SOLVED. Erotic novella collection -- one story has drugged hero held captive with heroine [s]

[Colleen]

This is a novella collection published in trade paperback sometimes in the 2000s; I'm thinking it was a major publisher because I'm pretty sure I bought it at a Barnes n Noble or Borders (sob) store.

There were 3-4 novellas and they were heavy on the sex/light on romance, tho it was categorized as romance.

The novella I remember involved a hero who was some kind of soldier/detective/cop or something who was captured and locked up in a room with the heroine. The main thing I remember is that the bad guys had injected him with some sort of extreme horniness drug that made it literally painful for him not to have sex, and locked him up with the girl figuring that he would not be able to resist ravaging her. He grits it out for a while, eventually tells her what's going on, and at first she tries to help him, um, help himself but that's not enough to take the edge off for him so they end up having lots of hot rough sex, and I think it ends with them being rescued. The main point is the hero is drugged up with some sort of aphrodisiac and has to have sex or is in extreme pain and the heroine decides to help him out. It was a contemporary, not historical. I have no memory of the other 2 or 3 stories in the book, but that one stuck with me.

Thanks for any suggestions/solutions!

[Colleen]

Well dang, I have been reminding myself for ages to post this request here, and once I do, I figure out the book myself within the hour. *headdesk*

So the book is The Hard Stuff by Karin Tabke, Bonnie Edwards, and Sunny. The novella I was remembering is the one by Sunny. It was published in 2005 by Kensington's Aphrodisia line.

So I can move this one to SOLVED, right?

[Kris]

Done. Here's the link - The Hard Stuff by Bonnie Edwards.