This book is steaming hot!!It is the story of 35 year old kate who comes home early one day to find her tenants Joe and Sean in the throes of passion.They ask her to join in and hence begins the affair.
The sex scenes are amazing but the plot is slightly dull.

Holy Hell this book was hot. When Kate Winthrop discovers her two male boarders in a romantic tryst in her bedroom, she accepts their offer to join them and thus begins an adventure for all three. Kate, a successful bookstore owner, finds herself attracted to the dominating, masterful Sean, who takes liberties with her body, but from whom Kate keeps her heart and soul at a safe distance. This books was picked for me in a pick it for me challenge in the Menage Group it was a very good pick. The sex scenes are really hot and Holly, as usual, knows how to build the anticipation before every encounter. Emma Holly did a great job of telling this story. She definitely delivers a great read in this book. You are able to bond with the characters and actually understand their points of view. I found this book to be well written with good plot and character development. I love reading Emma Holly's books they are well written and this one was one of them.

There are alot of reviews here to get a good understanding of the book so I just wanted to stop by and add that I loved this book. I loved it so much that I am now searching out other books that Emma Holly as written and I am praying that there is another book that continues this story. I just didn't get enough of Joe, Kate and Sean....I want more more more. I adored these 3 characters.

Emma Holly writes some delicious sex scenes. This is one of my early menage stories I've read. I remember thinking, wow... this is different than the sex books I've read. This was tastefully done and I enjoyed it. Hot!

HOT!!!! Thoroughly enjoyed this page turner! I was surprised that it has a good plot and an HEA!! Honestly, I was just looking for a very steamy romance. I got that and a whole lot more!!! Would have rated it 5 stars but I don't want to take away from the books that do have complex plots, characters, and steamy scenes when appropriate.

4 Stars

Phew... That was


Noone does guilty pleasures and erotic delights like Emma Holly....

I wanted to read an Emma Holly book because she is so well known in the area of erotic romance. I guess that was a pretty good book if this is your cup of tea, but it was too much for me. Well, I can say I read one of her books!

If you like a a good menage tois, this book is for you!

Start as you mean to go on!

Kate comes home to find her tenants having sex in her bed. One of these handsome young men, Joe, has a crush on her, and the other, Sean, is indulging his sexual fantasy. Upon being discovered they immediately invite her to join in, which she gladly does. And for the next 100 pages, all three are bonking happily together all around the house and various locations in Philadelphia.

‘Hmm,’ the reader might think. ‘Well, if the whole book is just going to be nothing but sex scenes -’ (yes, yes, it is - it’s erotica) ‘- then I hope the sex scenes are good.’ Well, there’s actually a surprising amount of character development, all cleverly tied into the sex. Sean’s desperately trying to hide his vulnerability by staying in control (queue scenes featuring Sean the Dom) but Kate is determined to reach his loving soul within (queue Kate topping from the bottom and turning Dom herself) and of course he can only express himself to her from the safety of make believe (queue role play) meanwhile Joe is just a sweet boy desperately in love (queue the more tender scenes). And Kate loves them both, or at least, loves Joe and lusts for Sean (lots of happy menage scenes).

The smut itself is not bad - look, here’s the thing, I actually love the smut in this book. All three characters are whole-heartedly, willingly, joyfully into each other, which just makes me so happy. I so rarely read erotica which is so… wholesome. There’s not a trace of angst in this story. No spite, no drama, no selfishness, an alpha but not an asshole. That being said, the level of realism bounces up and down like our young heroes’ ruby red cocks (yes, that is how they are described). There’s a very worthy attention paid to always having safe sex, and the characters all make sure to use condoms before any sexual encounter. But then the BDSM scenes show a fair lack of understanding about the importance of informed consent. Now we know, as the reader, that everyone involved is loving every second of it and having a great time, so it didn’t worry me, but it seemed incongruous.
The purple prose delighted me. Yes, the descriptions tended to the ridiculous, but that just highlighted for me how much everyone was enjoying every part of each other. There were a few moments where the menage didn’t quite obey the laws of physics, and I would think, ‘they must be very flexible to get into that arrangement’ but it didn’t happen often enough to ruin the fun.

There was a lot of room for improvement in the plotting, which gets somewhat messy towards the end before all being tied up rather rushedly, but I am overlooking any faults in the story due to the wonderful, upbeat mood. At the end everybody has a happy ending, which is all I ever wanted for these adorable characters.

Read for Learning the Tropes. YIKES!

My first foray into erotic romance. So, so good. So hot. So nice to see both alpha and beta male characters. And did I mention hot? Omg. Hot. Can't wait to read the rest of her stuff.

2.5-3 stars

This was a decent story. I liked Kate, Joe and Sean and I liked their story to a point but there were too many parts of the story that didn't work for me overall. Maybe I was so disappointed with this book because I've previously read Holly's The Billionaire Bad Boys Club and loved it.

Kate is a successful bookstore owner. She was married but things didn't work out due to him cheating on her multiple times and then running off with the 17 year old daughter of one of Kate's friends. Kate has her own house and has 2 boarders, Joe and Sean, that are both 23 years old and graduate students. They're involved with each other but Kate has secretly been crushing on Joe for a while.

Sean is an accounting student and Joe is also a student (although I don't remember reading his degree path) as well and is taking an interest in drama/music. Sean is really smart and is going to do well in the business arena. Joe is actually a musical child protege but his mother wanted him to have a normal life. Now that he's building his career, Joe wants to write musicals. Joe and Sean met each other around a year ago and are best friends and involved sexually.

When the story begins, Kate is getting home from work. She gets to her bedroom and finds Sean and Joe in her bedroom having sex. This turns her on as she's been drooling over Joe for a while and Sean is pretty hot as well. When Kate doesn't go running, Sean asks if she wants to join them...which she does. It soon becomes apparent that there's a much stronger tie between Joe and Kate (who have become friends over the past 6 months they've been cohabitating) than between Sean and Kate. Because of the mutual crushing that's been going on between Kate and Joe, Sean figures he's losing Joe but invites Kate in figuring he'll take what time he can get with them both. Kate doesn't know if something can work out long term but seems determined to see what can come of things. Joe doesn't see a problem with things but doesn't seem to think about the future, at least at first. The menage relationship between the three starts off well and goes alright. There's some drama here and there but nothing too bad and some unusual sexual encounters as well. The main drama comes with the conflict of Joe's future vs. staying with Kate and things kind of go to crap and stay stay crappy for a while. There is a reunion effort from Joe but I wasn't too thrilled with the way he and Sean played it and so the reunion was kind of a dud for me. The story ends with a HEA for Joe and Kate.

This was an alright story. I liked the characters and the story wasn't bad but there were certain points of the story that were a bit too weird for me or just didn't work for me, especially the reunion at the end (as noted above). Also, the HEA was sort of inconclusive because Kate and Joe are together but there also seemed like the possibility of adding Sean back in later. Overall, the story was alright but just didn't work for me.