How Sweet it Is

**A sequel to the How Sweet It Is novel, Hungry for It** Rémi and Claudia have been together for over two years. During that time, their families have grown to accept what the twenty-nine year old reformed player and her fifty year old lover mean to each other. Theirs is not just another kinky May-December affair. But a ghost from Rémi's past rises up to threaten what the two women have found together. Can they put these demons to rest or will their love, as erotic as it is powerful, scatter like ashes to the four winds? This is number 3 in the How Sweet It Is series by the Lambda Literary Award finalist author of Bliss and Every Dark Desire. Start from the beginning with A Taste of Sin, Hungry for It, Return to Me (a short sequel to Hungry for It), Insatiable Appetites, Bittersweet, then Pleasure and Spice. All (except for Return to Me) are standalone, full-length novels featuring different couples in the group of Miami-based friends.

Rémi Bouchard has enjoyed more than her fare share of delicious trysts amidst the seductive sounds and glittering lights of South Beach. With good looks, limitless sex appeal, and the wealth and popularity that comes from owning the city's hottest jazz bar and restaurant, Rémi can seduce just about anyone she wants. But lately, the allure of wild one-night stands and no-strings flings is starting to wear thin. Rémi craves something more-and what Rémi wants, Rémi gets… At her best friend's wedding, Rémi looks across the crowd and finds exactly what she's been searching for-an intense, soul-searing connection. Now, on a journey of sensual exploration that will take her from decadent after-hours clubs to South Beach's most elegant nightspots, Rémi engages in a tantalizing dance of seduction. But passion this deep has its dangers-especially when it means falling in love with the one person who should be off limits.

Desiree Nichols has never been afraid of doing things the hard way. In high school, she was an out lesbian who faced down any bullies who dared challenge her. She jumped in with both feet when she unexpectedly fell for a boy in college. And years later, she didn't hesitate to race back home to Miami, freshly dumped, to help her family in the wake of her mother's cancer diagnosis. While supporting her mother through the cancer crisis, Dez gets a little help of her own from the girls she grew up with-a group of hedonistic honeys whose love for pleasure runs as deeply as hers. With them by her side, she buries her pain in wild Miami parties and even wilder women. The last thing she expects is to fall for her twin brother's best friend, a woman her brother is already head over heels in love with. Who says going back home has to be boring?

Derrick never had any trouble keeping it in his pants. He's a monogamous guy, even while secretly in love with his best friend, Victoria, and going through the motions with other women. But when Victoria gets taken off the market-and by his twin sister no less-Derrick's love life flies off the rails. Nuria Diaz is trouble with a capital TROUBLE. She's a firecracker of a woman – spoiled, demanding, and unapologetically hedonistic – and Derrick can't stop thinking about her. Before he can say "bad idea," Derrick is spending his nights with Nuria, wanting more from her while he's promised everything else to another woman who deserves better. One day he'll have to choose between them, but now his options are tearing him apart. **Warning: This novella contains a morally ambiguous lawyer and a sexy, bisexual woman who knows what she wants. A (mostly) f/m story with infidelity.**This novella was previously released as "Going Wild." Number 5 in the How Sweet It Is series by the Lambda Literary Award finalist author of Bliss and Every Dark Desire. Start with A Taste of Sin, Hungry for It, Return to Me (a short sequel to Hungry for It), Insatiable Appetites, Bittersweet (a novella), then Pleasure & Spice. All (except Return to Me and Bittersweet) are standalone, full-length novels featuring different couples in, and connected to, the group of Miami-based friends.

Every woman has secrets. But Sage never thought the lover she'd shared her life with for years had one big enough to blow their entire world apart.With one shocking revelation, the life she'd taken for granted with Phil-decadent threesomes under the Miami moonlight, lazy afternoons in the home they'd shared for years, and the complete surrender to her deepest desires-is shattered. Left adrift, Sage begins to rebuild her life one piece at a time. As she struggles to make sense of things again, her parents arrive from Jamaica for an unexpected visit and her own secrets threaten to destroy the little she has left. Can Sage find redemption in the one woman she turned her back on, or will she allow pride and her own self-destructive nature to ruin any chance at future happiness? Number 4 in the How Sweet It Is series by the Lambda Literary Award finalist author of Bliss and Every Dark Desire.Start with A Taste of Sin, Hungry for It, Return to Me (a short sequel to Hungry for It), Insatiable Appetites, then go on to Bittersweet (a novella) and Pleasure & Spice. All (except Return to Me and Bittersweet) are standalone, full-length novels featuring different couples in, and connected to, the group of Miami-based friends.

Mayson and Renée are best friends. Two women who've known each other for a lifetime and are as different as they are close. Mayson is a free-spirited and out lesbian, and very much desired in her Southern California queer community. Renée, straight and sheltered, is just getting out of a difficult divorce and searching for an escape from her pain.While Mayson slips in and out of affairs, taking pleasure where it bites the sweetest, Renée steps into a dangerous game of anonymous sex-by-dark that transports her to places she'd never dreamed. But the worlds of these two friends are heading for a dramatic collision. At the end of it all, will they or their friendship survive?Number 6 in the How Sweet It Is series by the Lambda Literary Award finalist author of Bliss and Every Dark Desire.Start with A Taste of Sin, Hungry for It, Return to Me (a short sequel to Hungry for It), Insatiable Appetites, then go on to Bittersweet (a novella) and Pleasure & Spice. All (except Return to Me and Bittersweet) are standalone, full-length novels featuring different couples in, and connected to, the group of Miami-based friends.Warning: This volume of the series contains both f/f and f/m relationships.