Reviewette: Forever Yours

Reviewette: Forever Yours by Charlotte Featherstone, Naughty Bits Anthology

Back Cover Blurb (From Author Website):

Despite their love for each other, lovemaking has become routine and
predictable for the Duke and Duchess of Sutcliffe. Desperate to save their
marriage, they begin exchanging passionate, erotic missives detailing needs and
fantasies they never before dared to express. Soon, they're acting out those
fantasies and discovering a consuming desire like none they've ever known..

It may be obvious to many by now that I don't review a lot of anthologies or novellas for that matter. Truth is, I'm not a HUGE fan. I love novels. I want tons of page time dedicated to my Hero and Heroine and I've found that a short story just doesn't always grant me the satisfaction I crave. Yet there's something different and much loved by me with HQN Spice 'Naughty Bits'. One, I love the Spice line at HQN. They've really introduced not only excellent erotica but extremely talented authors as well. And two, I've found that the Spice novels are very unique to the market. They consistently deliver passionate and beautiful story lines that not only include a lot of hot sex but they have deep and meaningful plots as well.

Plus 'Naughty Bits' has shorts by two of my favorite authors: Charlotte Featherstone and Megan Hart. Both authors have radical differences in their stories but they both share an amazing talent at their craft that has me buying up more and more of their work.

Life is always a force to be reckoned with and marriage is not the tape that holds two souls together, it's their will. It's the commitment of your love and your choice to make a marriage work. For Christian and Elizabeth, it's that commitment that's wained. Their communications with one another both physically and mentally have become impersonal and brisk. A quick peck on the cheek, a perfunctory roll under the covers in the dark. The romance is lost and the ever widening gap between their hearts is threatening to ensure that the romance is never to be recovered.

It's Christian that makes the first move to correct this. He loves his wife. He still desires even her after all these years and four children later. He knows that he's been remiss in his duties to Elizabeth as her husband. The last thing that Christian wants is for his wife to slake her needs with someone else. Determined to keep her, but unsure how to approach her, Christian leaves an erotic note on her pillow in hopes of enticing her back into their marriage.

Elizabeth grasps onto the discovered letter as her and Christian's last hope. Her relief over her husband's desire to remedy their marriage is palpable. Interested in exploring her numerous and previously unspoken sexual desires, Elizabeth sees the letter as an erotic opportunity.

What next ensues are heated exchanges of passionately erotic love letters. Each details to the other their desires and fantasies thus reigniting the flames of their romance and ultimately saving their marriage.

I loved the heated looks that Christian gives his wife while they exchange letters. They're the kind of dark and lustful looks that can make a girl white hot and extremely bothered. I really loved the fact that he makes the first move to fix their marriage. He loves and desires his wife to a predatory extreme and any woman would be so lucky to be the center of that type of attention from a man that consuming. This is an aspect of Featherstone's heroes that I've really grown to love. Her heroes are extremely and wonderfully intense when it comes to the heroine. When their heroines are in the room, they have eyes for no one else and they certainly aren't afraid that their women will feel the heat of their stare. Oh to be the focus of that intensity!

There is a personal aspect of 'Forever Yours' that touched upon a bit of nostalgia for me. My husband courted me with love letters. The man not only has beautiful penmanship but he can write his soul like no other. Of course his letters weren't nearly as erotic as Christian and Elizabeth's. Hello! I was seventeen at the time. Oh man, but he ensnared me with those letters. And two and half years later when he proposed, I was helpless to deny him. Now, nine years later and I've yet to see a love letter. Humph, funny how that works. Doesn't stop me from begging him to write me another one though.

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Interested in 'Forever Yours'? Click HERE for more info!

Interested in Charlotte Featherstone? Check out my review of 'Addicted'.

Also, Barbara at Happily Forever After has a few reviews of Charlotte Featherstone as well. Read her thoughts on 'Addicted', 'Forever Yours' and 'Mistress of The Night'.

Erotic Horizon also has a beautiful review of "Forever Yours'. Check it out HERE!