Decadent by Suzanne Forster
Suzanne also wrote the first Spice novel, and this story has a lot of the same flavor, but is far less explicit that you might expect. Instead she pushes the tension between the characters right to the limit. I really enjoyed the book, though I would have enjoyed seeing more inside the club, along with watching Sam play a game of poker with Ally as the stake. But then again, this is Blaze – not Spice. Guess I’ve got to track down some of her other books. If you’re interested in a story that pushes the limits of what you can do in a Blaze, you definitely have to read this book.
Details: Blaze #288, November 2006
Bottom line: A great book
Julia Beckham agrees to repay her father’s debt to Colonel Garrett by using her skills as a relationship therapist to help forge a new team to replace Project Chameleon. Garrett also calls in a favor owed to him by Guy McCann, the former leader of Project Chameleon. Together Julia and Guy are given just one week to forge the bonds between the members of the team so they work together as a single unit. But how can the team function as a unit if their instructors can't work together. When the couple finally resolve their differences, they find that they can’t get enough of each other. But at the end of the week, will their new bonds break as the couple goes their own ways or will they remain together. 
Emma Langsford is not exactly your average individual – not after eight years in the Army. When family responsibilities forced her to leave the military, Emma put her future on hold to take care of them. Unfortunately taking care of her family meant that money was always tight and meant she couldn’t afford to turn down any opportunity to earn extra money. So when a former commander offers her a lot of money to retrieve a civil war era antique, Emma agreed even before he could change his mind. Little did she know that another Army officer wanted the same object and had called in a favor to get ex-Major Brian Payne aka The Specialist to retrieve the same object. From the moment they meet, Emma and Brian understood that only one of them would end up with the object. Now can Emma win the competition despite the sexy hunk, or will she succumb to her passions and give up the money that could save her family and her future. 
Ashley Miles is a girl who knows what she wants and romance just doesn’t make the list. Between working two jobs and attending school, Ashley is flat out of time. Not if she wants to pay her bills and get good grades. The last thing she needs is a rich, handsome man chasing after her. When Quinton Murphy sees the spunky girl, he’s fascinated beyond all reason, but not sure why. It isn’t her scrawny body nor her brash personality, that’s for sure. But things go downhill for Ashley, when someone starts stalking her and making death threats. Now after years of avoiding men, Ashley has two men in her life – one who wants to kill her and the other that wants to make love to her. Isn’t that just like Murphy’s Law? 
Born to billionaire parents, Eden Ross’s childhood left only one thing to be desired – love. As far back as she could remember, Eden found herself a pawn in a battle between her parents. And given their money and materialistic attitude, it’s no wonder that Eden turned out to be the tabloid’s favorite party girl. The one that everyone wanted to sleep with. Except for Marcus Quinn. While restoring a boat for Eden's father, Marcus found her on board, trying to hide from the world. While he was tempted to throw her overboard, he decides doing so would ultimately cost him his job, along with any prospect of future referrals. But when Eden finally shows him a glimpse of the real person inside, Marcus must decide whether it’s worth risking her father’s wrath or give Eden the love that she so desperately needs. 
Clarise Robinson's expert advice on clothing had earned her the top sales spot at Eubanks Elegant Apparal. But she would have traded it in a heartbeat to have sex with Ethan Eubanks, her boss. Unfortunately Ethan saw her as a friend and not a potential girlfriend. Clarise knew her body was a few (okay maybe more than a few) sizes larger than most of the skinny model types he usually dated. Her mother called her figure curvaceous, but Clarise knew otherwise. Still, she planned to seduce Ethan at this year’s company retreat, but she wasn’t sure that Ethan would even be interested. Now, will Calrise have the courage to follow through or will she settle for just being friends? 
Tanya Taylor loves artwork as only an artist could. When she sees a painting of a pirate dating back to the 1790’s, she just has to have it, even though her credit card says she shouldn’t. Then one evening she finds a mysterious stranger in her bedroom that bears a striking resemblance to the pirate in the painting. Stede O’Flannery enjoyed taking human form for the first time in years, though he knew he had exactly one week to fall in love or the curse will return him to the painting. And without love, he’ll have to wait patiently until his next opportunity to take human form arises. But love requires two people. Now can Stede convince Tanya that he’s in love with her, or more importantly can he convince himself? 
Lottie Santori left the safety of family in Chicago for a small town in Pennsylvania where a serial killer once lived. She arrives at the old Seaton House hotel only to find that it’s no longer rents rooms, but is now the private residence of Simon Lebeaux. Simon is a troubled person, who wants to be left alone with the ghosts of his past, but Lottie refuses to go away. Lottie on the other hand, needs the information that’s buried inside the hotel and sees its sexy owner as a bonus. When some accidents force the couple together, the sparks fly. But the sparks don’t change the man inside and Lottie must choose to wait for the man to make peace with his pat or walk away from potentially the most important person in her life. 
Belle Jamison never wanted to be a super hero, she just wanted to find a job that she could hold onto for more than a couple of weeks. After a crazed man disrupts the coffee shop where Belle works, she tries to relax and sip her cup of Grande Mocha Latte. The next thing she knows, she’s so sick she wishes she could die and a man – Rome Masters – is standing over her waiting for her to get better. Soon Belle learns that she has power over the four elements: fire, water, air and earth and that Rome’s assignment is to kill her if she learns how to use those powers. But she sees something special inside Rome and when she accidently torches his apartment, Rome saves her life. Now Belle must decide if Rome saved her because she’s special to him or is he just playing with her before he carries out his orders. 
When Ethan Ramsey stumbled onto a bottle of something that supposedly guaranteed crazy-passion-hot-sex-multiple-orgasms, he didn’t plan on testing it on himself. He just wanted to drop it at the police lab and move on. Little did he know he’d run into the Nicole Arroyo, a girl he desperately wanted, but couldn’t have. Nicole never wanted to see Ethan again after his failure to perform, but for some reason she was overcome with an urge to drag him into bed. But when a killer from her past returns and threatens to kill her and Ethan, it makes sense to stick together. Now will Nicole have the strength to resist her urges or will she and Ethan fall victim to Lust Potion #9? 
Gabrielle Flannery worked as the junior marketing exec for a major sporting goods company, when her boss moved on to a bigger and better job. She knew she could do the job, but so did another account exec, Dell Kingston. Their boss resolved the problem by pitting them against each other in a survival competition – the winner gets the account, and the loser gets nothing. But can Gabrielle resist Dell’s hot body long enough to win or will she give in and give up her dreams for a night of pleasure. 
The government locked former Marine sniper Reno Manchahi away for a crime he didn’t commit. Meanwhile, his superior officer. who raped Reno’s wife before killing his entire family was on the outside knowing that he had gotten away with his crime and there wasn't a thing Reno could do about it. Filled with rage, Reno vowed revenge and when offered a way out, he accepted without hesitation since he knew that getting out was the first step to avenging his family. His assignment was to find and eliminate a ghost who was killing security guards at an Ecuadorian mine, an easy task for Reno considering his shape shifting ability. Little did Reno know that the ghost was also a shape shifter as well as a beautiful woman. Magdalena Calen Hernandez always fought for the underdog, so when the emerald cartel started killing innocents, she used her skills to scare the guards away from the mine. But little did Reno and Calen know that an ancient prophesy foretold of their role in a battle between good and evil that determines who will prevail over the next 1,000 years. Can Calen and Reno find a common ground as shape shifters and resolve their differences, or is the world doomed for the next 1,000 years?
Cassandra Bishop’s life went down the toilet, when she learned that the man who abandoned her at the altar because he was gay, is now back. And he’s planning to marry a blonde with oversize breasts. So Cass did what every tomboy would do – she broke her ex’s nose and then get stinkin' drunk. What she didn’t expect was to show up on her best friend’s doorstop begging for sex. For the first time, Burke Hallifax looked at Cass not as a best friend and poker buddy, but as a woman who needs comforting. But after some heated words with her ex leads to a bet – either Cass would be the best looking woman at the wedding or he’d forfeit Cass’s prized Z-28 – Burke finds that he has to teach Cass to act and dress like a lady. But teaching Cass leads to problems that neither one anticipated and now Burke must choose how far he’s willing to go to win the bet.