Cards of Passion: The Series
Life can change with the draw of a card.
When sex educator Liv Thornton created a transformative card deck of affirmations to help women embrace their sexuality and integrate that part of themselves into all that they are, she never expected her cards to find their way into so many women’s stories.
Like the jeans in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, those cards inserted themselves into the lives of a modern-day throuple playing with boundaries, a bold heroine in the Regency era, a warrior elf and his sinful liaison in a fantastical world, a befuddled small-town witch trying to keep her secret, a contemporary bookstore owner rewriting her self-image, a cartomancer who can taste desires, and more.
Readers can cross genres and time by reading the standalone stories in this series in any order. Watch for cameo appearances of select characters between stories.
In the real world, the Cards of Passion deck actually exists. It’s called Purple Passion Reflections for Women by Dr. J. Each author used the real deck to inspire the sexual journeys of their heroines and heroes.
Imagine how a deck of sexuality affirmations could alter your life. Follow the women’s paths in these stories, then create your own real-world adventure.
The cards are at your fingertips.
Book One: Shadows & Silhouettes
by Dr. J.
First Place Winner ~ International Firebird Award
Two broken bodies + one healing summit = secrets uncovered and hearts cracked open.
Olivia “Liv” Thornton
How could my assigned creativity summit partner be him, a renowned hunk of a grump landscape photographer, whom I accidentally tripped at the airport? Every day he’d remind me why I’m here—broken, sent to confront my deepest fear—would I ever experience pleasure again? Well, that, and not being a hypocrite in my sex education practice. But would Adrian hinder or help my progress? Would all my desires come alive and could I act on them?
Adrian Blake
The summit directors had lost their minds, placing me with a hot sex educator—and Liv would be a thorn in my side before we even started. Every day since I left the hospital, I denied what that mountain had taken from me, but Liv unknowingly reflected my secret to me. Would I have to go through her to do the work and return to my job, passion, artistic expression, and my identity as a man?
Two broken souls. One lush paradise. Join Liv and Adrian as they navigate desire, healing, and the art of genuine emotional connection.
Shadows & Silhouettes: Cards of Passion Book One is the origin story of the transformative card deck in the Cards of Passion Series. It is a standalone slow-burn MF romance.
Book Two: Passion’s angel
by: gabbi Black
A couple under stress, a woman alone—can three hearts be better than two?
Dustin
My Domme, my boss, my lover… Nadine is all those things to me. Our professional relationship has slid into the personal, and I have no problem with that. Pleasing her is my top priority. When things go sideways at work, I’m not sure how to help…until the answer presents itself in the guise of an angel.
Nadine
As a successful marketing executive, I have high standards. Dustin, my submissive and executive assistant, is perfection. But even he can’t solve my latest work dilemma. Then we meet Angelique, and I’ve found the star of my next campaign. Now I just have to convince the young woman that posing for me is in her best interests and, even better, convince her to join Dustin and me in a triad relationship.
Angelique
When a gorgeous man asks me to pose for a photo shoot, I’m skeptical. I’m overweight and unattractive, so who would want my picture? Refusing him is easy…but he’s persistent, and I give in. He’ll soon see how wrong he is.
Surprisingly, a photo shoot can be fun. Dustin is sweet and kind, and his boss Nadine is incredible. They have the kind of relationship I’ve always wanted, and it’s clearly not just professional. I’m sad when the photo shoot is done and I have to leave them and head out into the cold, alone. Then Dustin asks an unbelievable question.
This 25k story is an FFM BDSM novella and is part of the Dr. Donna Jennings Purple Passion Reflection for Women Cards series.
Book Three: Stumbling Toward Serenity
by: Mischa Eliot
A toxic overwhelmed city girl + a charmingly annoying retreat member = a whirlwind of self-discoveries leading to healing and an unexpected desire for something more.
Accusations of bullying derail Natalie’s high-powered career, causing her world to spiral out of control. Forced into a sabbatical by her boss, Avery, and devastated by the sudden departure of her best friend, Sarah—who tells her she’s the problem—Natalie retreats to a remote island, hoping to escape her shattered life and find a fresh start.
At the island retreat, Natalie discovers her journey is far more profound than she expected. Guided by the enigmatic Ophelia and drawn to the calming presence of the charming Marcus, she embarks on a path of self-discovery. As she explores the island’s mystical allure and uncovers its hidden secrets, Natalie confronts her deepest fears and insecurities, challenging her need for control and learning to embrace vulnerability.
In this heart-wrenching whirlwind of a love story, serendipitous encounters and life-altering epiphanies adorn Natalie’s journey towards healing. As she gradually discards her protective shield and allows her heart to open, she confronts the ultimate quandary: will she gather the strength to embrace the love and boundless possibilities that lie ahead, or will she remain ensnared in the anguish of her past?
Stumbling Toward Serenity is a slow-burn to steamy 25k word novella featuring a toxic FMC looking for anything but redemption and finds herself desiring more self-intimacy and love in her life than ever before. This novella features a Happy For Now ending.
Book four: Sinful Tryst
by: Ally Daine
When danger and desire collide, an elf on a quest finds himself drawn to a broken-hearted human.
Cato, an elite elven bodyguard, is stuck in a rut, with his career proving more thrilling than his love life. When a desperate witch offers him a deal—24 hours to retrieve a stolen orb home to millions of precious beings, in exchange for fulfilling his lifelong fantasy of a tryst with a human—he cannot resist.
Alex, still nursing the wounds of a recent heartbreak, is pushed by her best friend to embrace her own fantasy: a one-night stand. She meets the enigmatic Cato and is soon caught in a dangerous confrontation with a greedy archaeologist—the same man who shattered her heart—and a powerful criminal syndicate.
As the stakes escalate, so does the fiery passion between Alex and Cato. With time running out to save countless lives, can they also satisfy each other’s deepest desires?
Book Five: Wild Within
by: Henrietta Holland
Hope may be a state of mind, but it’s also represented by the small town Molly escapes to after her divorce. With two kids in tow, she purchases a
bookshop and gets down to the business of recreating her life. She’s happy, content, and satisfied—except for that voice in her head.
“Why are you wearing white pants? They make your ass look fat.”
“It’d be great if your boobs were bigger. You should get a boob job.”
“Who would want you? Just look at yourself.”
As Molly wrestles with her thoughts, Josh, her gorgeous, green-eyed hunk of a neighbor, stumbles into her yard as she’s gardening. He’s an injured
former police officer getting on with his life after months of recovery. Molly keeps him at arm’s length, but dreams of him at night. He offers her friendship. Or more, if she’s willing.
Can Molly let go of her past, find a way to stifle the voice in her head, and let this man into her life—and her bed?
WILD WITHIN is a steamy MF small-town romance in which a woman learns to accept herself, love her body, and open herself to possibilities.
Book Six: Bewitched & Beloved
by: Danika Bloom
My heart’s been hijacked by a hex; now I need a countercurse for cupid’s arrow.
You’d think having a new neighbor who blasts classic rock on Sunday mornings would be just a minor inconvenience.
Not exactly ideal, especially when the man seems hell-bent on making his presence known, throwing my peaceful magical life into chaos. And to top it off, this man, Max—master carpenter by day, infuriating charmer by accident—decides to throw his hat in the ring to help renovate the local theater. The very project I’m leading.
He’s the fresh face everyone seems to adore, and now because he came to my rescue and local gossips saw us, our little village is buzzing with match-making schemes.
That would be enough to make any witch want to cast a vanishing spell on herself.
But worse?
Max, with his devil-may-care smiles and infuriatingly strong, warm hands, doesn’t just want to collaborate professionally. He’s weaving his way into every part of my life, challenging my resolves, and—goddess help me—slowly making me forget why I wanted to hex him in the first place. And why we can never be a couple.
Book Seven: The Cartomancer’s Curse
By: Kaitlin Schmidt
A psychic card reader. A guilt-ridden thief. A magical mystery to unravel.
Armed with a chaotic deck of cards and the psychic ability to taste people’s desires, cartomancer Meridian Fletcher tells fortunes from a small Seattle shop. This funds her one escape: a remote cabin, safe from the overwhelming flavors of other people’s wishes. But when thieves ransack her cabin and steal her cards, her happy place in the woods is suddenly at risk—and her livelihood, too.
One of those thieves is Wren Piper, a striking lumbersnack of a woman whose guilt drives her to confess. Wren wants to make amends, but Meridian wants nothing to do with her . . . except she can’t let go of the mysterious flavor she senses from Wren: molasses. It’s a desire she’s never encountered before.
That damn molasses must mean something, and Meridian draws cards for Wren to discover what. But the reading reveals more than either woman expects, and they cut it short. Doing so saddles them with a curse, and now they’re stuck together until they break it. Yet, the more Meridian learns about Wren’s desires—and her own desire for Wren—the less she minds being stuck with her.
THE CARTOMANCER’S CURSE is a steamy enemies-to-lovers romantasy in which two women succumb to desire, explore sexual bondage, and unravel a magical mystery.
Book Eight: The Deed with the Duke
by: Sri Savita
SHE HAS THE DEED. Camelia Parikh is a fallen woman trying to start over. When she wins the deed to a cottage in a card game, she believes her luck has finally changed. A charming coastal village seems like the perfect place to begin again, far from London and her romantic regrets. That is, until the stern Duke of Wednesbury arrives to claim the deed and cottage as his.
HE HAS THE TITLE. Raaz Panchal, the new Duke of Wednesbury, is searching for the missing deed to his late father’s beloved cottage, and he travels to the countryside to investigate. But once there, he learns the home is not vacant, and a beguiling woman claims it’s her property now. When her deed proves genuine, Raaz prepares to leave, but then fate collapses the stable roof. Duty to his father’s memory–and certainly not a pair of alluring amber eyes–compels him to help.
TOGETHER, CAN THEY HAVE IT ALL? Camelia cautiously accepts the duke’s assistance, but between a bold badger, a moonlit waltz, and dangerous late-night wagers, it’s impossible to keep her distance from the devastatingly handsome duke. When they surrender to temptation, she can no longer ignore their differences in station or the mistakes of her past, but her traitorous heart already wishes for a future that’s surely out of reach.
THE DEED WITH THE DUKE is a steamy, lust-at-first-sight Regency romance with a grumpy Indian hero, a sunshine Indian heroine, and adorable animal antics.
Book Nine: Satisfaction guaranteed
By: F. Leonora solomon
The irony was that Lux worked for a luxe sex toy company, but had never used a sex toy herself. Even more ironic was that the luxury sex toy she got while on a work trip failed the first time she used it.
Luckily for her, a location of the overseas sex shop opened up not far from her apartment. And Crimson had a satisfaction guaranteed policy by any means they needed to explore with their clients.
The client always comes first.
Lux left the store satisfied but realized that the mechanics of pleasure were less nuanced than the mechanics of intimacy that she craved with her new boyfriend, Tate. He wanted to know all of her fantasies and dreams which was nothing to toy with for Lux.
The game of love is nothing to be toyed with Lux will learn by herself and with Tate.