Heart and Hunger: Four Tales of Wicked Pleasure

When a bookish college music teacher becomes an unwitting voyeur of the sexual symphony being conducted by the wife of the dean, he finds himself caught up in a song of sensuality he thought he'd never have a chance to write...

Her boyfriend died a month ago but Emily's sex life has never been better -- because she never expected his ghost to show up with a supernatural libido and a hunger for her that won't quit...

A chance encounter with a homemade sex tape sees a college student caught up in the exquisitely erotic extracurricular activities of his former high school teachers -- and learning new lessons in sexuality beyond anything in his wildest dreams...

A woman whose relationship has broken down around her takes a solo spa vacation that was supposed to have been her and her husband's dream getaway -- and discovers that some dreams need first to be brought to light before they can come true...

"HEART AND HUNGER" features the Muse of Shadow ebook singles "Play For Me", "Into the Light", "First Day of School", and "The Touch of Bliss".

This 39,000-word erotic anthology collects four explicit and graphically detailed stories of romance and sexuality, exploring consensual student/teacher sex, voyeurism, group sex, supernatural sexual fantasy, female bisexuality, lesbian sex, and transgender fantasy. It is intended for adults only.

EXCERPT (SFW sample from "Play With Me")

I worked late the next night. And the next, and all the week after. Then when nothing happened on any of those nights, I began to come in early in the morning as well, listening like a furtive deviant as I unlocked the door and snuck to my office.

On a Tuesday of the second week, I was given cause to spill the tea I had just prepared at my electric kettle by a flute sounding out from the rehearsal room next door. I recognized the strains of Bach's Partita in A minor as I snuck up extra-carefully, uncertain whether it was a worse offense to hope for another chance to engage in dark voyeurism or to interrupt an actual practice.

What I got was a shocking bit of both.

It was Janine Madov playing, the fourth-year class's first flute. A shy blonde virtuoso, she had learned her instrument from her grandfather, who had been second chair for the Vienna Philharmonic for nearly twenty years. Her playing was impeccable, the bourrée Anglais soaring with an energy that tugged at my heart. But of more immediate focus was the fact that Janine was playing naked, upright at the edge of her chair and legs spread where Samantha feasted on her...

(For a NSFW excerpt, please download the free sample -- and enjoy.)

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MUSE OF SHADOW is a producer and purveyor of no-holds-barred erotic literature -- couple-friendly and written for people who believe that the imagination is the most important component of human sexuality. Our books are written to provide a workout for those most sensual muscles of the mind.

Caelyn Alba is a pseudonym responsible for the writing of erotic fiction and memoirs, much of it in conjunction with husband Sean Gerard Leah. In real life (when she can figure out what that is), she teaches humanities in the Pacific Northwest.

Sean Gerard Leah (though he more often works under a cleverly similar name) is a Boston-born, Seattle-based novelist, poet, journalist, and editor. With his wife Caelyn Alba, he is a founding partner of the erotic-lit publishing house Muse of Shadow.