Have Your Self a Very Sexy Christmas

Posted by Carleen Peters in Book News, Competition news, Piatkus, Recommended Reading, Sphere

As the nights draw in and the temperature drops below freezing why not turn up the heat with one of our sizzling new novels from erotic fiction writer, Zara Devereux? Tis the season to be jolly, after all.

Perfect stocking fillers for fans of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy, lovers of Marina Anderson’s novels and the erotica uninitiated looking for an entry point to this new breed of women’s fiction, there are four irresistible titles to choose from, including Silken Bonds (Sphere) which offers a steamy Christmas twist, and three Piatkus Fiction paperbacks (all three of which are up for grabs in a saucy Crimbo competition over on PiatkusBooks.net now!) .

Beautifully packaged, unashamedly sexy and utterly addictive, which one will make your Christmas wish list?

Silken Bonds ( Sphere, paperback and ebook £7.99, OUT NOW)

Christmas is never a good time to break up with someone but Tamzin has had enough of Tim; he isn't man enough for her. Bored and frustrated, Tamzin agrees to attend a Christmas party hosted by a colleague, unaware of how out of hand things will get. Tamzin discovers startling things about her desires – and she wants to learn more.

When she hears about a very special hotel that caters for all tastes, Tamzin knows she must stay there. It is at Cheveral Court that Tamzin encounters Guy, a man like no other she's ever met before. Will he be the one to take her to the edge?

Velvet Touch (Piatkus, paperback £7.99, available to buy 20/12/12)
When Karen Heywood is offered a new job as assistant archivist, she hopes that the mysterious halls and old libraries of Blackwood Towers will finally reveal to her the inner strength and purpose she's spent her life searching for.

But as dark secrets and desires start to rise to the surface, Karen realises there's more to the job than she bargained for. Secrets that she craves to unravel – and only one man whose answers will set her free. Blackwood's mysterious owner, Lord Mallory Burnet . . . the same man who's starting to consume her every waking thought.

Wicked Ways (Piatkus, paperback £7.99 available to buy 20/12/12)

Beautiful and ambitious friends Kelly Adele and Judith Blake are thrilled when they are taken on as assistants in a rare bookshop. They soon find out, however, that the shop's owner, Adam Renald, likes to go to bed with more than just a good book.

Thrust into a world of passion, danger and discovery, Kelly and Judith accept an invitation to France and face a life-changing dilemma. Can they delve deeper into the intoxicating world they've glimpsed and ever turn back? And as the flames of passion burn brighter in the dark French chateau, the girls realise – would they ever want to . . . ?

Wild Silk (Piatkus, paperback £7.99 available to buy 20/12/12)
Merran Faulkner inherits her eccentric uncle's fortune, but there's one condition: as a world-famous explorer, it was his dying wish that she should travel to South America to search for a lost Inca treasure. Certainly not something the sheltered heiress had in mind for her next vacation.

But as Merran treks her way through the jungle, her uncle's artefact isn't her only new discovery. Meeting the mysterious Don Miguel, Merran's Amazonian adventure becomes so much more than her uncle's will ever entailed. And as Merran gets to know Don, with his temptingly exotic ways, suddenly the wild side she's tried so desperately hard to hide wants to come out and play . . .