Love... By The Book

Hi,

I was very excited to learn that my latest release, Love... By The Book, made the number five spot on November's Bestseller List at Amber Heat!

Passion isn't supposed to enter into the marriage bargain between darkly handsome Evan Channing and demure Lydia Blatchford, the daughter of an impoverished earl. Even if both secretly yearn for more from this contract.

But the rules are about to change when Evan is gifted with an intriguing copy of the Kama Sutra. He sets out to win his high-born bride, blending seductive heat with exotic lessons in love-making. With a little help from Sir Richard Burton's new, provocative translation of ancient wisdom on seduction and arousal, the cold marriage bed of an arranged union is about to combust into a blazing flame of desire.

Researching the Kama Sutra was a lot of fun. It's a fascinating mix of sex manual and etiquette guide, as well as ancient customs and superstitions.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the Burton translation:

"Women, being of tender nature, want tender beginnings."

"The man who is ingenious and wise, who is accompanied by a friend, and who knows the intentions of others, as also the proper time and place for doing everything, can gain over, very easily, even a woman who is very hard to be obtained."

"Says Ghotakamukha, 'Though a man loves a girl ever so much, he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.'"

". . . the man should do whatever the girl takes most delight in, and he should get for her whatever she may have a desire to possess"

"At the first time of sexual union the passion of the male is intense, and his time is short, but in subsequent unions on the same day the reverse of this is the case. With the female however it is the contrary, for at the first time her passion is weak, and then her time is long, but on subsequent occasions on the same day, her passion is intense and her time short, until her passion is satisfied."

Click here to read an excerpt from my story.

Lyndi Lamont
aka Linda McLaughlin