#which I think is fun to upend entirely with some wild shit she never expected lmao get frozoned nerd

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One fun little idea I love to pull off the shelf every once and a while: mutant Lisa with ice powers

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Any book recs for historical romance novels with creative sex scenes?

The thing is that I read a lot of traditionally published books, where the sex scenes can be a biiit less creative, and of course in general historicals can often be fairly explicit but not super creative. The heroines are often virgins (though that is falling out of vogue more) and there isn't a loooot going on in the realm of like, anal and group sex and sex with toys etc.

With that being said, I'll rec the Duke I'd Like to F... anthology for some higher heat novels. THEEEEE Sierra Simone contributed a novella to the anthology, though I'll also add that Nicola Davidson's Duke for Hire contribution includes a duke being paid for his services~ as well as historically accurate sex toys. I haven't read anything else by Nicola Davidson yet, but from what I understand she writes historicals more in the vein of erotic romance, and they can get kinky.

Similarly, Scarlett Peckham has made a splash for upending expectations re: sex in her books. I've only read The Lord I Left, which actually doesn't have a TON of penetrative sex in because the hero is a virgin minister, but the heroine is a dominatrix in training and there's a lot of generalized kinky vibes in it. I've also heard good things about The Duke I Tempted, in which a woman ends up in a marriage of convenience with a submissive duke.

I would recommend Sarah MacLean's One Good Earl Deserves a Lover always for the creativity of including a scene in which the heroine gets off by touching herself while the hero just.... sits there and tells her what to do. Not CRAZY, but definitely not something you see in historicals often. Her Rules of Scoundrels series probably has my favorite sex scenes she's written, as the characters often are able to kind of get out of the bedroom--there's some exhibitionism in A Rogue By Any Other Name, my favorite MacLean (the hero fucks the heroine against a window while she looks down at his casino and tells him all the shit people are doing to each other). There's boxing ring sex in No Good Duke Goes Unpunished, and the Rare Historical Swimming Pool Sex in Never Judge A Lady By Her Cover.

Elizabeth Hoyt is often willing to explore~ a little more. A lot of her Maiden Lane books feature characters having sex in places where people could potentially hear them. Scandalous Desires, my favorite Maiden Lane, features what Learning the Tropes just recently referred to as "death row head", which.... I loved. I think there's full on prison sex in that one. Sweetest Scoundrel is another one where the hero and heroine masturbate a lot in front of each other before she's down for penetrative sex (TW for trauma which caused her to be sex-averse at first). Her Raven Prince debut features a heroine pretending to be someone else so that the hero fucks her--she wears a mask throughout and it's kinda lowkey kinky?

If you're into "lemme pretend to be someone else so that this man fucks me" shit, Joanna Shupe also wrote The Courtesan Duchess, in which the heroine creates this entirely different identity so that the hero will fuck her (and get her pregnant).

Lisa Kleypas's books are more about CIRCUMSTANCE in terms of sex than a ton of crazy positions or whatever (I always wait for the moment when a Kleypas hero flips the heroine onto her stomach, HAPPENS EVERY TIME AND I LOOOVE IT) but I'd like to point out that her standalone Suddenly You features some of the only traditionally published Historical Anal Play that I've ever read, however brief it is (Kerrigan Byrne is proooobably the only other one lol). Dreaming of You famously has some adult breastfeeding at the end, Devil in Disguise is the first Kleypas I've read with 69ing. Lisa thinks about it!

Kerrigan Byrne is probably alongside Elizabeth Hoyt in there being a lot of like.... idk, there's just an undercurrent of kink to a lot of what they both write, even if it isn't as WILD AND CRAZY~ as what you might find in some indies and contemporaries. I always cite the Glove Scene in The Highwayman, which not only has the hero fuck the heroine while wearing leather gloves, but also has him tie her up a few times. With his plaid, of course. Another interesting.... detail of her books that is so cuckoo bananas lol is that the male members of this one family? Come twice? In rapid succession? Like, the refractory period is nonexistent. This happens in The Highwayman, The Highlander, and The Scot Beds His Wife. I'll also call out The Hunter, as there's a lot of "kiss me/kill me" tension in that one as the hero is literally paid to kill the heroine. He also has an aversion to looking at people when he fucks them, which leads to some fun shenanigans during the sex scenes.

Hope this helps!