Product Description

The author of Wicked Ties wraps her steamy prose around the premise that two men are better than one.

Kimber Edgington is a virgin with a crush-on a pop star with a penchant for threesomes. Determined to prove that she's woman enough for singer Jesse McCall, Kimber turns to bodyguard Deke Trenton for sexual education...lessons that include his super-sexy friend Luc. Though she's saved herself for Jesse, Kimber soon learns that he's not the man adept at stoking her aching, endless need. That's Deke, and he can't resist when Kimber begs for more-and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23609 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780425217214
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Shayla Black is a prolific and successful romance author who lives in Texas.

Customer Reviews

Fab read!
This is a seriously fab read. It's got all the elements of a good erotic book--sexy, steamy erotica and compelling characters. I quite like the writer's style and it never grated on me as some past erotica has. Mostly, I thought the story was good and it kept me up well into the night!! Also check out My Dirty Thirties, Romantic Hedonism which has a similar theme to this one.

5 Klovers - Courtesy of CK2S Kwips & Kritiques
**This was my Recommended Read for September 2007!**

Virginal Kimber Edgington needs some rather unorthodox lessons fast - in the art of ménage á trois! She is determined to prove to her long-time friend and crush Jesse that she can handle his rock-star lifestyle and sexual eccentricities and be the woman he needs. Who better to ask for help than a man known for his preference to share his women with other men? Never mind that she and Deke never quite got along when he worked for her father while she was in her teens. With Deke's cousin, the delicious Luc Traverson, rounding out the threesome, she figures she can handle anything Deke throws at her during her `training' - especially when the sexy chef makes it clear he is more than willing to accommodate her needs, with or without Deke's help...

Bodyguard Deke Trenton could barely stand to be around Kimber when she was a teen-ager. It wasn't that he didn't like her - he liked her TOO much! But she was jailbait for him and he knew it, prompting him to leave her father's employ before he found himself in more trouble than he knew what to do with. Finding her literally on his doorstep all these years later was unexpected enough, but he never could have imagined the grown-up Kimber would come asking him to introduce her into the world of threesomes! His body is more than willing to teach her everything she wants and more, but once he has a taste of her considerable charms, his heart can't seem to accept the idea of letting her go when her tutoring is finished even though his mind fights these new feelings every step of the way...

When an unseen menace threatens Kimber's life, Deke and Luc pull out all the stops to keep her safe and under their wing - and none of their lives will ever be the same again!

Fans of Shayla Black's book Wicked Ties will be high as a kite when they finally get their hands on their very own copy of its sequel, Decadent, in October 2007! There is not a single person I have spoken with who has read Wicked Ties and done anything but loved it and I know the same will be true of this follow-up story.

We initially met one of our lead characters, Deke Trenton, in the first book when he helped Jack and Morgan, going above and beyond the call of duty... LOL! Black whets our appetite but good for more of this rogue's story, and she has not disappointed her readers with Decadent. While intriguing and mischievous before, Deke turns out to be a very complex character for whom nothing is superfluous - there are reasons for everything he is today, and unraveling his multi-layered psyche proves as fascinating as his numerous sexual exploits... Completely Alpha, brash, confused, and wonderfully (dare I say it?) Decadent, Deke takes us on the ride of our lives as he struggles to come to grips with what he thinks he wants and what his heart demands. Deke is all at once maddening, sexy and frustrating as all get out, but regardless of how mad he makes you sometimes, you can't help but love him. Fighting himself is difficult enough, but fighting Kimber proves impossible - especially when his cousin Luc aligns his loyalties with her in the battle for Deke's love.

Deke has more than met his match in heroine Kimber Edgington! Raised by three military men - her father and two older brothers, she can take just about anything Deke can dish out. She has handled men like him her entire life, and refuses to be dissuaded by his reluctance to become involved with her. Of course, she has a bit of her own personal confusion to work through first - namely her relationship with the wayward rock star, Jesse. Having set her sights on a goal, Kimber attacks her mission in a very military fashion - with single-minded focus, and doesn't realize the end game has changed until it is too late... Or is it?

Luc Traverson balances out the ménage nicely with his smooth demeanor, maneuvering Kimber and Deke deftly, with benefit to all concerned. He provides the glue that binds the trio together, albeit precariously, but are his machinations purely altruistic, or is there more to Luc than meets the eye?

Sensitive readers should be warned: this book is smoldering hot, and contains numerous ménage á trois scenes, all M/F/M (no M/M is in this book). Of course, that is a selling point for many of us! LOL I have to say, both Wicked Ties and Decadent are enough to make you curious about things you have never been curious about before, but the two together - WOW! I am almost thankful for the wait between the two books' releases - I'm afraid I'd have had a nuclear meltdown if I had read them back to back! Who am I kidding? If they'd both been released before I'd read the first, I wouldn't have stopped reading until I finished them both.

Avid fans of this author know that she writes as both Shelley Bradley and Shayla Black, publishing her spicier novels under the Shayla Black moniker. No matter which pen name she is using, this author can always be relied on to spin a fascinating story with fully-fleshed characters that engage the reader from page one, and keep you turning the page until you finish the book! I know this book, like her others, kept me up way too late on a work night, but once I started it I knew I could never sleep until the story ended!

I look forward to many more stories in this series - between the first two books alone, there are at least four or five characters I would dearly love to see books for - and I have no doubt that each new book will spawn longing for still more!

Brimming with the most tantalizing love scenes and two undeniably mouth-watering heroes, Decadent is undoubtedly one of the hottest books this year! But underneath it all, Shayla Black has nestled one of the most touching stories of romantic love you will read this year. Decadent will sweep you up and run you through a gamut of emotions - frustration, desire, fear, love, and more - until it finally leaves you ultimately satisfied.

Series Order:
Wicked Ties
Decadent

Hot Sex but Weak Heroine
How likely is this? Twenty three year old virgin seeks training in menage to please rock star boyfriend, but wishes to remain a virgin!

Well it's true and the story in a nutshell. To be more specific.Kimber has had a crush on rock star hearthrob Jesse McCall since they were highschool sweethearts. Now he is pursuing a successful career abroad surrounded by girls who are more than happy to share in menage sex. Kimber is concerned that the seasoned Jesse will be turned off by her naivite so she turns to her father's former assistant, Deke for an intensive course in menage a trois. He has a reputation for exclusively partaking in this kind of sex and though she remembers that he avoided her while working for her father she has no one else to turn to. What is a girl to do when times are desperate and good teachers are hard to come by? If you can ignore this paltry excuse for writing a menage story then you're likely to enjoy the rest of the book. It did grate on my nerves as I much prefer heroines who posses a higher I.Q. than an emu.

Kimber valiently knocks on Deke's door but is greeted by his chef cousin Luc who cooks like heaven and looks like sin and has no objection to seeing to Kimber's education. Deke is staggered to hear Kimber's request and you guessed rightly; it wasn't indifference that kept him at a distance but sordid thoughts for his boss's young daughter. It takes some persuasion to convince Deke to join in but considering the inducement he capitulates much to everyone's delight (including mine) and the fun begins.

The catch is that amidst all the complicated, neckbreaking acrobatics, Kimber is to remain virgin as a gift to her beloved Jesse! That in itself makes the book worth a read. That's not all, however. Deke falls irrevocably in love with Kimber and cannot bear to think of having to let her go in the arms of another man who might not be as considerate with her. He even resents Luc's being intimate with Kimber and their relaxed ,easygoing relationship which he cannot share beause of his conflicting emotions.

O.K. Except for the virginity snag I enjoyed reading the book which contains lots of explicit, scintilating, titilating sex with the heroine being ravished by two super males. There's an attempt on her life and the such but this has become a norm in these books and one I am beginning to find rathe tedious. I think it's time something else were introduced instead of the damsel in distress line. Overall fun,sexy book.