Pleasure Exchange

Scientist and cover model beautiful, Sam York heads up a research team investigating the effects of a female libido enhancer. He only needs to complete one more experiment before he can give his findings to the Grant Governing Board. Two things are standing in his way - protestors against his experiments and lack of a willing female to test the libido serum on. The first problem Sam can deal with. The second? Sam isn't so sure that it is the right thing to do but he agrees to test his neighbor and secret fantasy woman, reporter Cat Nichols. Cat Nichols feels horrible. Because of an exposé she wrote for the local newspaper, her sexy neighbor Sam York is being picketed by angry protestors. Wanting to make it up to him, she volunteers to be his test subject in a ground-breaking experiment. Cat knows her decision to be tested might not be a wise one but she can't help it. Sam York has been the subject of her female fantasies for months. Lord have mercy and pass me the ice! I NEED a Sam York in my life. Sam is naughty and sensuous by nature but carefully keeps his inner sexuality hidden. He was unable to do this while in Cat's presence, and I loved Sam's ability to cherish and bring Cat to the ultimate fulfillment. Not that Cat didn't reciprocate, she did tenfold. Their love affair, I mean, their EXPERIMENT, was hot enough to scorch the sheets. Add in a cute and lovable best friend, Jen, and I thought Pleasure Exchange an immensely animated, highly provocative, and exceedingly sexy read. I am on pins and needles hoping against hope that Jen will get her own story. Cathryn Fox's third Pleasure Games installment is a "run, don't walk, and buy" type of book. While this book reads perfect as a stand alone, it is part of a series. As a reader first, and reviewer second, I recommend going back and reading the first two books, Pleasure Prolonged and Pleasure Control. With Pleasure Exchange, Cathryn Fox has made me a fan most definitely and I can't wait to see what she releases next Talia reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

The extension of his research grant is on the line for scientist Sam York who is studying a female libido booster. However, he runs into problems when reporter Cat Nichols writes an article on his work. Feminists are outraged and protest his efforts. Cat feels bad with what her article may have done to Sam, who was so cooperative with her. She has known him for a long time and dreams of making love with good neighbor Sam, but he seems uninterested. To make up for what she did to him, Cat volunteers to be his guinea pig and test his concoction. Sam accepts her offer as he dreams of making love with good neighbor Cat, but she seems uninterested. As with the previous two "Pleasure Games" contemporary heated romances, (see PLEASURE PROLONGED and PLEASURE CONTROL) the story line feels like a modern day hotter version of the Grant-Rogers film Monkey Business. The change in the relationship between Sam and Cat make for a fun tale as they go from platonic close friends with secret desires to burning up the sheets. As Sam wonders if his female libido boosting experiment led to their sexual encounters or it could be something much more complex to recreate: love, Cathryn Fox provides a torrid romantic climax to her lighthearted pleasurable trilogy. Harriet Klausner

All she wanted was to write an article that earn her notice as a serious journalist. Cat Nichols never meant to bring negative publicity to her hunky scientist neighbor, Sam York. She certainly never meant to unwittingly launch a public outcry against his work. When experimentation on his project is temporarily halted because of her news story, she does the only thing she can think of to make it up to him - offers herself as his guinea pig for his female libido enhancer. If by doing so she helps him and gets to enjoy a few nights of intimacy with the scientist of her dreams, all the better! Sam's frustration at having his current project halted is only rivaled by the sexual frustration he feels every time he thinks of the sexy journalist next door. He can hardly believe it when Cat suggests he try his experiments out on her, but he's not fool enough to miss this chance to get closer to her! A few nights ought to get her out of his system - after all, he isn't cut out for long-term relationships. But he soon realizes that a few trysts with Cat will never be enough. Can he trust the up and coming reporter to stick around if he lets her into his life and his heart? Cathryn Fox has a definite knack for penning romances that are simultaneously sweet, sexy and fun and she certainly follows in this vein with the third entry in her Pleasure Games series, Pleasure Exchange. In this book, she delivers a romance sure to delight all readers, whether this is the first Cathryn Fox title they have read or they are long time fans of her work. Indeed, although this story is third in a series, it could easily be read as a standalone novel by anyone who has not yet enjoyed the first two. Although connected via crossover characters and setting, the story works very well independent of its predecessors. Of course, Pleasure Exchange is bound to make new readers curious about Pleasure Control and Pleasure Prolonged, both of which this reviewer thoroughly enjoyed. Sam is the kind of hero who makes me wonder where the heck all the hunky scientists are hiding in my town! Kind and caring, he is devoted to those he loves, even as he believes he will never find a lasting romantic love for himself. Though his trust in the female gender is broken, at least romantically, it never prevents him from treating women with the utmost respect and attentiveness, belying his inability to commit once he finds the right woman. Cat is a wonderfully sweet and conscientious heroine, determined to right the wrongs she has inadvertently caused, no matter what it takes. Of course, in her shoes, what women would not want to offer herself up to the handsome Sam as a sexual test subject? Still, Cat's efforts at reparation go beyond the bedroom, showing her to be a woman of honor, someone who can be counted on to keep her word once she gives it. The kind of woman that perhaps Sam could see himself spending the rest of his life with... I feel like I have waited forever for thi