I've heard about Ellora's Cave for a quite a while but I hadn't taken the time to purchase and read one of their books. I found this book at Barnes & Noble as a free erotic read and downloaded it. It is entitled
Ellora's Cave Presents : Ellora's Cavemen Tales from the Temple I. It is 239 pages on my Nook color and has six very different erotic romance novellas in it. For what it is worth, Amazon is selling a paperback copy of this for $13.49.
All the novellas were excellent but some were very forgetable. All the stories were the right length. I didn't feel like I wanted to read any more of the stories. This book was published in 2004 but I will look for other books from Ellora's Cave and purchase more of their novels. All the stories are very erotic and have explicit sex and language.
Joshua 4.0 by Sahara Kelly
Joshua 4.0 is about a graphic designer who is beta testing an erotic computer program that becomes a virtual reality experience that becomes an in person experience. This story got hot and heavy quickly. There was enough backstory to keep it interesting but not enough to detract from the story. Someone who is a computer geek or interested in internet erotic fantasy may find this story especially appealling.
Barbarian by Kate Douglas
This is a BDSM story set in the future. The story opens with the heroine torturing some guy that she believes kidnapped her sister and made her and other girls sex slaves. The hero spend the next four years unable to have an orgasm so he finally reunites with the heroine and they have to recreate some BDSM so that he will be able to orgasm. Interesting but forgetable. I had to practically re-read the entire story to remember what it was about.
Manimal by Lani Aames
This is a cute story about a bodyguard for a rich guy who turns out to be a werewolf. Of course he is in love with his boss's girlfriend and the girlfriend turns out to be in love with him. When the heroine breaks up with hunky rich guy, the bodyguard/wolf follows her out to her friend's cabin to watch over her and she almost hits him with the car while he is in the middle of the street naked on a snowy night all while shot in the belly. She nurses him back to health while he proclaims that he needs sex immediately to regain his strength. From there the fun begins and then of course they proclaim their love for each other and intend to live happily ever after. That is until bodyguard number two shows up and sees bodyguard one shape shift. Bodyguard number one and number two fight. Body guard number one turns out to be a secret agent and calls in the calvary to drag away bodyguard number two and close in on the hunky rich guy/ ex-boyfriend who turned out to be a bad guy. *Whew*
A.D. 2203: Adam & Eve by Ravyn Wilde
This is another shapeshifter werewolf story. It is set in the future where the heroine is a researcher. The world they live in contains werewolfs, vampires and some other creatures. Anyway, the heroine comes into "heat" and instead of locking herself into the airtight chamber in her home three days earlier to protect herself from a wolf looking to mate for life she forgets and rushes home and takes a shower. The wolf who has been looking for her for quite a while shows up at her doorstep and she opens the door and lets him in. Then she lets him bite her after a short rant about why she doesn't want to be a subserviant wife. A bite signifies that they are mated for life and of course then they get to the sex. Actually a really cute story but the problem with this story is that she gives in way to easy.
At his Mercy by Doreen DeSalvo
This was a light BDSM story about a woman who has psychic abilities. A man who doesn't believe her until he experiences a connection with her.
Time Share:Ameila's Journey by Lora Leigh
This is a male female male story about three people trapped on Venus.
