Love's Desire

by Deatri King-Bey

A short story collection that captures the essence of first love, love lost, love found and love’s passion... Stories range from highly erotic to sweet romance.

Genres: Erotica

ebook

First published September 22, 2010

About the author

When Deatri was six years old, her mother was told that because of Deatri's dyslexia, she'd probably never learn how to read. At that time, it was recommended Deatri partake in a specialized reading curriculum. Unbeknownst to Deatri's parents, this additional help their daughter would need, from a teacher, was actually Deatri being taken out of reading class to sit in the hallway with a tape recorder. When Deatri entered the fourth grade at a different school, her parents were terrified to learn their daughter couldn't read. For years, she'd been reciting the bedtime stories to her mother from memory instead of actually reading the written words from the pages.

My have times changed! In 1999, Deatri was a technical writer at a telecommunications company with dreams of joining the publishing world as a content editor and author. Mind made up, she returned to school and soon started as an editorial intern at Third World Press, Inc., one of the oldest independent, African-American owned publishing houses in the world. Shortly thereafter, her skills were recognized, and she became a more permanent fixture at Third World Press, Inc. Though Deatri believes in Third World Press's mission, fiction is her true love, so in 2004 she began focusing her editing skills on fiction.

Dozens of manuscripts later, she still hasn't figured out that she wasn't supposed to learn how to read. February 2006, the second half of Deatri's dream came true with the release of her debut novel Caught Up. In 2008, Deatri won the coveted Emma Award for Best Steamy Romance of the year with her title: Whisper Something Sweet. Currently, she is reading, editing, conducting writing workshops, and writing her next novels.

Reviews

[Latiffany · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have to admit, I am not familiar with the romance genre. Romance novels have never really captured my attention. This collection of romance stories are written well. This issue for me was that they seemed to lack depth. There were at least two stories that were so brief and made very little sense that I wondered why they were included in the collection. Again, this could be an issue with the genre, but overall my first experience with romance stories was not great.

[Imani Wisdom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Deatri King-Bey puts together a collection of wonderfully written stories. She offers something for everyone, such as, sweet love stories to spicy erotica. I found myself gripped to a few in the collection but my favorite was the first story. I didn't want it to end! There were moments I had my "awww's" and "ooooh's" between each word. Overall, if you're a fan of short stories coupled with a little sweet and spicy, this book is definitely for you!

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a nice collection of short stories. There were some that I wished were longer but it was still a good read.

[Debra Crosby · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just when I was getting into it it was over

[Kathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good fast read of short stories.

[Diana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved It

[KBeautiful1 · Rating 5 out of 5]

These were short stories in this book. All of them were amazing and will have you wishing the stories were longer. I absolutely enjoyed this read and again author Deatri King-Bey never disappoints.

[°☆.。.:*・Nanna°☆.。.:*・ · Rating 1 out of 5]

The stories were pretty boring and slow. Even the sexual parts were pretty boring and not exciting.

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[Barbara Tsipouras · Rating 5 out of 5]

14 short stories ranging from sweet first encounters to steamy hot erotic love.