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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Played in the standard erotica way -- characters who are truly compatible have passionate, thrilling sex. Conversely, unsatisfying sex means that something is wrong.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Admit it; you'd like to be named "Lord Lyon Satyr".
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* ContemptibleCover: The cover image for each book is the body of a muscular, nude man. Most of them have at least a little cloth to cover themselves, but the models on ''Raine'' and ''Dane'' don't even get that (''Raine'' is covered by his arm; ''Dane'''s modesty is protected by naught but the title itself).
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* WhatBeautifulEyes: All the main characters, each giving a hint at their [[WindowsToTheSoul personalities and powers]].
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* BlessedWithSuck: Some of the characters with [=ElseWorld=] blood really, ''really'' hate how different it makes them, how it compels them to emotions and deeds outside of their moral code, and how it laughs in the face of any desire to just be normal. Raine and Jane get this particularly bad, though they both make their peace with it eventually.
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* CapitalLettersAreMagic: Satyr, Faerie, etc., plus everyday words like Will, Human, and Calling are capitalized to give them special significance.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal[=/=]IJustWantToBeSpecial: Best seen with half-Faerie Jane Cova, who feels the FreakinessShame especially severely, and her fully Human sister Emma, who feels out of place among her Satyr in-laws.
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* TheBeastmaster: Lyon Satyr's special talent is with animals -- he keeps a "menagerie" on his part of the estate and is frequently seen with his twin black panthers Liber and Ceres.
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* DisappearedDad: Lord Marcus Satyr, the father of the three Tuscan Satyr brothers, never appears in the present-day storyline.
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*ADateWithRosiePalms: Everybody masturbates, though it's treated more as a weak substitute for sex than a pleasure in itself. Sympathetic characters masturbate themselves (or each other) as part of foreplay, or to show that the sex they're getting isn't satisfying their deepest urges; unsympathetic characters who have self-love as their ''only'' sexual pleasure are seen as pathetic for that very reason.
* DisappearedDad: Lord Marcus Satyr, the father of the three Tuscan Satyr brothers, never appears in the present-day storyline. Nicholas and Lyon's mother isn't even mentioned.
*ADateWithRosiePalms: Everybody masturbates, though it's treated more as a weak substitute for sex than a pleasure in itself. Sympathetic characters masturbate themselves (or each other) as part of foreplay, or to show that the sex they're getting isn't satisfying their deepest urges; unsympathetic characters who have self-love as their ''only'' sexual pleasure are seen as pathetic for that very reason.
* DisappearedDad: Lord Marcus Satyr, the father of the three Tuscan Satyr brothers, never appears in the present-day storyline. Nicholas and Lyon's mother isn't even mentioned.
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*TheAlcoholic: Jane Cova's father is so addicted to drink that she refuses to even touch wine for fear of inheriting his vice. (Fortunately, he's not her actual father).
* DisappearedDad: Lord Marcus Satyr, the father of the three Tuscan Satyr brothers, never appears in the present-day storyline.
* EvilDetectingDog: Good characters like (and are liked by) Lyon's pet panthers.
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* FantasyContraception: Satyrs cannot impregnate a woman except with their first... release.. at Moonfull -- and they have to consciously decide to do it. (But if they do give a woman their childseed, conception is inevitable and the baby will be [[ExpressDelivery born at sunrise on the next Moonfull]]).
* FaunsAndSatyrs: Obviously. The satyrs of this book look human most of the time; only during Moonfull do they gain furry legs (no horns or hooves, though), a second phallus, and a tail-like appendage that helps soothe the friction of an entire night spent rutting.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Raine's painful past experiences have taught him that no Human will ever be able to accept what he becomes at a Calling. (Fortunately, he's wrong).
* FaunsAndSatyrs: Obviously. The satyrs of this book look human most of the time; only during Moonfull do they gain furry legs (no horns or hooves, though), a second phallus, and a tail-like appendage that helps soothe the friction of an entire night spent rutting.
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* FantasyContraception: Satyrs cannot impregnate a woman except with their first... release.. at Moonfull -- and they have to consciously decide to do it. (But But if they do give a woman their childseed, conception is inevitable and the baby will be [[ExpressDelivery born at sunrise on the next Moonfull]]).
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* FaunsAndSatyrs: Obviously. The satyrs of this book look human most of the time;only during Moonfull do they gain furry legs (no horns or hooves, though), a second phallus, and a tail-like appendage that helps soothe the friction of an entire night spent rutting.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Raine's painful past experiences have taught him that no Human will ever be able to accept what he becomes ata Calling. (Fortunately, he's wrong).
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* FreakinessShame: One of the central themes of the books focusing on the Tuscany Satyrs -- all three are worried that what they become at Moonfull will terrify their half-Human brides (Raine's first wife left him for that very reason). Their brides are also hiding what their half-Faerie lineage has given them for fear of alarming their husbands (Jane has feathery down on her shoulders, Jordan is a hermaphrodite, and Juliette can shapeshift).
* GodzillaThreshold: Raine swore that he would ''never'' father a child, not wanting to bring more people like himself into the world. Then Jordan falls victim to Morpheus and becomes pregnant with his child, giving [=ElseWorld=] a foothold in their land. Raine attempts to counter this by impregnating Jordan as well and succeeds, in a way -- Jordan miscarries the Morpheus embryo, but the child Raine fathered dies as well.
* GodzillaThreshold: Raine swore that he would ''never'' father a child, not wanting to bring more people like himself into the world. Then Jordan falls victim to Morpheus and becomes pregnant with his child, giving [=ElseWorld=] a foothold in their land. Raine attempts to counter this by impregnating Jordan as well and succeeds, in a way -- Jordan miscarries the Morpheus embryo, but the child Raine fathered dies as well.
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* FreakinessShame: One of the central themes of the books focusing on the Tuscany Satyrs -- all three are worried that what they become at Moonfull will terrify their half-Human brides (Raine's first wife left him for that very reason). Their brides are also hiding what their half-Faerie lineage has given them for fear of alarming their husbands (Jane has feathery down on her shoulders, shoulders that can turn into full wings, Jordan is a hermaphrodite, and Juliette can shapeshift).
* GodzillaThreshold: Raine swore that he would ''never'' father a child, not wanting to bring more people like himself into the world. Then Jordan falls victim to Morpheus and becomes pregnant with his child, giving [=ElseWorld=] a foothold in their land. Raine attempts to counter this by impregnating Jordanas well that same night and succeeds, in with a way heavy cost -- Jordan miscarries the Morpheus embryo, but the child Raine fathered dies as well.too.
* GodzillaThreshold: Raine swore that he would ''never'' father a child, not wanting to bring more people like himself into the world. Then Jordan falls victim to Morpheus and becomes pregnant with his child, giving [=ElseWorld=] a foothold in their land. Raine attempts to counter this by impregnating Jordan
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* MaritalRapeLicense: Carlo, Emma's late and unlamented first husband, believed this to be the case.
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An EroticLiterature[=/=]ParanormalRomance series by Elizabeth Amber set in nineteenth-century Europe and featuring two branches of the Satyr clan.
At some point in the mythic past, the Greek god Bacchus fathered children on [=EarthWorld=]. His sons, and all the sons of subsequent generations, were satyrs -- humanlike men of impressive physical and sexual prowess who are compelled to worship Bacchus one night a month, at Moonfull. When this Calling comes upon them, satyrs undergo a physical transformation that covers their lower bodies in hair and makes them, briefly, doubly endowed and able to enjoy physical pleasure all night long -- with the important caveat that every satyr must [[MateOrDie mate at least once while the moon is full or die a horrible death]].
In 1823 Tuscany, three Satyr brothers receive a missive from the dying King of Faerie, Feydon, ordering them to find and marry his three illegitimate half-Human daughters. Though each reluctant for his own reasons, Nicholas, Raine, and Lyon dutifully venture forth (to Rome, Venice, and Paris, respectively) to find, woo, and bring home their brides. Complicating matters is their own duty to guard a portal on their ancestral grounds which links [=EarthWorld=] and [=ElseWorld=], which remains secure only when at least two brothers are in residence. They also have to contend with the deadly phylloxera outbreak which is devastating vineyards in Europe -- if the Satyr crops are destroyed, they will also sicken and die, giving [=ElseWorld=] and its denizens room to enter and cause mischief.
A second series of books is set approximately fifty years later and focuses on another set of Satyr brothers -- Bastian, Sevin, Dane, and Lucien -- living in Rome. (The two clans are not related beyond their common descent from Bacchus).
The titles in the series thus far are
* ''Nicholas'' (2007)
* ''Raine'' (2008)
* ''Lyon'' (2008)
* ''Dominic'' (comprising the novellas ''Dominic'' and ''Vincent'', 2009)
* ''Dane'' (2009)
* ''Bastian'' (2011)
* ''Sevin'' (2012)
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* ArrangedMarriage: Nicholas, Raine, and Lyon wonder if King Feydon set them up for one of these with his daughters (turns out to be a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage if so), and the mundane version is all over the place (this being nineteenth century Europe and all). Nicholas is able to use this trope to his benefit, since "Lord Nicholas Satyr" is an impressive candidate for the hand of an ImpoverishedPatrician like Jane Cova -- though her guardians have ulterior motives for approving the match.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Aside from a bit of AnatomicallyImpossibleSex, Amber describes penises as shafts of "sinew and ''bone''" and suggests that a woman's hymen is somewhere deep inside the vagina (instead of a membrane that covers part of the entrance).
* BadassInDistress: Juliette (unknowingly) endangers Lyon by putting him to sleep on a Calling night, leaving him helpless, sickened, and on the verge of dying. He is saved by a third party, but he doesn't fully recover until Juliette returns and finishes what she started.
* TheBeastmaster: Lyon Satyr's special talent is with animals -- he keeps a "menagerie" on his part of the estate and is frequently seen with his twin black panthers Liber and Ceres.
* BeastMan: Satyrs verge on this, especially during a Calling. Some embrace it; others hate being reduced to a rutting animal.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Satyrs are endowed to a ridiculous extent, and it only gets worse during a Calling, when there are ''two'' of them. While this necessitates a little extra time, patience, and lubricant, their wives are sufficiently flexible to take what they have to give and enjoy every minute of it.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: A trait of [=ElseWorld=] creatures in general which the Satyr men also have to some extent. Jane in particular gets annoyed whenever some bizarre practice is shrugged off as "the Satyr way."
* ContemptibleCover: The cover image for each book is the body of a muscular, nude man. Most of them have at least a little cloth to cover themselves, but the models on ''Raine'' and ''Dane'' don't even get that (''Raine'' is covered by his arm; ''Dane'''s modesty is protected by naught but the title itself).
* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal: King Feydon conceived his children on three unsuspecting human women while they slept, and this is ''not'' depicted as okay. One woman abandoned the resulting twins; another was killed by a rival who could sense her daughter's potential; and the third never got over her dream of being the consort of the Faerie King; she eventually dressed herself as Titania and committed suicide to rejoin her "Oberon."
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Jordan's gift is prophetic dreams. Initially she sees only three symbolic images, but when she gains more control over her power, they become three vivid, detailed scenes.
* ExpressDelivery: Satyr pregnancies last a month.
* TheFairFolk: Played arrow straight. The books repeatedly emphasize that the Faerie have a moral code of their own and cannot be trusted -- and that if [=ElseWorld=] creatures got loose in [=EarthWorld=], it would be a ''very'' bad thing for the latter.
* FantasyContraception: Satyrs cannot impregnate a woman except with their first... release.. at Moonfull -- and they have to consciously decide to do it. (But if they do give a woman their childseed, conception is inevitable and the baby will be [[ExpressDelivery born at sunrise on the next Moonfull]]).
* FaunsAndSatyrs: Obviously. The satyrs of this book look human most of the time; only during Moonfull do they gain furry legs (no horse or hooves, though), a second phallus, and a tail-like appendage that helps soothe the friction of an entire night spent rutting.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Raine's painful past experiences have taught him that no Human will ever be able to accept what he becomes at a Calling. (Fortunately, he's wrong).
* FisherKing: For the Tuscany Satyrs -- their health and well-being is essential to ensure that their vineyard produces well. The reverse is also true -- when the vines are stricken, so are they.
* FreakinessShame: One of the central themes of the books focusing on the Tuscany Satyrs -- all three are worried that what they become at Moonfull will terrify their half-Human brides (Raine's first wife left him for that very reason). Their brides are also hiding what their half-Faerie lineage has given them for fear of alarming their husbands (Jane has feathery down on her shoulders, Jordan is a hermaphrodite, and Juliette can shapeshift).
* GodzillaThreshold: Raine swore that he would ''never'' father a child, not wanting to bring more people like himself into the world. Then Jordan falls victim to Morpheus and becomes pregnant with his child, giving [=ElseWorld=] a foothold in their land. Raine attempts to counter this by impregnating Jordan as well and succeeds, in a way -- Jordan miscarries the Morpheus embryo, but the child Raine fathered dies as well.
* GrandTheftMe: Sibela is a water spirit who moves from body to body like a hermit crab. The people she takes are [[AndIMustScream alive and conscious]] but "sublimated" while she occupies them.
* GenderBlenderName: Jordan.
* GreenThumb: Jane's Faerie talent is a special empathy with plants.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Jane, Jordan, and Juliette are half-Faerie.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Jordan. This gets her alternately forced into living as a man or displayed as a genderless biological specimen. She falls for Raine because he makes it clear that he sees her as a woman.
** EverybodyWantsTheHermaphrodite: Largely averted, though Raine remarks that hermaphrodites are sought-after in [=ElseWorld=], mostly as high-profile sex objects for the harems of the powerful.
* HeroicBastard: Raine is the result of an affair, and thus half-brother to Nicholas and Lyon. He's still treated like their brother in right, and a full son and heir, but he isn't quite over the pain of being thrown out for being a Satyr.
* HighClassCallGirl: Juliette is a neat twist on this trope; she is paid to take clients, but she uses her magic to put them to sleep and alter their memories so that they remember a night of wild debauchery (she herself is still a virgin!)
* ImAManICantHelpIt: Used less often than one would expect, and justified when it is used -- these are men who occasionally ''have'' to mate, after all. Juliette scoffs at Lyon when he tells her he will die if she doesn't sleep with him. Then she sees he is inches from lapsing into a coma and quite literally dying.
* InTheBlood: Another trope that drives this series. Jane, Jordan, and Juliette are all somewhat relieved to learn that their fathers are not actually their sires, but there is still a lot of angst to go around.
* IntimateHealing: This is an erotica series, so intercourse is going to be involved in just about every dramatic moment. Special mentions go to Juliette mating with two Shimmerskin copies of Lyon to revive the real one, or Nicholas and Jane combining her GreenThumb abilities with his status as FisherKing to revive the stricken vineyard.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Jordan's doctor Salerno, who has exclusive rights to display her, tells the audience to refer to her as "it" or simply "La Maschera" (for the mask that she wears).
* LovePotion: Part of the Moonfull ritual is drinking a special elixir to enhance pleasure and lower inhibitions.
* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Comes up particularly strongly in ''Nicholas'', where Jane is frustrated that her husband goes to mistresses to satisfy his carnal desires because he thinks whores are for pleasure and wives are for procreation. After a lot of talk and some initial reluctance, they enter into a more passionate, experimental (and enjoyable) sexual relationship.
* TheMasquerade: The Satyr Lords occasionally struggle with the need to keep up appearances and be socially respectable, even though they are cavalier about sex and deal with the supernatural on a daily basis.
* MateOrDie: Satyrs ''must'' mate at least once during the full moon or suffer a horrible death.
* MeaningfulName: Most obvious with Raine (cool, remote, grey-eyed but occasionally warm and playful) and Lyon (large, boisterous, golden in hair and eye, and TheBeastmaster).
* {{Mundangerous}}: Satyrs can by killed by things like the phylloxera outbreak (which could destroy their vines and destroy them by proxy). A common cold can mess with their enhanced sense of smell, making it harder for them to detect danger. They also apparently age and die just like any other human.
* TheNoseKnows: Satyrs have an enhanced sense of smell.
* OfCorsetsSexy[=/=]OfCorsetHurts: The discomfort of corsets comes up frequently. Jordan revels in hers, largely because it affirms her identity as a woman.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Nereids have the tail of a fish, a captivating voice, and the ability to convert their tails to legs on dry land.
* PainfulTransformation: Going into full Calling mode ''hurts''.
* ParentalAbandonment: Raine is the result of an affair between Lord Marcus Satyr and a human woman. When Raine hit puberty and his Satyr heritage became obvious, his "father" dumped him off at the Satyr Estates saying (essentially) "This one's yours -- deal with him." The experience leaves Raine with trust issues, to say the least.
* ProfessionalSexEd: Nicholas' father took him to a brothel to get the deed done, though he'd already taken some private lessons with a particularly bold housemaid.
* PubertySuperpower: Most of the characters with supernatural abilities first noticed these developing around age thirteen.
* TheQuietOne: Raine. This makes him a foil to Nicholas, the leader, and Lyon, the charmer.
* SexBot: A magic-themed version in the Shimmerskins -- mindless magical constructs conjured by a satyr's Will to pleasure him however he likes. Sex with one is implied to be one bare step above masturbation, but it is enough to satisfy the 'mate or die' requirement.
* ShownTheirWork: There are a lot of details about viticulture, winemaking, Greek mythology, etc. that found their way into these books (see VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, below).
* STDImmunity: Satyrs have this.
* TwinTelepathy: This plus a bit of DirtyMindReading means that Juliette's first encounter with Lyon is basically SexByProxy.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Phylloxera is real (it is a breed of aphid), and the mass die-back of European grape cultures [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_French_Wine_Blight actually did happen]], albeit a few decades later than in the books' chronology). Some of the folk remedies mentioned in the books, like burying a live toad under the vines, really were tried, and Raine and Jordan's solution (grafting American roots onto native vines) is the one which finally proved viable.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: As part of her Faerie heritage, Juliette can turn her body to stone, or water, or a tree, or whatever else she is touching.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: All the main characters, each giving a hint at their [[WindowsToTheSoul personalities and powers]].
** Nicholas has eyes of a particularly vivid shade of blue. Raine's are a grey that is also described as silver. Lyon's are gold.
** For the women, Jane's are leaf green, Jordan's are black, and Juliette's are sea green.
[[caption-width-right:350:You will [[ContemptibleCover never, ever read this on the train]].]]
An EroticLiterature[=/=]ParanormalRomance series by Elizabeth Amber set in nineteenth-century Europe and featuring two branches of the Satyr clan.
At some point in the mythic past, the Greek god Bacchus fathered children on [=EarthWorld=]. His sons, and all the sons of subsequent generations, were satyrs -- humanlike men of impressive physical and sexual prowess who are compelled to worship Bacchus one night a month, at Moonfull. When this Calling comes upon them, satyrs undergo a physical transformation that covers their lower bodies in hair and makes them, briefly, doubly endowed and able to enjoy physical pleasure all night long -- with the important caveat that every satyr must [[MateOrDie mate at least once while the moon is full or die a horrible death]].
In 1823 Tuscany, three Satyr brothers receive a missive from the dying King of Faerie, Feydon, ordering them to find and marry his three illegitimate half-Human daughters. Though each reluctant for his own reasons, Nicholas, Raine, and Lyon dutifully venture forth (to Rome, Venice, and Paris, respectively) to find, woo, and bring home their brides. Complicating matters is their own duty to guard a portal on their ancestral grounds which links [=EarthWorld=] and [=ElseWorld=], which remains secure only when at least two brothers are in residence. They also have to contend with the deadly phylloxera outbreak which is devastating vineyards in Europe -- if the Satyr crops are destroyed, they will also sicken and die, giving [=ElseWorld=] and its denizens room to enter and cause mischief.
A second series of books is set approximately fifty years later and focuses on another set of Satyr brothers -- Bastian, Sevin, Dane, and Lucien -- living in Rome. (The two clans are not related beyond their common descent from Bacchus).
The titles in the series thus far are
* ''Nicholas'' (2007)
* ''Raine'' (2008)
* ''Lyon'' (2008)
* ''Dominic'' (comprising the novellas ''Dominic'' and ''Vincent'', 2009)
* ''Dane'' (2009)
* ''Bastian'' (2011)
* ''Sevin'' (2012)
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!''The Satyr Lords'' provides examples of:
* ArrangedMarriage: Nicholas, Raine, and Lyon wonder if King Feydon set them up for one of these with his daughters (turns out to be a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage if so), and the mundane version is all over the place (this being nineteenth century Europe and all). Nicholas is able to use this trope to his benefit, since "Lord Nicholas Satyr" is an impressive candidate for the hand of an ImpoverishedPatrician like Jane Cova -- though her guardians have ulterior motives for approving the match.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Aside from a bit of AnatomicallyImpossibleSex, Amber describes penises as shafts of "sinew and ''bone''" and suggests that a woman's hymen is somewhere deep inside the vagina (instead of a membrane that covers part of the entrance).
* BadassInDistress: Juliette (unknowingly) endangers Lyon by putting him to sleep on a Calling night, leaving him helpless, sickened, and on the verge of dying. He is saved by a third party, but he doesn't fully recover until Juliette returns and finishes what she started.
* TheBeastmaster: Lyon Satyr's special talent is with animals -- he keeps a "menagerie" on his part of the estate and is frequently seen with his twin black panthers Liber and Ceres.
* BeastMan: Satyrs verge on this, especially during a Calling. Some embrace it; others hate being reduced to a rutting animal.
* BiggerIsBetterInBed: Satyrs are endowed to a ridiculous extent, and it only gets worse during a Calling, when there are ''two'' of them. While this necessitates a little extra time, patience, and lubricant, their wives are sufficiently flexible to take what they have to give and enjoy every minute of it.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: A trait of [=ElseWorld=] creatures in general which the Satyr men also have to some extent. Jane in particular gets annoyed whenever some bizarre practice is shrugged off as "the Satyr way."
* ContemptibleCover: The cover image for each book is the body of a muscular, nude man. Most of them have at least a little cloth to cover themselves, but the models on ''Raine'' and ''Dane'' don't even get that (''Raine'' is covered by his arm; ''Dane'''s modesty is protected by naught but the title itself).
* DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal: King Feydon conceived his children on three unsuspecting human women while they slept, and this is ''not'' depicted as okay. One woman abandoned the resulting twins; another was killed by a rival who could sense her daughter's potential; and the third never got over her dream of being the consort of the Faerie King; she eventually dressed herself as Titania and committed suicide to rejoin her "Oberon."
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Jordan's gift is prophetic dreams. Initially she sees only three symbolic images, but when she gains more control over her power, they become three vivid, detailed scenes.
* ExpressDelivery: Satyr pregnancies last a month.
* TheFairFolk: Played arrow straight. The books repeatedly emphasize that the Faerie have a moral code of their own and cannot be trusted -- and that if [=ElseWorld=] creatures got loose in [=EarthWorld=], it would be a ''very'' bad thing for the latter.
* FantasyContraception: Satyrs cannot impregnate a woman except with their first... release.. at Moonfull -- and they have to consciously decide to do it. (But if they do give a woman their childseed, conception is inevitable and the baby will be [[ExpressDelivery born at sunrise on the next Moonfull]]).
* FaunsAndSatyrs: Obviously. The satyrs of this book look human most of the time; only during Moonfull do they gain furry legs (no horse or hooves, though), a second phallus, and a tail-like appendage that helps soothe the friction of an entire night spent rutting.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Raine's painful past experiences have taught him that no Human will ever be able to accept what he becomes at a Calling. (Fortunately, he's wrong).
* FisherKing: For the Tuscany Satyrs -- their health and well-being is essential to ensure that their vineyard produces well. The reverse is also true -- when the vines are stricken, so are they.
* FreakinessShame: One of the central themes of the books focusing on the Tuscany Satyrs -- all three are worried that what they become at Moonfull will terrify their half-Human brides (Raine's first wife left him for that very reason). Their brides are also hiding what their half-Faerie lineage has given them for fear of alarming their husbands (Jane has feathery down on her shoulders, Jordan is a hermaphrodite, and Juliette can shapeshift).
* GodzillaThreshold: Raine swore that he would ''never'' father a child, not wanting to bring more people like himself into the world. Then Jordan falls victim to Morpheus and becomes pregnant with his child, giving [=ElseWorld=] a foothold in their land. Raine attempts to counter this by impregnating Jordan as well and succeeds, in a way -- Jordan miscarries the Morpheus embryo, but the child Raine fathered dies as well.
* GrandTheftMe: Sibela is a water spirit who moves from body to body like a hermit crab. The people she takes are [[AndIMustScream alive and conscious]] but "sublimated" while she occupies them.
* GenderBlenderName: Jordan.
* GreenThumb: Jane's Faerie talent is a special empathy with plants.
* HalfHumanHybrid: Jane, Jordan, and Juliette are half-Faerie.
* {{Hermaphrodite}}: Jordan. This gets her alternately forced into living as a man or displayed as a genderless biological specimen. She falls for Raine because he makes it clear that he sees her as a woman.
** EverybodyWantsTheHermaphrodite: Largely averted, though Raine remarks that hermaphrodites are sought-after in [=ElseWorld=], mostly as high-profile sex objects for the harems of the powerful.
* HeroicBastard: Raine is the result of an affair, and thus half-brother to Nicholas and Lyon. He's still treated like their brother in right, and a full son and heir, but he isn't quite over the pain of being thrown out for being a Satyr.
* HighClassCallGirl: Juliette is a neat twist on this trope; she is paid to take clients, but she uses her magic to put them to sleep and alter their memories so that they remember a night of wild debauchery (she herself is still a virgin!)
* ImAManICantHelpIt: Used less often than one would expect, and justified when it is used -- these are men who occasionally ''have'' to mate, after all. Juliette scoffs at Lyon when he tells her he will die if she doesn't sleep with him. Then she sees he is inches from lapsing into a coma and quite literally dying.
* InTheBlood: Another trope that drives this series. Jane, Jordan, and Juliette are all somewhat relieved to learn that their fathers are not actually their sires, but there is still a lot of angst to go around.
* IntimateHealing: This is an erotica series, so intercourse is going to be involved in just about every dramatic moment. Special mentions go to Juliette mating with two Shimmerskin copies of Lyon to revive the real one, or Nicholas and Jane combining her GreenThumb abilities with his status as FisherKing to revive the stricken vineyard.
* ItIsDehumanizing: Jordan's doctor Salerno, who has exclusive rights to display her, tells the audience to refer to her as "it" or simply "La Maschera" (for the mask that she wears).
* LovePotion: Part of the Moonfull ritual is drinking a special elixir to enhance pleasure and lower inhibitions.
* MadonnaWhoreComplex: Comes up particularly strongly in ''Nicholas'', where Jane is frustrated that her husband goes to mistresses to satisfy his carnal desires because he thinks whores are for pleasure and wives are for procreation. After a lot of talk and some initial reluctance, they enter into a more passionate, experimental (and enjoyable) sexual relationship.
* TheMasquerade: The Satyr Lords occasionally struggle with the need to keep up appearances and be socially respectable, even though they are cavalier about sex and deal with the supernatural on a daily basis.
* MateOrDie: Satyrs ''must'' mate at least once during the full moon or suffer a horrible death.
* MeaningfulName: Most obvious with Raine (cool, remote, grey-eyed but occasionally warm and playful) and Lyon (large, boisterous, golden in hair and eye, and TheBeastmaster).
* {{Mundangerous}}: Satyrs can by killed by things like the phylloxera outbreak (which could destroy their vines and destroy them by proxy). A common cold can mess with their enhanced sense of smell, making it harder for them to detect danger. They also apparently age and die just like any other human.
* TheNoseKnows: Satyrs have an enhanced sense of smell.
* OfCorsetsSexy[=/=]OfCorsetHurts: The discomfort of corsets comes up frequently. Jordan revels in hers, largely because it affirms her identity as a woman.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: Nereids have the tail of a fish, a captivating voice, and the ability to convert their tails to legs on dry land.
* PainfulTransformation: Going into full Calling mode ''hurts''.
* ParentalAbandonment: Raine is the result of an affair between Lord Marcus Satyr and a human woman. When Raine hit puberty and his Satyr heritage became obvious, his "father" dumped him off at the Satyr Estates saying (essentially) "This one's yours -- deal with him." The experience leaves Raine with trust issues, to say the least.
* ProfessionalSexEd: Nicholas' father took him to a brothel to get the deed done, though he'd already taken some private lessons with a particularly bold housemaid.
* PubertySuperpower: Most of the characters with supernatural abilities first noticed these developing around age thirteen.
* TheQuietOne: Raine. This makes him a foil to Nicholas, the leader, and Lyon, the charmer.
* SexBot: A magic-themed version in the Shimmerskins -- mindless magical constructs conjured by a satyr's Will to pleasure him however he likes. Sex with one is implied to be one bare step above masturbation, but it is enough to satisfy the 'mate or die' requirement.
* ShownTheirWork: There are a lot of details about viticulture, winemaking, Greek mythology, etc. that found their way into these books (see VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, below).
* STDImmunity: Satyrs have this.
* TwinTelepathy: This plus a bit of DirtyMindReading means that Juliette's first encounter with Lyon is basically SexByProxy.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Phylloxera is real (it is a breed of aphid), and the mass die-back of European grape cultures [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_French_Wine_Blight actually did happen]], albeit a few decades later than in the books' chronology). Some of the folk remedies mentioned in the books, like burying a live toad under the vines, really were tried, and Raine and Jordan's solution (grafting American roots onto native vines) is the one which finally proved viable.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: As part of her Faerie heritage, Juliette can turn her body to stone, or water, or a tree, or whatever else she is touching.
* WhatBeautifulEyes: All the main characters, each giving a hint at their [[WindowsToTheSoul personalities and powers]].
** Nicholas has eyes of a particularly vivid shade of blue. Raine's are a grey that is also described as silver. Lyon's are gold.
** For the women, Jane's are leaf green, Jordan's are black, and Juliette's are sea green.
