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Siren's Snare
Siren’s Snare from erotic romance author Jessica Marie Baumgartner will have you on the edge of your seat as a male siren’s plans for an heir go awry. This action and adventure ménage will keep you turning the pages as you discover secrets, passion, and love in a world under the sea.
Savaunt is a male siren who wishes to lure Lena into his snare. He desires her to produce him a son and make a proper meal once she has fulfilled her purpose. But his plans are halted when he falls in love with her. Will he be able to tell her the truth of his origins and find a way for them to be together?
Content Hot, Ménage, Polyamory, Non-Sexual Physical Assault, Short MM scene, Contemporary, Paranormal, Adventure, Music, Sea Creatures
Savaunt is a male siren who wishes to lure Lena into his snare. He desires her to produce him a son and make a proper meal once she has fulfilled her purpose. But his plans are halted when he falls in love with her. Will he be able to tell her the truth of his origins and find a way for them to be together?
Content Hot, Ménage, Polyamory, Non-Sexual Physical Assault, Short MM scene, Contemporary, Paranormal, Adventure, Music, Sea Creatures
- GenresM M Romance
161 pages, ebook
Published February 29, 2016
About the author
Jessica Marie Baumgartner
26 books93 followersJessica’s motto is: Adventure first, then write! When not running around exploring life, she chases multiple versions of herself (5 Kids) and feeds animal babies. She is also the author of "Reclaiming Femininity," "The Magic of Trees," "Homeschooling on a Budget," "The Magic of Nature," "Walk Your Path," "The Golden Rule," and more . Despite being a walking oxymoron factory: dyslexic-writer, maternal-tomboy, conservative-Pagan, she loves everyone and works for the Right Side Broadcasting Network, Mid Rivers Newsmagazine, and Witch Way Magazine. She is an America First Free-Speech advocate and current member of the Missouri Writers’ Guild and Saturday Writers groups.
Her writing has won:
2024 2nd Place Saturday Writers July/August Poetry Award for, Unexpected Beachfront Property
2024 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Nonfiction Book Award for, The Magic of Trees
2024 3rd Place Saturday Writers President’s Contest Drabble for, Dad’s Making Hot Sauce Again (A National Hot Sauce Day Horror Story)
2024 Saturday Writers Pen & Paint Poetry Contest winner, Forgotten Home
2024 Saturday Writers Pen & Paint Short Story Contest winner, A Capella Memories
2023 3rd Place Saturday Writer’s May Writing Competition for, Hungry Bird
2021 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Walter Williams Award for, Walk Your Path
2021 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Best Poem Award for, Paternal Admiration
2018 Bards & Sages Author of the Year Award
2018 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Children’s Book Award for, The Golden Rule
2018 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Short Story Award for, English Escape
2018 3rd Place Bards & Sages Short Fiction Award for, By the Stars
2018 Story of the Year Bards & Sages Award for, Gold Bands
2018 New Apple Award’s Best Spiritual Book of the year for, The Golden Rule
2017 New Apple Award’s Children’s Spiritual Ebook of the year for, The Golden Rule
2016 2nd place in the Summer Indie Book Awards for Best Sci-Fi Book, By the Stars
Publications that have featured Jessica Marie Baumgartner’s articles and stories: Right Side Broadcasting Network, Sasee Magazine, Extremely American, Giant Freakin Robot, The Foundation for Economic Education, The Vermont Daily Chronicle, Edge of Humanity Magazine, The Conservative New Mexican, The Conservative Woman, Missouri Conservationist, Go 2 Tutors education news, The Federalist, Aspire Magazine, All Things Weird & Strange, The New American, The Epoch Times, The Sedona Journal of Emergence, American Thinker, Pagan Pages, Magic of Motivational Poetry and Quotes, Evie Magazine, Father and I, Woods Reader, Witch Way Magazine, Light of Consciousness Magazine, Breastfeeding Today, New Spirit Journal, Alban Lake Publishing, Conscious Shift Magazine, Witchology Magazine, LitReactor, Buddy Lit Zine, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, Kids Imagination Train Magazine, Mothers Always Write, It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life, Fantastic Tales of Terror: History’s Darkest Secrets, The RAC Magazine, Bards & Sages, Aurora Wolf, Spaceports & Spidersilk, My Wandering Uterus, Guardian Angel Kids Ezine, The Society of Misfit Stories, FrostFire Worlds, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Teachers, Outposts of Beyond, Everyday Fiction, The Lorelei Signal, Circle Magazine, Yellow Mama, The Horror Zine, The Witches’ Voice, Blood Moon Rising, Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Spirit One Magazine, Fiction on the Web, Jitter Press, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Beyond Imagination Literary Magazine, Postcard Shorts, Hellfire Crossroads, and Quantum Muse and The St. Louis Examiner (where she used to be a staff member).
Her writing has won:
2024 2nd Place Saturday Writers July/August Poetry Award for, Unexpected Beachfront Property
2024 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Nonfiction Book Award for, The Magic of Trees
2024 3rd Place Saturday Writers President’s Contest Drabble for, Dad’s Making Hot Sauce Again (A National Hot Sauce Day Horror Story)
2024 Saturday Writers Pen & Paint Poetry Contest winner, Forgotten Home
2024 Saturday Writers Pen & Paint Short Story Contest winner, A Capella Memories
2023 3rd Place Saturday Writer’s May Writing Competition for, Hungry Bird
2021 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Walter Williams Award for, Walk Your Path
2021 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Best Poem Award for, Paternal Admiration
2018 Bards & Sages Author of the Year Award
2018 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Children’s Book Award for, The Golden Rule
2018 3rd Place Missouri Writer’s Guild Short Story Award for, English Escape
2018 3rd Place Bards & Sages Short Fiction Award for, By the Stars
2018 Story of the Year Bards & Sages Award for, Gold Bands
2018 New Apple Award’s Best Spiritual Book of the year for, The Golden Rule
2017 New Apple Award’s Children’s Spiritual Ebook of the year for, The Golden Rule
2016 2nd place in the Summer Indie Book Awards for Best Sci-Fi Book, By the Stars
Publications that have featured Jessica Marie Baumgartner’s articles and stories: Right Side Broadcasting Network, Sasee Magazine, Extremely American, Giant Freakin Robot, The Foundation for Economic Education, The Vermont Daily Chronicle, Edge of Humanity Magazine, The Conservative New Mexican, The Conservative Woman, Missouri Conservationist, Go 2 Tutors education news, The Federalist, Aspire Magazine, All Things Weird & Strange, The New American, The Epoch Times, The Sedona Journal of Emergence, American Thinker, Pagan Pages, Magic of Motivational Poetry and Quotes, Evie Magazine, Father and I, Woods Reader, Witch Way Magazine, Light of Consciousness Magazine, Breastfeeding Today, New Spirit Journal, Alban Lake Publishing, Conscious Shift Magazine, Witchology Magazine, LitReactor, Buddy Lit Zine, The St. Louis Post Dispatch, Kids Imagination Train Magazine, Mothers Always Write, It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life, Fantastic Tales of Terror: History’s Darkest Secrets, The RAC Magazine, Bards & Sages, Aurora Wolf, Spaceports & Spidersilk, My Wandering Uterus, Guardian Angel Kids Ezine, The Society of Misfit Stories, FrostFire Worlds, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Teachers, Outposts of Beyond, Everyday Fiction, The Lorelei Signal, Circle Magazine, Yellow Mama, The Horror Zine, The Witches’ Voice, Blood Moon Rising, Magazine, Bewildering Stories, Spirit One Magazine, Fiction on the Web, Jitter Press, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Beyond Imagination Literary Magazine, Postcard Shorts, Hellfire Crossroads, and Quantum Muse and The St. Louis Examiner (where she used to be a staff member).
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May 20, 2016
Siren’s Snare an erotic romance by Jessica Maria Baumgartner. Savaunt has not long turned 500, middle age he longs for a child of his own, a son. There is only one problem. He is a Siren, a race of males who can only produce offspring with a human female. Leaving his lover and best friend Desmond he embarks on his journey to find the perfect woman to birth his child, once her role is complete, in the way his kind have always done he will use her to satisfy his appetite. Sirens devour humans, it is simply the way things have always been. Finding himself on land, penniless and bare he immediately sets about using his charms to obtain everything he needs. Soon he finds Lena, she works in a coffee shop with her best friend, and she is everything he needs. With the mother of his child in his sights he sets about seducing her, but she is harder to charm than most. Lena requires more effort and focus than he imagined, but as he begins to win her affections he soon discovers she ignites something unexpected within him, he wants more with her than his people’s ways allow.
Jessica Maria Baumgartner creates characters with an old-fashioned charm, the gentlemanly Savaunt could seduce by words alone even without his siren’s voice. A nicely written romantic plot as Savaunt first tries to win Lena’s affection and is forced to address his involvement with her. Siren’s Snare also touches on issues such as environmental awareness. The growth and changes undergone by the characters are enjoyable and breathe further life into the deep and interesting cast. Appealing to romance readers from all wakes and the otherworldly charm only serves to enhance the beautify scripted plot. This is one book difficult to put down. A well-crafted plot that ticks all the boxes in an erotic romance.
Siren’s Snare an erotic romance by Jessica Maria Baumgartner. Savaunt has not long turned 500, middle age he longs for a child of his own, a son. There is only one problem. He is a Siren, a race of males who can only produce offspring with a human female. Leaving his lover and best friend Desmond he embarks on his journey to find the perfect woman to birth his child, once her role is complete, in the way his kind have always done he will use her to satisfy his appetite. Sirens devour humans, it is simply the way things have always been. Finding himself on land, penniless and bare he immediately sets about using his charms to obtain everything he needs. Soon he finds Lena, she works in a coffee shop with her best friend, and she is everything he needs. With the mother of his child in his sights he sets about seducing her, but she is harder to charm than most. Lena requires more effort and focus than he imagined, but as he begins to win her affections he soon discovers she ignites something unexpected within him, he wants more with her than his people’s ways allow.
Jessica Maria Baumgartner creates characters with an old-fashioned charm, the gentlemanly Savaunt could seduce by words alone even without his siren’s voice. A nicely written romantic plot as Savaunt first tries to win Lena’s affection and is forced to address his involvement with her. Siren’s Snare also touches on issues such as environmental awareness. The growth and changes undergone by the characters are enjoyable and breathe further life into the deep and interesting cast. Appealing to romance readers from all wakes and the otherworldly charm only serves to enhance the beautify scripted plot. This is one book difficult to put down. A well-crafted plot that ticks all the boxes in an erotic romance.
Jessica Maria Baumgartner creates characters with an old-fashioned charm, the gentlemanly Savaunt could seduce by words alone even without his siren’s voice. A nicely written romantic plot as Savaunt first tries to win Lena’s affection and is forced to address his involvement with her. Siren’s Snare also touches on issues such as environmental awareness. The growth and changes undergone by the characters are enjoyable and breathe further life into the deep and interesting cast. Appealing to romance readers from all wakes and the otherworldly charm only serves to enhance the beautify scripted plot. This is one book difficult to put down. A well-crafted plot that ticks all the boxes in an erotic romance.
Siren’s Snare an erotic romance by Jessica Maria Baumgartner. Savaunt has not long turned 500, middle age he longs for a child of his own, a son. There is only one problem. He is a Siren, a race of males who can only produce offspring with a human female. Leaving his lover and best friend Desmond he embarks on his journey to find the perfect woman to birth his child, once her role is complete, in the way his kind have always done he will use her to satisfy his appetite. Sirens devour humans, it is simply the way things have always been. Finding himself on land, penniless and bare he immediately sets about using his charms to obtain everything he needs. Soon he finds Lena, she works in a coffee shop with her best friend, and she is everything he needs. With the mother of his child in his sights he sets about seducing her, but she is harder to charm than most. Lena requires more effort and focus than he imagined, but as he begins to win her affections he soon discovers she ignites something unexpected within him, he wants more with her than his people’s ways allow.
Jessica Maria Baumgartner creates characters with an old-fashioned charm, the gentlemanly Savaunt could seduce by words alone even without his siren’s voice. A nicely written romantic plot as Savaunt first tries to win Lena’s affection and is forced to address his involvement with her. Siren’s Snare also touches on issues such as environmental awareness. The growth and changes undergone by the characters are enjoyable and breathe further life into the deep and interesting cast. Appealing to romance readers from all wakes and the otherworldly charm only serves to enhance the beautify scripted plot. This is one book difficult to put down. A well-crafted plot that ticks all the boxes in an erotic romance.
May 18, 2017
When I first read the blurb for this book, I admit, my first thought was something like this:
Then I shook myself and grew up a little:
Regardless, that is not actually, where Jessica's story takes the reader. While there was mention of the wild, aggressive female sirens, this book focused on the male sirens. And while the only fishy tail around was in the form of seafood Sevaunt and Lena ate, the story still rang true to some of the myths you may know about sirens.
This is a nice story about love, in all forms. But it did smack of 'insta-love' at least to start with. Even though there was initial hesitation from some of the characters and plenty of 'soul searching' at various points, things happened way too quickly.
Siren's Snare is marketed as erotic romance, and while there are some nice sexy scenes, I felt it was a little too soft and is more a nod to romance rather than erotica. It does have one M/M scene, which felt glossed over and shallow in comparison to the scenes between Savaunt and Lena. The M/M romance/love was sweet though.
Ultimately, I liked this story; it offers new ideas around a mythical race of creatures I've not read much about. Despite Savaunt appearing too perfect and the insta-love, I enjoyed the polyamory and gentle love shared between the sirens and Lena. I'd just have liked it to be a bit more 'adult' in nature and less 'sweet'.
Something about the writing kept throwing me off, I'm not sure if it was some of the turns of phrase from Savaunt or the writing itself, but a few times in the story, I felt very removed from the scene and subsequently stopped reading for a while. Overall, the story is enjoyable and a quick read.
One thing I noticed:
82% - Desmond's vo(i)ce broke forth... I'm not sure if the use of voce was intended, even if it were I'd still recommend using voice.
**Note: I received an electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.**
Then I shook myself and grew up a little:
Regardless, that is not actually, where Jessica's story takes the reader. While there was mention of the wild, aggressive female sirens, this book focused on the male sirens. And while the only fishy tail around was in the form of seafood Sevaunt and Lena ate, the story still rang true to some of the myths you may know about sirens.
This is a nice story about love, in all forms. But it did smack of 'insta-love' at least to start with. Even though there was initial hesitation from some of the characters and plenty of 'soul searching' at various points, things happened way too quickly.
Siren's Snare is marketed as erotic romance, and while there are some nice sexy scenes, I felt it was a little too soft and is more a nod to romance rather than erotica. It does have one M/M scene, which felt glossed over and shallow in comparison to the scenes between Savaunt and Lena. The M/M romance/love was sweet though.
Ultimately, I liked this story; it offers new ideas around a mythical race of creatures I've not read much about. Despite Savaunt appearing too perfect and the insta-love, I enjoyed the polyamory and gentle love shared between the sirens and Lena. I'd just have liked it to be a bit more 'adult' in nature and less 'sweet'.
Something about the writing kept throwing me off, I'm not sure if it was some of the turns of phrase from Savaunt or the writing itself, but a few times in the story, I felt very removed from the scene and subsequently stopped reading for a while. Overall, the story is enjoyable and a quick read.
One thing I noticed:
82% - Desmond's vo(i)ce broke forth... I'm not sure if the use of voce was intended, even if it were I'd still recommend using voice.
**Note: I received an electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.**
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