Passion

P.F. Kozak pulls it all together in this contemporary erotic romance. Pash, short for Passion Flower, is a beautiful, intelligent, and successful writer, who has been disappointed in a string of unsuccessful emotional and physical relationships. She lives at times in her sexual fantasy world with her ideal "highway man" that fulfills all her sexual fantasies. Ivan is a successful and handsome college professor who is unfulfilled sexually and emotionally and acts out his loneliness and emotional frustrations in numerous dangerous sexual relationships with his female students. He spends his summers with his close family friend Steve, helping Steve with his horse stable business. Gwen, Steve's girlfriend and friend of Pash, sets Pash up with riding lessons at Steve's stables. It is there that Pash meets Ivan. Immediately when these two lonely, lovely, sexy, unfulfilled and needy people meet, the sparks fly. Passion is not merely a contemporary love story with erotic sex scenes. P. F. Kozak, in a brilliant writing style, shows the reader what lust, sex, passion, need, want, fantasy, fulfillment, friendship, true love and finding your true mate really mean. This reviewer must admit I will usually pick up a contemporary romance and slap it right back down on the shelf because it seems most contemporary romance novels are a disappointment with the love interests, mostly the female, analyzing and analyzing the relationship (with a little bit of sex slipped in to try to make it interesting) to the point where the reader gets so bored you just stop reading because you simply cannot believe there can be characters so stupid and the erotic contemporaries are just sex. P.F. Kozak knows how to pull together the perfect blend of story and erotica. Passion is an intelligent, thought provoking, sexy read. I loved this book, mostly because the reader comes to realize how the loving long term relationship, that one true love with passion and great sex, can grow and exist.

I have only owned this book a short time, but I have already read it 4 times! It is so HOT, and gets hotter each time I read it! It's a good thing the warning is on the back of the book! I end up taking cold showers after every reading session with this book, and I'm sure that anyone else that reads it will have to do the same! Enjoy it!!

This was an awesome read. I didn't want the story to end. After the first read a took the weekend and read it a second. I am now having Passion and Ivan withdrawals. I just might have to read it a third. The transititions from Passion and Ivan thoughts are amazing. The relationship between the two is one that I would hope someday to have. It was like he was reading her mind and fullfilling all her wants and needs and at the same time living out his own fantisies. I would recommend this book to anyone who is just starting a relationship or who is looking to spice up the one that they are in.

Passion by P.F. Kozak is certainly stimulating! I felt transported to each physical location and enraptured by the charcters' experiences. The author's deft descriptions -- I felt the wind in my hair and the tingle on my skin -- left me breathless and wanting more. A terrific story about a self-confident professional woman (she writes scholarly books) who may be a bit shy around men who gets another kind of education when she meets a charming, strong, handsome, capable man. There is some initial squirming (an awkward experience immediately familiar to anyone who has ever felt that "rush"), which the author portrays with aplomb. As they get to know each other, they treat each other as equals both in terms of being lovers and friends, which very much impressed me. The dialogue is fresh and realistic. Alternating between the two, the passages bring you inside the minds of the lovers during erotic scenes, a device I found to be extremely fulfilling. These internal dialogues also show a witty and often enlightening "behind the scenes" description of the simple misunderstandings and confusions between men and women. I highly recommend Passion by P.F. Kozak.

When I read erotica, I usually know exactly what to expect--a so-so story, but plenty of explicit sex. What surprised me about PASSION was the intellectual quality of the story. Kozak has a lush and lyrical style with sensuality that is just out of this world--incredibly passionate, undeniably tasteful. The story is evocative, raw, and definitely gives you something to think about. I didn't think I'd enjoy a narrative that alternated points of view between hero and heroine--thinking that perhaps it would be repetitive, but their voices were completely hypnotic. Kozak manages to use this formula to create multi-dimensional and engaging characters whose voices stay with a reader long after the book is closed. This writer seamlessly blended varying elements of human thought and emotion with scorching sex scenes and plenty of drama. I appreciated the way forbidden desires and fantasies were dealt with. Ivan was an incredible hero- a man's man, unbelievably sexy, but also flawed. Pash was a great heroine--brilliant, passionate, and strong. Watching these two overcome various hurdles and move towards a wonderful monogamous relationshiop was marvelous. Time well spent. This was an amazing read ;)