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Party of Three (H.O.T. Cops #2)

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Ethan West is giving his girlfriend Mira something special for her birthday: her never-before-explored fantasy. He's recruited one of his cop friends to join them for a romantic weekend. But the three of them cross boundries they never expected.

Paperback, 336 pages

Published April 3rd 2012 by NAL Trade

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Apr 19, 2012 Kathleen rated it 3 of 5 stars

Story Rating 3 Stars
Character Rating 3,5 Stars
Romance Rating 3.5 Stars
Heat Level 4.5 Stars
Overall Rating 3.5 Stars

I was stuck between really liking this book and just liking it ok.

This book took off for me and grabbed me in chapter 1 but as it went on the story line was a bit lacking to me. This whole story revolved around a weekend birthday celebration. It was all in one spot and only 3 people were involve. Also I felt there was way too much thinking going on, OK I get the need to use thinking...more

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Apr 25, 2012 Auntee rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Ménage fans

Shelves: erotic-romance, part-of-a-series, toni-blake-lacey-alexander, 2012_reads, ménage

Here's the story: Pretty, sweet, curvy, brunette Mira, owner of a cute bookstore/gift basket business has a longtime boyfriend, Ethan. Dark-haired, blue-eyed Ethan used to be a cop, but then switched careers to become a lawyer. Ethan and Mira get along great--they have similar outlooks on life and work well as a couple. But lately Ethan's been neglecting Mira and spending too much time on his career, and Mira's not happy. To make it up to her and to get their relationship back on track, Ethan ha...more

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Apr 11, 2012 Mandi Schreiner rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: erotic, contemporary

Why did I choose to read Party of Three? Well, I’m always on the lookout for erotic ménage books, and while M/M/F is my favorite, I was interested in this M/F/M because there are cops and ex-boyfriends and I have been wanting to try this author.

Mira Adams and Ethan West are in a loving, stable relationship. Ethan has left the law enforcement agency, H.O.T (which stands for “Hostage Ops Team” – but let’s face it – “HOT” – might deserve a little giggle snort) and has gone to law school and is now...more Why did I choose to read Party of Three? Well, I’m always on the lookout for erotic ménage books, and while M/M/F is my favorite, I was interested in this M/F/M because there are cops and ex-boyfriends and I have been wanting to try this author.

Mira Adams and Ethan West are in a loving, stable relationship. Ethan has left the law enforcement agency, H.O.T (which stands for “Hostage Ops Team” – but let’s face it – “HOT” – might deserve a little giggle snort) and has gone to law school and is now a lawyer. He is busy, and the quality time spent with Mira is suffering. With Mira’s birthday coming up , they both want to get their relationship and sex life back on track. Ethan takes her to a secluded cabin but has a big surprise for her. He has invited her ex-boyfriend Rogan Wolfe (who also works for H.O.T) to come join them. Recently, Mira had told Adam one of her fantasies was to have another man join them in the bedroom. Mira never thought Ethan would act on that fantasy, and is shocked and nervously excited when Rogan shows up.

First let me say, Lacey Alexander writes really good sex scenes. They are explicit, dirty, and if you are looking for a book where you just want the hot sex and don’t care about the relationship stuff, you would probably enjoy this book. I never got tired of the sex, it didn’t feel repetitive. While there is sex on the beach, sex on a boat, sex pretty much everywhere in the cabin, my favorite sex scene is in the kitchen with Mira’s birthday cake (which is cheesecake). I think we might need an excerpt from this scene:

And then – oh God, yes, yes, yes – there was Ethan, using his fingers to smudge still more of her birthday cake onto his erection, struggling a little to make it stay, but then holding the shaft down level and turning back toward her. By which time she’d never felt more ravenous in her life.

“Open wide,” he said.

And she couldn’t help thinking everything about him looked utterly delicious in that moment – not just his cheesecake-covered cock, but his entire body from head to toe.

I’m not sure if Ethan should win a medal for balancing cheesecake on his cock or using it as a spork. Either way, I’m impressed Ethan.

So the sex is fun in this book. But there is a lot that I didn’t like as well. The core of this story is that Ethan and Mira think their relationship needs work. Needs some kind of spark to make it better. So maybe bringing Rogan in and opening Mira up sexually, might help the situation. A lot of time in this book is focused on Rogan and Mira’s old feelings. They broke up, but having sex together for a weekend brings up those feelings. Rogan feels like he can’t let her go again. Mira feels very conflicted and starts to feel real things towards him. Even at one point, Ethan feels extremely jealous. All things I liked seeing and agree with.

But then the book ends so abruptly. I felt like Ethan and Mira’s issues are not addressed at all. We actually don’t even get that much POV from Ethan. Being the hero of the story, this disturbed me. I needed to feel like Ethan and Mira were back on track to a steady relationship, and I did not feel like that at the end. We get so much time invested in Rogan, for nothing to come of it. I was really let down by the conclusion of this book. For all the sex there are still three people who started having intermingling feelings and I was definitely invested in how it would all turn out. And unfortunately, in my eyes, nothing was resolved.
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Apr 28, 2013 Elaine rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: alpha-male-s, blazing-hot, great-plot, law-enforcement, m-f-m, owned-ebook, romance, series, slippery-when-wet, smut-fun, verklempt-moment

This book blew my mind! I stumbled across it early this morning on my Kindle- have no recollection when I got it or from where. I didn't remember any details about the plot, just that Lacey Alexander can write one hell of an erotic romance. I decided to read it cold- without looking it up for reviews or plot. I read it in one sitting, completely engrossed, shed a few tears here and there, which is very out of character for me. What a book!

Here's the story, according to yours truly:

Mira and Etha...more

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Mar 09, 2013 Joy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: bdsm, contemporary-romance, ebooks, erotic-fiction, favorites

I was reading through this series without reading the description and I like that I didn't have expectations. I enjoyed this story, I'd say in this case that healthy jealousy (if there's such a thing) doesn't hurt, if only it would help you realize what your priorities are, and how strongly you feel for your partner.

From the onset, I knew I was in for a fun weekend between the characters. Oh my was it an inferno! Everything was fantastic (keyword fantasy) but of course, a threesome is like a dou...more I was reading through this series without reading the description and I like that I didn't have expectations. I enjoyed this story, I'd say in this case that healthy jealousy (if there's such a thing) doesn't hurt, if only it would help you realize what your priorities are, and how strongly you feel for your partner.

From the onset, I knew I was in for a fun weekend between the characters. Oh my was it an inferno! Everything was fantastic (keyword fantasy) but of course, a threesome is like a double edged sword, especially if the third isn't really into the relationship.

Mira and Ethan have been together for five years, but recently she felt that she was neglected because Ethan is now a lawyer. When she was about to throw in the towel, Ethan surprised her for a birthday getaway, a private cabin in the woods, and a fantasy that would be realized.

We know Rogan from the first book and he's invited for Mira's birthday celebration. There were a lot of emotions that ran around this story. I thought they would make it a threesome for real, but one wrong turn and Mira decided whom she wants to spend the rest of her life with.

Now, I really liked the creativity and freedom when it comes to sex here. I also felt the love between Mira and Ethan. I'm undecided about Rogan's feelings toward Mira because he could've been the one who brought out her wilder side but maybe he was younger he didn't know better and broke her heart. It's like when he saw how uninhibited Mira is in the bedroom, he decides she's the perfect woman, while Ethan just embraced all of her.

In a way, the weekend was enlightening for the three of them. Mira and Ethan rediscovered themselves, that they liked the D/s play in the bedroom, which wouldn't have happened if Rogan wasn't in the picture. One could say that there was a lot of "porn" here but I beg to disagree, 'cause the characters here aren't strangers. Sure they went at it like animals but that's part of the package. No matter how explicit or raw the sexual act is, their hearts were into it. It all boils down to being with the right person, and that applies to everything.

I like how Mira decided to be honest with Ethan about the encounter in the well, and because of his unconditional love, he just didn't want to know (of course he had an idea), and they're on to a fresh start. Their relationship was strengthened, or solidified if that's the better term and this is my favorite among the three, (I wrote this review after reading them all) because the story clearly showed unconditional love, through the trying times they stayed together.(less)

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Apr 03, 2012 Bookaholics rated it 4 of 5 stars

arty of Three by Lacey Alexander
Contemporary Romance -April 3rd, 2012
4 ½ stars

Lacey Alexander knows to write a hot, HOT romance! In this erotic novel, the heroine must choose between her current love and a past boyfriend who broke her heart.

Mira Adams loves her boyfriend Ethan West, but his dedication to his new job pulls him away from her. As he distances himself from her, she has struggled with the feeling that they don’t belong together anymore and even started packing to leave him! But with...more arty of Three by Lacey Alexander
Contemporary Romance -April 3rd, 2012
4 ½ stars

Lacey Alexander knows to write a hot, HOT romance! In this erotic novel, the heroine must choose between her current love and a past boyfriend who broke her heart.

Mira Adams loves her boyfriend Ethan West, but his dedication to his new job pulls him away from her. As he distances himself from her, she has struggled with the feeling that they don’t belong together anymore and even started packing to leave him! But with her upcoming birthday Ethan has taken her away to spend time alone together and Mira feels like it is old times. But Ethan has another surprise in store for her celebration. A fantasy that Mira once told him. And he includes Mira’s former lover, Rogan! For Mira is going to experience the love of two men pleasuring her!

But plans go away as Rogan (who left Mira) discovers what he lost. He had felt that Mira was too vanilla for him and this escapade has opened his eyes to the love he holds for her, including her new, exuberant sexuality! He tells Mira he wants her back. Mira must choose between the love of each man, who will she choose?

The author sure knows how to write sizzling sexual fantasies. Who wouldn’t want the love of two sexy men? Even though both men are opposites, they are equally attractive and compelling. Rogan is the bad dominant boy and Ethan is the nice guy with some surprises of his own! Mira struggles with her feelings and has a tough decision to make but I think she made the right one. The sex is super hot and erotic fans will definitely be getting hot under the collar! This book is definitely not for the faint of heart. There are several scenes with the three of them together but they never feel thrown in or forced. Although the premise/plot is very straightforward, the author manages to imbue real feeling and substance into her characters that make them feel three dimensional and not just props in between sex scenes.

Steamy, hot sex and genuine characters with real feelings and personality make this romance stand out among erotic books.

Reviewed by Steph from the Bookaholics Romance Book Club
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Apr 28, 2012 Tiffany rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012-reads, contemporary-romance, erotic-romance

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Three's a crowd in the second of an uneven series.

The ultimate in erotic romance and sexual fantasy is Lacey Alexander. Her books are wildly extravagant, and she always seems to make the dirty talk and over-the-top love scenes work. Something about this series, though, is a miss.

Ethan and Mira are in a solid relationship of four years, but over time, Ethan has become focused on his career as an attorney and has started to neglect Mira. He plans a birthday surpris...more Courtesy of Happy Endings Reviews

Three's a crowd in the second of an uneven series.

The ultimate in erotic romance and sexual fantasy is Lacey Alexander. Her books are wildly extravagant, and she always seems to make the dirty talk and over-the-top love scenes work. Something about this series, though, is a miss.

Ethan and Mira are in a solid relationship of four years, but over time, Ethan has become focused on his career as an attorney and has started to neglect Mira. He plans a birthday surprise of her ultimate fantasy, a threesome, and includes Mira’s ex and fellow H.O.T. cop member Rogan, as an attempt to show her how much he really loves her and is committed to their relationship. There are so many problems with this set-up alone. The fact that to show his commitment to Mira, he invites another person to join them is weird in itself. That the third person is his girlfriend’s ex, a man she really loved, the one who actually taught her to love sex, is downright crazy.

The H.O.T. cops are a group of men who trained together as hostage negotiators, but have all gone their separate ways to different careers and cities. There’s essentially no suspense aspect to this series at all and very little interaction between the group as a whole, which is strange. Other than a few references, you wouldn’t even know that Ethan and Rogan have backgrounds in law enforcement. Of course the purpose is clearly the sex, which I appreciate, but in this instance, perhaps some focus on something else would have served the book better as a whole.

Once Rogan arrives, there is essentially no hesitation on anyone’s part, and their threesome evolves into a weekend-long orgy. There’s no question that Alexander knows her way around a love scene, and those don’t disappoint. Of course, since there’s a lot of baggage involved in this particular mix, it’s really no surprise that past feelings surface again, jealousy rears its ugly head, and this threesome gets really messy. Which brings up another issue. Alexander’s heroines have a lot of self-reflection throughout her books. A lot. If half of the book is sex, the other half is introspection and analysis by the heroine of what she’s feeling and how she’s reacting to the situation. These books are fantasy, so it’s understandable to an extent that the character has to process what she’s experiencing. In previous books the balance has worked better, more smoothly and evenly. But Mira is so busy indulging in the most extreme sex of her life one minute and then thinking it to death the next. It becomes very repetitive and almost out of place in this setting, ironic in a book where anything goes.

It also seems like a problem that the best scene in the entire book involves Mira and Rogan alone in the woods engaging in hot sex just the two of them, which makes Mira immediately feels guilty and like she’s crossed a line. The resolution is abrupt and unsatisfying. The book, like all of Alexander’s books, ends with only one couple, but the biggest problem is that for me, it’s the wrong couple. I’m looking forward to Rogan’s book next, but I can’t help but feel like this book was a missed opportunity. Sex appears to have taken priority over character development. I’m not a fan of permanent ménages, but it’s almost preferable to having the wrong couple get the happily ever after, which is just about criminal in the world of romance.

Series: H.O.T. Cops #2

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Oct 22, 2012 Regina rated it 3 of 5 stars

Lots of hot sexual encounters, but there was too much heroine introspection; it was getting distracting and bogged down the story. The entire story centered around a sexual fantasy birthday present weekend. It rekindled a prior serious relationship, which threw the threesome into a quagmire of emotional confusion and jealousy. It's obvious that the author tried to realistically explore the emotional ramifications of a one-time menage a trois. But since I didn't feel any connection to the main co...more

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Aug 16, 2012 Lindy rated it 5 of 5 stars

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2 Peppers (M/F/M, M/F, oral sex, public sex, double penetration)

Mira and her workaholic boyfriend's relationship was nearing a breaking point. Despite how much she loves Ethan and how great their chemistry is, she was seriously considering leaving him when he suddenly told her he wanted to take her away for a romantic weekend for her birthday. But that's not all he has planned for her. He knows he's been too wrapped up in work lately, and kno...more

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May 26, 2012 Darcy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, erotica, menage

I think this book is a classic of what can go wrong with menage when the people involved don't think things through. Ethan knows his relationship has hit a rough patch with Mira, mostly due to his actions of ignoring. During a weekend away he decides to surprise her with a three way, her secret fantasy, with her old boyfriend and his friend. Here is where the problem starts.

I can see Ethan wanting to give Mira this experience, but allowing an ex to be the third is just asking for problems. And...more

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Apr 06, 2012 Phuong rated it 4 of 5 stars

Super steamy book with lots of sex scenes of the naughty kind. Ethan has a birthday surprise for his girlfriend, Mira, that could cost him to lose her to her ex-lover, Rogan. Things have been rough for Ethan and Mira due to his preoccupation with work so he decides to fulfill her ultimate fantasy of a threesome to show how much he loves her. Enter bad boy, Rogan and old feelings start coming up between the two. His dominating attitude turns Mira on and she starts wondering if she can be in love...more

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Sep 09, 2012 Loretta rated it 4 of 5 stars

oh yes! OH yes!! OH YES!!! How hot can it get when the love of your life and the former love of your life rock your world! If only they had just found that it could have lasted beyond her birthday? But, in the long run, I suppose they truly found what they were searching for...

And, Bad-boy Rogan? I am sure that he will eventually find the love of his life... Too bad he wasn't man enough to hold onto Mira when he had the chance... A bittersweet ending to both love and regret. *sigh*

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Apr 07, 2013 Adriana (Booky) Bookologist rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 15-chapters-up, contemporary, erotica, series, paper-format, april-2013, battle-of-the-books, f-m, i-recommend-it, menage-mfm, military-cops-service-b-guards-pi, romance, reviewed

Party of Three by Lacey Alexander

Now this is what I call a birthday present! I thoroughly enjoyed this story. It was well written and all about exploring a ménage fantasy that Mira shared with her boyfriend Ethan who made it come true as her birthday gift.

I read the first in this series a while ago but believe that these books do not have to be read in order to appreciate the characters and their stories though that is always a plus. I will be continuing this series.

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May 25, 2012 Susan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: menage

What would happen if your boyfriend offered to make your wildest fantasy come true? What would you do if the guy he chose for the third in the threesome was your ex - who you may still have feelings for?

This book's premise is exactly that. And considering the books I read, I was expecting steamy and sexy. Instead I got a lot of angsty introspective, deep thoughts and way too much second-guessing. I finished reading it but the HEA left me unsatisfied.

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Jun 10, 2012 Divalish Smile rated it 3 of 5 stars

Rating 3.5
Ok so I love Lacey!! big fan of Lacey! Huge Lacey Groupie... but this book was just "good" for me not "great". The first book in this series really had me giving up sleep so that I could see what happened next, but I didn't find that with this book. It had some great "dirty" scenes and the idea that having a special birthday present of a Menage that can bring a couple closer together is intriguing to say the least.

I found that the scenes that got me excited the most were the ones with...more

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Jul 05, 2012 Lisa (Fic Talk) rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult-fiction, dirty-dirty-dirty, erotica, hot-bad-boys, love-triangle-i-didnt-care-for, pub-2012, read-in-2012, romance

This was definitely just as hot as the first one, but the whole emotional roller coaster that the author sent the readers on was just... annoying and frustrating.

It's like, the heroine got her cake and eat it too.

Enough said.

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Feb 03, 2013 Patti rated it 4 of 5 stars

A good, hot story, with the heroine actually THINKING about the repercussions of her actions. So many times in these books, there's no deep questioning of the act, just the doing. Which was very good, but I really liked that the heroine struggled with her choices and the story didn't end with the cliche happy ending of so many threesome books.

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Apr 17, 2012 Charmaine Semple rated it 3 of 5 stars

uh where can i find an Ethan or Rogan for that matter? anyone ? I loved that Mira had a tough choice to make and that she made it.

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Mar 26, 2013 Huluriasquias rated it 3 of 5 stars

Small story with a lot of thinking going on. Not her best.

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Apr 16, 2012 Glynda Roy rated it 2 of 5 stars

Not up to her usual standards. Just sex, no plot.

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Apr 09, 2013 Lucie Lepage rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Apr 06, 2013 Jeannie rated it 1 of 5 stars

Cliche.

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Mar 29, 2013 Laz the Sailor rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: smut, battle-of-the-books, mar-2013

Classic hot Lacey A sex! And I don't think I'm the only man who has considered arranging a 3-way for his partner (and himself!).

Overall, the plot and motivations held together for me. The boat ride, the wishing well, the parts left unsaid or unresolved; they all worked for me. As noted elsewhere, she thinks too much, but then she acknowledges that to herself and us: "Less thinking, more fucking!"

And in the next story, Rogan gets his girl.

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Apr 04, 2012 Jen rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fv

Mira and Ethan/Rogan

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