Best Women’s Erotica 2008 delivers risky, romantic, heart-pounding thrills.  These 21 steamy stories revel in erotic adventure, from the sparks between strangers to the knowing caresses of long-time lovers. 

In “Penalty Fare,” a Londoner rides train after train without a valid ticket, until, on an early morning journey to Bristol she finds the conductor who knows just how to punish her for trying to skip the fare.

In “Winter Heat,” a woman finds that each year, the winter’s first snowfall reminds her of a cold night when she was 18 and the stranger who taught her that “passion can be found and shared in the most unusual of places.”