by Tracy Quan
Penny loses at cards and her forfeit is to become the slave of Edmund and his friends for a day…
When Jessie can’t pay her bill in a restaurant, the owner devises a unique payment plan…
Annabel’s reputation as an ice maiden only thaws when a daring barman dares to light her fuse…
ISBN: 978-0-00-747765-4
Published 16/02/2012
Sisters in Sin – Primula Bond
A Mischief Petite Novel
Discover just how many sins one Venetian convent of silent sisters can commit.
Jennifer Coombes is lost in Venice. She is supposed to be sourcing glass for her business back in London, but instead she befriends a young nun, Natalia, who is torn between keeping her sacred vows and escaping to meet her lover for secret trysts. The worldly and frustrated Jennifer cannot understand such a dilemma until she accompanies Natalia and experiences for herself the dark and mysterious goings-on behind the crumbling walls of the Santa Maria convent. Alongside the swift yet arousing punishments meted out to any sinner, obedient nuns are rewarded by the calm, silence, and sisterly sensuality of their enclosed way of life.
When the two girls swap places Jennifer is locked away in this silent, scented world but far from remaining celibate, she awakens her sisters to all the possibilities at their finger-tips, to the kinky passion that can be found in the vineyard, the confessional, even in the candle-lit silence of their cells. Or are they awakening her? By the time the carnal temptations of the Carnivale rage outside the walls, despite the demands of her life back home, Jennifer is so embroiled with the convent and the secret life with her sisters in sin she fears she may never be able to leave. But whenever briefly breaking from the dreamy and enchanting atmosphere of the convent, why does no one back in the world believe that the infamous convent even exists?
ISBN: 978-0-00-747766-1
Published 16/02/2012
Girl for Hire: The Secret Encounters of Amateur Escorts – Various
Everyday women leading a double life as high class escorts in a collection of original and edgy erotica. It’s not about the pay, the thrill is to play.
Imagine having a secret life as a high class call girl and mouth-watering hooker, with anonymous clients and cash in hand payments. These girls did more than just fantasise about it on a rollercoaster of hotel rooms and high stakes in high heels, where giving and receiving pleasure proved to be the greatest payment of all.
When Juliet receives a salacious text message in error, requesting the services of an escort, her curiosity wins…
Clara’s first assignment at an upscale address, leaves her clueless as to who the client actually is…
When Jane is caught misbehaving, her husband decides he likes it and begins arranging unusual encounters…
ISBN: 978-0-00-747767-8
Published March 2012
In her Service: A Collection of Dominant Girls – Various
Original erotica fantasy fiction exploring the curious and intense pleasures of submitting to female domination.
For many men nothing can compete with the intoxicating pleasure of a dominant woman in full control of the bedroom, playroom or office. So come visit the places where corseted matrons and cruel thigh-booted minxes make their slaves bow, kneel, scrape and sting before their heels. An explicit femme dom collection of empowered women and reduced men who learn to know their place…and wouldn’t have it any other way.
Pursuing a female celebrity for a scoop leads one journalist into a humiliating experience he’ll never forget…
Daisy is a harsh mistress, but when her slaves revolt, her punishment is greater than what even she could devise…
Kelly’s arrival at a female friend’s wedding, involves the renewing of special extramarital vows that have nothing to do with monogamy.
ISBN: 978-0-00-747768-5
Published March 2012
Power Play – Charlotte Stein
A Mischief Novel
Now she’s the boss, and everything that once seemed forbidden may well be deliciously possible…
When Eleanor Harding is abruptly promoted, she loses two very important things: the heated relationship she had with her boss, and control over her own desires. Without a restraining hand on her she finds herself suddenly craving something very different – and the office lackey, Benjamin, seems like just the sort of man to fulfil her needs.
He’s eager, lustful and willing to show her all of the things she’s been missing – namely, what it’s like to be the one in charge, for a change. Now all Eleanor has to do is decide…is Ben calling the kinky shots, or is she?
ISBN: 978-0-00-747769-2
Published March 2012
Kinky – Justine Elyot
A Mischief Petite Novel
‘There’s a place further down the street where I work that I can’t figure out at all.’ Rosie’s efforts to investigate a mysterious building lead to a meeting with an interesting stranger and a descent into excess.
Kinky Cupcake is much more than a meeting place for like-minded BDSM enthusiasts – it’s an all-purpose play space with dungeons, boudoirs and role-play rooms galore. So when Rosie and her new friend Dimitri blag their way in, they know they are going to have to convince everyone that they are a genuine scene couple. This isn’t easy, when you’ve known each other all of a few hours, but they give it their best shot.
The pleasures of domination and submission are explored, one by one, until Rosie and Dimitri’s faked dynamic becomes all too real. But how much of their emotional bond depends on their shared sensual experiences? And the truest test of their bond is whether they can be together outside Kinky Cupcake as well as inside its chambers.
ISBN: 978-0-00-747770-8
Published March 2012
Acknowledgments
I am deeply grateful to Charles Peck, a rigorous editor, wary first reader, and sharp-witted co-conspirator. His contributions are integral to the telling of this tale.
Caroline Sincerbeaux, my editor at Crown, has been relentless, thorough, and wonderfully supportive. Doug Pepper will always be Nancy Chan’s Canadian godfather. Rosie Gailer, Venetia Butterfield, Essie Cousins, Sarah O’Reilly, Natasha Law, Whitney Cookman, Andrea Peabbles, Selina Cicogna, Jennifer Hunt, Toisan Craigg, Juleyka Lantigua, Genoveva Llosa, Cathy Paine, Adrienne Phillips, Stephen Lee, Jason Gordon, Melissa Kaplan, Alex Lencicki, and Susan Schwartzman, thank you for making Nancy feel welcome in so many places.
My affectionate thanks to Will Crutchfield.
Katinka Matson, John Brockman, Louise Aibel, and Russell Weinberger of Brockman Inc; Peter Benedek, Craig Losben, and Howard Sanders at United Talent Agency; Dana Friedman and Vanessa Borcherding of Dragonfly Technologies: thank you for being in my corner. A special note of thanks to the New York Society Library and to Mark Piel.
Mike Godwin, Xaviera Hollander, James Wolcott, Ralph Martin, Bob Fogelnest, Juhu Thukral, Carole Murray, Andrew Sorfleet, Steve Richardson-Ross, Melodie Cantor, Robert Johnson at Maggie’s in Toronto, Neke Carson, Lisa Napoli, Peter Hirshberg, Tim Noonan, Reagan Louie, Larissa MacFarquhar, Gerard S., David Sterry, Dana Tierney, Darren Star, Mari Aldin, Eugenia Zukerman, Gretchen Soderlund, Matthew Weingarden, Pico Iyer, Amy Kao, Howard Altman, Robyn Few, Robin Head, Dov Rueff, Rebecca Kaye, Desmond Mervyn, Siena Wilcock, Lily, Lovemuffin, Adam J., Nomi Prins, Thessy Mehrain, John Dizard, Harley Spec, Joe Lavezzo, and Paul Shields; Kate Larkin, Jo Weldon, Veronica Vera, and Melissa Hope; Frances, David Andrew, Adrian, Andrea Piccolo, and Ronnie Lacerda: thank you for your support. For helpful advice. And for tickling my imagination.
About the Author
Tracy Quan lives in New York City. Her first novel, Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl, was acquired by Revolution Studios for a major motion picture, to be produced by Darren Star, creator of HBO’s Sex and the City. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Men’s Health, The Philadelphia Inquirer, South China Morning Post, The Globe and Mail, and many other pub
lications. Visit the author at www.tracyquan.net.
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‘Hilarious’
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‘Wise, observant and - best of all - fun’
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