<blockquote> <p> Ignore the weather report—there's a heat wave coming! </p> </blockquote> <p> Author, editor, blogger, and former sex columnist for the <i>Village Voice</i>, Rachel Kramer Bussel presents seven titillating tales guaranteed to steam up your bedroom windows in the midst of Mother Nature's seasonal chill. A lusty collection of scintillating erotic dreams from some of the best writers in the field, here is a sexy and sure cure for the winter blues! </p> <p> Two uptight Manhattanites discover a hotspot in frigid Minnesota where they can shed their inhibitions and explore their most intimate fantasies . . . </p> <p> A billionaire recluse and a beautiful paparazzo generate some serious heat in a snowbound cabin in the Colorado Rockies . . . </p> <p> Combine a blizzard, a romantic old castle, a burglary, and a breathtakingly sexy devil—her perfect recipe for dangerous lust . . . </p> <p> In the unfamiliar chill of a New York winter, a California sun bunny discovers the secret to igniting her boyfriend's inner erotic fire . . . </p> <p> Stuck with a man she despises on her sister's wedding day, a distraught beauty resolves to be civilized—until her studly adversary lures her into a forbidden place with no rules or taboos . . . </p> <p> A husband and wife whose marriage has stalled get their pistons pumping once more when a sudden winter storm strands them in their car . . . </p> Though she's been taught all her life never to beg, her insatiable desire for him is bringing her to her knees . . .