About

Hi, folks! I’m Kathryn M. Burke, and I’ve written a bunch of novels all about love and romance–and sex! I live in Seattle, with my wonderful husband, and have oodles of time to write about all my sex fantasies! But don’t be deceived: my books aren’t just about sex; they are heartfelt expressions of people’s innermost feelings–and they’ll make you think about what happens when two (or more!) people fall in love!

Let me give you a little preview of what my books are about. They are all available on Amazon.com. Have fun!

Mira and Her Men

Mira Hutton, a young professor at the University of Washington, is at an academic conference in Portland, Oregon. She has an unexpected sexual encounter with a science fiction writer, Daniel Martin, and the affair continues as they both return to their homes in Seattle. Mira is filled with guilt, because she feels that she is happily married to an older man, Alan Hutton, a physician, whom she genuinely loves. What will she do if Alan finds out about the affair? And what role does Eileen Sherman, Mira’s close friend, play in this tangled situation? This novel vividly portrays the lives and loves of two men and two women in a series of scenes that are both steamy and tender, explicit and delicate. You will never forget how Mira reconciles herself to the two men she loves.

Marcus and His Wives

Marcus Washington is an African American who grew up in poverty but excelled at football both in college and in the NFL. He then went on to be an actor for several years and then an acclaimed writer of crime novels. Along the way, he established intimate relationships with three important women in his life: Jane, his college sweetheart, from whom he was estranged for many years; Kate, a bisexual professor; and Jenny, a fresh-faced graduate student who met Marcus when he visited her college. How does Marcus manage to keep these three women satisfied? Find out in this novel full of sex, love, and romance!

Heather and the Hermit

Heather Conley gets lost in a rural part of central California and stumbles upon the compound of a man named Jonas. She is astounded to discover that he is none other than Jonas Walters, a famously reclusive writer of grim, searing novels of personal conflict and tragedy. Attracted to him almost in spite of herself, she eventually becomes emotionally and sexually involved with him. Along the way we learn the sad tale of Jonas’s first wife, Marie. But just as Heather and Jonas’s relationship seems to be flowering, they are confronted with a tense situation regarding Heather’s friend Suzanne Felton, as well as with Hank Jenkins, Jonas’s shy neighbor. Full of gripping emotional scenes and intense sexuality, this novel will not soon be forgotten!

The College for Girls

Tom and Diana Chambers are deeply and passionately in love after six years of marriage. Now, Diana has found what looks to be her dream job: teaching French at St. Augustine College for Girls, a Catholic college in Providence, R.I. But she quickly discovers that many of the girls are aching to be relieved of her tiresome virginity, and she finds the perfect man for the job—her husband Tom. Along the way, Diana meets Gertie, a middle-aged teacher who has spent many years in a convent but who now finds life in the outside world more . . . stimulating. This rollicking sex romp will engage you, inspire you, and turn you on. Every page is hot!

Daphne and Her Boys

Daphne Matson is a young English professor at Westminster College in Ithaca, New York. As she begins to tutor the young and naïve college senior Edward Wharton on a special project, she finds that she has fallen in love with him—and he with her. Westminster is a college where men heavily outnumber women, and out of the goodness of her heart Daphne begins giving lessons to other college boys into the mysteries of female desire. In this beautifully written and richly textured novel, we learn of Daphne’s prior relationship with an older man, Howard Ashton; Edward’s conflicted relationship with his divorced parents; and much else besides. This is a novel whose emotional resonance you won’t be able to forget!

Jill and Jim

Jill Hanson, a successful computer programmer in Seattle, finds herself enmeshed in a strange relationship with a working-class man, Jim Falk. Remaining in the relationship almost in spite of herself, she begins to wonder whether something in her past has led to take up with such an unsuitable partner. She provides a kind of “sexual autobiography”—telling of her tortured involvements with men over the years—and coaxes Jim into revealing facets of his own sexual past. This novel of sexual obsession ends with a spectacular climax you’ll never forget!

The Asexual Club

Twenty-four-year-old Dale Willis is an altruist. He believes that older women are either dissatisfied with their boring, out-of-shape husbands or are living lives of loneliness without the vital ingredient of sexual gratification. He has sought out a number of women in their forties and fifties to supply this key element, but his life takes an interesting turn when he meets the splendid-looking Gloria Washburn, a woman in her early fifties. They become involved in a profoundly satisfying sexual relationship—one that also includes her widowed friend, Lois Jennings. Gloria then tells Dale about her niece, Bethany Wright, who is convinced that she is asexual and has founded an Asexual Club at her college. Gloria feels it is time to set Bethany straight on the folly of her ways. In this engaging but touching sex romp, Dale provides satisfaction to women young and old while being a sympathetic listener to their emotional highs and lows.

Claire and Her Sister

When historian Patrick Muldoon stops by the small Pennsylvania town of Dunsmuir on his way to Washington, D.C., he has no idea he would be utterly smitten with a young owner of a pet store, Claire Monahan. Patrick decides to relocate to Dunsmuir, and along the way he meets Claire’s older sister Sophie, a timid creature who seems to have suffered some unspecified trauma as a teenager. As Patrick further explores the bodies and psyches of Claire and her sister—as well as of their mother, Margaret—he learns of the tragedies that have marred all three lives, and he does his best to help them. This moving novel of love and intimacy shows how an unorthodox relationship between a man and three women can seem natural and inevitable—if it is founded on love, sensitivity, and respect.

April and Her Friends

Eighteen-year-old April Waters was having the time of her life in Mexico, but she had a scare when she suffered an accident in a hotel swimming pool. She had to be rescued by a strong, handsome Indian-American, Kumar Mehrotra, and she engaged in an intensely intimate relationship almost at once. But so did April’s stepmother, Carolyn, who was still grieving from her husband Jeremy’s abandonment of her three years earlier. And April’s best friend, Melody Meador, soon joins in the fun, finding Kumar the perfect man to relieve her of her virginity. When others are added to the mix—including Rohit Banerjee, another Indian-American whom Melody falls in love with in college, and even Jeremy himself, who returns as a prodigal son—April and the others find that there is more than enough love to go around. This novel, full of steamy passion but also tender affection, shows how the human heart has an almost infinite capacity for physical and spiritual affection.

The Slumber Party

About to enter the University of Washington in Seattle, Carrie Norton invites four of her friends over for a slumber party to celebrate. They invite Carrie’s older brother, Grant, to join them—and the predictable fun and games ensue. Later, Grant meets the lovely but shy Angela Dean, whose quiet strength takes many of the rough edges off of Grant. Both of them start giving hands-on tutoring to male and female virgins at the university, and this is how Rod Davis and Melissa Waters meet and fall in love. Eventually, both couples attract an interesting group of like-minded people around them, and both households are full of love, sex, and fun. It may seem as if Grant and Rod are sheiks with their own harems, but the women are really in charge. In this frolicsome novel, readers can visualize the frolicsome tenderness that free spirits can enjoy.

Amanda Grows Up

Eighteen-year-old Amanda Curtis is enjoying a cruise to Alaska with her parents when, to her amazement, she meets one of her literary idols, the novelist Henry Tomlinson. She becomes intimately involved with the forty-year-old writer, both during the cruise and when she begins her freshman year at the University of Washington in Seattle. But Amanda is forced to grow up fast on many levels. Henry is deeply troubled by the departure of his wife, Charlotte, after twelve years of marriage; and when Charlotte unexpectedly wishes to come back into Henry’s life, how will Amanda react? And she herself falls for a fellow student, Vijay Dhabolkar, during her sophomore year. These and other emotional entanglements—including her parents’ divorce and her mother Lisa’s arrival at Henry’s house—test Amanda’s maturity as a woman and as a human being. In a novel full of intense sexuality and gripping emotional conflicts, Amanda Curtis finds that both she and the people around her gain a new sense of what love and sex can be.

Wife and Ex-Wife

Nina Wilkerson, signing up for a divorced people’s dating site, thinks she has found her ideal man in Patrick McAvoy. Their intense relationship is fueled by both sex and love. But when Patrick’s ex-wife, Amelia, gets into trouble and asks to take refuge in their house, Nina experiences a complex mix of emotions—trepidation, jealousy, confusion, but also a deep and abiding sympathy and affection for Amelia. And things get even more complicated when Larry Wilkerson, Nina’s ex-husband, shows up on the scene and needs a lot of care following a car accident. This deeply moving novel, full of sexual episodes but also of profound emotional conflicts, will leave you thrilled and tormented by the unusual nexus of people trying to work out a harmonious relationship. There won’t be a dry eye in the house!

Cassandra’s Plan

Cassandra Phillips wants to kill her husband. Over the years her relationship with David Phillips has gone sour—partly due to the fact that David has never fully gotten over his college sweetheart, Lauren Oxley, whom Cassandra pushed out of the way to win David’s heart. Lauren, devastated by the breakup, made some pornographic videos in a desperate attempt to put David out of her mind. Now, she is being blackmailed over some nude photos of her and appeals to David for help. In this grim, action-packed thriller, evoking the bleak ambiance of film noir but with red-hot sexual situations, we see a succession of lives shattered by emotional traumas and bad decisions—and we also get a peek at the sordid world of the New York porn industry. The novel ends with a spectacular and unexpected twist that no reader is likely to forget.

Harry’s Women

Harry Warner, a 57-year-old man in Seattle, wants to go back to college to get his B.A. In doing so, he falls in love with a 20-year-old college student, Emily Waters—and subsequently develops intimate relationships with Emily’s mother and grandmother. All this happens by a series of accidents, and Harry is as far from a Casanova figure as can be imagined. In fact, he is keenly aware of the complexities of interpersonal relationships and the emotional difficulties that both men and women face in the #MeToo era. The novel—recounted in the first person by Harry (and, later, by Emily and others)—is by turns funny, erotic, poignant, and shocking. Harry is a well-meaning but at times bumbling narrator-protagonist. But the heart of the book are the three women: Emily, vibrant, dynamic, and sarcastic; her mother, Joyce, melancholy, overwrought, and troubled by the desertion of her husband for a younger woman; and her grandmother, Isabelle, a Frenchwoman whose suave urbanity takes in the events surrounding her family with unflappable calm.

Student and Teacher

Damon Whittier, a 20-year-old student at Wellington College in Charlottesville, Virginia, finds himself infatuated with a lovely young professor, Iris Farquhar. Incredibly, she responds to him when he professes his love. Of course, the couple must keep their relationship a secret, lest she be fired and he be expelled. Damon later gets his friend Brad Young involved in the relationship, while Iris farms Damon out to other lonely women of her acquaintance. Damon then falls for a fellow student, the young and naïve Nan Baker, and later with Nan’s divorced mother Vera. This novel shows how the sharing of bodies and minds can result in an abundance of love and intertwined affection, so long as the unwelcome emotions of jealousy and exclusivity are kept at bay.

Magnus and His Family

Magnus Larsen hasn’t been the same since his wife of 20 years, Imogen, left him. He now lives with his 18-year-old daughter, Kristen, while Imogen lives with her 20-year-old son, Paul. Father and daughter and mother and son have become increasingly close; but soon, new people enter their horizon. There is Curt, a strapping African American friend of Paul; there is Adele, a fetching but naive young woman whom Kristen takes under her wing. Eventually, the two sides of the Larsen family renuite, along with other people young and old—and in the midst of a bewildering sequence of intimacy and devotion, a good time is had by all!

In the Hotel Room

An unexpected intimate encounter in a hotel room … a naughty young woman spanked by her father … a virile young man who services five women at a slumber party … a female college professor who nurtures the mind and body of one of her brightest students … an interracial couple separated by differences in class and religion … an elderly wife who interviews the potential mistresses of her husband … These and other tales of love and sex are rich with intimacy and passion, but also with emotional resonance and vivid character portrayal. Every one of these stories, long and short, display the humor, tragedy, and above all the complexity of the sexual act between sensitive people in today’s society. You won’t fail to be moved by them!

Candace and the Frat Boys

Candace Merrill, a bored 44-year-old divorcée, decides to pay a visit to a frat party at the college where she works. She enjoys herself among the dozen or so guys there, but one guy in particular—the shy, diffident Josh Campbell—becomes infatuated with her and becomes her live-in lover. Candace’s 21-year-old daughter, Julie, is not pleased with this state of affairs, but finds herself quickly charmed by Josh—and so does Mona, Candace’s widowed mother. This unusual quartet seems happy on the surface, but Josh soon finds that Mona is hiding a secret that will affect the lives of both her daughter and granddaughter. This is a novel of love, sex, and romance that is by turns funny, outrageous, and poignant—with an ending you won’t want to miss.

The Reluctant Virgin

Connie Winston, a shy, studious twenty-year-old college sophomore, finds herself at a frat party one night—and ends up losing her virginity, not entirely willingly, to an eager and charming young man, Lance Benson. Connie is torn by conflicting emotions as she undergoes multiple sessions with Lance, whose skills in this area are impressive. What follows is a sexual odyssey in which Connie discovers the multifarious ways in which sexual pleasure can be experienced. All the people closest to her—her eighteen-year-old sister, Elise; her divorced parents, Maggie and Stephen; Lance’s divorced parents, Manfred and Crystal—find that their own sexual awakening gives them a healthier, more wholesome outlook on life. This novel demonstrates how the diverse forms of sexual union can bring people closer together and touch our deepest emotions.

Gangbangs

A man rescues a woman from a sexual assault, then finds himself attracted to her … A young woman goes on a very unusual interview … Two strangers have an encounter on an airplane … A home invasion leads to unexpected intimacy … A woman admits to her desire to satisfy many men at once … A man makes a fine living by impregnating women the old-fashioned way … These and other stories in this book display the wide array of romantic and sexual scenarios that our complex world is capable of fostering. By turns funny, touching, tragic, and stimulating, the tales of Kathryn M. Burke keenly display what men and women feel and think during their most intimate moments—and the result is always exciting!

Little Kisses

To 28-year-old Priscilla Chambers, there was something incredibly fascinating about Gary Jones. They had met in a somewhat unorthodox manner, but their intense sexual unions caused them to fall for each other right away. Priscilla introduces Gary to her younger sister, Virginia, who is trying to reform herself after a college career that was a bit on the wild side. Then Gary meets Priscilla’s mother, Katie, still saddened over her divorce from her husband, Daniel. But Gary has tragedies of his own—notably, the abrupt departure of his own mother, Elizabeth, from the household when he was only a baby. His dad, Walter, remains in a state of depression over that. Somehow, Gary and Priscilla manage to effect a reunion of their parents—but along the way, they discover that intimacy of all different sorts is a recipe for the deepening of their love for everyone around them.

Coeds

A college professor dallies with a succession of cute coeds—with the approval of his wife … A timid, submissive woman gets more than she bargains for on a first date … A man is found living in a girls’ dorm at a small college … A woman professor and a male undergraduate have an unusual encounter at a protest rally … Two guys decide to invade a sorority house late at night … A young woman finds true love in the unlikeliest of places—a locker room where a college’s football team has just won a tough game … These and other stories of love and sex, many of them set in colleges and universities around the country, tell of how intimacy can erupt at the most unexpected times, leading to transformed lives—and lots of fun!

Intimacies

Intimacy can take so many different forms—between husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, parents and children. In these five stories, long and short, the full range of love and sex is displayed with a delicacy and grace that don’t preclude passion and emotive power. A college student engages in an unorthodox contest to assert her desirability … An academic conference is the unlikely venue for a meeting between professor and student … An older man finds a second career as a star in sex films … A middle-aged man, forced to go back to college, finds his heart touched by a naïve and innocent undergraduate. All these stories convey the complex emotional bonds that can result when intimacy finds expression in the act of love.

Naked

A man parades around naked in a house occupied by three women … Seven coeds and one college boy find fun and intimacy at a California beach … A woman, involved with a man of insatiable appetite, needs the help of two other women (including the man’s ex-wife) to satisfy him … A naïve young woman directs pointed questions about love, sex, and intimacy to her mother, father, and brother … These and other stories are what you will find in this book—by turns stimulating, funny, and poignant—by one of the most acclaimed writers of erotica in recent years. With Kathryn M. Burke, you never know what you’ll get—but you’ll always find a sensitive understanding of the innate human instinct for physical and spiritual union.

Julius and Me

At the end of a wild party, Sandra Osborne, a 34-year-old professor at a big state university, encounters Julius Wethers, a 22-year-old African American who is a star football player destined to be drafted by the NFL. She is immediately taken with the powerful but tender man, in spite of their difference in age. Along the way, other people appear on the scene: Dontae, a shy, naïve young athlete; Tricia, a sprightly undergraduate who becomes Dontae’s girlfriend; her own parents, who are having marital difficulties, as are Julius’s parents; and her own estranged husband, Mark, who returns on the scene. Sandra and Julius’s interactions with these varied characters show how intimacy can sprout in the most unlikely situations, leading to a more profound understanding of what love means.

Couplings

A mother provides hands-on instruction to her naïve daughter in the art of love … A young woman’s visit to the doctor leads to unexpected results at his home and elsewhere … Two young wives find they have similar tastes as far as men’s undergarments are concerned … A woman finds unexpected romance for herself and for her family in the laundry room of her apartment building … An ecstatic first date has wide ramifications among the couple’s friends and family. These and other stories of love, sex, and romance show the power of intimacy in affecting people’s emotions and actions. You may laugh, and you may cry—but you won’t be left unmoved!

Climaxes

Love makes the world go around—and it can be found almost everywhere, from the family circle to strangers that you might meet on the street. In these eight stories, people come upon love, sex, and intimacy from the safety of home, a college classroom, a high school reunion where long-lost lovers meet after two decades, and on a dating website. Some of these encounters are unexpected, others may even be scary and traumatic; but in the end, love is always there, showing how it takes over your body, mind, soul, and heart.

Ecstasies

A young poet finds himself attracted to two different women … A woman goes out of her way to help her friends with their sexual problems … A man finds the bathroom to be the most stimulating place in the house … A young Black man comforts an older woman he finds crying in her garden … These and other stories portray love and sex in all its varied forms—they are funny, intense, poignant, and most of all, exciting! Kathryn M. Burke always focuses on human emotions—but she never forgets that intimacy is always ecstatic.

Pleasures of the Flesh

In a blizzard, a middle-aged woman finds herself stuck in a hotel room with a charming college student … A writer in his thirties finds in a fresh-faced coed the perfect remedy to the painful divorce he has just gone through … A blind date turns unexpectedly intimate … A married woman is concerned about her younger sister’s fear of men … A woman in her forties is attracted to a younger man but doesn’t know if the relationship can last. … These and other scenarios are recounted in the stories in this book, where the “pleasures of the flesh” are shown to be far more than merely physical: they always involve the mind and heart and soul, and only then can true intimacy happen. Kathryn M. Burke weaves story after story that will stimulate you, move you, and might make you cry!