It's 1895. Traded as payment for her aunt's gambling debts, southern belle Vanita is whisked off to a decaying plantation mansion where Franklin Harte and his curious family are happy to receive her. She is to marry Franklin's son Damon, whose bizarre hobbies and even more bizarre sister are enough to send Vanita's head spinning. Their games of forbidden eroticism intrigue her and certainly prove distracting. However, she has to figure a way to escape Franklin's obsessive humiliations, and reclaim her property. An unusual and hilarious historical erotic novel that takes the genre into the realms of hyperfantasy.
 
Meet the Hartes--a family who puts a whole new warp on Southern hospitality!
 
Bad enough that Vanita Wells discovers her Aunt Lill has traded her away in marriage to Damon Harte, in repayment of her gambling debts. Worse yet, this beautiful, creative albino is more interested in his twin sister Desiree than in marrying anyone! Once she's hauled, naked, to the decaying Harte's Haven by Franklin Harte, our Heroine gets caught in the dark world of Damon's life-sized clockwork toys and Desiree's possessive lust. She also becomes the target of their daddy's depraved humiliations. Only her dare with the mysterious Pearce Truman keeps Vanita hopeful of escaping to reclaim her family's horse farm, where she can avenge her aunt's deceptions.
 
Like DEVIL'S FIRE, this story presents some characters with . . . interesting little quirks, and is told in that "Victoria Holt writing as Fanny Hill" style that's earned me a nice niche with my publisher, and a whole new reading audience! DEMON'S DARE, set in Lexington, Kentucky, transports you to the gracious world of antebellum plantations and horse breeding . . . but be careful who you dance with at Vanita's betrothal party! Appearances are QUITE deceiving in this story--and even hero Pearce Truman remains a mystery until the very end!
 
I hope you'll have as much fun reading DEMON'S DARE as I had writing it! My editor was so immediately enthused about this book that she bought SATAN'S ANGEL on just a brief e-mailed synopsis and a one day turn-around! EVIL'S NIECE will be out in Spring, '03.
 
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