A must for fans of Bound Hearts

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	• Forbidden Pleasure (Bound Hearts, Book 8) Lora Leigh St. Martin's Griffin, 2007 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

a little different

Former FBI Agent Mac McCoy gave up a lot to marry Keiley Hardin. Knowing that she wasn't ready to accept the sexual lifestyle that he reveled in, he willingly gave it up in order to have Keiley. All he's doing is waiting for the day that she embraces the need that he can so plainly see in her. Mac is content to be patient with Keiley, until her curiosity starts getting the better of her.

Keiley Hardin is just starting to realize that Mac has been holding a part of himself back from her. Though she desperately wants all of her husband, she is not sure if she can do what he so obviously needs from her. After living for years in the shadow of her parents mistakes, Keiley abhors gossip and does everything she can not to draw attention to herself.

Jethro Riggs has been waiting for three years for Mac's call to tell him that Keiley is ready. When it finally comes, Jethro wonders how he will hide the feels he has for Keiley from Mac. Although Jethro and Mac have shared many women, Jethro knows this is different because of how much Mac loves Keiley.

This was an unusual book for me. In previous m/f/m books that I've read (specifically Lora Leigh's), the men only share their women until they are married. As a married woman myself, I had a hard time understanding how Mac could want to share and how Keiley could be in love with two men at the same time. On the other hand, Keiley's struggle with exactly that came across loud and clear. When you throw in a little suspense from one of Mac's old cases and a harpy witch that wants to bring Keiley down, you have a good read. All in all, it was a good book though unusual.

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A must for fans of Bound Hearts

For fans of Lora Leigh's Bound Hearts series through Ellora's Cave Publishing, Forbidden Pleasure is the 8th installment and the first mainstream, full length novel in the series.

Forbidden Pleasure takes us away from D.C. and The Club and centers around a couple who are already together, already madly in love and working through their marriage like any other couple might. The difference is John "Mac" McCoy IS a former member of "The Club" and has been fighting his darker needs since he came together with his wife Keiley. He has believed her too innocent, too fragile, to share this side with her and it is starting to errode their relationship.

Keiley, despite her youth, is starting to crave what she has only heard hints and rumors about. She has battled her own demons and for the most part, won. She now wants to explore her husbands darker side and that means bringing in Jethro, her husbands former FBI partner and "third." The Third being the man that will join another couple in their bed (or out of it) to give the woman the ultimate pleasure.

Throw in Jethro's own dark past, a stalker, and a small town rival with a vindictive streak a mile wide and you have quite a story and a very non-traditional romance. Those familiar with Leigh's work and similar works available through Ellora's Cave, Samhain & Aphrodisia will find the sensuality no less hot for the mainstream publishing, though the verbage is a bit more refined. Also enjoyable to one who has read earlier works in the Bound Hearts series is the evolution of Leigh's writing. While I have no complaints with her earlier works, there is a depth in her newer work that was not so evident before. Bravo!

My complaints? Like one previous reviewer stated, the editing was very poor. Did they rush to get this to print and on the shelves? I too read several scenes over trying to make sense of it.

I also found the ruminating that both Mac and Keiley participated in to be exhausting. They thought this situation to death and I found myself skimming at times. While I also very much enjoy the eroticism of these stories, and all consuming passion makes for fantastic romance, Keiley's inability to think or hold her ground the moment she is simply kissed or caressed is annoying at times. This theme isn't limited to Leigh's work though, as it is very common in historical romances as well. I just wish sometimes the heroine would not lose her wits the moment the hero launches into his seduction. But maybe thats just me.

Overall, a great read, would definitely recommend it, and am not at all sorry I purchased this retail. Lora Leigh never fails to entertain, and for me, that's really what it's all about.

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Hidden Agendas

I have enjoyed all of the books I have read by Lora Leigh. This book was excellent can't wait for the next one. The men are strong but love greatly, the women are brave and LOVE their strong men. The sex is beautiful and you sure can learn a lot! Read and enjoy!

Excellent

This is a fantastic roller coaster of a story, with very strong and interesting characters. I can't praise this book highly enough, everything good about it has already been said, so all I can do is add my applause to the throng. I don't think I need to go into great detail about the storyline and the extreme effects the characters and their past lives have on each other, because better review writers than me have already done it and delivered a far better job than I could ever do.

I'm ashamed to say that I am only just discovering Lora Leigh, because in the past I have always shied away from the erotic novel format, opting instead to the erotic short story genre. For example, Carol Queen's very excellent Five Minute Erotica and the even more excellent 100 Percent Erotica by Suzie Van Aartman, which has got to be the raunchiest ever written, a book so sexually explicit that I had to change my underwear after reading it.100 Percent Erotica

I shall however, endeavour to bring myself up to speed with more of Lora's earlier works. A first class book. Thank you Lora.

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YES YES YES

WoW....I had my doubts about this series going mainstream but my GOD did she go there. The tension and sexual chemistry in the book between a married couple!!! Seriously...we almost never read romance let alone erotic romance after the wedding. This couple has needs and desires and they work it out and go for it in adding a 3rd to their marital bed. It happens quite a bit and I'm so glad LL wrote about it. It did get abit warring at times, like someone else mentioned, she thought things to death but I didnt even care. This isnt for the faint of heart. If you need roses and violins and heaving bust....this aint for you.

No one can tell a story and create sexual inferno's like Lora and this book stayed true to the series and does not disappoint. Thank YOU!!!

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