Can't Help the Way That I Feel: Sultry Stories of African American Love, Lust and Fantasy

Lori Bryant-Woolridge

Mar 2010 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Who wants to live without temptation? Edited by Emmy award-winning and Essence bestselling author Lori Bryant-Woolridge, Can’t Help the Way That I Feel features women who willingly give in when offered the right enticement. Lemon sangria becomes the elixir of lust for one player trying to seduce the naughty out of one very nice girl in Teddy Bell’s “The Sangria Seduction.” Hard as she tries, a God-fearing Georgia peach in “Bubble Music” by Toi James can’t resist getting her hands dirty at an erotic art party. A birthday massage in “Tandem” by Lori Bryant-Woolridge turns into a decidedly lusty session when a team of masseuses rub their client in all the right ways. With characters that crave romance and sensuality as well as those who take what they want, both good girls and bad girls will find much to love about this heated collection.

About the author

After spending 15 years in the broadcast television industry, Lori Bryant-Woolridge wrote three Essence bestselling novels, Read Between the Lies, Hitts & Mrs., and the Essence Book Club selection Weapons of Mass Seduction. Lori is an Emmy award-winning writer whose erotic short stories are included in the bestselling anthologies Best Black Women’s Erotica and Brown Sugar Three: Opposites Attract. Lori has conducted a variety of sensuality classes and workshops around the country. She is the founder of Stiletto U, a virtual university that advocates healthy, sensuous lifestyles. Using her nine-week curriculum, she has successfully coached women of all ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities and relationship statuses to develop feminine sexual confidence. Lori also created Sexitude, a new workout designed to unleash the sensuous, sexy woman within. She is the co-founder of Mothers Off Duty, Inc., an organization dedicated to its members putting themselves on the list of people they take care of; and a founding member of the Femme Fantastik Tour, a literary tour created to celebrate and empower women through literature.