CHANCE OF A LIFETIME - Portia Da Costa

CHANCE OF A LIFETIME is a short erotic romance novella, published on 1st November 2008 by Spice Briefs. It's BDSM themed and features an impoverished twenty-first century aristocrat who enjoys introducing his lovers to the delights of sensual spanking.Here's an excerpt in which Rose discovers the joys and risks of sneakily watching the Marquis's secret videotapes...---------------------I

IN TOO DEEP - US Publication

IN TOO DEEP - Portia Da CostaJust a quickie to mention that IN TOO DEEP, my "sexy buxom librarian meets hawt professor *and* naughty letter writing pervert" novel, is out tomorrow - 11th November - in the US!To celebrate, here's a mini excerpt.Librarian Gwendolynne and Professor Hottie McHotstuff aka Daniel are experimenting with some slightly kinky games... to take his mind off some issues he

Vampire Bites

by Janine Ashbless"I do not drink � coffee."Bwa ha ha�Vampires. They�re insatiable, they�re everywhere and they�re hungry for sex as well as blood. Gone are the days when they hung out in dingy castles in the Carpathians and stole the occasional filthy peasant baby for dinner. Nowadays it�s all sharp clothes and nightclubs and urban gangsterism, or exotic locales, designer drugs and hard liquor.

A Twenty Year Dream Comes True...

CHANCE OF A LIFETIME - Portia Da CostaWahey, today sees the publication of my first Spice Briefs ebook CHANCE OF A LIFETIME, a contemporary BDSM erotic romance novella.CHANCE OF A LIFETIME is the story of Rose, who's doing some temporary work in a dilapidated stately home whilst waiting to take up a dream job - a chance of a lifetime - in the Caribbean. But working at the Manor isn't quite as

Winner of Portia's Latest Comp!

The winner of my Love is a Battlefield & Return to Stoneworld... again Prize Draw is:LOUISA!Drop me a line at portiadacosta [at] gmail [dot] com with your snail mail deets and I'll send you your prize of a copy each of Entertaining Mr Stone and Suite Seventeen... maybe with an extra or two for good measure. If you've already got EMS and S17, just let me know what else you'd like from my backlist

Love is a Battlefield

IN TOO DEEP - Portia Da CostaBlurb It's all in the mind... Librarian Gwendolynne Price starts finding indecent proposals and sexy stories in her suggestion box every morning. Shocked that they seem to be tailored specifically to her own deepest sexual fantasies, she begins a tantalising relationship with a man she's never met. At the same time, she's fast getting involved with a man

Return to Stoneworld... again.

Portia Da CostaI love to read linked books and ever since I started writing, I've often tried to create mini series and books that have characters and settings in common. Back in 2005, I wrote a book called Entertaining Mr Stone, and with it I established what I call Stoneworld - which is the 'universe' in which that book, and several others, as well as a few short stories are set. Stoneworld is

Magic and Desire: US release

By the time this post goes up the 3 novella collection Magic and Desire will officially be available to buy in the US. Hooray! All three authors � Portia da Costa, Olivia Knight and Janine Ashbless � are longtime contributors to Lust Bites. To celebrate this publication we�ve got little teaser extracts for you from all three stories. Different styles, different settings (one contemporary, one

Lust at First Sight

GEMINI HEAT & GOTHIC HEAT - Portia Da CostaThis is just a quickie to say... Wahey, both GEMINI HEAT and GOTHIC HEAT are published in America today! They're the two books that span my fourteen years as a Black Lace author and I'm thrilled to bits that they're available together like this... :)To celebrate this auspicious day, here are two brief clips, one from each book, each containing the

Genesis of a Fairy Story...

ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT by Portia Da Costa [in Magic and Desire]The inspiration for ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT germinated long, long ago as the idea for a vampire story that I was considering writing for a different publisher, not Black Lace. I'd never written a novella before, but I was intrigued by the idea of creating a shorter piece, something very tight and driven by a very simple and intimate