boss Michael (who wants something mysterious that is hidden in the wood on his estate) and the sexy but distinctly odd dreadlocked tree-hugger Ash who is trying at all costs to stop Michael getting into the wood. Both men are sorcerors, it turns out. And the wood is full of fairies. Really
nasty fairies. What are they fighting over? Who will Avril choose? What the hell happens after the book finishes? You'll like this one if you like:
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen.
Magic and Desire:
Three novellas: a romantic fairy story by
Portia Da Costa, a high fantasy

with dragons by
Olivia Knight, and my story
The House of Dust which is set at the dawn of civilisation, in Mesopotamia, and is about a priestess's descent into the Land of the Dead in order to bring back her murdered king. Quite dark, lots of femsub - again, a tough heroine who will endure anything to get what she truly wants. You'll like this one if you like ... uh ...
The Epic of Gilgamesh, stuff by Mary Renault, that sort of thing
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1) You have to be an existing customer to post on Amazon.com or Amazon.uk but I don't know about the other sites.
2) You can post an Amazon review without revealing your real name/account/e-mail.
Charlotte Stein showed me how to do that this week, so it's definitely possible.