Cherise Sinclair is an auto-buy for me, and this book is a perfect example of why. Despite the fact that the world she creates is alien to me-sadist and masochist-she makes me care about the characters and makes me feel good at the end. ~ Shadow – Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews
Synopsis:
Let’s liven up our marriage. It’ll be fun.
Then her husband brought two slaves into the house.
And that was the end of that.
Divorce achieved, Valerie is working on her goals.
Friends: has a new one. Fitness: little muscles! Finances: in the black.
Friskiness? Total. Effing. Fail.
So she attends the notorious Shadowlands club’s open house. There, a sadistic Dom—a fellow professor–teaches her that she loves pain with her pleasure. He wants to show her more.
Despite the razor edges of his hard face and the authority in his every word, he’s careful and caring. He listens, and how tempting is that?
But she knows better. Her heart is off-limits.
Retired Special Forces colonel, Ghost has been a widower for long enough.
Although he’s ready to love again, the generous, caring woman he desires has scars from her past. However, he has hard-won skills, enough to show Valerie there can be a new F on her list—fulfillment.
Life looks good. Until his past surfaces, shattering his new life and the love he’d hoped to win.
Cherise Sinclair is an auto-buy for me, and this book is a perfect example of why. Despite the fact that the world she
creates is alien to me-sadist and masochist-she makes me care about the characters and makes me feel good at the end.
Valerie Winborne-professor, author, submissive and masochist, is a warm, motherly woman who is still recovering from a divorce from her husband of many years. This is one of the places where she and I diverged-she let her husband move in not one but two additional women to serve him, and let Valerie support all four of them. When they started running her down together, Valerie got her act together and left-I would have left with the first one, the first day.
Ghost, aka Finlay Blackwood, is a professor, a sadist, a Dom, and a Master at the Shadowlands BDSM Club. He is recovering from the loss of his wife to cancer four years ago, and when he comes across the beautiful masochist whose kinks and intelligence match his, he decides she will be his. But Ghost has his own secrets and when they come back to haunt him, can Valerie overcome the problems that come with those secrets? And can she overcome the issues of both her past and present to accept a relationship with the honorable Dom?
The book also features a secondary love story-Mistress Olivia has thrown out her submissive, Natalia, because someone else managed to force them apart. Can they overcome the interference of a malicious woman? And finally, can the Shadowlands survive the damage done when Z hires a manager who has no scruples and no managerial ability?
We get to meet all the characters from previous books in the series-and other series. This book can be read as a stand-alone, but is more enjoyable if you know the characters from previous books.
I loved both Ghost and Valerie and the roller coaster ride of emotions the author evoked. As usual, this is a five-star read.
5 stars
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