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Viceroy One of the things I have noticed the last several months is the large number of erotic novels, regardless of type, that seem to be using a location as a springboard for the erotica. By location, I mean that a number of books seem to be exploring the idea that a building could have a legacy, supernatural or otherwise, that causes erotic storylines. Often it seems that the erotic elements of the past in the building are somehow merged in the novel with erotic elements of modern day through the supernatural or some other means but the building is the key to bringing it all together. That idea is certainly true in this novel where the legacy of a building comes to life in this offering from Extasy books, a division of Zumaya. The past and the present both play a role in this well written erotic novel with a touch of mystery. A short prologue opens the book in 1946. Ruddy Myers and his wife Vera are intimate and very much in love, at least from Ruddy's perspective. He plans on building her a large house and calling it The Viceroy. A home all of her own would mean the world to her and she promises to herself to reward him sexually if he does build it. Chapter One begins the modern day story in 2003 when Tom pulls up to a large apartment building advertising an apartment for rent. The building is a beautiful three story building, well maintained and landscaped, and the available apartment is a one bedroom. The apartment is available because the elderly tenant has had to move to a home. Tom tours the apartment and unexplainably feels strongly attracted to it and after signing a lease, moves in. He soon begins to meet his neighbors and gradually learns the history of the building. Nora lived in his apartment for over forty years and before she moved in, Ruddy and his wife Vera occupied the same apartment. As the chapters pass, his neighbors enlighten Tom about some things from the past as well as each other, but they don't know everything. They don't know about the secret passage hidden behind a closet in Tom's apartment. They don't know that the passage has many branches, each leading to a different apartment. His fellow tenants don't know that Tom can move inside the walls and watch their activities, erotic or otherwise, as they go about their lives. They don't know but Tom does as he has started exploring the possibilities as he moves from apartment to apartment inside the secret passage. Tom has also found hidden in the secret passageway ledgers that Ruddy wrote from his own watching activities after he built the building. Not only did Ruddy detail the escapades of his neighbors, he also might have explained why he suddenly vanished. While Tom watches his neighbor's sexual activities as well as occasionally participating, he also begins to read the ledgers in order to satisfy his own curiosity and answer the one question no one seems to be able to answer-why did Ruddy vanish. This is a well-written erotic novel featuring a wide range of intriguing characters and multiple sexual possibilities. Like other Extasy titles I have reviewed, the work is technically flawless and the read while not intense, is satisfying. Limits are occasionally pushed with the characters, but nothing really graphic or extremely hard-core is done which makes this a great couples type read. For folks who want a hint of mystery blended into their erotica, this one would also work.
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