And today, a guest!

Christine and I had a wonderful - and for me, highly productive! - time at the conference last weekend. She's going to tell you all about that tomorrow, I think. But in the meantime, today I have a special guest. My friend Jenna Ives is a wonderful writer, and she's written a little tale that features something that I have a bit of an affection for: bondage. I asked her if she'd talk about it a bit for your enjoyment. So, enjoy!

The Initiation Of Isabella
By Jenna Ives

My sexy new bondage novella, The Initiation Of Isabella, is part of Samhain Publishing’s “Binding Ties” anthology, written especially for those of you who love your romance with a little, um, restraint.

The Initiation of Isabella is a classic case of mistaken identity, which lets my heroine experience some of her wildest sexual fantasies. Here's the premise: Isabella Tallin is trying to join the Sigma Iomega Nu sorority, and thinks she's waiting at the corner of Elm and Main for her mysterious initiation rite to begin. But she can't believe that the rite involves a gorgeous guy in a hot red convertible and being bound, gagged, and blindfolded…or does it? Logan Sommers, meanwhile, can’t believe that the innocent-looking girl waiting for him on the street corner is his mysterious client -- the sexually jaded woman who’s paid his company, Fantasies Fulfilled, to indulge four of her most outrageous fantasies. But the pickup instructions were clear, so he whisks her away for a wickedly sensual night of bondage, punishment, ménage and more! In the end, Isabella finds herself happily initiated by a far different organization than the one she expected. You can read an excerpt of the story at my website www.jennaives.com.

The gorgeous covers for the three different stories in this anthology each center on one particular bondage element, and mine is the blindfold. A blindfold is a powerful sex toy, because without one’s sense of sight, a person finds their other senses become more heightened, in order to compensate. In this case, Isabella can’t see, only feel what’s happening to her, and her heightened sense of touch lets her more powerfully experience all the delicious things my hero Logan is doing to her naked body. Without sight, the mind is free to conjure up all sorts of yummy sexual possibilities, and we all know that the brain is the biggest sex organ we have! Plus, being blindfolded lets Isabella concentrate not on Logan, but exclusively on his sexual stimuli -- his lips, fingers, tongue, erotic toys, etc -- making her reactions much more honest and personal. And powerful. In this story, she gets to experience four outrageous sexual fantasies that include handcuffs, chains, inventive restraints and a clever whip, but the last fantasy -- being pleasured by three men at the same time -- ensures that she’s in for the most incredible night of her life!

I hope you’ll check out The Initiation of Isabella at http://samhainpublishing.com/romance/the-initiation-of-isabella so you can experience Isabella’s pleasure vicariously 

And to celebrate the release of Samhain’s Binding Ties anthology, I’m giving away a sexy Bondage Kit! You can enter by sending an e-mail to: http:// bindingties-subscribe@yahoogroups.com before October 29.

How about you? Ever use a blindfold to help spice up your sex life? Did you enjoy it? Do tell!