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Welcome Lisabet Sarai to the blog with a steamy, new boxed set!

Triad: Three-way Erotic Romance

By Lisabet Sarai

Lisabet: Love Chooses Us

Over the past few years, the reverse harem genre has become quite popular. I’m sure you’re familiar with the general theme: a woman becomes involved with multiple men and ends up in a polyamorous relationship with them all. Usually the men are linked by some prior connection. They may be brothers, or business partners, or fellow members of a Navy SEAL unit. Their preexisting fellowship helps to mitigate the jealousy or rivalry one might otherwise expect from a group of men focused on the same woman.

Reverse harem stories fulfill our fantasies of being cherished, pampered and pleasured by lovers with different physical attributes, styles and personalities, without being castigated as promiscuous or slutty. A hashtag/meme has become attached to reverse harem fiction: #WhyChoose?

It’s easy to understand the attraction of this notion. Traditional romance focuses on finding your soul mate. The heroine must recognize the single special person who’s right for her and to do whatever is necessary to ensure that they remain together. She’s expected to be faithful, forsaking all others, forever after.

Not much pressure, right? What if you make a mistake? What if it turns out that your beloved is perfect for you in some ways, but not in others?

“Why choose?” makes things a bit easier. Each of the lovers in your harem can satisfy different needs. One of your men might drive you crazy with some annoying habit, but you can always escape to the company of another. Although difficult to achieve in real life, the “why choose” world has definite appeal.

Triad, my latest release, collects a number of romance tales that feature three-way polyamorous relationships with a woman at the apex of the triangle. I wouldn’t label them as reverse harem, which usually involves a larger group of suitors, but my stories do share some characteristics with the genre.

They differ from the genre in an important way, though. None of the characters in these stories sets out with the intention of having a three-way relationship. My heroines aren’t faced with a decision, but rather, a fait accompli when they realize they need more than one lover to be complete.

I think this is a more realistic view of relationships. We don’t set out to choose the one—or the ones—we love. Awkward as it might seem, a triangle may be the only stable configuration for a relationship. Love chooses us. And sometimes we need courage to accept that choice.

Threesome/polyamory boxed set

104,000 words, 395 pages

Exclusive to Kindle Unlimited

ASIN: ‎‎‎ B0DCT7NC8C‎

Blurb

Sometimes one plus one equals three

Why should soul mate be singular? Can one person really satisfy every need and desire?

Triad is a compilation of erotic romance tales about threesomes – not fleeting, lust-driven ménage a trois encounters but stable, loving relationships that involve three people. A long-married couple’s ardor is rekindled when another man seduces each of them in turn. A lonely, embittered vampire finds redemption in the arms of his two young victims. A mistletoe kiss reawakens passion between old friends, until Suzanne discovers Gino already has a life partner. An alien pair offers love and immortality to the only survivor of a interstellar disaster.

Steamy and explicit, unapologetically romantic, Triad celebrates the joys of three-way polyamory.

Excerpt – From Wild About that Thing

As the applause died down, Zeke and his boys struck the first chords of Rock Me Baby. Ruby launched into the rollicking tune, the driving beat automatically making her feel better.

“Rock me baby. I want you to rock me all night long.

Rock me baby, yeah, rock me all night long.

I want you to rock me baby, like my back ain’t got no bone.”

Zeke took up the second verse, giving her a chance to catch her breath. His sexy baritone vibrated deep in her stomach. He always managed to make this song sound deliciously dirty, especially when they sang it together.

They reached the bridge. Zeke’s guitar wailed like a cat in heat. Ruby scanned the audience. Thirty or forty people at least, clustered around the tables or leaning against the bar. Practically every seat in the place was taken. Men predominated, but there were plenty of women, too. She saw black and white faces, age-grizzled hair and sleek, modern dos, ragged jeans and designer sweatshirts.

Young and old, black and white, rich and poor—everyone moved with the music. Everywhere she looked, her customers swayed to the beat—nodding their heads, shaking their shoulders or tapping their toes. That’s the way it was with the blues. You couldn’t help it.

Except for this one guy, who perched on a barstool pretty close to the stage. He had skin the color of espresso, a shaved head, aquiline features, and wire-frame glasses. The top two buttons of his white business shirt were open, the sleeves turned halfway up his forearms and the tails outside his trim jeans. His polished leather shoes looked expensive. The thing that drew Ruby’s attention, though, was his aura of total concentration. One foot on the rung of the stool, he focused on the band, drinking in the music. His lips pressed together. His hands, decorated with gold rings, lay still on his taut thighs. He wasn’t grooving with the rest of the crowd, but Ruby could tell he was swallowing up every note.

As though he felt the weight of her gaze, the man turned his face towards her. Their eyes connected. His were dark as midnight, deep as a grave.

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About Lisabet

Lisabet Sarai became addicted to words at an early age. She began reading when she was four. She wrote her first story at five years old and her first poem at seven. Since then, she has written plays, tutorials, scholarly articles, marketing brochures, software specifications, self-help books, press releases, a five-hundred page dissertation, and lots of erotica and erotic romance – over one hundred titles, and counting, in nearly every sub-genre—paranormal, scifi, ménage, BDSM, GLBT, and more. Regardless of the genre, every one of her stories illustrates her motto: Imagination is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

You’ll find information and excerpts from all Lisabet’s books on her website (http://www.lisabetsarai.com/books.html), along with more than fifty free stories and lots more. At her blog Beyond Romance (http://lisabetsarai.blogspot.com), she shares her philosophy and her news and hosts lots of other great authors. She’s also on Goodreads, BookBub and Twitter. Join her VIP email list here: https://btn.ymlp.com/xgjjhmhugmgh