Hard-Core Romance

Hard-Core Romance
Author: Eva Illouz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022615355X

From its beginnings in Twilight fan-fiction to its record-breaking sales as an e-book and paperback, the story of the erotic romance novel Fifty Shades of Grey and its two sequels is both unusual and fascinating. Having sold over seventy million copies worldwide since 2011, E. L. James’s lurid series about a sexual ingénue and the powerful young entrepreneur who introduces her to BDSM sex has ingrained itself in our collective consciousness. But why have these particular novels—poorly written and formulaic as they are—become so popular, especially among women over thirty? In this concise, engaging book, Eva Illouz subjects the Fifty Shades cultural phenomenon to the serious scrutiny it has been begging for. After placing the trilogy in the context of best-seller publishing, she delves into its remarkable appeal, seeking to understand the intense reading pleasure it provides and how that resonates with the structure of relationships between men and women today. Fifty Shades, Illouz argues, is a gothic romance adapted to modern times in which sexuality is both a source of division between men and women and a site to orchestrate their reconciliation. As for the novels’ notorious depictions of bondage, discipline, and sadomasochism, Illouz shows that these are as much a cultural fantasy as a sexual one, serving as a guide to a happier romantic life. The Fifty Shades trilogy merges romantic fantasy with self-help guide—two of the most popular genres for female readers. Offering a provocative explanation for the success and popularity of the Fifty Shades of Grey novels, Hard-Core Romance is an insightful look at modern relationships and contemporary women’s literature.

Hardcore

Hardcore
Author: Dakota Gray
Publisher: Confessions of a Romance Author
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2017-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A decent man would have let her go after our one-night stand, but I’m not decent. Three years ago, Kennedy Mclane saw the real me after we had sex. She saw the ruthless attorney who gets clients—yes, even the guilty ones—off on technicalities. She glimpsed my heart of stone and ran in the other direction, because I’m everything she shouldn’t want. For three long years, I’ve waited for my good girl to turn bad. ’Cause when she does, it won’t matter if she’s ready for me, or if she can take it. Hard. We have unfinished business, and I’ve been more than fair. She'll probably hate me by the end of all this. But I don't care anymore. I’m going to get her out of my system, one way or another.

Hardcore Love

Hardcore Love
Author: D. W. Leonard
Publisher: 4th of July Books
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2014-05-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9780615980720

WHY ARE YOU SO UNLUCKY AT LOVE? You've been a good person. Done all the "right things." You've gone to school. You have a good job. You have a good life, but no one to SHARE it with. The truth is "Luck" has nothing to do with it AND you didn't fail at Love. If you find yourself single, wondering why things never work out, this book is for you. Through the HARDCORE LOVE Philosophy, you will learn to identify your relationship issues and why you hit dead ends instead of the altar. HARDCORE LOVE teaches you to LOVE YOURSELF, FIRST. Helps you understand your love receptors and your 7 Emotional Pillars of Love. LEARN how to move past DESIRE and reach your relationship's highest point! LOVE in a state of total confidence. DISCOVER the Love your Soul has yearned for your entire life. HARDCORE LOVE! Be Inspired!

Hard Core

Hard Core
Author: Tess Oliver
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2016-06-21
Genre: Ex-convicts
ISBN: 9781534754584

"Sometimes one good dose of trouble could turn your life around, put you on the right path. But I'd taken the opposite side of the forked road and headed off looking for even more trouble, like a junkie constantly searching for the next high. Never would I have guessed that turn would lead me to her. I couldn't stop thinking about her. She was an angel, a hard core, bone-fide angel and in her short life, she'd already had a taste of hell"--Page 4 of cover.

Chuck's Fantasy

Chuck's Fantasy
Author: Just Plain Bob
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2014-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781680300369

Is that why you showered last night? Chuck and Lorrie were high school sweethearts who ended up together and got married. For ten years, they have kept their marriage healthy and taken turns in making each other happy. One night, Chuck comes home late. Lorrie is waiting and eager to make love to him. She notices something strange - Chuck goes straight to the shower right after he gets inside the house. She finds it suspicious and figures out a way for Chuck to spill the beans. Chuck's confession takes their marriage and sex life to a whole new level - one that is rip-roaring, at the same time, a walk on thin ice for their marriage. **Hot Romance Erotica SAMPLE 1: At the party, I made sure that I punched all of Chuck's buttons. I was wearing one of the outfits that he had given me and CFMs with five-inch heels. I danced with anyone who asked and I allowed hands to go where ever they wanted. My ass was squeezed, my pussy was rubbed through my skirt and I just knew I was going to have bruises on my breasts when I got home. I let myself get maneuvered into dark corners, let myself be kissed and even gave some tongue to a couple of guys. I did all of that with one eye on Chuck to see how he was taking it. He wasn't smiling, but I didn't see anger either so I took it to the next level. When my next dance partner, a tall, handsome black man named Mark, suggested we step outside for some air, I said okay and three minutes later we were swapping tongues. He worked his hand down the inside of my skirt and panties and I rubbed the bulge in his pants with my hand. When his hand reached my pussy I unzipped him and reached inside, grasped his erection and pulled it out to where I could stroke it. I looked down at it and saw that it wasn't all that big, just a bit fatter than Chuck's, but no longer. "Let's go to my car," Mark whispered.

Core

Core
Author: Kassten Alonso
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0983304912

THIS INTENSE AND COMPACT NOVEL crackles with obsession, betrayal, and madness, and was an Oregon Book Award Finalist for fiction 2005. As the narrator becomes fixated on his best friend’s girlfriend, his precarious hold on sanity rapidly deteriorates into delusion and violence. This story can be read as the classic myth of Hades and Persephone (Core) rewritten for a twenty-first century audience as well as a dark, foreboding tale of unrequited love and loneliness. Alonso skillfully uses language to imitate memory and psychosis, putting the reader squarely inside the narrator’s head. In addition, deliberate misuse of standard punctuation blurs the distinction between the narrator’s internal and external worlds. A sense of alienation and Faulknerian grotesquerie permeate this landscape where desire is borne in the bloom of a daffodil and sanity lies toppled like an applecart in the mud.

Lesbian First Time - The Ultimate Collection Of Explicit Short Lesbian Stories

Lesbian First Time - The Ultimate Collection Of Explicit Short Lesbian Stories
Author: Sarah Pain
Publisher: Sarah Pain
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

★ Get 10 of Sarah Pain's best-selling stories in one exclusive bundle. This anthology has stories that have never been published in any other collection! Stories in this Collection are Very Hot and Seductive beyond what you would expect from typical lesbian romance short stories collection. This amazing Lesbian Short Stories contains TONS of romantic, steamy and highly passionate sexual encounters that you would definitely LOVE to read again and again for experiencing abundance of PLEASURE like never before. This book includes ten lesbian stories: - BECOMING A LESBIAN - GOOD FRIENDS - LET BE ADULTS - MASSAGE EXPERIENCE - MORE FUN LOSING - MY SEDUCTION EXPERIENCE - NEW WORLD - SEDUCTION OF MY COWORKER - TO LOVE LESBIAN LADIES - VIRGIN WHITE WIND ◆ GENRE: Lesbian / LGBT ⚠ WARNING: This Book contains mature language and content intended for 18+ readers only! ♥ Take advantage of the new releases in this bundle and enjoy big savings today! All stories are available for purchase individually and some are in Kindle Unlimited for free.

Asking for It

Asking for It
Author: Lilah Pace
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425279510

“This is who I am. This is what I want. Now I need a man dangerous enough to give it to me.” Graduate student Vivienne Charles is afraid of her own desires—ashamed to admit that she fantasizes about being taken by force, by a man who will claim her completely and without mercy. When the magnetic, mysterious Jonah Marks learns her secret, he makes an offer that stuns her: they will remain near-strangers to each other, and meet in secret so that he can fulfill her fantasy. Their arrangement is twisted. The sex is incredible. And—despite their attempts to stay apart—soon their emotions are bound together as tightly as the rope around Vivienne’s wrists. But the secrets in their pasts threaten to turn their affair even darker... Reader Advisory: Asking for It deals explicitly with fantasies of non-consensual sex. Readers sensitive to portrayals of non-consensual sex should be advised.

Hardcore - Complete Series

Hardcore - Complete Series
Author: Lucia Jordan
Publisher: Wild Hearts Romance
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2021-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Here is the complete ‘Hardcore’ Series, a seriously hot and provocative romance by Lucia Jordan, written in her signature style of high passion and emotion. Josslyn Turner is more interested in living vicariously through the exploits of the police officers she works for than fixing her own love life. There’s just something about their stories of crime and adventure, something exciting about their power that turns Joss on. Working late one night at the station, Joss meets Vincent West, a local politician who is both handsome and enigmatic. Her attraction to him is immediate and he seems to feel the same way. They secretly become involved and new experiences soon escalate to sexual surrender as Josslyn starts to realize that she’s been hiding her true nature. But as much as Joss is excited by Vincent’s raw, dominant sexuality… is she also a little afraid of handing over too much control? Only mature readers should download this book.

Hardcore Twenty-Four

Hardcore Twenty-Four
Author: Janet Evanovich
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147224592X

Headless bodies have started appearing across town in Trenton, New Jersey... Mutilated corpses litter the streets of New Jersey in Hardcore Twenty-Four, the thrilling twenty-fourth adventure in the laugh-out-loud Stephanie Plum series by No. 1 bestselling author Janet Evanovich. The perfect read for fans of Harlan Coben and Sue Grafton. Raves for Janet Evanovich's bestselling novels: 'Razor sharp' (Sunday Express); 'Non-stop laughs with plenty of high jinks' (USA Today); 'Pithy, witty and fast-paced' (The Sunday Times). At first, it's just corpses from a funeral home and the morgue that have had the heads removed. Then a homeless man is murdered and dumped behind a church. Stephanie Plum knows that she's the only one with a prayer of catching this killer. If that's not enough, Diesel's back in town. The six-foot-tall, blond-haired hunk accepts no limits - that includes locked doors, closed windows and underwear. Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, isn't pleased at his arrival, nor is Ranger, the high-powered security consultant with his own plans for Stephanie. Jersey's favourite bounty hunter is stuck in the middle with more questions than answers. Who is behind the startling epidemic of mutilated corpses? And is the enigmatic Diesel's sudden appearance a coincidence or the cause of recent deadly events? What readers are saying about the Stephanie Plum series: 'Janet Evanovich is a master creator of personalities, and the characters of Stephanie Plum, Lula and the irrepressible Grandma Mazur are works of art' 'Thrilling with a wicked sense of humour pervading the book' 'There is something for everyone - adventure, action, romance, comedy and sex'