The NC thing was more returning to his home town not that is it a great better place where bad things don’t happen. Although I could be wrong it has been a bit since I read this the fact was his club wasn’t there. And he was removing himself from that club and a lifestyle his wife wasn’t going to be apart of. Something I really liked here vs the normal ‘this is me, you want to love me you need to be apart of this or no go’ typical erotic romance we see from LL.

I have read a hella lot of leigh and I can’t say I have noticed that NC is seen as the clean, good non-sexual only missionary sex state maybe Jayne knows something I don’t. Of course I haven’t noticed that all LL end with a HVEA missionary sex life so what do I know.

LL is one of those writers I think people either really like or really love to hate. Who knows… I think Dangerous Games is the book with more of mass appeal for a ‘general’ romance reader.

The explanation for Jethro and Mac’s devotion to the “sharing� lifestyle was rooted in their childhood. Jethro and Mac saw themselves as somewhat damaged by their childhoods; that each one had relied so much on the other for survival that they almost were one person.

wasn’t that the reason the brothers in the Men of August series were sharing their women?

ETA: Oops… looks like everyone and her sister already mentioned it.

TM – I was squicked out by the Men of August series and this is much better, in my opinion, because the emotional aspect wasn’t really rooted in sexual abuse making the subsequent actions seem like a justification for some kind of perversion.

I did struggle with the grade between a B- and C+ but I felt that the emotional component was strong enough to carry this into low B territory. It’s definitely a hot read and having read plenty of erotic romance, writing hot sex scenes is a difficult task.

And I loved Men of August, slightly squicky storyline aside, but then I am a fangirl. *g*

HAH! Jayne you hit it on the head with Lora Leigh.
She uses all the sexual gymnastics (anal, manage) but by the end of the series or the book they have to be back in “missionary position” or HVEA

Happily Vanilla Ever After

Even if there was a ton of justification for whatever is happening before that.

This is the problem I have with most of Leigh’s book, particularly the freak show that was the August Brothers series. The dysfunctional relationship dynamics seem to be more than enough, why add in some silly suspense element? Actually this is a problem I have with a lot of half-assed romantic suspense. The suspense elements seem just added in, not a driving force of the story. The suspense is very clumsy and not at all suspenseful. Lora Leigh writes interesting sex scenes, but she’s not much of a romantic suspense writer.

He fell in love with her, married her, and took her to his childhood home in North Carolina. Mac took Keiley there to get away from the environment that he had reveled in for the years before, an environment of forbidden sexuality that involved sharing of partners.

[sarcasm] So where did he live before he brought Keiley back to the wholesome purity of NC where we don’t do things like group sex? Yep, once you cross the state line into the Old North State you better put all thoughts of anything but missionary position involving only a husband and wife right out of your head. [/sarcasm] :0

Oh yeah, Men of August (I guess you could call it) a “menage series” that was also a bit formula but pretty good till the last book where all the couples decided to live in separate homes because group sex and kids do not go together so the ladies fixed their mens deep seated psychological problems (used to explain the brotherly wife love) with their magic hoo-hoos or something and… hey I did not buy that either. I just read the books I can’t always explain them.