Thank you, reviewers!

Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining) by Shoshanna EversI just want to take a moment to give a huge thank you to the awesome book bloggers and readers who have read and reviewed Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining). 

I know it takes time and energy to write and post reviews, and I am so grateful that you’ve taken the time to do so! I’m grateful for all reviews, good and bad, because once the book is out of my hands it belongs to you, my readers. Your opinion matters.

Here’s what some reviewers are saying about Beauty and the Beast on Goodreads:

5 stars! “Although I have read and seen many versions of Beauty and The Beast, there have been none quite like this. It’s still a beautiful story about discovering a person’s inner beauty and accepting them for who they are regardless of their appearance, but the love scenes are very arousing and sexy.”
~ Lisa M. (see full review here)

4.5 stars! “So…I will never be viewing Beauty and the Beast the same. Now all I’ll think about is how the Beast ravished/spanked/whipped/etc a (willing) Beauty while a prisoner in his castle.”
~ Brittney Marczak (see full review here)

5 stars! “Shoshanna’s reimagined tale is far more gratifying than its predecessors in that readers get permission to experience a sexual being, a sexual Beauty, with a sexy, kinky Beast.
~ Jade Onyx (see full review here)

5 stars! “I found myself reading and watching everything unfold in my head. And only great books do that for me. … It is one to keep with you, in your favorites pile.”
~ Tara Vose (see full review here)

Get the this Amazon Fairytales Bestseller
on AmazonB&NiBooksSmashwordsAmazon UK,
and add it to your Goodreads shelves here!

And… the paperback is available now! 🙂

Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining) by Shoshanna EversHere’s the blurb for Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining):

From bestselling erotica author Shoshanna Evers comes an erotic re-imagining of the classic fairytale, Beauty and the Beast.

With her father’s freedom at stake, Belle agrees to be the fearsome Beast’s prisoner in his enchanted castle. Held as his willing captive, Belle must submit to the Beast’s most primal desires to survive.

The Beast can’t let his little Beauty go free, not while there’s still hope that she might be the one to end his decade-long curse…and with true love’s kiss, return him to the Prince he once was.

Their story is one that begins with imprisonment—he in his monstrous body, she in a dungeon—but without this predicament, Beauty would never have met the Beast.

So we shall begin with what occurred on that fateful night when everything changed: when a lover was betrayed, a man deformed, and a castle shrouded in an enchantment…

Beauty and the Beast Blog Tour & Giveaway!

It’s release day for Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining)!
We’ve got a great blog tour and giveaway happening today!

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I will be awarding an autographed paperback of Beauty and the Beast (US ONLY) *plus* a $10 Amazon or Nook Giftcard to a randomly drawn commenter during the tour, and an electronic copy of the book to six randomly drawn commenters during the tour.

So we’ll have seven winners! The more blogs you hit, the better your chances of winning! I’ve offered the bloggers a few different excerpts to choose from, so if you’re looking for a sneak peek, you’ve got it!

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WINNERS!!!!!!!! 

The winner of the Kindle Paperwhite was:
Dovile on Harley Baker’s stop, who said her favorite romantic movie was Pretty Woman

The winner of the new adult digital gift basket was:
Sue on Bookswagger’s stop, who said her favorite genre was contemporary (which is awesome since the books in the basket are all contemporary!)

Jessica won the autographed paperback of Beauty and the Beast
*plus* a $10 Amazon or Nook Giftcard!

The other winners won an electronic copy of Beauty and the Beast!
Tammy S., Linda L, Jenn O., Joy F., efender, Brooklyn G. 

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You can get Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining) in paperback, or the ebook on AmazonB&NiBooksSmashwordsAmazon UKand add it to your Goodreads shelves here!

There’s also the first 25% of the book up on Goodreads to sample!

MBB_BeautyAndTheBeast_CoverBanner (1)Thank you to the amazing bloggers featuring Beauty and the Beast today!

1: Words of Wisdom from The Scarf Princess
2: Sugarbeat’s Books
3: Behind Closed Doors
4: Erotic Author Nancy Adams
5: Tower of Babel
6: Musings From An Addicted Reader (check later?)
7: Booklover Sue
8: Aly’s Miscellany
9: Snarky Mom Reads…
10: Punya Reviews…
11: Romance Addict Book Blog
12: Deal Sharing Aunt
13: Wicked Readings By Tawania
14: Smutmas
15: Reviews by Crystal
16: The Reading Addict
17: The Pen and Muse Book Reviews
18: Through The Eyes Of A Book Goddess
19: The Crafty Cauldron
20: Erotica For All
21: Books to Light Your Fire
22: Danita Minnis
23: Hawt Reads and Dirty Talk
24: Long and Short Reviews
25: The SubClub Books
26: Wendi Zwaduk – Romance to Make Your Heart Race
27: The Racy Raconteur
28: Francesca’s Mindstream
29: Books and Other Spells

Awesome romance novels on sale for Valentine’s Day!

Fifteen romantic, delicious, entertaining books are on sale right now, and I know you won’t want to miss a deal! Here are some awesome romances on sale!

 

Sale runs from Feb. 13 – 17.
 

 

 

 

 

 

The Duke’s Lady by Brenda Jernigan

A MYSTERIOUS BEAUTY

An American spy with a British birth, Adam Trent, the Duke of Cornwall, is consumed with gathering information to use against England’s navy. But, despite the intrigues of war, the mystery of the lovely young woman washed ashore near his Cornwall estate is one he cannot resist. With the ragged remains of a treasure map concealed in her chemise and no memory of who she is and how she got there, the dark beauty is an alluring puzzle he must solve.

A LOVER’S SECRET

Fighting her powerful desire for the man who has sheltered her, Jewel Bona struggles both to remember her past and imagine what her future might hold. But when a British officer claiming that he is her uncle threatens to expose her to terrifying danger, she turns to Adam for protection … and passion.

A PIRATE’S GOLD

Fleeing to America aboard Adam’s ship, the two cannot deny all that they feel in each other’s embrace. But the shadow of war and a scandalous connection to an infamous pirate loom like a powder keg over their dreams of love–a love each will risk everything to keep alive…

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Public Affairs by Cassandra Carr

Nate O’Halloran is a PR superstar, an expert in crisis management for his image-conscious celebrity clients. When his college roommate, now a hospital director in Buffalo, calls to beg for his help– a cancer researcher on staff has disappeared with millions of dollars’ worth of government research funds– Nate agrees to help right away, though this situation is pretty small potatoes for him.

Val Chase, the hospital’s PR director, is none too thrilled when Nate shows up; does it mean her boss doesn’t trust her to handle this mess herself? Against her better judgment, Val decides she and Nate have to work together to save the hospital’s reputation, though the explosive attraction they feel is making any actual “work” difficult…

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | AllRomance Ebooks | Amazon UK | Kobo |

The EX-Files by Cat Johnson

A thirty-year-old single lawyer looking for love. A twenty-something bartender who can serve up mind-blowing cocktails and orgasms. A match made in heaven.

As “Plain Jane” Dolan—what an ex once called her—makes her way through her little black book and the men from her past searching for the Mr. Right who got away, there’s another man who makes his way into her little black panties. She can’t deny he feels oh so right.

Gorgeous and much too young Damian serves up both tongue-tantalizing cocktails and mind-boggling orgasms and Jane finds her post-date sexual encounters with the tempting bartender completely irresistible.

But her soulmate is waiting and there are still more men from her past to re-date—or are there?

Special pricing 99 cents! (Reg: $2.99)

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Olympus by Cat Johnson

Four stories of the naughty immortals of Mt. Olympus

Welcome to Mt. Olympus, where erotic pleasures reign supreme and the ancient Greek gods engage in games that have no rules.

Bacchanal
In vino veritas… The very wine that brings Dionysus his true love, also takes her from him. Will he interfere in the affairs of mortals to get Ariadne back, or will Theseus, his rival for her affections, betray the woman who saved him? Sometimes love is a labyrinth all its own.

Erato
Welcome to Mt. Olympus, where erotic pleasures reign supreme and the ancient Greek gods engage in games that have no rules. When the lowly muse Erato is unwittingly used as a pawn in Aphrodite and Eros’s vengeful quest against Apollo, can he emerge the winner of their battle? More importantly, will he lose his heart to the unsuspecting nymph Acantha in the process?

Eros’s Valentine
When the god of love and sexual desire finds himself bored with both, can a Valentine’s Day trip to the mortal realm and one woman cure him of his malaise and remind him of passions long forgotten?

Bliss
Psyche, Adelfa, and Bliss. Three beautiful sisters. Upon gazing at Psyche’s beauty, Eros, the God of Love, demands she be brought to his bed. Psyche has her own feelings about whose bed she’d rather be brought to, and it’s not that of the mysterious being who summons her. Led by Bliss, the three sisters hatch a deception. The truth will be revealed in the end, but will they all survive it?

Kindle | Nook | ARe |

Fall into Winter by eden baylee

In Fall into Winter, a provocative collection of novellas, four women seek pleasure in unique ways and are swept up by lust, seduction, and obsession.

Ella Jamieson trades self-control for a stolen moment with a younger man in “Seduced by the Blues.”

In “Act Three,” Stella Christy’s fantasy of a ménage à trois with two men comes true, yet she’s terrified when the rules of the game change.

Leah Jones isolates herself in a winter cabin to complete her latest book in “The Norwegian” but is soon distracted by a man from her past.

Ten years after Elena Lee’s torrid love affair in Austria, she returns to the land of Mozart in “The Austrian and the Asian.”

With locations in New York, Canada, Thailand, and Austria, these four women will make choices that lead each of them on an unforgettable journey to ecstasy.

Amazon | Smashwords |

Hot Flash by eden baylee

Hot Flash is a collection of erotic flash fiction and poetry. The themes of love, lust, adultery, and regret are told in different voices, sometimes with an irreverent sense of humor.

Amazon |

Frost Bitten by Eliza Gayle

Resistance may be possible, but who are they kidding?

While on a search and rescue mission in the middle of a snowstorm, Seth and his twin Trent catch the scent of an unfamiliar shifter. Drawn to locate the source they hike deep into the woods to an abandoned cabin where they find an enticing little jaguar in the throes of heat.

Tired of being smothered by her five brothers and the pressure to mate, Daisy wanted nothing more than a week alone in the middle of freaking no where. The last thing she needed was a run in with two sexy as sin—and totally off limits—cougar shifters. Unfortunately, she’s not the kind of woman to leave them out in the cold.

Faced with the misery of unmet sexual desire or hot, no strings attached sex with two men… What’s a girl to do?

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | All Romance | Apple iBooks |

Hidden Passions by Emma Holly

Sexy fireman Chris Savoy has been closeted all his life. He’s a weretiger in Resurrection, and no shifters are more macho than that city’s. Due to a terrible tragedy in his past, Chris resigned himself to hiding what he is—a resolve that’s threatened the night he lays eyes on cute gay werecop Tony Lupone.

Tony might be a wolf, but he wakes longings Chris finds difficult to deny. When a threat to the city throws these heroes together, not giving in seems impossible. Following their hearts, however, means risking everything . . .

Amazon | Barnes and Noble | Smashwords | All Romance |

Marked by Lauren Dane, Vivian Arend, Kit Rocha

Three stories of passion, possession, and ink.

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Lauren Dane takes you into a brand new world in ALL THAT REMAINS. Summer Killian falls fast and hard when Charlie arrives in Paradise Village. But the heat turns all the way up when she learns Charlie is also with Hatch – the man she loved three years before. While she’s not sure she’s cut out for a triad, neither man is going to give her up.

Take a ROCKY RIDE with New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Vivian Arend as she leads you back to the Six Pack Ranch. Anna Coleman might be the law around Rocky Mountain House, but bad boy Mitch Thompson knows that under the stiff RCMP uniform is a woman with a passion for speed and pleasure that matches his own, and he’s not giving up until she’s his.

Kit Rocha returns to Sector Four in BEYOND TEMPTATION. A promise to a dying friend backfires when Noah Lennox finds that the girl he was supposed to rescue is all grown up–and wearing O’Kane ink. He wants to protect her from the secrets of their past, but she wants him. And an O’Kane woman always gets what she wants.

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | iTunes | All Romance Ebooks |

15 Shades of Pink! 15 Romantic Short Stories by Lisa Scott

Fifteen sassy, funny, romantic shorts, includes all the stories from: Flirts!, Beach Flirts!, and Fairy Tale Flirts! (That’s five stories in each volume. Each short is 8,000-13,000 words long.) But fair warning: the only cheeks that turn pink in these stories are the ones above the shoulders.

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Love and Tattoos by Lissa Matthews

A few years ago, Brax traded in his suit and law degree for part ownership in his best friend’s tattoo parlor, Love and Tattoos. He hasn’t looked back. Inked from head to toe, full of business smarts, and an affinity for classical music and hard sex, he’s got life right where he wants it.

Until the woman he can’t stop craving comes home. She’s full of luscious curves, looks a little unsure of herself, and has taken to acting a little odd around him. Brax can’t help but wonder why.

The corporate advertising firm in Philadelphia that Annie buttoned up her carefree personality for has laid her off. Now, back in North Carolina, she’s trying to find her sparks again. Her career is changing direction, her sex life is nearly dead, and the one thing worth having in the midst of it all is supposedly off limits.

Brax’s cockiness and Annie’s own desire to for the tattoo artist, dares her to believe he might know her better than she thinks he does. And when he promises that he can help her find what’s missing in her life, she agrees to his little after-hours game.

The challenge he lays out comes with a few strings, the suggestion of stripping, confessions, and the temptation of ink. But, they’ve never been that close, so how could she possibly lose?

Amazon | Barnes and Noble | All Romance eBooks |

Stormy Weather Collectors’ Edition by Selena Blake

After centuries of solitude the stars are finally aligned just right. The handsome Deveraux men of Louisiana are going to meet their match this Hurricane Season.

This amazing paranormal anthology includes: The Cajun’s Captive, Bitten In the Bayou, Seduced by a Cajun Werewolf, Mated to a Cajun Werewolf and Stranded with a Cajun Werewolf.

Sebastian Deveraux is the Alpha of his pack and like all the Deveraux men, he’s sexy as pure sin. He’s waited for decades for just the right woman. For his mate. And ten years ago he’d been sure he’d found her in Amanda St. James. But she’d run from him.

Now she’s back. He’ll do anything to keep her. Even if it means tying her to his bed.

His brothers and cousins will finds their mates in the most unlikely of places. They’ll prove that Mother Nature can’t keep a good wolf down.

The Collectors’ Edition also includes two bonus stories: More Than Attraction and A Cajun Werewolf Christmas

The Collector’s Edition includes over 15,000 words of bonus content including an interview with the author, questions for the characters, the official soundtrack, behind the scenes and the making of the Stormy Weather series. Inside you’ll find 450 pages of content for the die hard Stormy Weather fan!

AllRomanceEbooks | Amazon | Amazon UK | Nook | Smashwords |

Ask For It by Selena Blake

Trevor Wyatt has lusted for journalist JJ Fairchild since before he retired from the NFL. Now she’s back in his life and he’s not going to miss the opportunity to show her just how good they could be together.

Words may be JJ’s tool of trade, but when it comes to the bedroom, words escape her. Trevor’s an excellent teacher and before she knows it, she’s asking for what she wants.

But when outside forces threaten to expose dark secrets from Trevor’s past, can he overcome his suspicions and trust the woman in his bed?

AllRomanceEbooks | Amazon | Barnes & Noble (Nook) | Kobo | Smashwords |

Snowed in with the Tycoon by Shoshanna Evers

Sale price just 99c! (usually $3.65!)

With foreclosure on her home looming and the Geddes Animal Rescue at risk, Sarah Geddes will do anything to save her land from being destroyed for handsome tycoon Mike Cavender’s multi-million dollar real estate development.

Sarah has learned the hard way after escaping an abusive relationship that she can’t trust men. But when Mike is snowed in with Sarah on the very piece of land they are both fighting for, she can’t deny the electricity coursing between them.

As for Mike, well, he has no intention of falling in love again after losing his wife in a car crash four years ago – especially not with the one woman who stands between him and his life’s work. Still, something about Sarah Geddes has him realizing that even when they’re snowed in, things can heat up quickly…

Their desire keeps them hot even in the cold of winter, and this time, she won’t be saying no… Soon Sarah realizes it’s not just her home she is in danger of losing to Mike Cavender – it’s her heart.

Snowed In With The Tycoon is a full-length erotic romance novel from bestselling romance author Shoshanna Evers. Sexily *Evers* After…

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Below the Belt by Skye Warren

Martial arts champion Abe Montgomery is dead-set on winning gold at Nationals.

Paris Rivera has sworn off men and martial arts.

When these two meet, the chemistry is explosive.

Abe may dominate on the mats, but he’s fallen hard for Paris. The fight of his life looms ahead, not only for his dreams but for the sexy woman he soon can’t live without.

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | All Romance |

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Valentine’s Day Gift Hop!

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Welcome to the Valentine’s Day Gift Hop as we celebrate love, sex, and all things books! Our grand prizes will be a Kindle Paperwhite and digital new adult romance basket.

Every comment on every blog in the hop will count as an entry toward either of the grand prizes.

***I’m also offering a prize! One commenter on this blog post will win a signed paperback copy of Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imaging) — that prize is for USA residents only (sorry!). But you can still enter to win if you’re international, and I’ll give you an ebook of Beauty and the Beast, along with another ebook of your choosing from my backlist! Win-win!!

Here’s the blurb for Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining):

Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining) by Shoshanna Evers

Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining)  releases on Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 2014, and the paperback is available for preorder now!

Preorder the ebook on AmazonB&NiBooksSmashwordsAmazon UKand add it to your Goodreads shelves here!

From bestselling erotica author Shoshanna Evers comes an erotic re-imagining of the classic fairytale, Beauty and the Beast.

With her father’s freedom at stake, Belle agrees to be the fearsome Beast’s prisoner in his enchanted castle. Held as his willing captive, Belle must submit to the Beast’s most primal desires to survive.

The Beast can’t let his little Beauty go free, not while there’s still hope that she might be the one to end his decade-long curse…and with true love’s kiss, return him to the Prince he once was.

Their story is one that begins with imprisonment—he in his monstrous body, she in a dungeon—but without this predicament, Beauty would never have met the Beast.

So we shall begin with what occurred on that fateful night when everything changed: when a lover was betrayed, a man deformed, and a castle shrouded in an enchantment…

Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining) releases Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 2014! Sign up for the mailing list (right sidebar) to be notified when the book releases!

Enter to win Beauty and the Beast, a Kindle Paperwhite, or a digital book basket!

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Limited-Edition Print copies of The Pulse Trilogy!

Big news! Simon & Schuster has given me print copies of the ebook-only Pulse Trilogy! I’m giving these autographed paperbound editions of The Pulse, The Escape, and The Thrust out on Goodreads!

The contest runs from January 30th, through February 11th, 2014.

This contest is open to people who over 18 years and live in the USA.

Good luck! There will be 12 winners!!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Pulse by Shoshanna Evers

The Pulse

by Shoshanna Evers

Giveaway ends February 11, 2014.

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at Goodreads.

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The Escape by Shoshanna Evers

The Escape

by Shoshanna Evers

Giveaway ends February 11, 2014.

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The Thrust by Shoshanna Evers

The Thrust

by Shoshanna Evers

Giveaway ends February 11, 2014.

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Excerpt from THE ESCAPE, Book 2 in the Pulse Trilogy!

I’m thrilled to announce that The Escape, Book 2 in the Pulse Trilogy releases January 13th, 2014 from Simon & Schuster Pocket Star, and is available for preorder now!

Preorder on AmazonB&N, iBooksAmazon UK

The Escape by Shoshanna EversThe Escape, Book 2 in the Pulse Trilogy

In Book Two of the erotic dystopian Pulse Trilogy, Jenna escapes New York City only to be tracked down by a soldier who might be her only hope of survival.

Jenna doesn’t know if she believes what Emily and Mason told her—that America is rebuilding and a better life awaits her outside of Manhattan. But with the power grid down and no connection to the outside world, Jenna will die if she stays at Grand Central’s FEMA camp, selling her body to soldiers.

Private Ken Barker is sent to capture Jenna when she escapes—but Jenna knows he’s one of the good guys and tries to seduce him into joining her. Their passionate sex kindles something even stronger than lust between them, and when Barker goes back to Grand Central he sees the horrors there with new eyes.

Now it’s his turn to escape the city, and he knows he must take Jenna with him or she’ll die at the camp. On the road, they’ll start a new life together, hoping against hope that the electricity between them will prove more than just a spark—that together they might finally light up their dark nights.

The Escape, Book 2 in the Pulse Trilogy releases January 13th, 2014
Preorder THE ESCAPE now on AmazonB&NiBooksAmazon UK

Buy the 1st book in the Pulse Trilogy now! THE PULSE, Book 1 in the Pulse Trilogy, is available now on AmazonB&N, iBooks, Kobo, Amazon UKand wherever ebooks are sold!

****And now, an adults-only excerpt you won’t find in the sample pages!

An excerpt from The Escape, Book 2 in the Pulse Trilogy
© 2014 Shoshanna Evers
Published by Simon & Schuster Pocket Star. 
All Rights Reserved.

 

Barker couldn’t tear his eyes away from her full breasts, naked and so beautiful. It had been too long. God, how he wanted to wrap her in his arms and forget everything, for just one night.

No. Don’t do it. You can’t do it.

“Put your shirt on, Jenna.” He turned his back to her, confident she wouldn’t escape in the pitch-blackness outside the room, not with the way she’d clung to him earlier.

He waited for her to tease him again, but she didn’t. He heard the sounds of her putting her shirt on. The bed creaked when she sat on it.

“I must really disgust you,” she said softly. “I’m sorry.”

“No,” he said, swallowing hard. “You do not disgust me. Not at all.” He knelt down on the carpet and looked up at her pretty face. “You’re incredibly beautiful, Jenna. I want you, I do. But I refuse to take advantage of you.”

“I’m offering myself to you.”

“Would you have done that back in the day? Before the Pulse?”

“Everything’s different now.”

Barker got up and sat beside her on the bed. “Everything’s different, but I’m not. At least, I’m trying not to be.”

“See?” Jenna wrapped her arms around him, surprising him with the ferocity of her embrace. “You’re a good guy, Barker. You don’t want me to die. Don’t take me back there.”

Her body felt so good pressed against his, so right. Here, unlike the Tracks, they’d have real privacy. A bed. They could lose themselves in each other’s arms and pretend everything was normal, if only for a few hours.

“Are you hungry?” he asked. “I have food, in my bag. Water.”

“Yes.” Her voice sounded so small, like a child.

He pulled his bag on the bed and opened it. “I have a sleeping bag. We’ll use that as a blanket, okay? On the bed.”

Jenna smiled. “That sounds lovely. I haven’t slept on a proper bed in a long time.”

Barker smiled back. “I have two weeks of rations, because they didn’t know how long it would take for me to find you. We can eat until we’re full, if we want.”

“I don’t even remember what that feels like,” Jenna laughed.

He handed her two thick pieces of bread, and several strips of dried meat. It was chewy, but it did the trick.

They ate in uneasy silence. What would happen when they were done eating, and it was time to go to sleep?

He wasn’t sure how long he’d be able to resist her.

“Barker?” she asked, swallowing some water. “Do you miss your girlfriend? Is that why you don’t want to be with me?”

“I can’t even remember what she looks like anymore. Whenever I try to picture her face, it’s not quite right. So I don’t try anymore.”

“Why did you give me your ration that time?”

Barker shrugged. “Because I wanted to go to sleep that night, knowing you were sleeping too. Not—not being abused by one of the assholes who call themselves soldiers.”

“Sometimes I like it, though. A lot of times. Does that bother you? That I might like being a whore?”

Her long, unkempt blonde hair fell into her eyes, and he resisted the urge to touch her, to smooth it in place for her.

“I guess it’s better that way. Better than being like some of those other women. The ones who show up for morning rations with bruises. But don’t ever call yourself a whore again.”

His anger simmered within him. Fuck. He wished he could shoot the Colonel himself and take over, make everyone toe the fucking line and get their shit together.

Whoa. Where did that come from?

Something about this entire situation, being with Jenna, seeing her fear about being killed—it made him see everything he thought he knew about the camp in a different light.

Could he really trust the Colonel?

“Thank you for dinner, Barker.”

“I’m glad I got an opportunity to feed you,” he said.

“Let’s go to bed,” she whispered. “But . . . I sleep naked. Just thought I should warn you.”

Barker laughed, his mood considerably brightened now that his belly was full, and they were safe for the night. Alone. In a bedroom, with a bed.

And with a beautiful woman who was throwing herself at him.

“Fuck it,” he said, and set his rifle down on the dresser top.

He noticed her eyes follow his movements, but she quickly looked back at him, and grinned.

“Well, hello there. Glad we’re finally on the same page.”

She started to pull her own top off again, but Barker pulled her in close, and stripped it off for her, running his hands along her curves. Her hips flared out despite the lack of any extra meat on her, and he held her ass through her pants, his cock hardening.

“Fuck yeah, soldier,” she murmured against his lips. “Let’s do this.”

The Escape, Book 2 in the Pulse Trilogy releases January 13th, 2014The Escape by Shoshanna Evers
Preorder THE ESCAPE now on AmazonB&NiBooksAmazon UK

Buy the 1st book in the Pulse Trilogy now! THE PULSE, Book 1 in the Pulse Trilogy, is available now on AmazonB&N, iBooks, Kobo, Amazon UKand wherever ebooks are sold!

Cold Hands, Warm Bottoms Blog Hop!

Thanks for participating in the blog hop! They’ll be announcing winners of the grand prizes on SRR & Saturday Spanks tomorrow (Monday 1/6). (They’re still counting entries).

But I can announce the winner of a signed paperback edition of Punishing the Art Thief today! And the winner is… *drumroll*…. Tara Finnegan! Tara, I’ll email you! 🙂

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This blog hop is brought to you by Spanking Romance Reviews & The Saturday Spankings Blog! Thank you for joining us for Winter Spanks! Let’s warm up with some hot bottoms & cool prizes!

Read on for a chance to win:

For this spanking blog hop, I’ve pulled a scene from Punishing the Art Thief
Melissa’s first ever spanking. Enjoy!

By reading any further, you are stating that you are at least 18 years of age. If you are under the age of 18, it is necessary to exit this site.
Punishing the Art Thief by Shoshanna EversAn Excerpt From: PUNISHING THE ART THIEF
Copyright © SHOSHANNA EVERS, 2010, 2013
All Rights Reserved.

At seven o’clock, Melissa took a deep breath and rang the doorbell of James’ large brownstone. He opened the door and greeted her with a smile.

“Glad you could make it,” he said as he stepped aside so she could enter.

Ha! As if she had a choice in the matter.

Melissa nodded and dropped her overnight bag on the floor in the front hall. She hoped he didn’t notice that her hands were trembling. He was dressed in jeans and a black T-shirt that hugged his body, showing off his broad shoulders and impressive biceps. She hadn’t been sure what to wear, so she’d opted for a casual, short, flouncy skirt and a tank top.

“Nice place,” she said.

James shrugged. “It was my grandparents’. I couldn’t afford a place like this otherwise.” He smiled. “You look really good,” he said, taking her hand.

“Um, thanks. You too.”

James laughed. “That’s very kind of you, Melissa. But flattery won’t keep me from punishing you for that Rembrandt.”

Oh God, what did he have in mind? “Punishment, huh?” she asked as she sat down on the couch next to him. “I never took you for the kinky type.”

“No, you never took me for any type at all, I imagine,” he said smoothly. “But that’s going to change right now. Bend over my knee.”

Melissa stared at him blankly. “Are you serious?”

“As a heart attack.”

“I’ve never done this before,” she said, laughing nervously.

“You were never spanked as a child even?” James asked.

“No, my parents were into time-outs. But let’s not talk about parents. Kinda kills the mood.”

“Good point,” James said. “The time for talking is over.”

He took her upper arms firmly in his large hands, pulled her over his lap and held her there, but she wasn’t struggling. She couldn’t believe she had let herself get into this position—both literally across James’ lap, and the whole situation—being blackmailed over a stolen painting.

But not just any stolen painting. A Rembrandt. The Rembrandt. She felt James’ hand run down her skirt and caress her ass. He lifted her skirt up.

“You have a gorgeous ass,” he said, “but these panties won’t do.” He tugged her boy shorts off, removing her high heels and letting them drop to the hardwood floor. “I bought you a thong.”

He dangled a piece of flimsy black spandex fabric in front of her eyes before she felt him sliding the thong up her legs.

“I never wear thongs,” she said. “They feel like I’m walking around with a wedgie all day.”

James laughed and snapped the spandex into place, caressing her still-bare buttocks. “Well, you’re wearing a thong this weekend.”

And with that proclamation, he smacked his hand down across one of her ass cheeks, then the other. She gasped. She still couldn’t believe she was doing this.

Smack!

Then again and again, until her buttocks become warm with the sting.

“Hey!” she cried out as he slapped her especially hard.

Immediately, he stopped. He pulled her skirt down and lifted her up off his lap. “We need to get something straight, Melissa. You are here because you want to be. Because you are, in essence, prostituting yourself for the right to keep a painting that doesn’t belong to you.”

Melissa could feel herself blush. “I’m not a prostitute. I’m an art history teacher!”

James ignored her. “We had an agreement. A contract, if you will. You are mine to do with as I please for the weekend. And I will never tell a soul about the Rembrandt in your bedroom. I won’t turn you in.”

“I know—I just, I can’t be spanked like a child…”

James smiled wryly. “May I?” he asked as he reached his hand under her skirt. He slipped a finger beneath the tight thong that was soaked with wetness he had evoked in her. “Your pussy tells a different story, Melissa.”

Embarrassed, Melissa averted her eyes as he removed his hand.

“Your pussy is telling me not to listen to what you say,” he whispered. “Because you’re saying you don’t want this, and you’re lying.”

She could feel his eyes on her as she stared at her boy-short panties lying on the floor at his feet. Damn him. He was right. She did want this.

She’d been looking forward to this evening—with a mix of trepidation and excitement—since he had propositioned her last night. The whole idea of giving up control turned her on…and scared the hell out of her.

“How about this,” James said, and she finally looked up into his intense green eyes. “If you ever change your mind, you can just say our safeword, and I will stop everything, and you will go home. Of course, then I’ll turn you in.”

“Why are you doing this, James?”

“Because I’ve wanted to have you since I first saw you. And because you want me too—or else you wouldn’t be here.”

Melissa took in a shaky breath. She was going to go through with this, even though she was scared. She was also turned-on. “What’s the safeword?”

James grinned. “Rembrandt.”

* * * * *

James pulled her onto his lap so that she straddled him, and kissed her, letting his tongue enter her mouth, tasting her. She smelled delicious, as if she had just the tiniest drop of floral perfume on.

He fingered one of the curly tendrils of hair that fell against her shoulder, trailed his tongue down the curve of her neck and kissed the hollow of her throat, her pulse fluttering rapidly beneath his lips.

Having her here was worth being fired. He still hadn’t told her what had happened with that. No point in spoiling the mood.

He pulled her tank top down so that her bra was visible. She was wearing a red lacy bra that looked like it hadn’t been worn very often. He smiled appreciatively. Could she have worn it to impress him? This was a woman who was used to having the upper hand. The careful, organized professor. She probably had to be in control of everything.

But not this weekend. This weekend he was in charge.

He pulled one of her breasts up and out of the bra, running his fingers softly over her nipple before pinching it. She gasped as it hardened and he kissed it, rolling his tongue around her areola before sucking the whole nipple into his mouth.

She moaned as he took her other breast out of its confines and tweaked that peak with his fingers as well.

“You like that, do you?” he asked, the hard tip still in his mouth. “How about this?” He flicked her nipple with his tongue, then lifted his mouth from her breast to roll both tight buds between his fingers. “I’ve got a toy for these little nipples for later.”

Melissa’s eyes widened. James dipped his hand underneath her skirt again and ran his fingers under the thong and along her wet cunt. She was practically dripping. She arched her body forward, trying to press her clit against his finger, but he wasn’t ready to give Melissa her release. Not yet.

He yanked the spandex thong in an upward motion, snapping it against her clit. She moaned and stopped trying to press her clit against him.

“I wasn’t done spanking you, you know,” he said.

She bent over his knee immediately, without him even having to ask her. “Sorry,” she said, but she didn’t sound sorry.

He smacked her ass twice for good measure before standing up, pulling her with him.

She started to adjust her thong but he stopped her with a hand gesture. “Leave it,” he said. “I like knowing it’s riding up your pussy lips and your ass crack.”

“It’s uncomfortable,” she said, pulling the thong down.

“I think you’re trying to give me a reason to punish you.”

***

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Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining) by Shoshanna Evers

From bestselling erotica author Shoshanna Evers comes an erotic re-imagining of the classic fairytale, Beauty and the Beast.

With her father’s freedom at stake, Belle agrees to be the fearsome Beast’s prisoner in his enchanted castle. Held as his willing captive, Belle must submit to the Beast’s most primal desires to survive.

The Beast can’t let his little Beauty go free, not while there’s still hope that she might be the one to end his decade-long curse…and with true love’s kiss, return him to the Prince he once was.

Their story is one that begins with imprisonment—he in his monstrous body, she in a dungeon—but without this predicament, Beauty would never have met the Beast.

So we shall begin with what occurred on that fateful night when everything changed: when a lover was betrayed, a man deformed, and a castle shrouded in an enchantment…

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Excerpt from Beauty and the Beast (an erotic re-imagining) by Shoshanna Evers
Copyright 2013 Shoshanna Evers
All Rights Reserved.

Beast bared his fangs, and she cringed.

“Y-you’re smiling,” Belle said. It might take her a while to get used to that.

“I am. I have a proposition for you.” He gently smoothed her skirt back over burning bottom, and turned her around to face him. “I haven’t had a woman in my bed for a very long time. If you’d be willing to sleep with me, I’d reduce your lifetime imprisonment to one short year.”

Belle gasped, both at the idea of sleeping with him, and the idea of a life sentence being reduced to a year.

“You’d crush me to death,” she said, looking up at his towering hulk.

“I would not. Wasn’t I very gentle with you earlier, in your cell, when I made you feel so amazing, as you put it? Right before you—”

Right before she cut him and ran. Yes, she could recall something like that happening.

“It’s really not ‘willing’ if I must bed you for my freedom,” she pointed out.

“Forget I said anything,” he growled. “I’ll see you safely to your cell.”

“Wait!” She paused, frantic, not willing to give up her one chance of freedom. And also not willing to give up a very rational excuse for having more experiences like the one he’d given her earlier. “Three months. Then I can go.”

“Six months, and you do everything I say.”

“It’s—It’s a deal, Beast.” She sighed. “I’m yours for six months. And then you set me free and you forget all about me and my Papa.”

Beast smiled. Yes…definitely a smile. “I very much doubt I will ever forget you, beauty. But I’ll never harm you.”

Her thoughts immediately flew to her sore bottom, at the way he spanked her so thoroughly. Although, it was as he said. He’d hurt her, he had not harmed her. She would remember her punishment when she sat down for a day or two, but it wasn’t like he’d crippled her.

Or ate her. That was something to be grateful for.

Beast looked around his castle as though seeing it for the first time. “I suppose, if you’ll be staying awhile, we could arrange more suitable sleeping quarters for you.”

“In your bed,” she guessed.

“You’ll have your own suite.” He spoke louder, and Belle realized he was probably summoning the fairies. “Belle will need a suite, with a four poster bed, a bath, dresses in the armoire, and a fire ready for her.”

“The fairies can do all that?” she asked.

“Fairies?” He shook his head and began to say something, but it just sounded like growling to her.

“Pardon?”

“Never mind. If you’d like to believe we have a fairy infestation, then by all means. Believe what you will.” Beast gestured for her to follow him up the stairs and into the west wing of the castle.

She followed, mesmerized by the glorious tapestries and paintings that adorned the long hallways. Where had a beast gotten such wealth?

One oil painting, of a young man, about her age perhaps, caught her eye. His handsome face seemed to draw her in. Belle stopped in front of it, gazing at the portrait.

“He’s beautiful,” she whispered.

“Thank you,” Beast said. “I mean…I’m glad you appreciate the art in my castle.”

There was something familiar about the young man’s intense green eyes.

“Do I—do I know him?” she asked.

“Perhaps. You would have been a child when this portrait was taken.”

She looked at the inscription on the gold plaque beneath the portrait. It said “Prince Frederick,” and was dated ten years prior. That would have been when she was nine years old, and certainly never out and about, gazing into handsome princes’ green eyes.

“I suppose I don’t,” she said.

For some reason the thought made her sad. What had become of that young man? Perhaps the portrait was from another country. She’d never heard of a Prince Frederick before.

Beast kept walking down the corridor, so she followed.

“I imagine you ate everyone who lived in this castle,” Belle said. “That’s why they aren’t here, and…you are.”

Beast whirled around, and she was so caught off guard that she stumbled against his enormous chest.

“I’m sorry,” she gasped.

“That is not what happened.”

“The painting was ten years ago. Ten years ago, you changed. You told me so. I was merely…taking an educated guess.”

“There was nothing educated about it,” Beast said. “And if you’ll be staying under my roof for the next six months, you might want to reconsider playing guessing games if you want us to get along.”

She put her hand to her mouth. “I apologize.”

“We’re here.” He stopped in front of a large door, with the words “Belle’s Suite” etched into a small silver placard on the door. “If you need anything—”

“I’ll just ask the fairies,” she finished for him.

“Um, yes. Exactly.”

“Will I be sleeping…uninterrupted?” She blushed as she spoke the words, but she had to know if he’d be taking her up on their deal tonight.

“Dawn is almost here. Sleep as late as you’d like. I won’t bother you until you come to me.”

“But…what if I never choose to…come to you?”

Beast raised his heavy brow. “Your six months begins when you do. Take as long as you need.”

He held opened the door to her suite and she stepped inside, reveling at the sight of the large four poster bed with the flowing white linens, the glowing warmth of the fire burning in the fireplace, and most of all…the roses. They were everywhere, the scent beckoning her.

“Good night, beauty.”

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Ginger Snap by Shoshanna EversGinger Snap

When Holly sits on Tom’s lap to tell him what she wants for Christmas, she knows she’s naughty enough to get a lump of coal—but she never expected to get a hand of ginger root. Peeled ginger in her bottom burns like crazy without causing any actual harm—so the punishment can go on as long as naughty Holly deserves.

Ginger-figging has been used since Victorian times to keep girls from clenching against a proper caning because, as Holly finds out, clenching around ginger has her begging for mercy—and more turned-on than she’s ever been. From now on Holly should be on her best behavior…but with this sort of punishment, it’s more fun to be bad.

This 11,000 word sexy short novella was originally published under the same title by Ellora’s Cave Publishing in 2010.

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Chastity Belt by Shoshanna EversChastity Belt

Georgia Hearn has found the perfect way to make easy cash—performing an interactive BDSM-flavored stage show at the exclusive Gentlemen’s Club.

When handsome GC client Jonathan Syler goes up on stage and locks her into a chastity belt, it’s all supposed to be part of the fun. But Jonathan makes it clear he won’t be unlocking her anytime soon.

Now she’s at his mercy—and has no choice but to see him again, since he holds the key to her pleasure. Literally.

Reader’s Advisory: This book contains a hot girl-on-girl tease and denial scene and some F/F/M action.

This 22,000 word novella by bestselling erotica author Shoshanna Evers was originally published by Ellora’s Cave Publishing in April 2011 under the same title.

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Punishing the Art Thief by Shoshanna EversPunishing the Art Thief

Security guard James Tannen feels no shame in blackmailing the beautiful Melissa Dwyer in exchange for his silence, after she crashes a private art unveiling at his employer’s house — then costs him his job by stealing a priceless painting that’s been missing for decades.

His price? Sexual surrender.

His technique?

Straight out of the BDSM erotic romances Melissa loves to read.

This 21,000 word novella by bestselling erotica author Shoshanna Evers was originally published by Ellora’s Cave Publishing in September 2010 under the same title.

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Hollywood Spank by Shoshanna EversHollywood Spank

When the studio heads for Mark Cannon’s new action movie discover that their leading man likes to spank his personal assistants, they insist Mark hire a professional submissive who won’t run to the tabloids with his kinky secret.

Andrea Landley may be a wonderful assistant, but she lied through her teeth about being a BDSM pro to get the job—and now her real career as an undercover tabloid reporter has gotten very interesting.

Andrea is willing to do whatever it takes to get the dirt for her scathing exposé—even if it means learning how to take a spanking from a movie star. She doesn’t realize until it’s too late that Mark Cannon has a lot more in store for her than just a simple stinging bottom.

This 42,000 word short novel by bestselling erotica author Shoshanna Evers was originally published by Ellora’s Cave Publishing in 2011 under the same title.

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Ginger Snap by Shoshanna Evers
Blurb

When Holly sits on Tom’s lap to tell him what she wants for Christmas, she knows she’s naughty enough to get a lump of coal—but she never expected to get a hand of ginger root. Peeled ginger in her bottom burns like crazy without causing any actual harm—so the punishment can go on as long as naughty Holly deserves.

Ginger-figging has been used since Victorian times to keep girls from clenching against a proper caning because, as Holly finds out, clenching around ginger has her begging for mercy—and more turned-on than she’s ever been. From now on Holly should be on her best behavior…but with this sort of punishment, it’s more fun to be bad.

This 11,000 word sexy short novella was originally published under the same title by Ellora’s Cave Publishing in 2010.

Here’s what reviewers are saying about GINGER SNAP:

“If you’re looking for a well-written, naughty tale with some D/s play and a truly unique twist on kink, then I’d definitely recommend this book.” – Lucy Felthouse, BlogCritics

“With heart and compassion, Evers shows how Holly and Tom learn about themselves and their respective needs in order to make their relationship work. Tom gets in touch with his inner Dom and determines a proper punishment for Holly is ginger-figging.

This spicy discipline turns the heat up on Holly, getting her in touch with her submissive nature. The bedroom play is intensely sexy, hot, and all the while playful, enticing the reader to keep turning the pages to the perfect Christmas ending.” – Lori, The Jeep Diva
“…fun and sexy with passion and a tantalizing bit of dominance.” – Sizzling Hot Books

“Ginger Snap is smoking hot, it’s seriously naughty but above all it’s a wonderful tale of trust and respect and seeing a couple nurturing the seeds of a healthy, fulfilling D/s relationship.

Ms Evers can sure pull out all the stops in a short story! I highly recommend Ginger Snap and defy anyone to be able to pause halfway through – be warned, this is a one stop read from beginning to end.” – Lynn Marie, Happily Ever After

Excerpt:

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An Excerpt From: GINGER SNAP
Copyright © SHOSHANNA EVERS, 2010, second edition 2013
All Rights Reserved.

Tom lowered her to the floor and she slumped, boneless and thoroughly satiated, to the carpet. Rolling over onto her back, Holly looked up at him and smiled. His Santa hat was askew. The lights from the Christmas tree blinked on and off and created a devilish glow on his body.

“That was incredible, Santa,” she said, smiling up at him.

“We’re just getting started,” he said, taking his red Santa hat off and tossing it onto the carpet next to her.

“Oh, I’m done, thank you though,” she replied.

Tom laughed and shook his head. “Maybe I should get to decide when we’re done.”

And now she was ready to go again, just from his words.

Holly’s eyes widened as Tom reached under the Christmas tree and pulled out a small wrapped gift. “What’s that?”

“A present that must be opened—and used—tonight.”

Holly sat up on the carpet and took the gift with both hands. “Okay…” She opened the package slowly, being careful not to tear the wrapping paper. She had a thing about that. She liked to reuse wrapping paper whenever possible.

Inside the box…what on earth was this? She held a large, bulbous root of some sort in her hand. It was kind of brownish-gray, and it looked almost as if it were covered in light bark or something. “Um, thank you?” she said.

Tom smiled. “We have to prepare it.”

Holly furrowed her brow. Did he think she was going to go do some gardening now or something?

“Let me see the ginger for a moment, please,” he said as he finished zipping his pants back up.

“Ginger?”

“Yes, that’s a hand of ginger you’re holding. Each of those offshoots is called a finger. And while it is a present for you, I need to prep it a bit before we can put it to good use.”

Holly handed the ginger back to Tom. “Okaaaay,” she said. “We’re making gingerbread cookies? Now, at ten o’clock on Christmas Eve?”

Tom just shook his head, but Holly could tell he was very excited. Excited? About making cookies? “Nope, we’re not cooking. I’m going to ginger-fig you for being a naughty girl.”

“Ginger-fig me?” Wait, naughty? What was he going to do to her exactly?

Tom laughed and started to walk out of the living room toward the kitchen. “You may as well pull your pants all the way off, instead of just sitting there with them around your thighs like that. I want you completely naked and in the kitchen.”

Holly slowly pulled off her pants and set them neatly on the carpet by the sofa. “What are you going to do?” she asked.

“Holly, get in the kitchen,” he called back. “I want you to see this.”

Holly stood up and walked bare-assed into the kitchen, grateful for the heavy drapes that both kept out the winter chill and kept the neighbors from seeing into their home. “Tom, I’m really not in the mood to bake right now. Maybe if we had a mix or something. But if you expect me to make something that involves grating fresh ginger then you are out of your mind.”

Tom stood in front of the sink, carefully cutting one large finger off the hand of ginger. The scent wafted through the air toward her and she sniffed, intrigued. “Smells yummy,” she said.

“It does smell delicious,” he agreed. “But we’re not baking now. I’m going to ginger-fig you to put you into the proper mindset for Christmas dinner tomorrow.”

She was not going to Christmas dinner, so there was no need for her to be put into any mindset at all. But whatever. “All right, I give in. What’s that mean—ginger-fig?”

“Did you know that it used to be called feaguing?” Tom asked. “People would take a half-dead horse they wanted to sell, stick some freshly peeled ginger up its bottom, and the horse would prance around and hold its tail up like a much younger horse.”

“That’s terrible! Poor horsey. But why ginger?”

Tom smiled as he carefully continued to peel the outer layer off the ginger root. “Because it burns.”

Oh. Hell.

“Anyway,” Tom continued, “you know how I love old Victorian caning stories.”

Did she ever. It was one of things that attracted her to Tom, actually. The thought of being caned turned her on to no end. Actually being caned, on the other hand, was a thrill that she could only truly appreciate after the fact, when she was reliving the experience with one hand buried in her pussy.

“They used to ginger-fig the naughty ladies who needed to be caned so that they wouldn’t be able to clench their ass cheeks when the cane struck.”

“Why couldn’t they clench their ass cheeks?” Holly asked. It was like looking at a car wreck. As much as she didn’t want to know—and as much as she didn’t want to find out personally—she had to learn all about it.

“When they clenched their butt muscles the ginger in their asshole would burn terribly. So with each stroke of the cane, the young ladies had to make a choice. Clench, and the sting of the cane would be somewhat mollified. But their insides…their insides hurt a hundred times worse. Or they could try to not clench, force themselves to relax into the pain and just take the caning, and while the caning would be exquisitely stingy, their rectum wouldn’t burn quite so badly.”

“That’s quite the conundrum,” Holly said, even as she wondered what choice she would make. She’d always clenched her ass cheeks whenever Tom caned her—how could she not? That thing hurt like a bitch! But it amazed her to discover just how wet her pussy would get, even when he really laid into her.

She looked at the ginger in Tom’s hand. He was cutting an indentation at the base of the finger of ginger.

“It’s a retention notch, like on a butt plug,” he explained. “This will keep the ginger from being expelled before I want it to be.”

“How did you learn all this stuff?” Holly demanded. “I’ve never even heard of people using ginger up their ass before!”

“It’s a huge fetish,” he said, running the freshly prepared ginger under cold water and rinsing away all the little extra pieces that had stuck onto the smooth, pale yellow surface. “Once I heard about it, all I had to do was Google it and I found dozens of websites devoted solely to the art of figging.”

“Well, I appreciate the thought,” she said, “but I’m not sure how you think ginger-figging me is going to make me any less naughty.”

“Think of it as an experiment. We’re going to find out if this works.”

“When?” she asked.

“Now.”

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