Review
Book Description
Product Description
Erotic paranormal romance
Two lovers, brought together by a forbidden passion, are on the run from their pasts. Veraine was once a commander in the Imperial army: Myrna was the divine priestess he seduced and stole from her desert temple. But travelling through a jungle kingdom, they fall prey to slavers and are separated. Veraine is left for dead. Myrna is taken as a slave to the city of the Tiger Lords; inhuman tyrants with a taste for human flesh. There she must learn the tricks of survival in a cruel and exotic court where erotic desire is not the only animal passion.
Myrna still has faith that Veraine will find her. But Veraine, badly injured, has forgotten everything: his past, his lover, even his own identity. As he undertakes a journey through a fevered landscape of lush promise and supernatural danger, he knows only one thing - that he must somehow find the unknown woman who holds the key to his soul.
From the Author
novel wouldn't leave me alone. Don't worry if you haven't read Divine
Torment, though - Veraine and Myrna have to spend the whole of Burning
Bright working out who they really are themselves.
Burning Bright is a paranormal erotic romance ... pretty much in that
order.
Paranormal first: it's a fantasy: exotic fictional locale, swords, sorcery,
spirits and monsters. My previous works have been likened to the film
Gladiator and Angela Carter's fiction, and the same goes for this one too,
with maybe an added dollop of Robert E Howard. I've written this book as a
fantasy novel, and within the very tight constraints of the series
wordcount (most fantasy authors get to waffle on for doorstop sized tomes!)
I've done my best to create a fantasy world that works, has a history and a
culture and is populated by realistic 3D characters. I take the fantasy
side really seriously. The protagonists have to be heroic to survive. The
villains are seriously unpleasant. Innocent characters get hurt and killed
... not always off-stage. The fantasy elements tend to the dark/horror end
of the spectrum. There is a fair amount of violent, sometimes brutal
action. There is a plot.
There's a lot of sex too. It is an erotic novel after all. But the sex
arises from the plot and the characters and is never gratuitous. It is
full-on, down-and-dirty, unrestrained sex. It can be angry and edgy and
sometimes disturbing.
And it's a romance. It's about two people who, separated, lost and at the
mercy of hostile forces, fight to get back together and risk everything for
one another.
You won't be pleased by this book if you like your romance soppy and your
sexual description demure. You won't be pleased if all you want is a
wank-book with sex on every page and no plot or characterisation getting in
the way. You won't be pleased if you like your heroines sassy, hip and
playful, or if you like to pretend that sex never has consequences and that
survival and love never have a cost. You certainly won't be pleased if you
regard slavery as an excuse for a big happy SM party and believe that women
really lurv being objectified. Gor this is not.
Burning Bright: if you like blood, sweat and semen (not always in the same
scene!) in your fiction then please give it a go. I loved writing this book
and I love the two main characters. I hope you get as much enjoyment out of
reading it.
My website is janineashbless.com and there's a free short story there
if you want to read more.
Janine
About the Author
Janine Ashbless is a well-established writer of fantasy, horror and erotic fiction.
She is the author of Burning Bright, Cruel Enchantment, Dark Enchantment, Divine Torment, Wildwood and Enchanted, all available from Black Lace.
