About the Author

CHERYL HOLT is a lawyer, mom, and bestselling novelist who lives on the Oregon coast. Her varied employment history includes public school teacher, mediator, cook, bartender, lobbyist, musician, and political activist. A graduate of the University of Wyoming College of Law, she worked as a law clerk for the Attorney General of Colorado and Wyoming. Later, she served as a deputy district attorney in metro-Denver. She has numerous national writing awards to her credit, including the prestigious Reviewer's Choice award from Romantic Times magazine. Too Tempting to Touch is her fifteenth book.

Reviews

"Fantastic...a keeper...Holt has finely tuned the art of delving into secret fantasies and drawing out what women want. In this deliciously sensual story, she keeps readers glued to the pages by infusing every one with plenty of sizzle. Very sensual." --Romantic Times (starred review) on Further Than Passion "Holt pens a compelling, erotic tale...a sensual feast of love, betrayal, and sensual pleasure, Further Than Passion takes the reader beyond the typical consequences of desire for happily ever after...[a] powerful story that readers will find impossible to put down...each character springs vibrantly alive, living in the reader's imagination long after the last page is turned." --Midwest Book Review on Further Than Passion "A deeply passionate book...very seldom does a historical novel find its way to my shelf, but this is one author for whom I will always make an exception. Fans won't be surprised to find this book on their keeper shelf." --A Romance Review on Further Than Passion "Holt's most exciting story of all. Further Than Passion is an intriguing and spellbinding love story." --Fallen Angel Reviews on Further Than Passion "Highly erotic...a poignant and emotional love story...only Cheryl Holt can write such sweet, erotic romances that touch the heart, body, and soul." --Historical Romance Club on Further Than Passion "Holt is an extremely talented author. Every book she writes is so sexy, the characters so real, that I'm sorry when the story comes to an end." --Fresh Fiction.com on Further Than Passion "Just about the best writer of erotic romance that we've got." --Statesman Journal (Salem, Oregon) on Deeper Than Desire "Sexy, titillating love story...add some suspense, abductions, a mad villain and an exciting climax and you have all you need in an erotic romance." --Romantic Times on Deeper Than Desire "A jewel...intriguing, compelling, and passionate." --Old Book Barn Gazette on Deeper Than Desire "The thing that I like best about Cheryl Holt's writing is that she makes her characters come alive as their stories unfold. You get mad, glad, sad, and sexy as the devil while reading her glorious books that not only are well written erotic stories but they have substance and a good storyline concerning the characters' lives that make them human and realistic. Now this is a writer to watch because she is going places. Ms. Holt delivers stories that you love reading. They are hot and spicy...filled with compelling characters that set your heart to racing with her imaginative and titillating storytelling." --ReaderToReader.com on Deeper Than Desire "An intricate tapestry of intriguing characters." --Romancereaderatheart.com on Deeper Than Desire "Romance fans will enjoy this erotic tale of forbidden love that feels and is right. Holt turns up the heat with this superior historical." --The Best Reviews.com on Deeper Than Desire "Cheryl Holt will ravish her reading audience with this well written tale. Her clever plot will lure the reader on, as she seduces one to continue reading page after page. Filled with sexual tension and loaded with secondary story lines, one comes away satisfied. If a delightful taste of erotica is what you are looking for, you will find your senses replete in Deeper Than Desire." --Simegen.com on Deeper Than Desire