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Bedding Down: A Collection of Winter Erotica (Avon Red) Kindle Edition

by Rachel Kramer Bussel (Author, Editor) Format: Kindle Edition
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Ignore the weather report—there's a heat wave coming!

Author, editor, blogger, and former sex columnist for the Village Voice, Rachel Kramer Bussel presents seven titillating tales guaranteed to steam up your bedroom windows in the midst of Mother Nature's seasonal chill. A lusty collection of scintillating erotic dreams from some of the best writers in the field, here is a sexy and sure cure for the winter blues!

Two uptight Manhattanites discover a hotspot in frigid Minnesota where they can shed their inhibitions and explore their most intimate fantasies . . .

A billionaire recluse and a beautiful paparazzo generate some serious heat in a snowbound cabin in the Colorado Rockies . . .

Combine a blizzard, a romantic old castle, a burglary, and a breathtakingly sexy devil—her perfect recipe for dangerous lust . . .

In the unfamiliar chill of a New York winter, a California sun bunny discovers the secret to igniting her boyfriend's inner erotic fire . . .

Stuck with a man she despises on her sister's wedding day, a distraught beauty resolves to be civilized—until her studly adversary lures her into a forbidden place with no rules or taboos . . .

A husband and wife whose marriage has stalled get their pistons pumping once more when a sudden winter storm strands them in their car . . .

Though she's been taught all her life never to beg, her insatiable desire for him is bringing her to her knees . . .
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001MYJ3KQ
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Avon (October 6, 2009)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 6, 2009
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3462 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 273 pages
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    I write memorable stories and teach people how to craft their own. I've edited over 70 anthologies. My favorites are Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volumes 1-8, The Big Book of Orgasms, Fast Girls, Come Again: Sex Toy Erotica, Tasting Him: Oral Sex Stories, Spanked and BDSM books Please, Sir and Please, Ma'am! My anthologies have won 3 Samois Anthology Award and I won the 2021 John Preston Short Fiction Award, all from National Leather Association-International (NLA-I). My mission is to tell powerful stories, including fiction, journalism and personal essays, and encourage others to get their words on the page and into the world. My nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Elle, Glamour, Salon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Time.com, The Village Voice and numerous other publications.

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    Shanna Germain claims the titles of writer, editor, leximaven, girl geek, she-devil, vorpal blonde, bisexual brainlicker, and Schrodinger's brat. Her short stories, essays, poems, novellas and more have appeared in hundreds of books and publications, including Best American Erotica, Best Bondage Erotica, Best Erotic Romance, Best Gay Romance, Triangulation, Salon, Storyglossia and more. Her most recent books and games include As Kinky as You Wanna Be, Predation, No Thank You, Evil!, and The Poison Eater.

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Aurora Hunter
5.0 out of 5 stars Warm and cozy reading
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2008
I just finished reading Bedding Down in my bath tub this morning. I enjoyed all of the stories. My favorite two stories in the book were Sophie Mouette's and Alison Tyler's. Sophie's story is set in a Victorian era house turned museum. She and her lover find a set of steamy love letters in a desk and use them as inspiration. The Victorian costumes they wore and the description of the removing of those costumes was very sensual. In Alison Tyler's story, the heroine, Michele, is doing all the right things for the wrong man. This story is both funny and sexy, and in the end, she ends up with someone who understands her and is right for her. I identified with this character a lot. The more work I read by this author, the more impressed I am at her range. Her writing is not only very arousing and vivid, it can be funny or bittersweet or dark as well.

All the stories in this collection were romantic and had happy endings, which I personally prefer to the darker tone of some of the kinkier erotic. The stories in the book were heartwarming as well as being arousing. I very much enjoyed this book, I would recommend it to friends who enjoy romance as well as erotica. Kudos to Rachel Kramer Bussell for putting together a great collection, and kudos to the authors for their great work.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Better than hot chocolate
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2015
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I'm a bit of a Fall girl myself, but being an early December baby means that winter isn't but a jump, skip and a hop away and reading these steamy novellas all but embraces the notion of an adult snow-day. I liked all but two of the seven stories and of the ones I didn't like, it wasn't that they were badly written - Rachel Kramer Bussel and Ms. Violet Blue are, to me, some of the best editors of contemporary erotica today and one thing you can always depend on with the likes of either of these editors is the tasteful quality of the stories they pick for their anthologies, whether you like the theme or not - I just didn't much care for the overall storylines of those, one consisting of a rather one-sided, but very determined woman to bring her man's winter to him through a series of trial and errors that failed to impress him with life in sunny California and the other a story about two people who were both too stubborn to make compromises to save their marriage when the husband's father get's ill and he has to go back to snowy Minnesota to look after his affairs and his wife, who left her career in the fine arts performing in theater, is too selfish to be there for her husband and decides to go back to New York (of course) and between bouts of arguing and pleading for the other to stay they each take advantage of the inclimate weather to ravish each other in the mean time.

Everything else is mahogany bliss, though. I got the feeling while reading these stories that I was reading a mini romance novel. Frankly, I thought a few of these would have been interesting to expand on as a full length novel. It kind of had that Hallmark movie feel to it, but I thought the well developed storylines and the very believable romance between the lead characters were a breath of fresh air from some of the raunchier stuff I frequent. Sometimes you like a little bit of heart with your characters, you know what I mean?

This anthology delivers on that. If you like erotica with feeling and characters with a light past, you will enjoy the reunions shared in this and the overall tone of a happily ever after even after the snow thaws.
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3.0 out of 5 stars ok
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2013
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When you rate a book they make you type over 19 words to rate it...as I am not good at writing this becomes a chore..I do like to read and am thankful for the free or discounted books but to write a review over each book..well that stinks..
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The Butterfly Temptress
5.0 out of 5 stars A Little Warmth For Cold Winter Nights
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2008
While I've been a fan of RKB for a while, I really have to say that she outdid herself with this collection. The stories were more evolved, the characters more fleshed out, and I found myself longing to read more about them. The stories drew me in and kept me reading, wondering where each couple would end up.

While all the stories were well written, three had me completely unable to put the book down until the very last page.

"Six Weeks on Sunrise Mountain, Colorado" by Gwen Masters

"Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Marilyn Jaye Lewis

"Sweet Season" by Shanna Germain

I think that the stories were outstanding, but a little light on the hot sex we've come to expect from RKB anthologies. If you're looking for something hardcore, fast and furious, then this might not be the book for you. While the sex is there, the writing seems to be centered around the couples and their relationship, not the sex itself.

For a girl like me who loves to read about real couples and real sex, this was the perfect balance of both. If I'd share one book from my collection with my friends this winter, this book would be it.
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robert mannix
4.0 out of 5 stars Great reading wether your cold inside or out
Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2017
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A collection of stories that will definitely keep you hot inside on the coldest of winter days! An enjoyable heat wave of sexual excitement...
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M. Galloway
1.0 out of 5 stars Standard predictable romance writing
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2008
A big disappointment, needs to be clearly marked as a romance book for women who like that kind of stuff, not any kind of erotica. Predictable sappy stories with bits of explicit sex tossed in, not a one of them original or interesting.
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Neve Black
5.0 out of 5 stars High energy costs leaving you cold? Read this!
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2008
It's cold outside, but this book offers seven, well written, and hot short stories that will surely warm you up, lickety-split. One for each day of the week! Each story, like each talented writer offers something for everyone. You'll find romance blooming in the dead of winter as well as bonfires burning with passion and lust in this book.

p.s. I've folded down more pages to share with a friend the next time the snow starts to fall - let's just say it's a little something extra special to help keep the high price of heating costs down...while insuring my body temperature is running hot, hot, hot....
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