I Love Bad Boys [Paperback]

First up is Foster's Indulge Me. I must say that this one was my favorite of the three. It's the entertaining tale of shy Becky Harte and George Westin, the man who's had a featured role in Becky's dreams for the past 2 years, unbeknownst to him. Challenged by two of her pals, Becky enters an intimate shop, where she runs into George, and though mortified at being seen THERE by him, she does manage to survive the experience. Indeed, meeting there gives Becky and George a window into each other's deepest thoughts and desires. This story is VERY sexy and erotic. But it's more than that, too. It has elements of fun and humor as well as vulnerability. I also enjoyed the friendship that exists between Becky and her friends, Asia and Erica. For this story alone, I Love Bad Boys is more than worth the trip to the bookstore. But add in the other stories, and you've got quite a find!

The second story in the anthology is Naughty by Night by Janelle Denison. This is a wonderful story about the romance of Chloe Anderson and Gabe Mackenzie, two people who've actually been in love for years but were kept apart by Gabe's stubborn pride. A poker game wager brings the two closer together, allowing them to indulge their wildest fantasies.

The last story is Donna Kauffman's And When They Were Bad, which tells the story of Cameron James and Ally Walker, who meet at a private club called Intimacies where anything goes. Ally and Cam are both trying to find out more about themselves and what they want out of life, and in so doing they discover a lot about each other, too.

If you like sexy stories (and I mean sexy), interesting men, and happy endings then I Love Bad Boys will be right up your alley.

`Indulge Me' is the second story of three that Foster is telling about 3 friends who make a bet to visit a newly opened porn shop in their squeaky clean middle America town. Becky Harte's is the middle story (it doesn't take any psychic talent to forsee that the 3 stories will probably be amalgamated into one volume and reprinted by the publisher at a later date - like `The Winston Brothers'). Becky is quiet, shy and hiding something. She needs to find someone who is into bondage in order to release her inhibitions and let herself go wild. George Westin has fancied Becky the entire time they'd been working for the same company, but was convinced Becky did not reciprocate his interest. When he found out from a friend what Becky was planning, George resolved to become her partner. Only he thought that she would be the one tied up... but that was not Becky's plan at all.

`Naughty by Night' tells the story of Chloe Anderson and Gabe Mackenzie, ex friends and almost lovers. The trust between them was shattered six years ago when Gabe appeared to lead Chloe along and then dump her, then heading out of town to Chicago, where he has since made a name for himself as a sports agent. They still know each other through Chloe's brothers, but are no longer truly friends and see each other very infrequently. He's in town again, at the poker game that Chloe and her brothers play weekly. And something seems to have changed - the sexually charged atmosphere always simmering between them has jumped up a notch or twelve. Ultimately more than money is bet, and now Gabe is hers for 3 hot dates. Dates that Chloe means to bring things to a boil and sear Gabe from her system once and for all. You know what they say about the best laid plans...

`And When They Were Bad' is about Cameron James IV, who has had a very bad year. He's now vacationing at Intimacies, a chance to lose the `good boy' that he's been all his life and find his wild side at this private club where anything goes. Allison Walker is hardly the woman of his fantasies - a bit clumsy, always getting herself into deep water, and physically not his type. And yet he can't seem to stop himself from helping her out, can't seem to avoid running into her, and can't seem to get her out of his mind, until the situation presents itself when he can act on his surprising attraction.

I liked all 3 stories, although the first and last were my favourites because they featured shy or insecure women who came into their own. And as for heat - phew!