Bertrice Small - Guilty Pleasures

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PRAISE FOR BERTRICE SMALLS

Pleasures Series

Passionate Pleasures

Small delivers a marvelously sexy story... thats smart, sassy, and definitely sizzling... a great love story that just happens to be filled with erotic love scenes.

Romantic Times

A fun, well-written romantic fantasy.

Genre Go Round Reviews

Dangerous Pleasures

A pleasurable erotic tale.... Fans will enjoy Bertrice Smalls fine character study.

The Best Reviews

The queen of sensual romance has done it again... sizzling.

Romantic Times

Erotica has never been done more tastefully or been more captivating.

Romance Junkies

Sudden Pleasures

Arranged marriages are nothing new but the spin that Small puts on her contemporary version is hot and different... definitely scorching.

Romantic Times

Full of emotions and unruly feelings... an entertaining read.... Ms. Small writes every character realistically and with realistic faults.

Romance Junkies

Forbidden Pleasures

Small is the queen of steamy romance, and this sequel to Private Pleasures is a truly entertaining fantasy that delivers.... Fans of erotic romance will not want to miss Emilys sexual awakening.

Romantic Times

Private Pleasures

One of the best erotic novels I have read this year.... With her trademark savvy, sass, and sensuality all wrapped up in one seriously beguiling package... [a] winner.

A Romance Review

A complete success... gritty, truthful, and of course, extremely sexy.

Rendezvous

[A] XXXX tale... fans of erotica will enjoy.

Midwest Book Review

PRAISE FOR
BERTRICE SMALL

Ms. Small delights and thrills.

Rendezvous

Bertrice Small creates cover-to-cover passion.

Publishers Weekly

ALSO BY BERTRICE SMALL

The Pleasures Series

Passionate Pleasures

Sudden Pleasures

Dangerous Pleasures

Forbidden Pleasures

Private Pleasures

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Small, Bertrice.
Guilty pleasures/Bertrice Small.
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ISBN : 978-1-101-51727-7

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PS3569.M28G85 2011
813.54dc22 2011009675

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For Laura Cifelli

It was brief but you were a lovely editor,
and you always made me laugh.

Thank you.

AUTHORS NOTE

For those of you who have not previously read one of the Pleasures books, a brief explanation of the Channel is in order. The Channel is a secret interactive network known only to women. It is obtained through a cable or satellite provider. It allows you to live out your wildest fantasies between the hours of eight p.m. and four a.m. daily. Men have no idea it exists. If they did, they would want it for themselves, or regulate it, or, worst of all, take it away from us.

The five previous novels in the Pleasures series have each dealt with the story of one woman and her involvement with the Channel. They have all taken place in the small town of Egret Pointe. This work of fiction, however, while still set in Egret Pointe, will tell you five short stories about five different women, four of whom have appeared in the previous books. The fifth is a new character employed by a previous heroine.

I hope you will enjoy reading Guilty Pleasures as much as I have enjoyed writing it. But remember: This is a work of fiction. So please dont call your cable or satellite providers and ask for the Channel. But... maybe one day.

CARLA AND THE PIRATE KING

C arla Johnson had been married for more than thirty years to a good man. They lived in a large comfortable house on Ansley Court in the small town of Egret Pointe. Their children were grown and not a problem. Rick had a thriving law practice with his best friend, Joe Pietro dAngelo, in the village. Carla had gone back to nursing at the local hospital. And together they had a fun social life and a regular sex life.

But all that didnt mean a girl couldnt long for something a wee bit more exciting, which was precisely the purpose of the Channel. With a special remote from the Channel, you could program your wildest fantasy and actually live it. Nowadays the Channel remote could program two fantasies, so you could switch from one to the other if the first bored you. You could delete your fantasies and replace them with new fantasies whenever you wanted.

Carla Johnson, however, had only one fantasy programmed in her remote. The year was 1680, and she was Captain Raven, a dangerous and feared pirate queen. When she had originally programmed her fantasy, Carla had sailed her vessel out of Jamaica. Recently she had created a small island called Amorata Cay, belonging to her alone, that served as her home port. It was a hilly landscape with cliffs that fell into the sea but for a half-moon cove bordered by a small sandy beach.