Crave (A Lesbian Romance Collection)

Book excerpt: Crave: A Lesbian Romance Collection is a bundle of 3 of A. Ashton’s steamy, sensual, and sweet F/F lesbian love stories. The books included in this box set are: Hard Love, Something Pleasurable, and Secret Pleasures. * Hard Love I love you. Three simple words. I have said them before; I have had them said to me; were they meant sincerely? I like to think so. Were they actually true deep down in their heart? Maybe. This is a love story. This is my love story. It is a complex love story, filled with conflict, desire, sex, and sadness. Is it true? Did these things really happen? Does that matter? My love story is a messy, complicated, addictive and, yet I think, pure love story. It wasn’t until I was 26 and my best friend announced she was engaged and getting married that I realized I was in love. Pure, unconditional love. A love that overwhelms you. It is intoxicating; bewildering; overwhelming; haunting. This is the story of how I found such a love. And this is a story of how my love ruined a wedding… * Something Pleasurable Katelyn was a mother of three. She thought she had her life figured out. She thought she had settled. Her energies went into raising her children. Romance? Please. There was no room for that anymore in her life. Least of all with her husband. It just wasn’t working anymore. Something had changed in her life. She was different. But she never expected to feel fully alive, to have all her senses to ignite when she first laid eyes on Hayley. The young college student was gorgeous, and there was something about her that drew Katelyn in. But this was wrong… and more to the point, Katelyn wasn’t a lesbian. So why was it that she felt undeniably attracted to the bubbly Hayley? Why was it that she lay awake at night fantasizing about her? And would happen to Katelyn’s life if she ever let her guard down? Let herself get close? Let herself experience something new… something pleasurable… …just one time? * Secret Pleasures Stephanie Morrison was trapped in a fading marriage. Her love and joy was her son, Benjamin, a boy as beautiful as anything. Her husband had long since lost interest. There was nothing there anymore… and maybe there never was. Stephanie couldn’t explain it, but she’d always felt like she was compromising. Like she was never really into it with him… She’d had urges before… urges for women. But she’d always dismissed them. Stray thoughts… what else could it be? It wasn’t until she met Kelly Carlson that these thoughts barged their way back into her brain again. Kelly was young, beautiful, full of energy. Kelly was Benjamin’s teacher. Stephanie didn’t know why she was so drawn to the young, sexy woman… All she knew was that when she looked into Kelly’s eyes, her heart thundered in her chest, and warmth thrilled between her thighs… She wanted to get to know the young woman better… For Kelly promised pleasures she’d never experienced. But those pleasures would have to remain a secret…