French Kiss

Rating Explicit Content Genre adult Author Sloane Taylor Publisher Eternal Press

French Kiss by Sloane Taylor demonstrates what a clever author can do in fifteen thousand words or less. In book four of “The Naughty Ladies of Nice” series, Taylor weaves romance with a suspenseful plot involving sex trafficking in the Mediterranean.

Rachel Conklin, award winning children's author, washes up on the storm tossed shore of a small island off the coast of France. She is found by Henri Bernier, a pediatrician, caught in the storm on the trawler inherited from his fisherman father. Once safely back in Nice, Rachel's determination to keep the cause of her traumatic experience and her celebrity a secret drives a wedge in her burgeoning romance with the handsome doctor. Henri has no idea she has witnessed illegal operations aboard a sex trafficking ship. Both the lovers are unaware that Gagnon, the ship's captain, knows her whereabouts and has sent one of his crew to kidnap her.

Taylor deftly delivers the explicit sex scenes obligatory to this genre, but they take a back seat to the plot and characters. The book's plot shows that this writer has the potential to expand her stories beyond short erotic novellas that take barely an hour to read. For a literary quickie, Taylor's book is well worth the time, but the greatest flaw of French Kiss is its brevity. The main characters with their briefly sketched but complex backgrounds and well delineated secondary characters all beg to be explored in more depth.

Erotic novellas, such as Taylor's contemporary suspense, generate only part of the customer base for Eternal Press, one of a growing number of e-publishers. This publisher and others offer a wide variety of books in genres from young adult fiction to range erotica and everything in between. Eternal Press's books range in length from 5,000 words to 110,000 words and are offered in PDF format. For more on eBooks, read the feature article EBOOKS ON THE RISE by Ally Robertson right here on Static Multimedia.