Tease and Dare

[The second edition of Liaisons for Laughs: Angie & Ella's Summer of Delirium]

Angie & Ella are bright, beautiful, spirited, and fearless associates at a Manhattan corporate law firm. Equally concerned with furthering their careers and indulging their penchant for pleasure and pranking, they are fond of reliving their escapades, as well as concocting new ones, via email. Entirely epistolary, Tease and Dare chronicles their frolics during a New York summer. With the frequent participation of their shared boyfriend Steven, as well as Manhattan itself, they hungrily fling themselves into a flurry of vamping, masquerading, and fantasy roles--never neglecting to meet work deadlines and keep the partners and clients happy. Angie & Ella's adventures include: "Trailer Trollop Romp & Martin's Comeuppance," "Circumstances of Spying," and "Romance Novel Hell."

REVIEWS:

"Fun, steamy, and intelligent."--LA Weekly

"Some friendships are bonds that can't be broken. Tease and Dare: Angie & Ella's Summer of Delirium tells the story of two best friends in a frank and entertaining method. A hilarious and endlessly entertaining collection of stories about the little things of life, Tease and Dare never stops its assault on the funny bone. A fine and entertaining novel, Tease and Dare is a choice pick for fiction readers."--Midwest Book Review

"Licentious. Salacious. Those rich, naughty, mannered words from another era are given a cunning and contemporary twist in Leyse's reinvigoration of a classic literary form-the epistolary. At a time when so many 'real life' intimacies are overlooked because we're too tired to be seduced or to instigate some imaginative new direction in our mortgage anxious relationships, it's refreshing to be reminded of the pleasures, prurient and also just plain human and often very funny, of overhearing other people's intimacies. Fun and eroticism don't go together nearly often enough. They do in Leyse tit for tat. This is clever, humane, word-sensual writing."--Kris Saknussemm, author of Zanesville and Private Midnight

"Told completely in epistolary form, Angie & Ella captures a summer of lusty adventures experienced by the two leads. As the women frolic and romp, so the reader gets to experience New York City and its various areas through their eyes and ears and skin. It's a novel that remembers to capture the sensuality of its settings and successfully translates the inherent eroticism of not just sexual acts, but also vibrant sensations like thunderstorms. Fans of erotica won't be disappointed, as there's a little something for nearly all tastes in here, just as fans of poetic prose will appreciate the fun and flirty language."--Susan DiPlacido, author of 24/7 and House Money

"Re-enlivens a venerable literary tradition, the epistolary novel, but now in an arousingly contemporary form. The erotic e-mails of these two libidinous heroines recount their escapades with wicked charm and droll humor. Their tales memorialize the lusty landscape of the New York corporate world, and the bratty sophistication of their narrative voices makes their sensual adventures all the more appealing. Angie and Ella are trollops for our time, and Robert Scott Leyse is a Trollope for our time."--William T. Hathaway, author of A World of Hurt and Summer Snow