In The Secret Hours

by Marilyn Jaye Lewis

In the sultry hours after midnight. For twenty-one years, Big Joe Donovan has dreaded the day when his daughter, Evie, would come into the vast inheritance left by her late mother. How long can big joe shield Evie from the sordid truth about her fortune? Forbiddin yearnings are unleashed, secrets are revealed. Rugged Lucass Cain is almost a mirror image of Big Joe-younger but just as dangerouse! The secrets Lucas discovers in the back allys of the French Quarter could topple Big Joes lavish empire. But now that lucas has fallen for Evie, will he have the heart to shatter her world? And a past indiscretion threatens to foreever alter one woman's fate! Will Evie free herself from lusts erotic abyss and overthrow the teranny of her father? In the Secret Hours, where the hunger for power can lead to untold temptations, bonds of love are forged that can rewrite the pages of destiny.

254 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Marilyn Jaye Lewis is the author of the award-winning book Neptune & Surf and the co-editor of the international best-selling erotic art book, Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography.

She has received many citations and awards for her erotic fiction, including finalist in the William Faulkner Writing Competition and winner in the New Century Writers Awards for her novel Curse of our Profound Disorder.

Her short stories and novellas have been published worldwide and translated into French, Italian, and Japanese.

Lust: Bisexual Erotica represents her erotic short stories from 1997-2003. And the forthcoming Ribbon of Darkness is her collected works of short erotic fiction from 1996 - 2007. Anthologies she has edited include Hot Women’s Erotica, That’s Amore!, Stirring Up A Storm, Zowie! It's Yaoi! and Entangled Lives.

Her popular erotic romance novels include When Hearts Collide and When the Night Stood Still.

Upcoming novels: Freak Parade, A Killing On Mercy Road, We’re Still All That, and Twilight of the Immortal.