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Ann Jacobs is a sucker for lusty Alpha heroes and happy endings, which makes Ellora's Cave an ideal publisher for her work. Romantica®, to her, is the perfect combination of sex, sensuality, deep emotional involvement and lifelong commitment — the elusive fantasy women often dream about but seldom achieve.
The black sheep of an aristocratic Creole family meets the Bar C’s princess.
Disgraced doctor Les Fourchet has come to the wide-open spaces of northwest Texas looking to stay away from the BDSM lifestyle that may have cost him his heritage. That idea goes out the window when he discovers kink club the Neon Lasso—and hot Texan Deidre Caden.
Deidre is the submissive of Les’ wildest fantasies. Their play at the club is scorching, but before he can offer her the life she deserves, Les must confess his humiliating past—and convince her powerful family of his worth.
Inside Scoop: This book contains hardcore BDSM scenes, medical play, male submission, group sex and references to dubious consent. Very hot—handle with care!
A Romantica® Western erotic romance from Ellora’s Cave
Book two in the Caden Kink series.
A modern-day Liberty Valance meets The Big Valley.
Jack Duval, country lawyer and bastard son of the Caden patriarch, first discovers rancher Liz Wolfe when he goes after her to spite his father. Soon, though, he learns she’s the submissive partner of his wildest fantasies.
But rustlers and murderers interrupt their hot BDSM play, and Jack must reveal secrets that may tear the two apart before he and Liz can move on to the next step toward happily ever after.
Reader Advisory: The lucky heroine is pleasured by three hot Doms in a BDSM ménage scene onstage at a sex club. The book also contains an instance of male/male action.
Feeling vaguely dissatisfied despite his success, computer software manufacturer Jared Cain returns to the north Georgia mountains, seeking his roots.Quiltmaker Althea Simmons wants to discover the pleasures of sex that she missed out on while waiting for a wedding night that never happened after her fiancé was murdered.The chemistry sizzles between the two, and lust quickly turns to love, but Jared and Althea must reconcile some serious conflicts before they dare to make a lifetime commitment.
Blush sensuality level: This is a sensual romance (may have explicit love scenes, but not erotic in frequency or type). Book Length: Novel
Hatfields & McCoys meet Dallas…
What should have been simple BDSM club play becomes complicated when lifelong neighbors Bye Caden and Karen Oakley discover there’s more between them than one steamy night. But acting on their feelings is unthinkable, for if discovered, they could reignite a century-old feud between their families.
Sneaking around to be together ups the heat factor, but it’s only a matter of time before the couple must come clean. Forever is hard to come by when one’s father shoots first and asks questions later.
Against a larger-than-life ranch setting, the lovers must overcome not only their own misgivings, but the opposition of their respective families. A task that could prove to be as big as Texas.
Reader Advisory: Our heroine finds herself at the mercy of two sexy Doms one hot Texas night. Lucky girl. Book Length: Novel
Unforgivable betrayal stands between Sean and the woman he could never banish from his heart and mind—the woman who has haunted his dreams since he lost her all those years ago. When he meets Merrie again, they know right away that their attraction is as strong as ever.
Merrie has never been able to resist the lure of Sean’s hard, sexy body and she feels right at home, lying naked in his arms once again. But hot sex isn’t enough to banish hurtful memories and the pain of his betrayal.
This time Sean will hold on to the only woman he has ever loved…but to keep her by his side, he must overcome almost insurmountable odds.
Dr. Jake Levinson needs an excuse to see Meghan. It has been a year since her daughter’s surgery. Long enough to be without the woman he loves. But medical ethics isn’t the only thing standing in their way.
When Meghan and Jake meet outside the hospital, their love sparks anew and passion ignites. Jake doesn’t want to sneak into Meghan’s bed though. He wants to marry her, but there are so many conflicts to overcome. He can only hope Megan loves him enough.
Compromise is easy when love is strong, but if he has to, Jake will tear down his world for the woman he desires above everything else.
Paranormal Mates Society, where finding the love of your life is supernatural, super easy!
A god tries to keep from putting the man of his dreams to sleep, a vampire Dom handles two sexy subs, a satyr plays a practical joke on the God of War and the Fury of Disasters, the site administrator's sex life heats up thanks to a sexy satyr, and a woman posing as a witch finds love with a werewolf... it's Satan's own online dating service, and chaos has never been quite this hot! Page Count: 281
Pearl wants constant sexual pleasure, so she's mated with Pak Lin, master maker of sexbots that are almost indistinguishable from humans. But she soon learns she wants more-some emotion, some human caring-from her mate, who seems about as cold as the sexbots who served as his groomsmen. Lin seems incapable of any emotion.
Pearl knows she has little hope of ever meaning more to Lin than a convenient receptacle for his lust. She must lure him, seduce him-make him burn with desire for her alone. She must teach him how to love.
Reader Advisory: This book offers an erotic, explicit public sex scene and male/male play with the Alpha Male sexbots.
Publisher's Note: The books in the Pleasure Partners series originally comprised the Luna Ten Chronicles and Obsidion Chronicles series, and were previously published elsewhere. Each book has evolved through extensive lengthening and revision for Ellora's Cave to provide a consistent and hopefully enjoyable reading experience. This book was previously titled Obsidion Chronicles: Pearl of Passion.
Big, tough, sexy linebacker Matt Rubin is a killer on the field—but a willing slave in the dungeon to his voluptuous, beautiful Domme.
Keisha loves her buff, gorgeous sex slave. It is the ultimate erotic gratification—having such a strong, intimidating man completely at her sexual command.
Then a health crisis forces them to make a temporary switch. The sex slave becomes the Master. Keisha is totally out of her element and they both wonder how they can ever really go back to that perfect love.
Reader Advisory: This book contains sexy, kinky, public sex scenes involving multiple partners and ménage.
Garnet wants great wealth—and finds it in her new Master, the golden alien Romulus. But she soon learns Romulus also has a male slave, Antonio, his life companion. When they were young, Antonio was modified to be a near-perfect duplicate of his Master. Their bond is strong and Romulus expects Garnet to welcome Antonio into their bed. Though sex with the two men is wonderful, Garnet wants her mate all to herself.
Romulus has two jealous lovers on his hands. Wishing to make Garnet happy, he gifts Antonio with his own eunuch as a compromise…but Romulus misses him deeply. As Garnet’s love for Romulus grows, so does her need to make him happy as well. Her solution? All four of them—living together, sleeping together, loving together. Always.
Reader Advisory: This book offers erotic public and multi-partner sex scenes.
Crown Prince Arik needs a consort to breed his sons but is afraid no woman will have him voluntarily once she sees his scars. He will meet his bride for the first time at their public mating, with Arik covered from head to toe in black leather—except for the bare essentials.
Emerald is alarmed yet highly aroused as the palace eunuchs fondle and stimulate her in preparation for Arik’s mating. But afterward, he pulls from her body, escorts her to his tower and leaves her alone.
Emerald once saw her prince from a distance and admired his beautiful form. Confused by Arik’s behavior, she insists she has the right to see her mate and he reluctantly accedes to her demand. Arik is afraid for the first time in his life and filled with regret that he refused the help of the cyborg maker. Their future rests on this fateful revelation.
Reader Advisory: This book contains erotic, multi-partner sex scenes and graphic male/male sexual interaction.
Publisher’s Note: The books in the Pleasure Partners series originally comprised the Luna Ten Chronicles and Obsidion Chronicles series and were previously published elsewhere, but they all have evolved through extensive lengthening and heavy revision for Ellora's Cave to make for a consistent and hopefully enjoyable reading experience. This book was previously published under the title Obsidion Chronicles: Diamond in the Rough.
Wide receiver Sid Conyers is hot, dominant, an expert in rope bondage and almost any woman’s dream. He’s played in BDSM dungeons for years, with many women, but none he ever truly cared for. Now he finally has the woman he’s coveted…by default. He wants to be her lover as well as her Master.
Talia survived physical and emotional abuse from her former Master that has left her emotionally scarred and insecure. A true submissive, she yearns for Sid to master her despite her fear that she can’t win his heart…doesn’t deserve his love.
Sid is determined to mend Talia’s battered psyche. He will bind her with rope, but he’ll convince her with tenderness that she deserves all the love he has to give.
Reader Advisory: When Sid and Talia visit Rebels’ Roost BDSM club to play out their erotic rope fantasy, they stumble across a hot ménage scene—and two sexy men who are totally wrapped up in each other.
Book 4 in the Pleasure Partners series.Mutilated and exiled from Earth because he helped his brother, former Star Commander Conan finds himself on the Pleasure Planet, Obsidion. Broken and humiliated, he dons the white robe that signifies his new status of complete eunuch-until a famed cyborg and sexbot maker restores his manhood with a large, unique...colorful appendage.The friends who rescued Conan have found him a mate, Nebula. She, too, knows shame and the pitying stares of others, because she carries the dreaded mutant gene. She was sterilized by order of Earth Federation.Nebula craves the touch of a real man, but thinks it is forever denied her. Conan is more than ready to satisfy her desires with his new bionic equipment, but he fears rejection. Two damaged people, yearning for what they have lost, seek fulfillment in each other's arms.
Doreen needs a mate! She has “killed” another sexbot and the eunuch slaves assigned to serve her don’t provide what she needs. She desperately longs for the touch of a real man. Her very own Master.
Shedir has everything Doreen needs. Though sex with a real woman is forbidden him, this one is ready to be his sexual slave and fulfill his every desire. Doreen is insatiable! Shedir soon becomes obsessed with the incredibly sexy Earthling exile. But he has willingly sacrificed his life to work, gaining power and prestige, his goal to become a ruler in Earth Federation. To have Doreen, he must give up everything.
Can unbound pleasure trump ambition? Shedir thinks not, until he’s faced with the sacrifice he cannot make—his woman, his love.
Publisher’s Note: The books in the Pleasure Partners series originally comprised the Luna Ten and Obsidion series and were previously published elsewhere. They have been substantially revised and lengthened for Ellora’s Cave. This book was previously published under the title Shedir.
Jack has a problem. He just awoke after a night of wild sex…with a man. His libido is on the rampage and threatens his dream of an NFL career. Desperate for a solution, he turns to Tawny, the love of his life, and asks her to become his wife and his Mistress—to curb and control his overactive sex drive.
Though leery of the BDSM scene, Tawny agrees. Jack will become her sex slave and she’ll keep him in chastity, his cock caged and totally hers to command. They relish their new roles. Jack’s NFL career leads them to Rebels’ Roost, a safe place where they can play out any BDSM fantasy they want and safely satisfy Jack’s bisexual desires. They plan to introduce a permanent third into their sex games. But, does Jack still want that, or is Tawny’s love all he really needs?
Publisher’s note: this story contains an intensely sexual M/M/F ménage scene and a hot, loving M/M scene.
Guy Stone is now a cyborg who can never go home to Earth. He wants a new life on Luna Ten…and a soul mate. A woman who will bow to his domination and revel in the satisfaction as he uses her body to sate his powerful desires.
When Guy sees Cassie, he vows to have her. She’s looking for a high-tech sexbot. He can pass as one—he already has the appropriate piercings. All he needs is the right jewels to enhance them and a shave. When she chooses him at the sex shop, he’s ready to play. The sex is incredible and Cassie is a natural submissive. Now Guy just has to convince her that he’s worth permanent exile from her home, her way of life.
Reader Advisory: This book contains a loving, uninhibited public sex scene.
Quickie
Giles Oberon cannot resist returning to Obsidion, the pleasure planet, and the woman he can’t forget. Pleasures of the flesh are forbidden on Earth and Giles’ sexual desires break every law on his home planet.
Star can satisfy any need a man has, in any way he wants—using her body, her machines and toys, and her devoted eunuch, Brendan. It’s her job, after all. Her heart is never involved. Except with Giles.
Giles has just discovered Star has a secret he can’t ignore. He takes her and Brendan on a holiday journey and finds joy that transcends his ambition and his obligation to the Federation. Giles’ life is about to change forever.
Publisher’s Note: This story was previously published elsewhere under the title Star of the East and has been revised for Ellora’s Cave.
All-pro defensive end Jimmy Bronson, new to the Savannah Rebels, moved to escape memories of a disastrous marriage. A sexual Dominant who’s in no hurry to jump into another relationship, he falls in lust with an arresting female face in a magazine.
Julie Silver, the object of his obsession, happens to live in his condo building. Their connection is instantaneous and the sex is hot and wild. Quickly, they discover they share a fetish, which they decide to play out at Rebels’ Roost, the team’s exclusive BDSM club.
The perfect Master and slave ’til death do they part? Julie is not so sure. She is older than Jimmy and knows that lust comes easily when you’re young, but love requires time and compromise. Jimmy is very sure, though. Julie is perfect for him. He’s already bought her collar and a length of diamond-studded chain to lace through the rings that adorn her clit and nipples. A committed player—in sex games and life—always gets just what he wants.
Master me, thinks Susan Anderson when she finally lays eyes on Colin Zanardi, former NFL MVP and now coach of the Savannah Rebels. He is only in town for a few days, but he’s the Dom she’s been dreaming of, yearning for. She just has to convince him to play with her, show him how submissive and obedient she is, and demonstrate just what she can do for that gorgeous body of his.
It’s been a long time since Colin has played with a true submissive. Susan is eager to be dominated. By him. He’s the perfect Master to tame her, and settling down this firecracker is a challenge Colin can’t resist. He can think of so many things he wants to use on her—a sex swing, a spiderweb, a roomful of sex toys.
He’ll play her scene—tie her, blindfold her, order her to pleasure him—for their mutual satisfaction. Colin is more than ready to turn this hometown party girl into his own private sex slave.
Length: Novella
Pediatric surgeon Elle Drake may be conventional in her professional life, but she likes her sex kinky and hot—hot enough that she can shed her inhibitions and enjoy it. Though she enjoys playing with the Doms at Club Rio Brava, she’s beginning to wish for a Dom of her own, not a masked partner at the club, but someone she can count on for hot sex as well as friendship. She’s fairly sure no such man exists for her.
Rancher Trace Williams is everything she’s ever wanted in a man, except his lovemaking’s almost pure vanilla. A word from his sister sets him on the path to Dominance—and the key to Elle’s heart.
Note: The Club Rio Brava series is spun off A Mutual Favor. The stories in the Club Rio Brava series originally comprised the Members Only series from another publisher, but have been completely rewritten for Ellora’s Cave.
Topaz Dream is a prequel to Gates of Hell.
The year is 2125. Personal freedoms are abolished by the New World Order. No one is exempt. The time of Earth’s darkness has begun… Implementation of the cruel rules forever change the lives of three childhood friends.
Only one, Vance, has the ear of the despotic rulers through his uncle. In the only solution available to him, he forces a mating with Darth, whom he’s loved forever, and saves Gaby from a fate worse than death as a sex slave. But the modifications made to Gaby have made her sexually insatiable—too much even for two lovers. In a desperate attempt to find a solution, they flee Earth one step ahead of the Federation’s soldiers.
Luna Ten beckons—but will it be the answer to all their dreams?
Book 1 in the Heart of the West series
Returning from the war, his body wounded, his soul hurting, Jared faces a very different life. A sexual Dominant, doubts about his ability now to satisfy any submissive plague him.
Until Ninia. The face of an angel and the body of a centerfold, she's about as unsubmissive as any woman he's known. A nurse in the Cheyenne VA hospital where Jared is sent, Ninia is tough, in control. Until Jared catches her in an unguarded moment and see a vulnerable, softer side. It fires his blood with a need to find out more.
Accepting an invitation to a local dungeon, the sexual Dominant in Jared rears back to full potency when he sees Ninia, submissively awaiting his pleasure, his dominance. Now he knows what he wants. And he's about to prove to Ninia he's man enough to take it.
A man will do a lot of things for love — Matt Rogers knows firsthand. A sexual Dominant playing the role of a submissive is the hardest role he's played, but if it means not losing the love of his life again…
Diana McTavish has long held his heart and soul. Now that her abusive ex-Master is history, Matt's back in her life — permanently — however she needs him. But submissive Diana's had enough of being bruised and battered. She's taking control. And if that means Matt suppressing his own needs and submitting to her domination — hell, he can do it.
As the sexual heat between them flares hot enough to burn, Diana relearns the most important lesson of Dominance and submission — trust. And this time, the switch is up to her.
Book 2 in the Heart of the West series.
Even bad boys want to settle down sometime…
All it takes is the right woman, and a guy is toast. Brad McTavish knows it. He's known it since the day Keely, the sexy little redhead who makes his hands itch and his cock burn, walked into Roped and Lassoed, Brad's BDSM club, looking for a Dom to master her. Now he's ready to put a lid on his wild ways and settle down to some full-on, loving submission from his favorite slave.
But fears from her past haunt Keely. She's having none of it. Especially with Brad. However, as a three-day blizzard hits, locking them up together to wait out the storm, Keely's about to find out there's more to this bad-boy Dom than meets the eye.
Book 2 in the Heart of the West series.
Even bad boys want to settle down sometime…
All it takes is the right woman, and a guy is toast. Brad McTavish knows it. He's known it since the day Keely, the sexy little redhead who makes his hands itch and his cock burn, walked into Roped and Lassoed, Brad's BDSM club, looking for a Dom to master her. Now he's ready to put a lid on his wild ways and settle down to some full-on, loving submission from his favorite slave.
But fears from her past haunt Keely. She's having none of it. Especially with Brad. However, as a three-day blizzard hits, locking them up together to wait out the storm, Keely's about to find out there's more to this bad-boy Dom than meets the eye.
Book 1 in the d'Argent Honor series.
The d'Argent vampire clan is chasing the Fox, a vampire serial killer whose madness threatens the existence of all their kind. Around the world, in cities and in the country, the search will go on until they destroy their immortal enemy.
Claude d'Argent is on the hunt in sultry Miami Beach. Instead of the Fox, he encounters a mortal creature of the night…a sexy lady who offers him a night of unsurpassed passion—for a price.
Stripper Marisa Delgado has only one option if she's to get enough money, fast enough to save her younger brother from the local drug lord—a temporary foray into the world's oldest profession.
Her act of desperation may have brought them together, but as the night passes and the soft light of morning approaches, Claude discovers the submissive of his dreams and Marissa, the Master of her soul.
The choice is Claude's—convert the dusky beauty and risk losing her forever, or walk away and spend an eternity without his soulmate by his side.
Note: d'Argent Honor 1: Vampire Justice is based on a previously published short story "Dance of Darkness". It has been completely rewritten and expanded to three times its original length for this edition.
Book 2 in the d'Argent Honor series.
d'Argent Honor…fine-tuned over a millennium to fight evil, its hunters are focused now on stopping an evil vampire in his mad quest for revenge on the d'Argent queen who refused his suit.
In self-imposed seclusion for centuries, Stefan d'Argent emerges to join the hunt. His assignment: to seduce the Fox's next intended victim in order to protect her. When Stefan sees Julie Quill, touches her, makes love to her, he realizes he puts his own heart at risk.
Vampire compulsion or lust at first sight—Julie doesn't understand the immediate, irresistible desire Stefan generates in her, but that doesn't matter. She loves him, believes his incredible story…and wants to join him in his shadow world. One erotic bite…one slip into vampiric ecstasy could make it happen.
But Stefan fears repeating the experience that sent him into seclusion centuries earlier, of killing the woman he loved while trying to convert her. A near-death experience tips the balance, giving him the courage to make her…eternally his.
Note: Eternally His is a heavily revised, expanded version of a book previously published elsewhere as Eternity of Darkness.
Book 4 in the d'Argent Vampires series.
The d'Argent vampires nearly destroyed the evil Fox, Louis Reynard, only to see him recover miraculously and continue his deadly quest for vengeance, this time in sultry Miami Beach.
Miami-Dade homicide detective Mara Leone is no stranger to vampires. Knowing Alex d'Argent may be the only chance she has of stopping Reynard's mad killing spree, she joins with him — in more ways than one.
From past personal experience with Alex's kind, Mara is wary, but she's never met anyone as determined as the sexy vampire, and vampiric compulsion or not, the attraction is immediate — and deeper than either Alex or Mara expected. While Alex's priority is to catch the elusive Fox, the eternal bachelor soon discovers the feisty cop is the one woman he can't walk away from.
Steaming vampire sex, danger, betrayal and redemption come together as the cop and the hot vampire work together to see to the final destruction of Louis Reynard.
Note: Story contains one scene of same-gender sex.
Anesthesiologist Tom Latimore is confused. He's not supposed to be attracted to a Goth chick with a piercing through her eyebrow and tattoos on her tush. After all, he's a respected member of the Dallas medical community, and he can't imagine Selina fitting in with his colleagues' wives at holiday parties at the hospital where he's chief resident of anesthesiology. Tom is also a sexual Dominant, and Selina's caught his eye as a club Domme at Members Only, his favorite dungeon.
Selina is a dichotomy for Tom. Yet the more he sees her, the more he burns for her.
He likes the feel of her pierced tongue on his cock, the taste of her honey on his tongue. Besides all that, she makes him laugh and forget about his worries when they hang out together away from her job and his own.
So what's a guy to do when the woman -- and not the one he thought he'd always dreamed of, but finds himself doing so anyway -- offers to make the Switch?
Lust is in the air in sultry New Orleans, where Alina d'Argent is celebrating the marriage of her cousin and the daughter of widowed businessman Sam Quill. Sam falls quickly under Alina's vampire spell, and but for Alina, Sam's the dominant lover of her fantasies. Yet there seems to be no future for them beyond this short sexual interlude, for they come from worlds too different to be bridged.
An evil vampire is determined to destroy Alina. He's already wreaked havoc on her clan, and she can't shirk her responsibilities in a lover's arms, however tempting this may be. Sam is an Alpha male, uninterested in playing consort to a vampire queen, even if he were willing to be turned, which he is not.
When her enemy attacks Alina, Sam steps in to save her at the cost of his own life. What he wants doesn't matter now. Alina must change him or he will die. Angry at first, Sam quickly accepts his new existence—as well as Alina's eternal surrender—and embraces a shadow life with his vampire queen.
Note: Story contains scenes of same-gender and group sex.
Wild One
Shotgun Relations
Mountain Heat
Lovers' Feud
Irresistible...Again
Mutual Fantasy
Paranormal Mates Society Vol. III
Training the Master
Prime Defender
Her Alien Masters
Perfect Master
Commitment
Imperfect Partners
Best Reception
Zayed's Gift
Enslaving the Master
End Run
Pleasure Slave
His Pleasure Mistress
Sackmaster
Coach Me
Illusions
Hot in the Clutch
Mastered
Forward Pass
Naked Bootleg
Eternal Triangle
Eye of the Storm
Unexpected Control
Topaz Dream
Roped
Lassoed
Hitched
Hitched
d'Argent Honor: Vampire Justice
d'Argent Honor: Eternally His
d'Argent Honor: Eternal Victory
Rx for Submission
d'Argent Honor: Eternal Surrender
