THE HAREM - Celia May Hart; Emma Leigh; Melissa MacNeal; Noelle Mack
Kensington Aphrodisia
ISBN: 0-7582-1530-4
December 2006
Erotic Historical Anthology

If you've ever wondered, dreamed of, or even thought about what a harem is like, peek into THE HAREM to have your curiosity sated.

The Secret Door - Noelle Mack
Topkapi Harem - time unknown

Yasmina spends most of her time alone in the harem set aside for sultan Mehmed. She's been in training for two years and fondly hopes never to have to grace the bed of the debauched and repulsive sultan. But in a secret garden, she meets a ghost, a shadow man who was killed by the sultan and now wants to save his younger brother who has been seized by the sultan's favorite wife to get her pregnant.

Can Yasmina believe and follow the orders of a ghost man and save his powerful and virile brother from death at the hands of the sultan's favorite wife? Harems and ghosts mix together in an enticing way in The Secret Door.

The Pleasure Garden - Emma Leigh
Peking, China - 1859

Julia Martin was rescued from her father's merchant vessel during a storm, and brought to the Forbidden City as a concubine for the emperor. An English woman is a rarity in the Forbidden City, and so is the English man, Garrick
MacDonald, who seems to work for the emperor in some capacity.

Garrick is on a secret mission and has spent much time getting access to the emperor, but will this fragile woman ruin everything he's been trying to do? Garrick must train Julia in the ways of love for the emperor, and that's a slippery slope for these two people far from their native land. Can they resist each other and save their necks? The Pleasure Garden is a juicy story about learning the ways of love from a masterful teacher.

East Meets West- Celia May Hart
India - sometime in the past

Lieutenant Benedict West is in the East India Company's army and makes a drunken bet with other soldiers that sounds good at the time.  He will try to ravish the eldest daughter of an Englishman and a native woman, a girl trained in Indian erotic arts.

Chandari is astonished when a drunken man climbs into the room in the tower where she lives and proceeds to make love to her. Well, maybe he thinks it's sex, but he sure hasn't been trained very well. This incident was supposed to be just a moment in time, until Lieutenant West is assigned to take Chandari to the maharaja of Jenalapur for his harem.

Chandari will try to teach Benedict the proper way to make love, and he has little compunction about auditing the class. Can Benedict give up Chandari to the harem, and can she willingly accept her fate? Native shenanigans prove to be the best in East Meets West.

A Lady's Pleasure - Melissa MacNeal
Oregon - 1899

Ophelia Leeds is downright mad when she discovers her deceased husband's secret book, Scheherazade, a book that describes his secret life. Before his death, he and his friends and business acquaintances spent time on his boat, the Scheherazade, dressed in Arabian costumes and frolicking with naked women. Ophelia is stunned to learn that she was set aside with no love or sex while her husband and all his friends partook of orgasmic adventures.

Now her husband's secretary, James Pohl, must help her arrange one last party on the Scheherazade. This time Ophelia will let everybody know how things will be run from now on, especially that big hunk of a man from the logging camp.

We are women; hear us roar will echo in your mind as you see how Ophelia takes charge of the festivities in A Lady's Pleasure.

With its four sensual short stories, THE HAREM is sure to intrigue and delight -- are you up for it?

CeCe Johns