Product Description

Lesbian Magic. The best-selling quartet that brought you Once Upon A Dyke unveils four deliciously different takes on magic in lesbian lives. Reluctant witches, tempting books, and beautiful bells – and belles – delve into the mysteries of love, lust and power.

Sex Magic. Be Skyclad with Julia Watts. Do it By the Book with Therese Szymanski. Find enchantment with Barbara Johnson’s Lily and lose your reason with Karin Kallmaker’s Unbeliever.

Woman Magic. Black cats, haunted houses, strange brews and dancing bonfires heat up the pages of this diverting quartet of erotic, imaginative tales. Curl up with a bell, a book and a dyke and let the magic be real.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1045271 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
Hot lesbian writers give classic stories a twist in this collection of reimagined fairy tales! -- Curve Magazine on

From the Publisher
Take a supernatural journey with four of Bella After Dark's most beloved writers!

From the Inside Flap
Clouds moved in to cover the night sky, making the darkness total and complete. It was still and hot. Even the ocean winds seemed to be stifled, for no breeze fluttered the bedroom curtains. The padding of kitty feet broke the quiet, a mere whisper of noise. In the gloom, cat eyes glowed.

Lily felt the hands on her body. They were warm and soft. She stretched into their caress, arching her back and willing them to touch every inch of her. —Sea Witch, Barbara Johnson

Nothing was adding up to anything that meant anything at all and dear sweet Hecate I could only hope that it hadn’t all fallen into the dark, evil realm of calculus, with all its imaginary numbers and equations that proved two-plus-two did not equal four. —By the Book, Therese Szymanski

My world was pulsing to the movement of her hand. The light went and there was a hammering in my ears that let in only her gasps and my sharp cries. I was a wound coil, ever tightened by her body on mine. I tried for short, easy words like coming and more, but they were caught behind my bared teeth. —Unbeliever, Karin Kallmaker

Chameleon changed into her pink poodle pajama bottoms and her Glinda of Oz T-shirt that read, "Are you a good witch or a bad witch?" Taking the question on her T-shirt personally, she thought of the choice she had made to go into the woods with Iris: "Tonight I was a bad witch. But I’ll try to do better." —Skyclad, Julia Watts

Customer Reviews

Entertaining and Erotic from Start to Finish
In the last year I've discovered the real "lesbian" in lesbian erotica - women having sex with women. Sometimes that can be hard to find in a tome with "lesbian erotica" or "lesbian sex" in the title. Not so the books from Bella Afterdark. I've read several of their anthologies, a novel and most recently this collection of novellas and have discovered enjoyable reads about the pleasures of women sharing love and passion with other women.

This collection contains a wide range between the four novellas. None of the four are anything like the others. One dark and spooky, one hilarious, one light and creepy, and one that made me bawl like a baby. Interwoven were moments of pure lesbian passion, the joy of female explorations and sex. It was entertaining from start to finish.

If I have a complaint it's that there was plenty of plot to get in the way of lots of sex, but if you are looking for good, strong stories that also get you hot, this volume is *exactly* what you're looking for. I would recommend that the stories be read separately as the styles are very different. For example, Barbara Johnson begins with sex on page 1 while Therese Szymanski makes you wait quite a while for the payoff. Julia Watts brings lots of laughter in with sexy moments, while Karin Kallmaker turned me on with a character's memory early in the story, then left me in tears by the end - and yet feeling unbelievably positive and hopeful about, well, the universe.

These stories left me in a positive frame of mind, though a happy ending wasn't always the case. There weren't only goodie-two-shoes lesbians, either, but heroines and villans, larger-than-life and so real you think they probably live next door. That, to me, takes real skill on the part of the all the writers. It's part erotic, wholly great storytelling and I enjoyed every page. It was worth the time and money.