Best Bondage Erotica of the Year, Vol. Two

Bussel (editor, the Best Women’s Erotica of the Year series) sets hearts racing with this anthology of 19 expertly selected BDSM stories. There’s enough variety among these red-hot tales to please any erotica fan, from the role-playing threesome in Veronique Veritas’s “Escape” and the pantyhose fetish featured in Trystan Kent’s “The Lash of a Thousand Wolfords,” to more intense kink, like knife play in Rebecca E. Blanton’s “Day 730” and age play in Evan Mora’s “Headspace.” Standouts include Posy Churchgate’s “Dark Dreams,” in which a newbie to kink is tutored online by a popular BDSM writer; Dr. J’s “A Constructed Threesome,” about a polyamorous couple celebrating their anniversary with bondage at a construction site; Elna Holst’s “Leather-Bound,” featuring a gay bibliophile celebrating her 40th birthday with sex in a library; Page Chase’s “Back in the Saddle,” which sees an athlete recovering from a bike crash in a decidedly unusual fashion; and Sonja E. DeWitt’s “Ballad of Desire and Saccharine Melodies,” about a musician whose piano performance gets a sexy edge from an unexpected source. Readers are sure to feel the heat. (Feb.)