This book has been revised and re-edited. Please be advised that this novel is set in a time when women had no rights, especially when it came to their husbands. The heroine is taken, and forced into marriage. As a wife, she must submit to all things. This is a period in history where men took what they wanted. It was not seen as rape, it was seen as a duty. If they refused, they could be punished. This book contains graphic sex as well as physical discipline in the form of spanking. If these things offend you, please read something else.Lessons of Love is an old fashion bodice ripper, full of passionate love scenes full of fire, and old fashioned discipline for those who refuse to obey. One with a beautiful, spirited heroine, and a dark, cruel rogue whose heart must be tamed. He takes her as his, and the battle of wills begins. One that has been fought for ages between a man who has no intention of ever feeling love, and a woman who must teach his heart to feel or be forever adrift in a life of cruelty. In 1842 Louisiana, Jolie Dupree lives an oppressive life ruled by her strict and unloving stepfather. She has the luxuries of plantation life, but feels suffocated under his watchful eye. Fate brings an abrupt change in the form of Cole Jameson, a man full of wealth but short on acceptance into society. He needs the cloak of respectability to hide behind, and silence the rumors of girls gone missing while in his company. His business of selling genteel women to rich men with unsavory tastes, must not be discovered.When he comes upon the lovely Jolie bathing in a secluded glen, he sees in her the answer to his problem. A young bride with an old family name will provide an aura of propriety. She is a girl from a suitable family, but also one who is not loved. She's perfect for his scheme. He carries her home, bound, wet, and almost bare, with a story of saved virtue, and is granted her hand in marriage.Cole is a man who has never loved and has no plans to start. He doesn't give a care for the women whose lives he shatters, but Jolie isn't just any woman. Her beauty bewitches him even as her stubborn will defies him time after time. He weds her with plans to make her an ornament on his arm and a slave in his bed. He will teach her how to please a man with a hard hand and an unfeeling heart. Will Cole be able to keep his cold heart and continue with his business of white slavery, treating his new wife as cruelly as he does all his captives? Or will Jolie's fiery spirit and beauty break through the ice that surrounds his heart and put an end to his cruel ways?From the AuthorPlease be advised that this novel is set in a time when women had no rights, especially when it came to their husbands. They were property. The heroine is taken, and forced into marriage. As a wife, she must submit to all things. This is a period in history where men took what they wanted. It was not seen as rape, it was seen as a duty. If they refused, they could be punished. This book contains graphic sex, as well as physical discipline in the form of spanking. If these things offend you, please read something else.Some would call what takes place in this book as BDSM. I do not give it that distinction, because as a person who is in the BDSM lifestyle, I can say that the discipline in the book as well as the rough sex, are not BDSM. BDSM is between two knowledgeable adults, not two people in a marriage in the 1800's where the woman has no say about anything. I just wanted to make that distinction. About the AuthorJolynn Raymond was born in 1962 and grew up in Milwaukee, WI. Her love of writing began in her early 30s and has been a passion ever since. She loves to read, write, travel the world, and is a history buff. Her genre's cover historical romance, often with a spicy kinky twist to suspenseful paranormal thrillers. Her love of history makes its presense in the books she writes. They are often set in centuries past. She is a lover of art, architecture, and the study of diverse world cultures. She still resides in Milwaukee, and lives near her childhood home with the love of her life, her two spoiled cats and their gnome, Gerome. Views: 19
Sea Cursed, by USA Today bestselling author, Amy Lee Burgess, is the thirteenth novel in the Othala Witch Collection, a series of dystopian paranormal romances.For centuries, the mark of Othala has been a death sentence for every witch who bears it. They call these witches sea cursed. Their destiny is to save Galveteen from monsters known as ravagers by casting the spell of Reutterance, which, legend has it, kills them.The non-magical Trumbull family has ruled Galveteen ever since the bloody coup where they overthrew the witch co-regents, changing the balance between witches and non-magicals. Where once witches were revered, now they are reviled.Until she is marked by Othala, Demetria has no idea she is a witch. Brought up in a non-magical neighborhood of Seawall North, she’s been taught to regard witches as inferior beings. Now she must face the fact that not only is she something she’s always despised, but sea cursed as well. As the most powerful earth witch on the island, she must somehow learn to control her unfamiliar, powerful magic.Logan grew up embracing his sea-witch heritage in a neighborhood of Seawall South. He is proud to bear the mark of Othala, even when he is derided and sneered at by the Lord Regent’s elite guard and the Regent himself. Brash and rebellious, Logan walks a dangerous line when dealing with the formidable Lord Regent – one that could cost him dearly.Sparks fly when Logan and Demetria meet. Neither has bargained on love being part of their destiny to save their world.Together they must battle prejudice as well as ravagers in a race to save Galveteen from destruction. Views: 19
