"Erotically romantic anthology"

Amelia's Innocence by Julia Wells. To pay off his gambling debt, Fletcher gives his virginal daughter Amelia to Captain Hawke. After the abusive blacksmith leaves, Hawke and Amelia renegotiate. She remains his sailing companion for three days and he will insure she disembarks a virgin. However, neither one realizes how long three days could be when heat and love enter their relationship.

The Woman of his Dreams by Jade Lawless. Bank employee Joanna dreams of a warrior who heats her sheets. When her sister introduces her to sculptor Gray she is stunned because he is the incarnation of her dream lover.

Surrender by Kathryn Anne Dubois. Duke Nicholas promised his dying friend he would consider marriage to the latter's youngest daughter. Expecting a marriage of duty, Nicholas is elatedly stunned by the passion of Johanna, but how will he tell her that he loves her outside the boudoir too?

Kissing the Hunter by Angela Knight. Logan despises vampires ever since a night creature killed his wife. Having killed his spouse's murderer, Logan sees an opportunity to enact more vengeance, but the vamp Virginia is meant for one human lover-Logan.

All four tales are hot and passionate though they differ in sub-genre. SECRETS, VOL 7 provides torrid sensuous tales of love.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted November 24, 2001

Summary

"Amelia's Innocence" by Julia Welles
Amelia didn't know her father bet her in a card game with Captain Quentin Hawke, so honor demands a compromise - three days of erotic foreplay, leaving her virginity and future intact.

"The Woman of His Dreams" by Jade Lawless
From the day artist Gray Avonaco moves in next door, Joanna Morgan is plagued by provocative dreams. But what she believes is unrequited lust, Gray sees as another chance to be with the woman he loves. He must persuade her that even death can't stop true love.

"Surrender" by Kathryn Anne Dubois
Free-spirited Lady Johanna wants no part of the binding strictures society imposes with her marriage to the powerful Duke. She doesn't know the dark Duke wants sensual adventure, and sexual satisfaction.

"Kissing the Hunter" by Angela Knight Navy Seal Logan McLean hunts the vampires who murdered his wife. Virginia Hart is a sexy vampire searching for her lost soul-mate only to find him in a man determined to kill her. She must convince him all vampires aren't created equally.