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Author: Ann Mayburn | Website

Ann is Queen of the Castle to her wonderful husband and three sons in the mountains of West Virginia. In her past lives she's been an Import Broker, a Communications Specialist, a US Navy Civilian Contractor, a Bartender/Waitress, and an actor at the Michigan Renaissance Festival. She also spent a summer touring with the Grateful Dead(though she will deny to my children that it ever happened).

From a young age she's been fascinated by myths and fairytales, and the romance that often was the center of the story. As Ann grew older and her hormones kicked in, she discovered trashy romance novels. Great at first, but she soon grew tired of the endless stories with a big wonderful emotional buildup to really short and crappy sex. Never a big fan of purple prose, throbbing spears of fleshy pleasure and wet honey pots make her giggle, she sought out books that gave the sex scenes in the story just as much detail and plot as everything else-without using cringe worthy euphemisms. This led her to the wonderful world of Erotic Romance, and she's never looked back.

Now Ann spends her days trying to tune out cartoons playing in the background to get into her 'sexy space' and has learned to type one handed while soothing a cranky baby.



Published Works & Book Reviews

Sensation Play

Retired German cage fighter, Jonas Becker, has finally settled down in Las Vegas to open his own training center. A chance meeting with his dream woman at a charity ball leads him to hanging out at her favorite coffee shop where he overhears the perfect opportunity to win her over. One orgasm at a time.

Erica Alman is sick of her overprotective older brother's ruining her love life, especially after they chased away that amazing mystery man that she had danced with a the charity ball six months ago. With the help of her best friend, she signs up with the 1 Night Stand dating service. Her request is simple. She wants a dangerous, rough man to fake break into her hotel room at the Castillo resort and force her to have multiple orgasms. Oh, and she wants the man to be big, bald, and have a German accent, just like Jonas.

Using every ounce of his skill as an experienced Dom, Jonas hopes to win Erica over before the night ends. He can only hope that the pleasure he can bring her will make the beautiful woman look past his scarred and battered exterior to the man within who can give her sensations like no other.


Want

Construction foreman Cody McPherson always considered himself as straight as they come. That is until he finds himself falling for the handsome stonemason, Sam Denham, who constantly occupies his thoughts. He wants Sam, badly, and can’t get the man out of his mind. Worse yet, he isn’t even sure if Sam is gay. When he finds out that Sam has signed up with a dating service searching for a guy who looks exactly like him Cody is even more eager, and confused than before.

Sam can’t believe that he’s developed a huge crush on his obviously straight co-worker. Even worse, the job that allowed him to see Cody on an almost daily basis has ended and he desperately misses his buddy in a way that goes far beyond just friendship. In an effort to soothe his aching heart and body, he tries to get a blind date with someone like Cody so he can pretend for just one night that he holds Cody in his arms.

When Cody himself shows up as Sam’s blind date, he is at once elated and afraid of having his heart broken by just another straight guy looking to sample the gay life. He wants to be so much more than Cody’s 1Night Stand and if he’s given the chance, Sam will do anything to prove that love doesn’t discriminate based on gender.

Reviewer: Bookshifter
Review: Apr 20, 2012
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary, GLBTQ, M/M
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. “ Oscar Wilde Want written by Ann Mayburn is a romance that bursts into plenty of erotic flames as a result of 1Night Stand. Ms. Mayburn gives birth to a sensual, testosterone laden short story with plenty of sparks and combustible sheet work. Fulfilling a want, desire, urge requires stepping forward and t

Diamond Heart

After catching her no good cheat'n rat bastard ex-fiancé in bed with her best friend, Rowan Belmont leaves the mills and factories of the Midwest to move nearer her sister in San Francisco. After being robbed in Kansas City, she loses the money to complete her journey and she tries to pawn her engagement ring, only to find out that it‘s fake. Alone, broke, and on the edge of giving up, Rowan hopes for a miracle.

Marcel Champlain can't get the beautiful woman he met at the Kansas City hotel out of his mind. When she turns up at his family’s jewelry store he knows that God has brought them together. He makes Rowan a job offer: Go with him to Freewill, Wyoming to open a new jewelry store and pose as his wife.

With only three months to convince Rowan that she should become his wife in truth, Marcel intends to show Rowan that no other man on earth will ever love her as much as he does. Their time together may be cut short by when it seems like fate will take Marcel from Rowan all too soon and leave her once again alone in the world.

Reviewer: Babs
Review: Apr 22, 2012
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Historical Romance, Western
This is a book worth reading more than once. We start out with Rowan trying to get into her hotel room after she is robbed. A nice young man Marcel comes out of nowhere and tries to help Rowan. She doesn’t know what to think of the stranger and is shocked when they kiss. The same day she goes to dinner with Marcel all the while she has to figure out how to get enough money to get to San Francisco to her

Sodom and the Phoenix

Tanwen Evans has traveled to the Sodom Virtual Reality Resort to re-find her passion. Her twenty-year marriage to her high school sweetheart has recently ended, and with both of her children out of the house she's herself alone for the first time in her adult life. Unwilling to trust her heart to another man, she believes that indulging in some racy virtual reality fantasies will help her find her long-buried sexual side without the messy complications of a relationship. When she arrives at Sodom she discovers she has been booked during the annual ‘Leather Kiss’ BDSM convention.

Bryan Hamilton just needs to exercise his Mastery, but when runs into Tanwen all of his plans change. With her gentle disposition and her ladylike manners she calls to him like no woman has since the death of his wife. He discovers that she is a natural submissive and begins a campaign to win her heart, which includes joining her in a series of mind-blowing VR adventures.

Tanwen fights her growing attraction to the handsome Master who is supposed to be just a vacation fling. She has to decide what’s more important -- protecting her heart or taking a chance on the kind of love she’s always dreamed about.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual situations, graphic language, and material that some readers may find objectionable: anal play/intercourse BDSM theme and elements, menage (m/f/m).

Reviewer: Trish
Review: Apr 25, 2012
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, BDSM, Fantasy
OK, I know when I wrote the review of "Sodom and Detroit" I said that it would be my last for a while because I was headed to Detroit to find said club....Found it...conquered it...and now am off to my new love..."Sodom and the Phoenix". I sure hope there is a man like Master Bryan waiting for me!!! Tanwen is such a lucky women and the virtual ZOO OMG. I could just spend months there! I am planning to get dru

Dreamer

Arrogant, powerful and dangerous, Devon King is one of the world's greatest warriors. Yet even he is helpless against the evil that is stalking the children of Washington DC. When the gods assign him to protect Shan Harrison, he can't believe that the beautiful and spirited Goth girl is the key to defeating the nightmares that haunt the city. Shan has the potential to become one of the strongest dreamers in history, if she can survive long enough to come into her full powers. Devon is used to getting what he wants and he wants Shan. Her submissive nature, hidden beneath her tough exterior, calls to the dominant side of his nature like a siren's song.

Ashamed of her cravings, Shan fights her attraction to Devon and tries to convince herself that what they have is only physical. The servants of evil use her insecurity and self-doubt to try to tear Shan and Devon apart. If Shan doesn't learn to accept her desires and Devon's love, darkness will triumph and everyone she holds dear will be destroyed by terrifying nightmares come to life.

Reviewer: Angibabi4
Review: Mar 28, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Mythology
The second installment of the Chosen by the Gods series did not disappoint. I absolutely loved this book. It was just as good as the first one with a little more spice. I definitely liked that improvement. Shan has no idea who her birth parents are, she has been raised by two high priests to the gods and goddesses. This is a story of discovery for Shan. She discovers that she is chosen to be either a god or

Onyx Moon

Marcus Galin has searched the world for a very special kind of werepuma-a beta who has also been blessed by the Goddess as a shaman. His prayers are finally answered when Madame Eve of the 1Night Stand matchmaking service arranges for him to meet a man in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica that fits his requirements. Only problem: Marcus is terrified of magic and doesn't know if he can overcome his fear enough to open his heart to a stranger that his Pride and his heart desperately need.

Vashan Dulphin has spent all of his life as an outcast among his people. By a twist of fate and genetics at puberty, he became a werejaguar instead of a werepuma, much to his family and Pride's disgust. Since then he has lived in solitude among his people, tolerated only because of his power as both a beta and a shaman. Desperate for a chance to find a home where he will be loved, he calls on the aid of Madame Eve, who sends him Marcus.

Together the men will have to overcome their fear and self-doubt for a one-in-a-million chance at love.


Wild Lilly

Connecticut socialite Lilly Brooks intends to fulfill a childhood dream when she inherits a huge tract of land in Caldwell, Kansas in 1876. She travels there in search of the romance and excitement of the Wild West. She finds her excitement-in the form of angry Indians, smelly dogs, and drunk cowboys who won't take no for an answer. Romance comes in the form of a ruggedly handsome rancher named Paul McGregor who could devastate her chastity with just a glance of his faded blue eyes. Too bad he calls her a whore within the first minute of their acquaintance.

Paul has spent three years trying to hold his family and his ranch together after the death of his parents. When he saves a stunning blonde, wearing a scandalous dress that only a soiled dove would own, from a group of drunken ranch hands, he tries to do the right thing and get her work at a good saloon. He soon finds out the woman whose favors he would love to buy is the heiress who owns the land that is the key to his family's financial future, not the prostitute he thought she was. Paul decides to use his best weapon to win Lilly over and get her property: seduction.

A wicked cattle baron wants her land as well and will kill anyone who stands between him and what he wants. Paul will have to decide what he wants more, the woman or her land.

Reviewer: Barb
Review: Feb 29, 2012
Genre(s): Historical Romance, Western, Native American
I was expecting to really love this book from the way it started out. I liked the heroine but tolerated the hero. I didn't like his attitude and the way he treated Lilly. I got into the storyline a little more and decided that this would be a favorite book until I came to all the sexually explicit scenes. I think this book could very well have been wonderful without those. I pretty much skipped over thos

Blushing Violet

Shy and quirky Violet Bishop has finally found the perfect way to meet a man who can fulfill her hidden submissive desires-an online dating site that matches couples based on books they love. In this case, the BDSM erotica that fuels her fire.

Two Dom best friends and business partners, Carlos Romano and Morgan Kane, are matched with Violet. They both want to date her and, rather than fight, decide to keep the fact they know each other a secret and let her choose. A good idea in theory, but impossible when they both fall in love and wish to make Violet their own.

The men build up Violet's almost nonexistent self-esteem and help her find strength she never knew she had, along with an almost bottomless craving for their dominant touch. When Violet discovers they've been less than truthful, the men realize they've helped her become stronger than even they knew-strong enough to leave them. Now Morgan and Carlos must find a way to win their perfect woman back, no matter what.

Reviewer: Bibliophile For Life
Review: Dec 26, 2011
Genre(s): BDSM, Erotica / Pure Erotica, Rubenesque
Spending yet another holiday alone with Adam, her black lab, is not the life that Violet wants for herself. But the thought of her weight and overactive sexual nature has left her reserved and shy. Without much experience in dating and asking for what she wants in the bedroom, being open and willing to admit her wants is something of a struggle for Violet to come to terms with. Will a website guaranteed to br

Turquoise Moon

Werepuma and sheltered virgin Kara Vinsenz has no idea how to entice men, furry or otherwise. She contacts Madame Eve of the 1Night Stand matchmaking service in a desperate attempt to avoid a terrible arranged marriage to a psychopathic shifter. In a daring move that goes against her confined upbringing, she poses as her twin sister to escape her family compound in the hopes of meeting an Alpha and a Beta strong enough to be her mates. She waits to meet them until she goes into heat and is totally unprepared for the consequences of her actions.

Ben Harkil and Jude Carson are on the hunt for the perfect Alpha female to complete their Pride and when they meet Kara, they believe their prayers have been answered. What starts out as a 1Night Stand ends up being so much more when Kara realizes that her lies may have doomed from the start the only love that can save her and her Pride from a madman.


Bound for Pleasure

Football star Tycen Preston has everything he could want, everything but the healing release of subspace that he desperately needs. After four years of searching for the right woman, he finally has the opportunity to indulge in all the dark, forbidden desires that would ruin his carefully crafted image if anyone ever found out.

Lara Hernandez is tired of the weak submissive men that offer her no challenge. She yearns for a strong Alpha male to tame and call her own. A blind date arranged by the mysterious Madam Eve seems to be the perfect arrangement for fulfilling both of their decadent cravings. Unfortunately a scheming paparazzi photographer is hot on their trail, and will do anything he can to get a scandalous picture of Tycen that would destroy his career.

Reviewer: Mandy
Review: Oct 4, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary, BDSM, Multicultural / Minority
Tycen is a professional athlete, but he needs to keep his date private because the paparazzi might discover his secret vice and make it known to all. That's why he finds a special dating service to meet someone who can help him with that vice. When Lara shows up in his room, she gives Tycen a welcome he won't soon forget. For the length of this story, Ms. Mayburn gives us quite a jam-packed steamy BDSM roma

Emerald Moon

Ben Hanson had long ago given up on love, refusing to believe he was worthy of it. When he is given the gift of a 1Night Stand blind date, he goes into it expecting nothing more than a night of savage pleasure. Instead he finds the missing piece of his heart.

Jude Carson has an impossible task in front of him. He has to convince the man he hasn't seen in fifteen years that he still loves him with all of his heart and wants him back. A task made even more difficult by the horrible circumstances that led to their parting and tore their former pride apart.

Ben will have to learn that sometimes the hardest person to forgive is himself if he wants a second chance at the greatest joy he has ever known.

Reviewer: Greendragon
Review: Sep 27, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, GLBTQ, M/M, Shapeshifters
Emerald Moon by Ann Mayburn is a 1 Night Stand short story as well as book 4 in Ann's Pride of the Moon Series. Ben Hanson is a werepuma who was part of the Shifter division of the Marines Special Ops unit. Medically discharged after being diagnosed with severe PTSD he returns to North Carolina and the Amber Moon Pack. As a birthday gift Ben's Alpha and beta females set him up on a blind date. Ben agrees an

The Bodyguards' Princess

Lalita Chetana, daughter of a United Nations Diplomat, survives an attempted kidnapping by a terrorist group known as the anarchists. She has a difficult time with her recovery, and her father hires two bodyguards--Asher Epson and Kent Warne.

Hypnotized into stealing UN secrets, she is framed by the anarchists. As part of their plan to humiliate and break her father, they plant a hypnotic trigger that anytime she hears the word “bitch” she will become aroused to the point of pain. She is forced to flee and go into hiding with Asher and Kent. The men become unable to hide their real feelings for her after her trigger is hit, and they have to relieve her of her sexual torment.

Contains: This book contains hot, dominant men who will do anything to please their lady including light bondage, spanking, public caning, and decadent ménages. 

Reviewer: Maria
Review: Sep 20, 2011
Genre(s): Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Menage / Multiple Partners, BDSM
Surviving an attempted kidnapping by a terrorist group known only as the anarchists, Lalita Chetana is having a hard time dealing with her recovery. Her father, a United Nations Diplomat known as The Sanjit, takes matters into his own hands by hiring two bodyguards to protect her - Asher Epson and Kent Warne. Hypnotized into stealing UN secrets from her father's computer, Lalita, is now wanted by the law.

Amber Moon

Sabrina Wayne yearns for the perfect mates to fill the void in her heart. As a werepuma Beta, she is driven to find the strongest Alpha to submit too, or in her case, Alphas. Sabrina craves the delicious softness of a woman as well as the rugged strength of a man. She has almost given up finding the right couple when she takes a leap of faith and allows Madame Evangeline of the 1Night Stand matchmaking service to arrange what Madame Eve promises will be an evening Sabrina will never forget.

Alphas Nick and Madeline Turea have been searching for a woman like Sabrina for a very long time. After a disastrous relationship with a former Beta female, the couple has been extremely cautious to let anyone else get close to them or the Amber Moon pride. When Madame Evangeline contacts them about a possible match, both are eager to meet the beautiful woman who may complete their family.

A night of reckless desire and burning hot passion leads to an unknown danger that might destroy Sabrina's one chance at a perfect love. She must learn to surrender to the power of her Alphas and gain their trust before it's too late.

Reviewer: Erona Diane Hill
Review: Nov 8, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, GLBTQ, F/F, Shapeshifters
Ooh, me like! I have never been so enraptured by werepumas before! The wild and untamed decadence between our two heroines, Madeline and Sabrina, and between them and their Alpha male, Nick, was richly rewarding! Although the only plot was whether or not Sabrina would finally find her mates, I truly enjoyed this piece of eroticism. The lesbian encounters were done very well, showing more of an emotional

Sodom and Detroit

Workaholic Maeve Burgundy avoids any relationship where she might fall in love. She's forced by her best friend to take a vacation she won to the exotic Sodom Resort. They specialize in turning any erotic fantasy into reality. Virtual Reality. What Maeve doesn't know is that Angel, the owner of the Resort and her old college boyfriend, has rigged the contest in an effort to reconnect with Maeve. He wants to persuade her to become part of a committed ménage à trois with his best friend and lover, Luke.

The three embark upon a sexual adventure that takes them from the sultry pleasures of a sheik's harem, to the forced seduction of a royal lady by two highwaymen, and the fun of having a handsome biker hanging chained from the ceiling-just begging for a flogging. During each fantasy Maeve falls a little more in love with the men she thinks she knows, and begins to trust them with her heart.

Luke warns Angel that they may lose Maeve because of his deception, but Angel will take any chance to win Maeve back and convince her how good a loving ménage à trois can be.

Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: anal play/intercourse, menage (m/m/f, m/f/m), same-sex interaction/sexual practices (m/m, f/f), voyeurism.


Daughter of Lust

Belal, High Prince of Hell and Keeper of the Deadly Sin Sloth, is expanding his power by trafficking opium. He revels in the results, and as sloth begins to overtake the mortal realm, all of Hell suffers. The balance of power in Hell, as well as the fate of the Universe, will be decided by a half-demon peasant girl.

Natalia Shura, the daughter of Asmodeus, High Prince of Hell and Keeper of the Deadly Sin Lust, is unaware of the nature of her birth. When her demonic side begins to awaken, her world becomes dominated by dark passions and deadly cravings. Natalia fears she is losing her mind. But her love has been foretold as the only thing that can stop Belal and his allies, and they will do anything to prevent her ascension.

Facing assassins, avenging angels, Hell's deadly politics—and her real father—Natalia must accept the love of more than one man and embrace her demonic heritage as a Princess of Lust. If she doesn't, all that she cares about will be destroyed, and Heaven and Hell will plunge into Chaos.

Reviewer: S Siferd
Review: Feb 19, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Erotic Romance, Menage / Multiple Partners, Fantasy, Demons, Angels
Imagine believing your entire life you are the child of Russian peasants. Your only sibling has died from a deadly fever he caught while serving in the war. Your mother and father have changed into people you no longer recognize due to their overwhelming grief. Your father spends his days in the gambling dens and brothels in an area of town where respectable women are not permitted to visit. Your mother spend

Dance Of The Gods

Locked in a demonic curse, Carmella Ramirez has lost the will to love. Once she was the star of the Ramirez Samba School and lived a charmed life. Now, thanks to bitchery and voodoo, she's the school's seamstress and living in the ghetto. At night, a succubus overtakes Carmella's body and uses her to lure men to their death. As the corpses pile up, those controlling Carmella plan to sacrifice her to their demonic god and blame her for all the men the succubus killed.

Her only hope is Sean Kalmus--a world famous musician and warrior of the Celtic God of Music, Maponus. Sean is in Brazil to DJ for the Ramirez School at this year's carnival. Maponus orders Sean to find and rescue Carmella, who is Sean's Comhcheol--the perfect harmony to his soul's melody.

With Sean's help, Carmella will have to call on her strength, his magic and their love to break herself free before she becomes known as Brazil's most notorious serial killer.

Reviewer: Trish
Review: Apr 25, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Demons, Mythology
Why has Carmella been waking up exhausted after dreaming of herself in a red slinky dress and wearing stilettos? Does the God of Music, Maponus have an ulterior motive for sending Sean to Rio? What is a "Comhchaeol"? I was on pins and needles just waiting for fate to make itself known. I know have become a FAN of Ann Mayburn and plan to read everything she has written And if I may say so....." I just LOVE

Blessed

Shay is an ordinary college girl with an extraordinary birthright. Handsome professor Aiden Klemenson singles her out as a potential Chosen of the benevolent Gods of Creation, and his perfect woman. He tries to convince Eliana that she is born to do the work of the Gods, but her upbringing hasn’t given her much faith in gods or destiny. Despite her better judgment, desire burns between them with an enchantment all its own.

The Gods of Destruction will stop at nothing to keep Eliana from fulfilling her destiny: to become a formidable warrior against evil. Cunning and deceitful, they send demons and magical serial killers to exterminate her before she can become a threat. With Aidan’s guidance, Eliana realizes that in order to survive she must accept her fate and learn to harness the fierce magic within her--and open her heart to his love. 

Reviewer: Angibabi4
Review: Jul 6, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Mythology
What happens when an ordinary girl discovers she is a possible candidate to be "Chosen" by the Creator to become a protector of mankind fighting the age old battle of good vs evil. Not to mention that she has to find time for her college studies and deal with her growing attraction to one of her professors. If that wasn't enough, until she is officially "Chosen" she has to deal with recruiters from the other

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