To Seek A Master: Black Lace Classics

Black Lace: the leading erotic imprint for women

Monica Belle is an Oxbridge graduate and the author of several successful Black Lace novels, including Black Lipstick Kisses, Bound In Blue, Noble Vices, Office Perks, Pagan Heat, The Boss, The Choice, To Seek a Master, Valentina's Rules, Wild By Nature and Wild In The Country.

Work hard, play harder. . . 
 
Eclipsed by the high-powered businesspeople that surround her, shy Laura Irving spends her time absorbed in her own workplace-fantasies. 
 
So when the masterful and arrogant man known as ‘The Devil’ begins to show interest she is both terrified and thrilled. And there is nothing she wants more than to call him ‘Master’. 
 
A classic Black Lace tale of a love-hate affair and an explosive relationship.

Black Lipstick Kisses

Sultry and mischievous Angela McKie loves dressing up in fetish clothing inspired by Victorian decadence. Perfecting an air of occult seciness, she enjoys teasing men to distraction, She attracts the lustful attentions of two very different people: Stephen Byrne is a serious young politician with a bright future; Michael Merrick is a cartoonist for a horror comic. Both want her and set out to get her, but quickly discover they have bitten off more than they can chew when they allow themselves to be suduced by the maverick Ms McKie.

Wild In The Country

Sacked from her job working in one of London's finest kitchens for having sex with a sous-chef, Juliet Eden leaves the rat race behind and heads for the country. Alone in her inherited cottage boredom soon sets in, until she discovers the rural delights of poaching in the home counties, and of the muscular young gamekeeper who works the estate. 
 
When the local landowner halls for her, things are looking better still but threaten to turn sour when her ex-boss, Gabriel, makes an unexpected appearance. 
 
If you enjoy Wild in the Country, check out Juliet's continuing erotic adventures in Wild By Nature.

Valentina's Rules

Valentina is a girl with a plan: find a wealthy man, marry him, mould him, and take her place in the sun. She's got the model-looks, the ambition and, after just one night with her, most men are following her around like puppies. 
 
Chrissy Green is voluptuous and petite - and nowhere near as confident as her friend Valentina, but the handsome, rich and sexy Michael Callington is making no complaints. Thing is, young Mr Callington is everything Valentina wants. How will the two friends resolve their dilemma, especially when they are both booked on the same holiday with Michael and his highly sexed friends, cruising the Norfolk Broads? And then there's Michael's father, the notorious spanking major, who is determined to have his fun as well. Looks like a cat-fight could be on the cards...

Noble Vices

Annabelle doesn't want to work. She wants to spend her time riding, attending exotic dinner parties and indulging herself in even more exotic sex...at her father's expense. 
 
Unfortunately daddy has other ideas, and when she writes off his new Jaguar, it is the final straw. Sent to work in the City, Annabelle quickly finds that it is not easy to fit in, especially when what she thinks of as harmless, playful sex has most of her new acquaintances reeling in

Office Perks

This is the story of Lucy Doyle, a red-haired and hot-tempered London Irish girl with her eyes on the prize- and young men's trousers. Her family have got her a job in a Parochial House in North London for the summer, between leaving school and going to university, but she signs up as an office temp, faking her reference and chancing her luck. Along with fellow recruits - the ladylike but filthy Bobbie and the completely dirty Sophie - this cheeky 'flower of Erin' carves a swathe of debauchery through London's office land, collecting lovers, outraging her bosses and drinking far too much as she causes havoc in the way only a bad girl can

The Choice

Young, gifted and falling for Mr Wrong... 
 
Poppy Miller is an exceptionally bright and ambitious student at a top British university. Determined to make her mark in politics, she has her mind set on finding a husband with similar aspirations to herself. Stephen Mitchell, a second-year law student seems to fit the profile and the young pair begin a tender love affair and plan a future together. But then Dr James McLean, a rakish don, appears on the scene. 
 
Poppy can't help feeling drawn to the older man, and the campus stories about his colourful past and masterful character only increase her fascination. She knows that a liaison with the darkly seductive McLean will change the course of her life, but perhaps deep down that is what she wants after all? Poppy has to make a choice: should she go with her head or with her heart? Her romantic notions or her baser instints...

To Seek a Master

Black Lace: erotic fiction for women

A classic Black Lace tale of a love-hate affair with a charismatic master... 
 
Beautiful but shy Laura works for a powerful company, where it seems that every man harbours hidden desires for her. If only, she thinks with shame, they could guess at her own torrid fantasies about them. But her subtle provocations are not going unnoticed, or unappreciated. In fact, they are taking her into dangerous territory with several men. But the real object of her desire is 'The Devil' - a masterful and arrogant figure who both terrifies and thrills her with his demands. He is a man who is intent on becoming her complete master, a man she would have to serve in ways that make her head spin. But isn't that what she always wanted?

The Boss

Felicity is a girl with two different sides to her character, each leading two very separate lives. 
 
There's Fizz - wild child, drummer in a retro punk band, and car thief. 
 
And then there's Felicity - a quiet, polite, and ultra efficient office worker. 
 
But as her attractive, controlling boss takes an interest in her, she finds it hard to keep the two parts of her life separate. Will being with Stephen mean choosing between personas and sacrificing so much of her life? But then, it also appears that Stephen has some very peculiar and addictive ideas about intimacy himself.

Bound In Blue

Saucy goings-on in the world of highbrow academia makes for a wildly entertaining sexy story... 
 
When university lecturer Hazel Jones takes in the most popular of her female students as a lodger, she expects a procession of attractive men to follow.What she doesn't expect is Tiggy's diary to be left out every day. 
 
Sharing her house with this shameless young woman encourages Hazel to realise what's missing in her own, rather dull, academic life. Knowing what Tiggy gets up to, she is unable to resist reading it. It's not quite what she expects, but the revelations in the diary quickly lead her down a path she never expected to take.

Pagan Heat

They're written especially for women so will hit the right buttons.

For Sophie Page, the job of warden at Elmcote Hall is a dream come true. The beauty of the old house and the overgrown grounds speaks to her love of nature. As a venue for weddings, films and exotic parties the Hall draws curious and intersting people, including the handsome Richard Fox and his friends - who are equally alluring and more puzzling still. 
 
Sophie suspects that Fox is responsible for the sexually charged events taking place by night in the woods around the Hall. However, he is only carrying on a tradition; Elmcote's Victorian owner - the eccentric occultist, Elgar Vaughan - used the grounds for Dionysian sex rituals, and now it's Sophie's turn to find out just how much fun can be had with the old ways of worship.

Wild By Nature

Talented chef Juliet Eden imagines she has the perfect marriage to Toby - a titled aristocrat - and no need to stray from her vows of fidelity. Yet when temptation comes in the form of rough sex with the barely civilised gamekeeper, Ian Marsh, she finds it surprisingly easy to give in. 
 
Naughty Juliet persuades her husband to accept an invitation to a boating holiday, only to discover that the hosts are also offering the lure of saucy delights. Neither Juliet not Toby is able to resist. But once on board, there's a clash of sexual personalities. There's a foxy minx called Annabelle in the crew, and she's got her eye on Toby. However, everyone is determined to get to grips with the notorious rogue who calls himself the spanking Major. It's full steam ahead for an orgasm-packed excursion

Monica Belle

Head or heart? 
 
When Elise Sherborne inherits a château in the Dordogne she imagines a life of rustic ease perfectly suited to her romantic and laidback personality. 
 
Only when she moves to France she discovers that Château La Fleur is a crumbling ruin and the money that goes with it hopelessly inadequate. She also has a tenant: the super-masculine and attractive-yet-arrogant Jean Belair. 
 
But when a man from her past turns up she finds herself torn – should she choose the man her heart yearns for, or the inescapably hot Jean who excites her to her very core…? 
 
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