Tempted Paperback – June 19, 2012

Early in Tempted, while making love with her husband, the heroine, Anne, marvels how he touches her in just the right way. Of course, he has it easy. "...I usually wanted what he wanted me to want," she explains.The degree to which this is true - how much Anne is willing to buy into her husband's choices for her - forms the main conflict in this involving and steamy romantic novel.Anne's capacity to accept her husband's desires, as well as her own, are tested when he introduces her to his long-missing boyhood friend, Alex. From the first time she hears her husband, James, on the phone with Alex, Anne is suspicious of their relationship. There's an intimacy there, an undercurrent of shared secrets, a flirtatiousness, maybe a submissiveness....she can't put her finger on it, but something isn't right.When Anne finally meets the mysterious Alex, her curiosity and concern are quickly intermingled with attraction and desire. Alex is one fine man: charming, handsome and, as the Aussies say, dead-sexy. .Soon, it becomes clear that James wants Alex involved with their marriage in a manner that would surely get them on the Jerry Springer Show, should they decide to take their arrangement public. But why? What happened between Alex and James all those years ago?Moreover, what does Anne want now? A chance to be serviced by two eager lovers? Alex all to herself? Her life with James back to the way it was? Or something else?(And don't the two names - Alex and Anne - sound as if they belong together? Or is the assonance merely reflective of James's desire to replace Alex with the next-best thing? Hmmmmm....)As a gay man, I was concerned about Tempted. The set-up - happy marriage is threatened and perhaps destroyed by scheming homo homewrecker - sounded as if it could quickly turn ugly. But other reviews here on Amazon convinced me to take a chance.I'm glad I did. Hart is too smart to make the gay guy the bad guy. In fact, he's not even gay - Alex appears to be the most easy-going and matter-of-fact bisexual you'll ever meet in print (if you don't count Madonna's picture book "Sex," that is). For Alex, playing both sides of the fence is natural and great fun. You go, Alex.James, on the other hand...well, you'll have to read the book to find out what his motivations are.But, mostly, this is Anne's story, and Hart does a lovely job of showing us her conflicting desires. Hart also maintains the suspense...there's a lot you don't know about everyone's backgrounds and motivations until late in the book. Up until the end, you're not even sure who will up wind up with whom. Oh you may guess, and you may be right, but you won't be sure.There are also some interesting subplots involving Anne's family, and there are heroes and villains who get what they deserve.Throughout this book, I was reminded of a line from Stephen Sondheim's great musical reworking of classic fairy tales, "Into the Woods." At one point, Cinderella, who is (ahem) tempted by the dashing Prince, is asked if she wants the life of a princess or not. "But how," Cinderella sings , "can you know what you want/Till you get what you want/And you see if you like it?"By the end of the book, Anne gets what she wants. But will she like it? Would you?One last thing I want to point out is how effectively Hart uses humor to dial down what otherwise might have been the overblown drama of Anne's dilemmas.Especially funny are Anne's frustrations with her three challenging sisters, siblings who know how to push each other's buttons, and who often delight in doing so. Their comic, slangy conversations are great fun to read, and they serve as a reminder that Anne's life (like ours!) is defined by more than just her relationships with men.This is a book for grown-ups. The reader who doesn't mind - or who loves - explicit scenes will be well rewarded by this examination of where an unconventional relationship can take us. Hart deserves much credit for sharing her characters' journeys without judging them.Scott Sherman,  First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery

I'd like to start off by saying Megan Hart your ending was perfectly realistic.I enjoyed this book and was on fence about making the purchase. Tempted.. Didn't want to like it because I fell in love with Alex and Olivia having read Naked first. Only I knew in order to gain more in sight on Alex I'd have to read it. I just want my feeling towards Naked tainted with Anne.Alex is a beautifully flawed gem. No matter what the mystey may be behind it's imperfections you can't stop the wanting.Under it all Alex just yearns to be in love and in return. So he does things and in doing so creates a barrier only lettingJames and Anne. Only he's always loved James and James he.. He was just smart enough to know some lines you don't cross nomatter how much you want to. James being his constant. He knew it was more important. Alex really is a gentle caringly sensitivesoul with wounds that have yet to heal completely.James is the kind of man you think has his head in the clouds, until he let's you know it's been anything but. I believeJames is in love with two people. He just happens to love his wife Anne more than Alex. Alex and he have what some wouldcall an unhealthy realationship and I disagree. Most people live the life they believe they should live because of how they where raised and in the end it's all they know. So you shut of the urges to break out that box till your around that one person whom makes your remember or think maybe... This being Alex.Anne is an interesting character who has inner demons she hasn't faced. Being Mrs. Fix It well to me this keeps her on the straightand narrow. Ignoring things that are the problem because she knows how to stop, but just can't bring herself to until Alex.Alex, James and Anne come together for a Summer that opens up secrets. Sets of hidden desires of lust and love. She tackles many issuesvery nicely. With most common out comes when you think on it. Patricia wasn't going to leave Sean. He was all she knew and no matter what she wanted her family together. Claire to was realistic and figured out sister girl was on the girls team.Alex and Anne's connection was pain, fear and a yearning for love. In the end both knew their love for james was stronger for he loved them both unconditionally. Flaws and all. How could you hurt that. Alex and Anne may have fallen in love, but both knew it wasn't meant to be....

Well a friend told me to get this book and at first when I started to read it I was a bit unsure but stuck with it and I was glad I did the book is about a Anne who is happily married to James and then James is bestfriend from high school turns up to stay and then when everything changes Anne doesn't like the change I. Her husband when Alex is around but then she becomes torn between her husband and his bestfriend after there arrangement !!! The ending to the story is a bit like omg really and making you want more and a little disappointing but it is well worth the read after a disappointing end and a confusing start I actually enjoyed it lots of steamy love scenes.

I read some negative reviews before buying, but thought I would get it anyway as I like Menage stories. This one did not have a true Menage, which was disappointing, but also, there was heartache as the newcomer felt that he had to leave, despite loving both the male and female leads. It seemed as if there were 2 separate couples, not a Menage-a-trois, with the hubby/wife vs wife/bestfriend. Yes, there was love, but it ended with a broken love affair and a marriage that needed work to mend it. Not a happy tale, and one I wished I'd never read.

(This was originally published on Book Lovers,Inc)My Thoughts:I keep saying that I hate crying while reading a book, well I DID cry a lot while reading Tempted'but as Susi would say 'that's the good kind of crying'. And she was right, I did cry but I feel better for having read this book.I saw this covers online months ago and I thought it was just GORGEOUS but I didn't go any further. I had to wait till a very addicted to Megan Hart's books someone I know, recommended it to me to decide to get the book. And let me tell you it's even prettier in real, it looks like a piece of Art.This is the second book I read from Megan Hart and it was a wonderful story. I think the main 'thing' about her books, is that it feels real'it's all those little things that reminds you of your everyday life (not that I have a sexy Alex in mine'yet). I'm not sure I can explain this book, but I can try.Anne has a 'perfect' life, she has a great husband and everything else'or so she thought. When she meets her husband long time best friend who was abroad for years for the first time, everything changes. She loves her husband James, and she thought she knew him'but Anne realize that he's a different person when Alex is mentioned, he gets sparks in his eyes, something she's never seen before. I won't spoil anything by saying that the three of them get very close during that summer (it's all in the blurb), I love the chemistry between them. I won't lie to you I found it odd that she agreed to have hot sex with her husband and his friend (a near stranger to her!) just like that, but then it all clicked together.Alex and James have history. They had a fight years ago and Anne thought they never talked again. She doesn't even know why they fought, so when Alex decides to come home and James invite him to stay for a few weeks she's very confused. Alex is HOT'well James too, but Alex oozes sex! I loved how ambiguous the feelings between Alex and James are'I was captivated, I wanted to know what happened and why he really came back. Most of all I wanted something to happen between the two of them! There I've said it, I wanted M/M love! lol But I'll settle for a hot threesome *wink*, Anne is literally in the middle!James is not the same man when Alex is around. When they are together they act as if they were teenagers again, they smoke, they drink, they play videogames, they go skinny dipping'It's like James is finally himself, as if he wasn't really free and open with Anne. He was the perfect husband, but the man he becomes when Alex is around is not the man she married. James is what brings them all together, Anne and Alex both love him, and it was frustrating to know Alex wanted more, wanted him. You could feel the frustration in their love making'.Alex often wanted to watch Anne do things to James *Le sigh*Megan Hart knows how to grab you from the start. I loved that there's a lot of things happening in this book beside the ménage. Anne has to deal with family crisis (a lot of them!) and it's not pretty. I got to love her 3 sisters, they all have some kind of drama going on and it's captivating. I wanted to know what would happen to them next.I'm not usually a big fan of flashbacks because they tend to slow down the storyline, but in this case I loved discovering Anne's past this way. Not only that but the whole book is based on getting the past by fraction. We don't get the whole Alex/James history at one time, we get it piece by piece as the heroine finds out about it. (yes I know I'm obsessed with the whole James/Alex thing).Anyway, until the very end I wasn't sure I would like how it was going to end. It's not the HEA I would want for them, but it's the most realistic. Anne made the good choice but it's still heart-wrenching. Tempted is beautiful story, and I can't recommend it enough. Now I can't wait to read Alex's Story, Naked.

She’s the best author !! I love all her books

I found it hard to get into the story but once it got going there were some great sensual moments especially the threesome moments. Not too explicit but enough to capture you.