In this fifth collection of startlingly erotic tales, twenty-five new stories push the boundaries of the pleasure principle and create a vivid world of uninhibited sexuality. Hotter and bolder than ever, Herotica 5 covers everything from entanglements with strangers to office trysts, totemic animal powers to virtual sex. Representing the best of erotic writing today, new and favorite authors such as Susan St. Aubin, Cecilia Tan, Jolie Graham, and Aurora Light offer a kaleidoscope of sexual experience. Proving that nothing has more erotic power than words-whether whispered, read aloud, or written on the page-Herotica 5 explicitly evokes women's ultimate desires, making this new edition one of our most exciting collections to date. • Herotica is the most established name in the field of women's erotica, launched by sex guru Susie Bright. • Includes something for every erotic taste: black, white, Asian, Latina, straight, gay, groups, initiations, seductions, etc. • Stories by past Herotica stars as well as fresh new voices. • More than 250,000 Herotica books in print.

This collections offers a focus on women and their partners, in unexpected combinations and relationships, from the housewife innocently causing an erotic chain reaction in her neighborhood, to a newly dominant woman giving her husband a taste of leather. Neighborhood round robyn / Mel Harris—Season of marriage / Mary Anne Mohanraj—A little slip / Shelley Marcus—Snooping / Laurel Fisher—Mourning the peasant / Maria Mendoza—The rose velvet chaise / Joan Leslie Taylor—After Amelia / Nancy Ferreyra—The album / Kate Dominic—The portrait / Deborah Bishop—Lesbian bed a case study / Michelle Stevens—The adventure of marriage / Marcy Sheiner—Blue moon over paradise / Lisa Prosimo—Simple gifts / Diva Marie—Prince Valiant, Queen Serena & the Peepshow Palace / Red Jordan Arobateau—Three note harmony / Susanna J. Herbert—June's high holy day / Shar Rednour—First call / Victoria Smith—Always / Cecilia Tan—Being met / Carol Queen—The man who didn't dream / Susan St. Aubin—Shadows on the wall / Susannah Indigo.

Dip into a melting-pot of sexual pleasure with the latest collection in the Herotica series. The exotic and the erotic meet in journeys of desire as diverse as the cultural backgrounds of the characters. Each short story is an example of the heated passion and the politics of arousal that erupt when people of different cultures come together. The authors explore their fantasies, their prejudices, and the ways in which cultural differences can be at once an attracting force and a seemingly impenetrable barrier. Twenty-six tales of complex relationships draw a multi-hued picture of race, religion, and culture's impact on passion and desire. In one a Chinese New Year's dragon dancer entrances an African-American woman. In another, Pakistani and U.S. virgins muddle through their assumptions about each other's sexual past and find their way to a feverish coupling. Embracing her Native American traditions more closely, a Metis shows her white lover the passionate inclusiveness of her spiritual world. And Indian and Puerto Rican pre-med students turn up the heat of first lust in the midst of a Chicago winter.

Highly sought collection of women's erotic fiction. Book of the month pick!