Janice Maynard

Contemporary

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I wish I had a Dove bar for every time I've heard someone say:

"I love romance novels. I just don't like all the sex they're puttin' in em' these days."

Huh?

What romance today really needs is more sex.

What I mean is more good sex, since much of what's masquerading for sensuality today makes readers uncomfortable for a fairly simple reason --

Many authors are squeamish about writing it, and that shows.

When a writer feels pressured into writing lots of explicit love scenes she's told the "market" demands, when she's still worried what Grandma's gonna think, the quality of a novel's sensuality suffers.

We then suffer through tedious "love" scenes that are nothing about conveying the explosive emotion the lovers should be feeling, and everything about describing logistics, mechanics, and varying degrees of moisture.

Yuck. Wake me when it's over.

Yet, when an author learns to extend emotion and tension from plot to sensual encounters, her writing can wrap the reader in the sensations the lovers are feeling: mind, soul ....

And body.

It can be scary and embarrassing to admit, but some kinds of romances arouse more than just our heart's desire.

Which is a wonderfully healthy -- and an absolutely OK -- thing.

If you celebrate that, or want to try it on for size, check out Janice Maynard's "Suite Fantasy," three joyful and entertaining tales of erotic romance.

At the Scimitar Hotel, three couples' wildest fantasies come true as they frolic in specially-themed suites:

Gentle kindergarten teacher Katie Spencer wants her bad boy boyfriend to stop treating her with kid gloves. Perhaps a little "Suite Seduction" in the English schoolroom will do the trick.

Snowed-in and alone at the resort, Scimitar managers Shelli and Tyler abandon their professional ethics and succumb to "Suite Surrender" in the harem den.

And "Suite Revenge" feels so good as Luke Marshall lives out his high school fantasies at the drive-in with the all-grown-up girl next door.

"Suite Fantasy" is very hot, because Janice Maynard's great at writing erotic scenes which make sense for the stars of these terrific little love stories.

But the sensuality also is very sweet and loving, making it a sort of bubble-gum erotica: everything's consensual, and nothing's dark.

Curious about the whole "erotic romance" thing, but want to ease into that type of reading experience?

"Fantasy Suite" is the kinder, gentler erotic novel for you.

Buy the book.

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