PLAY WITH ME

Author: Janice Maynard ISBN: 0451220234 1/2007 EROTIC ANTHOLOGY Publisher: SIGNET ECLIPSE

It begins with a champagne toast between three beautiful best friends—and a pact to make their deepest and naughtiest fantasies come true before their thirtieth birthdays. That means they have one year to make it happen, and no position is too compromising.... All it's going to take is finding the right man, capturing the perfect moment, and stirring up enough courage to issue the most provocative invitation of the year. For Catherine, Kallie, and Gina, the race is on. Who's going to cross the line first?

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

Whenever I am looking for a good, steamy novel, I know that if I pick up a Janice Maynard book, I am going to get exactly what I am looking for. In her newest offering, PLAY WITH ME, we have three friends who have decided that at the ripe ol' age of 29, they are going to make a pledge that they have one year to fulfill all of their badest, naughtiest desires.

In Still Waters, tall, elegant Catherine Maderis—being the shy skittish one of the bunch—decides that she is sick of not having a man and that she is going to take matters into her own hands, literally. She gets up all of the courage that she can muster and makes her move on gorgeous hunk Philip Trent. He is just the right man for the job, and soon Catherine finds out that maybe this is one fantasy that doesn't need to end any time soon.

Skin Deep is my favorite book in the anthology. I am all about the whole life-long-friends/secret crush thing. I think it is a great storyline and Beau and Kallie are the perfect couple to start this book on fire! Beau is absolutely an Adonis, and Kallie is the perfect tomboy-turned-sex-kitten that every man needs.

In Party Girl, Gina McCutcheon has literally been bullied into going on a cruise by her best friends. They have already made their end of the pact and Gina only has a few months to go. So Gina pulls out all the stops and lets herself go. She never dreamed that the one man she would end up with is the man of all of her dreams—and her biggest enemy.

Janice Maynard is the queen of erotic romance. PLAY WITH ME is fun, fresh and sexy. It is the perfect read for a long evening and a bottle of wine.

Kristal Gorman