Unwrapped

By Carrie Alexander

Tis the season for fantastic sex!

Karina Sutter is famous for her decadent chocolates. Thanks to a secret family recipe, no one can resist the candy's sexual effects. After one bite, men and women can't keep their hands off one another. As happy as Karina is for her very satisfied customers, just once she would like to experience the benefits. In fact, a gorgeous, mysterious man recently moved in across the street. Maybe it's time to let loose and indulge. When Karina shows up on Alex Anderson's doorstep with a box of truffles, she's sure that after one bite, he'll be hers! It may not be true love, but who said a hot, steamy night was a bad thing? But Alex isn't as easy to convince as she thought. But Karina's not giving up. Besides, its Christmas–isn't sex just the perfect gift to giveand receive?

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• Release date: Sep 3, 2011
• ISBN: 9781742895864

Carrie Alexander

There was never any doubt that Carrie Alexander would have a creative career. As a two-year-old, she imagined dinosaurs on the lawn. By six it was witches in the bedroom closet. Soon she was designing elaborate paper-doll wardrobes and writing stories about Teddy the Bear. Eventually she graduated to short horror stories and oil paints. She was working as an artist and a part-time librarian when she "discovered" her first romance novel and thought, "Hey, I can write one of these!" So she did. Carrie is now the author of several books for various Harlequin lines, with many more crowding her imagination, demanding to be written. She has been a RITA and Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice finalist, but finds her greatest reward in becoming friends with her readers, even if it's only for the length of a book. Carrie lives in the upper peninsula of Michigan, where the long winters still don't give her enough time to significantly reduce her to-be-read mountains of books. When she's not reading or writing (which is rare), Carrie is painting and decorating her own or her friends' houses, watching football, and shoveling snow. She loves to hear from readers, who can contact her by mail in care of Harlequin Books, and by email at [e-mail]

[yurioujo_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It was a short, but fun and sexy read about an inhibited woman wanting to keep her man, and said man loves her greatly he's been patient with her.I love the Christmas theme, and how Ms Alexander wrote something about the effect of drilling something to children and it sticks until adulthood. Emily burns for Simon and vice versa, but due to her strict and extremely conservative upbringing, she has a lot of sexual hangups. Simon embodies the perfect man, someone who loves Emily for herself, but of course he has needs that go quite unfulfilled. They've been together for three years, while they're fantastic outside of bed, they're totally drab on it, and it's pathetic.I felt strongly for Emily because I understand where she came from. It's a psychological thing and at least she acknowledged her inadequacy when it comes to pleasing Simon. Running into an old college friend who happens to be a sex therapist, she got all the help she could get. Loved the slight F/F scene! Simon was blown away and it was still romantic after that.Short this may be, it has the character development, the very hot sex in the end, added with anal play and dirty talk. Emily has come a long way (pun intended).