The pretty, well-endowed Veronica Wells works at Hooters in Tucson while saving money for nursing school. She and restaurant manager Richie Stone are soon dating, heading down the road to marriage when she gets into a serious car accident. While unconscious in the hospital, Veronica's repressed erotic fantasies come vividly to life in the form of an elaborate fantasy with Dane Smith, her shy and handsome caregiver. In her sexual dream, Dane is a military officer, Veronica his willing submissive. Scenes of bondage, domination, public nudity, spanking, and various sexual encounters with Dane abound. Soon she signs a contract for life as Dane's sex slave, and performs public sex acts on stage and in private with patrons at the "new" Club Veronica. When Veronica wakes from her coma, she finds nurse Dane fondling her breasts and ass in the middle of the night. Her vivid sex dream suddenly returns. Will she go through with the marriage to Richie or will she choose to live out the...

Jeremy, a romantic aspiring writer of erotica, is admitted to Potomac Fields, a psychiatric hospital near Rockville, Maryland, after what appears to be a complete nervous breakdown. While mourning the recent death of his father and recovering from the betrayal and infidelity of his wife, Jeremy relates to no one at the hospital and carries around a laptop computer which he pretends to write stories in. Late at night in his hospital room, Jeremy actually writes an elaborate sexual fantasy novel called, "The Harem" which tells the story of three women, Cynthia, Sapphire and Evelyn, reflections of three actual patients in Jeremy's therapy group, who turn his suburban home into a modern day harem to help Jeremy gain revenge upon his cheating wife. After several graphic and liberating sex scenes, Jeremy helps guide each woman through the darkness of their own particular neuroses, which the three patients will never be able to escape from in real life. After making no progress for...

In this sensual trilogy, three classic stories are each given an erotic adaptation. In The Awakening of Laura, an adult version of Sleeping Beauty, an attractive unhappily married woman Laura, trapped by her conventional life and religious beliefs, is drawn to Stephen, a spiritually conflicted man. In an attempt to convert Stephen back to her faith and hold onto her own, Laura visits Stephen at his place of work, an underground theater called the Adam and Eve Club. Like Sleeping Beauty mesmerized by the needle, Laura follows a bright light into the theater and witnesses on the stage a scene of sexual bondage. Phillipe Williamson, the handsome entrepreneur and owner of the club, watches Laura's response in the dark. Rather than being pricked and falling into a deep sleep, the dormant sexual desire of Laura is awakened by the virility of Williamson. Despite her marriage, Laura willingly gives herself over to Williamson as his submissive. When her husband, a minister, returns from...

After reporting a case of police brutality, Jim Jefferson's life and marriage falls apart. He attempts to start his life over by opening up a bar called Obsessions that caters to Dominants and their submissives. Due to a horrible facial scar suffered as a child, he manages the club from the shadows and avoids all contact. Jefferson's emotional and sexual life is reignited by Ms. Madsen, a stunning young woman, first introduced in The Reluctant Dom, Book One of the Obsession Series. She enters his club on the arm of her Dom, Charles Anderson and immediately attracts a crowd, wearing see-through clothing. When Ms. Madsen sees Jefferson for the first time, she isn't repulsed at all by his appearance. She tenderly places her palm directly over his deformed cheek, the first person in his life who touches him on his most sensitive spot. In the privacy of his office, Jefferson has a powerful sexual experience with Ms. Madsen that changes his life. But after one final intimate...

When the pretty, though spiritually conflicted Cassandra approaches Charles in a Chicago suburb, both lives are changed forever. Plagued by a lifetime of repressed sexual desire, Cassandra allows Charles to fondle her breasts in public, and he becomes instantly smitten with her. Despite her religious beliefs and impending marriage to Patrick, she confesses her desire to enter into a submissive/slave relationship. Charles agrees to a four-day contract to become her Dominant. Reluctant at first, Charles grows more confident in his role, sexually dominating and disciplining Cassandra with increasing force. He buys her bondage toys, sheer sexy clothing and body jewelry, then displays her in public, later taking her to Obsessions, a Gentlemen's Club catering to D/s couples. There she dives even deeper into her submissive desires. Their contract states that there'll be no emotional involvement – or further contact between them once the four days are over. However, Charles has...

Long neglected by European historians, the unspeakable atrocities of Franco’s Spain are finally brought to tragic light in this definitive work.The remains of General Francisco Franco lie in an immense mausoleum near Madrid, built with the blood and sweat of twenty thousand slave laborers. His enemies, however, met less-exalted fates. Besides those killed on the battlefield, tens of thousands were officially executed between 1936 and 1945, and as many again became "non-persons." As Spain finally reclaims its historical memory, a full picture can now be given of the Spanish Holocaust-ranging from judicial murders to the abuse of women and children. The story of the victims of Franco's reign of terror is framed by the activities of four key men-General Mola, Quiepo de Llano, Major Vallejo Najera, and Captain Don Gonzalo Aguilera-whose dogma of eugenics, terrorization, domination, and mind control horrifyingly mirror the fascism of Italy and Germany.Evoking such classics as Gulag and The Great Terror, The Spanish Holocaust sheds crucial light on one of the darkest and most unexamined eras of modern European history. 16 pages of black-and-white illustrationsFrom BookforumEach well-laid, impeccably researched sentence of The Spanish Holocaust, Paul Preston's latest book on the Spanish Civil War, stands as a reminder of how Spain's Fascist past remains an unassimilable muddle; the story is so bloody and horrifying that it's easy, on one level, to grasp why today's Spaniards would just as soon relegate it all to a vague memorial blur. — Jonathan Blitzer Review“Paul Preston’s The Spanish Holocaust, is the most illuminating study I have seen of the complex, modern conflict that observers of Spain today still find difficult to understand. Anyone wanting to know modern Spain will read with great interest, this brilliant, well-informed analysis.” (John Brademas, author of *Anarcosindicalismo y revolución en España, 1930-37* )“A harrowing and moving account of the immense terror and enormous atrocities, especially perpetrated by General Franco's followers, during and after the Spanish Civil War, meticulously researched and superbly written by an outstanding historian.” (Ian Kershaw )“Paul Preston is the outstanding scholar of Spain's Civil War, and The Spanish Holocaust, is unquestionably his opus magnus. For the first time, the horror of the Spanish conflict has been placed in its appropriate historical context. As documented by Preston in this moving, brilliantly rendered account, Spain was not only the scene-setter for World War Two, but also the proving ground for the campaigns of mass-murder that became its ghastly hallmark. A deeply important, powerful work of history.” (Jon Lee Anderson )“What Preston knows about the years of civil war, 1936-1939, is astounding… Preston’s work is a powerful intervention in a Spanish discussion. It’s significance transcends the events it brings to light, and suggests some basic re-evaluations of recent European history.” (Thomas Snyder - *The New Republic* )“Fascinating... Unflinchingly, Preston sifts through the pillage, torture, and mass executions of this bleak chapter in Spanish history.” (New Yorker )“Monumental study... [The Spanish Holocaust] directly links Spain’s Nationalists to the Nazi regime, stressing that Franco’s reign of terror, like that of Hitler and Goebbels, was carefully planned and systematically executed.... The Spanish Holocaust draws on Preston’s vast research, as well as scores of recent historical studies, to establish the most accurate possible estimates of numbers of Spanish victims—statistics that, ever since the outbreak of the war, have been notoriously subject to manipulation and distortion.... [Preston] has produced an indispensable, important book.” (Sebastiaan Faber - *The Volunteer* )