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Generic Profile avatar EROTICA TO READ I love the relationships dark, erotic, disturbing. I don't like harlequins, but I prefer contemporary fiction generally. Edit
List created by EDOUARD J. (ambre) on Oct 13, 2011
List Votes: 1 Books: 27 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 2 List Type: Open
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Repeat It Today With Tears by Anne Peile
"Beautifully written. . . . Despite the controversial subject matter this is a tender and sympathetic portrait."—Bookseller"Controversial but sensitively handled."—Marie ClaireSusanna is a secretive child, obsessed with the father she has never known and determined that one day she will find...  more

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The Girl from Charnelle: A Novel (P.S.) by K. L. Cook
It's 1960 in the Panhandle town of Charnelle, Texas?a year and a half since sixteen-year-old Laura Tate's mother boarded a bus and mysteriously disappeared. Assuming responsibility for the Tate household, Laura cares for her father and three brothers and outwardly maintains a sense of calm. But...  more

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Taming the Beast by Emily Maguire
At the tender age of fourteen, Sarah Clark is seduced by her thirty-eight-year-old English teacher, Caniel Carr, and becomes entangled in an illegal, erotic, passionate, and dangerous affair-a vicious meeting of minds and bodies that ends badly. Devastated by grief and longing, Sarah embarks...  more

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Daddy by Janet Inglis
Ruined. Everything ruined. During the two years since her parents separated, Olivia had shuttled numbly between their North London homes. Her father and mother were consumed with their new lives: Ross, a professor, enamored of his beautiful new housemate, a former student; Emma involved with her...  more

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Nina: Adolescence by Amy Hassinger
Fifteen-year-old Nina and her family are struggling to hold things together in the wake of the accidental death of her four-year-old brother several years earlier. Seeking refuge in her art, Nina's mother has painted a series of nude portraits of her remaining living child. As these haunting...  more

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Three by Julie Hilden
Maya and Ilan have an unusual marriage: Maya agrees to tolerate Ilan's chronic infidelity as long as she can participate and he will never stray without her. To her surprise, she finds their threesomes as arousing as they are disturbing, and for a while, everything seems fine. But as Maya's...  more

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Colour of Sin by Janet Inglis
'I'm an artist, I make things meaningful...' Malachy Hawke - one of the century's great painters, but a mystery to his son, Ged, and to the world. When he dies in his remote house in Oregon, Ged is summoned to unravel his father's affairs and flies out from England with his son Calum. But they...  more

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A Much Younger Man by Dianne Highbridge
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Father of Lies (Fiction - General) by Janet Inglis
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Dar es Salaam: A Novel by Tara Kai
This is the story of the emotional awakening of a perceptive and precocious 14-year-old English girl, Tatum, while on vacation with her family in Tanzania.

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Chemical Pink by Katie Arnoldi
A stunning and compelling portrait of two obsessed personalities and the perversely symbiotic relationship that draws them together.Aurora Jeanine Johnson is an unwed mother from Savannah, Georgia, desperate to sculpt a new life--and a new body-- in California, where the quest for the perfect...  more

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Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa & Stephen Snyder (Translator)
In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers.  When one night they are forced to expel a middle-aged man and a prostitute from their room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's...  more

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JUMPING THE GREEN : A Novel by Leslie Schwartz
From award-winning debut novelist Leslie Schwartz comes this stirring, erotic tale of a young woman whose grief over her sister's unsolved murder propels her into a torrid and dangerous affair. Louise Goldblum is the new "it" girl on the San Francisco art scene, a sculptor on the cusp of...  more

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Innocents by Cathy Coote
Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is...  more

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A certain age by Rebecca ray
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After by Claire Tristram
After is a stunning debut about an intense erotic affair that takes place over one twenty-four hour period.The woman is unnamed. The time is unspecified. The place is a motel somewhere in California. She is a widow, and it has been one year since her husband's death at the hands of Muslim...  more

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Velocity by Kristin Mccloy
A novel exploring the connection between grief and love, this is the story of Ellie Lowell, a college graduate shattered by her mother's sudden death, whose return to the rural North Carolina town of her childhood marks the beginning of an obsessive, destructive love affair.

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OTHER WOMEN : A NOVEL by Evelyn Lau
Fiona, an accomplished young artist, falls in love with Raymond. An older married man.  Their haunted relationship evolves in a floating melange of restaurants and hotel rooms against the looming backdrop of their separate, anonymous cities.  Although erotically charged, the...  more

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Falling in Love with Natassia : A Novel by Anna Monardo
Mary and Ross were in Rome on a junior-year-abroad program when they had their baby, Natassia, who was conceived on a dare: “Do it with no birth control,” another couple had challenged. “We’ll do it if you do it . . .” Mary and Ross are unmarried, ambitious, and way...  more

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Lip Service by M.J. Rose
Crackling with eroticism and suspense, the seductive new book that everyone is talking about probes the secret world of phone sex and one woman who becomes empowered by what she discovers there. Not since Erica Jong's Fear of Flying has a novel so masterfully mined the relationship between...  more

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Con Brio (Panther) by Brina Svit
In a brasserie just off the Boulevard St Germain, a distinguished novelist watches, entranced, the motions of a young woman's hands folding a restaurant bill into a paper boat. This passing observation - slim fingers against a white linen tablecloth - provides the springboard for a compelling...  more

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Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Luther Fox, a loner, haunted by his past, makes his living as an illegal fisherman -- a shamateur. Before everyone in his family was killed in a freak rollover, he grew melons and played guitar in the family band. Robbed of all that, he has turned his back on music. There's too much emotion...  more

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Kink by Kathe Koja
With a blend of erotic and gothic sensibilities, Koja explores the facets of obsession in a three-way relationship between a man and two women set against the gritty downtown backdrop of late-night clubs and a decadent art scene.

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Landscape with Animals by Cameron Redfern
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Sleeping with the Devil by Vanessa Marlow
Meg White leads a comfortable life as a chef in Portland. Nothing prepared her for a man like Jordan Blair, the rich, magnetic stranger who seduces her and introduces her to a life of luxury -- and sin. Obsessed with Jordan and drawn to his dark sexual kinks, Meg allows him to transform her into...  more

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Topping from Below by Laura Reese
After her sister is murdered, Nora Tibbs moves to a small college town near Sacramento. She believes that Franny's lover, Michael, is responsible for her death. Nora becomes entangled in a vicious web of wanting to know more about her sister's life and the dark fascination that Michael holds for...  more

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Stacking in Rivertown by Barbara Bell
An intricately emotional and erotic debut and a haunting foray into the deepest recesses of a sexual underworld, Stacking in Rivertown is a novel of love, pain, and redemption. Young, beautiful, and happily married, Beth is finally learning to relax and enjoy her success as a bestselling...  more

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Comment added 10/13/11 by EDOUARD J. (ambre):
I love provocative tale about love, guilt, grief. I love intense erotic and dangerous affair.