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The Black Room
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The submissive trainees at the Pentagon Agency derive pleasure from even the most demeaning tasks. Their lives are dedicated to sexual servitude; they enjoy pain and humiliation on a daily basis. There is only one punishment they try to avoid: the black room.
When private investigator Jo Valentine is assigned to infiltrate the pentagon Agency, she is prepared to do anything to get results - but nothing can prepare her for what lies in the black room. The more she discovers about the agency, the more she learns of her passion for dark and bizarre sexual games that go beyond anything she has experienced before.
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The Black Garter
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Ruthess and beautiful, Hera leads the Black Garter with a merciless hand. Her elite group of prefects secretly patrols the Kilgrimol Finishing School for Young Ladies. They help her to administer cruel and degrading punishments whenever hera deems it necessary. New recruits are subjected to humiliating initiations, but the treasured prize of acceptance makes it a sacrifice worth enduring. When a spate of scandals strikes the school, private investigator Jo Valentine is called in to find the source of these incidents. Finding herself drawn in to a world of perverse pleasures and sexual intrigue, she soon realises that the Kilgrimol Finishing School is no place for a lady.
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Physical Education: A Review of THE BLACK GARTER by
Lisette Ashton
Reviewed by the acclaimed erotic novelist: Lisabet Sarai
Everyone (well, everyone who reads erotica!) knows
that girls' schools
are hotbeds of illicit sexual activity. The
neatly-pressed white
blouses barely hide ripe young breasts that ache for a
lascivious
touch. Beneath the plaid uniform skirts, tight,
virginal quims moisten
and swell at the merest suggestion of fleshly
activity. In the
absence of male subjects, girls will eagerly turn to
each other
for amorous release.
Yes, non-coed education can be delightfully naughty.
Lisette Ashton's
Kilgrimol Finishing School for Young Ladies, though,
sets a new
standard for pedagogical perversity. At Kilgrimol, the
courses in
concupiscence are orchestrated by the Black Garter, a
shadowy and
potent secret society composed of senior students. The
Black Garter
jealously guards the reputation of Kilgrimol,
punishing poor
scholarship or lack of discipline, rewarding obedience
and discretion.
Hera, the merciless and beautiful leader of the Black
Garter,
ruthlessly employs paddles, canes, candles, and
dildoes to maintain
the supremacy of both the school and the society.
Physical pain is
only one aspect of the punishments she inflicts; she
understands that
the humiliation of being forced to sexual service can
be far more
persuasive, when judiciously applied. Hera and her
disciples enjoy the
fruits of power, maintaining outward order without
sacrificing their
secret pleasures.
Despite Hera's influence, however, she is unable to
determine who is
betraying Kilgrimol, besmirching the exclusive
school's good name
by leaking sensational stories to the press. The same
goal brings
private investigator Jo Valentine onto the scene.
Gorgeous, tough, bisexual Jo can't afford to refuse
the job
pushed on her by a rich, bossy Kilgrimol parent. Once
Jo's on the
case, the sexual stew at the school comes to a rolling
boil, assisted
by an ambitious (and well-hung) reporter, a sleazy gym
instructor, a
studious red-head who's interested in taking on both
Jo's profession
and her body, and Hera's bevy of nubile lieutenants.
The plot
is not the only thing that thickens as Jo sneaks,
spies, sucks
and screws her way to the truth.
This is second of Ms. Ashton's novels to feature Jo
Valentine. She's a
memorable character, sharp-tongued, quick-witted and
resourceful, but
continually sidetracked by her hyperactive libido. I'd
love to see her
at work on a case with a bit more menace to it; when
Jo confronts Hera
in the final pages of the book, it's clear that Hera
is, after all,
just a precocious school girl.
On the other hand, this is not really a detective
novel. THE BLACK
GARTER is primarily about sex, in all its guises. It
offers a
wonderfully wide variety: BDSM, threesomes, foursomes,
outdoor sex,
anal sex, lesbian sex, voyeurism, masturbation -- in
short, whatever
might possibly turn you on. All of this erotic
activity is described
with a breathless enthusiasm that makes it clear that
everyone,
including each of Hera's victims, is having a
rollicking good
time. Despite the Black Garter's attempts to maintain
a dangerous,
threatening image, the group's ceremonies of
initiation and
retribution are more about pleasure than about pain.
There's no darkness in this book: no doubts, no guilt,
no internal
conflicts. THE BLACK GARTER is pure fantasy, where
everyone
experiences outrageous, ecstatic orgasms -- usually
more than
one! Nevertheless, Ms. Ashton usually manages to avoid
cliches. Her
characters, while hardly deep, are distinctive and
appealing, and the
book includes a number of original twists (including
the final
breathless rush to rescue an unfortunate prisoner of
the Black Garter
before she loses her virginity).
If you're seeking sexy, escapist fiction with a light
BDSM
emphasis, you'll enjoy THE BLACK GARTER. And if after
you've finished,
you want more of Jo (and who wouldn't?), check out
Lisette
Ashton's other Nexus titles: THE BLACK ROOM, THE BLACK
WIDOW and
THE BLACK MASQUE.
The trend in "literary" erotica these days is toward
darkness,
edginess, ambiguity, and lust so raw that it leaves
your hands
bloody. I read a lot of that. Sometimes, though, I
just want
old-fashioned, no-holds-barred naughtiness, some good
dirty fun. If
THE BLACK GARTER is any indication, that's Lisette
Ashton's specialty.
This review was first published online at the Erotic Readers & Writers Association web pages. The author is indebted to Lisabet Sarai for her kind words and her permission to reprint the review on this page.
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The Black Widow
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Spurned by her husband and cheated of her heritage, the Black Widow feels justified in seeking revenge. Determined to lay claim to Elysian Fields, a health farm with a unique doctrine of sensual pleasure and erotic stimulation, the Black Widow wants what is rightfully hers. Indulging a newfound passion for sexual domination, she is only too pleased to deal with those that get in her way. Punishments are cruel and explicit as she forces subordinates to do her bidding. Only the brave dare beg for mercy and their cries invariably go unheeded. Caught in the middle of this hostile takeover, Jo Valentine finds herself entangled in the Black Widow's web.
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The Black Masque
The ceremonies of the black masque are magnificent events steeped in an erotic blend of vampire myth and fantasy. The depravity of these rituals is boundless and each rite culminates in orgiastic excess. As they prepare to enact their greatest ceremony to date pasions run high among the perverse members. Eager virgins are prepared and the sacrifical altar is readied as the masque anticipates its finest night. Unwittingly entangled in the twisted ceremony, private investigator, Jo Valentine is drawn into their dark world of pleasure and pain - and none of her previous adventures have prepared Jo for for her unearthly encounter with the black masque.
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The Black Flame
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For private investigator Jo Valentine it is a surveilance operation unlike any other: a coven of witches practising orgiastic pagan rituals; a sadistic preacher intent on extracting penance from every nubile sinner who falls beneath his cane; and an ongoing feud with her submissive partner.
Caught in the midst of this volatile situation, alone, bound and helpless, Jo is subjected to a dark revelation in the pleasure of pain. Tied, teased and tormented, she is immersed in so many sexual excesses that it borders on being a religious experience.
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Virgin Publishing Ltd
Cash Sales - Nexus Books
Thames Wharf Studios
Rainville Road
London
W6 9HT
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