Carrie Williams

Will the student become the master?When aspiring writer Genevieve Carter takes a job for Anne Tournier, her favourite erotic novelist, she fast becomes her muse.Led into a world of temptation with a number of hot men, Genevieve finds that some pleasures are too hard to deny.But while her mistress is happy to encourage her bad behaviour, she’s not prepared for Genevieve to become her rival...

Photographer Rachel and Parisian exotic dancer Rochelle live miles apart in London and Paris. Yet when they agree to swap apartments for six months, both find the excitement of discovering a new city full of surprises. You’ve been seduced by ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ and Sylvia Day’s Crossfire series, now prepare to devour ‘The Exchange’. Rachel is bored in London, whilst over in Paris exotic dancer Rochelle is also weary of her life and unfulfilling relationship with fashion model Konrad. On arrival in Paris, Rachel visits Rochelle’s strip club and feels the lure of exhibitionism for the first time. Whilst also succumbing to more than a passing interest in Konrad. Rochelle, meanwhile, falls in with a rich London crowd. For a while a string of random sexual adventures fills the void left by dancing. But enlightenment ultimately comes to Rochelle as she discovers that performing for an audience of one can be just as daring as dancing to a crowd.

In desperate financial straits, aspiring writer Genevieve Carter takes a job as a personal assistant, only to discover that the middle-aged woman she will be working for is none other than her literary heroine, Anne Tournier. Genevieve is at first ecstatic at gaining an introduction to London literary life and Anne's many famous friends. However, her new employer expects rather more from her assistant than was implied in the advert and Genevieve gradually becomes enmeshed in a web of sexual intrigue and experimentation with men and women. Then, by accident, she learns that she has been cast as the heroine of an erotic novel that Anne is writing. Determined to get her own story out first, Genevieve starts a blog where she relates her sexual liaisons to a growing and appreciative readership. Lured by the prospect of a lucrative publishing deal, a competition ensues between mistress and apprentice, one which will push Genevieve to her artistic and erotic limits.

Let down by her travelling companion at short notice, Nadia Kapur reluctantly agrees to take her recently divorced mother, Valerie, on her gap-year trip to India. However, her mother turns out to be anything but the conservative presence she had feared. As the two women explore India's most exotic locations, it is Valerie who experiences a sexual reawakening with a succession of lovers and Nadia who is forced to wrestle with her own inhibitions and repressed desires. The landscape and the people ultimately work their transforming magic on both mother and daughter, causing Valerie to think again about her ex-husband and tempting Nadia with the possiblity of true love.

Cocktails, room service, spa treatments: Alicia Shaw is a girl who just can't say no to the little perks of being a private tour guide in London. Whether it's the Hollywood producer with whom she romps in the private screening room of one of London's most luxurious hotels, or the Australian pilot whose exhibitionist fantasies reach a new height on the London Eye, Alicia finds that flirtation - and more - is part of the territory. But when internationally renowned flamenco dancer and heartthrob Paco Manchega, and his lovely young wife Carlotta, take her on as their guide, Alicia begins to wonder if she has bitten off more than she can chew. As the couple unleash curious appetites in Alicia, taking her to places more darkly beautiful than she has ever known, she begins to suspect she is being used as the pawn in some strange marital game.