Release Date: 6 March 2019
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The only thing I ever wanted was to prove my father wrong by achieving my dreams—not by becoming a doctor like he was, but by becoming a successful artist, like my mother wanted to be. Even if I have to take care of my wine drenched mother, ace classes at the Foundation, mingle at gallery openings, and serve late night lattes on the Broadway Strip, all while working on my art—one way or another, I will be a successful sculptor. And I’ll do it by myself.
But then I met Owen Lowell, the irritatingly smart, charismatic, most wanted bachelor in San Francisco with a shady past. Not only is he a millionaire businessman—not my type—but he insists on helping me, as if I need his help. I kept declining his assistance and erotic invitations until he showed me a side of the city I had never seen before, deeply violent and sadistic facets that sparked my muse. His desire to manipulate me, to use my deepest fears against me, to find things I didn’t know about myself, became hard to resist. And then I looked into his dark green eyes and knew he saw everything inside of me.
I told myself that as long as we were never romantic, he would never hurt me.
As long as we kept to the rules.
As long as he didn’t get in the way of my dreams.
My Review 3 STARS
**My thanks to the author for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**
This is the beginning of a series and ends on a kinda cliff hanger with a lot of unanswered questions left hanging around.
Although i liked the premise of this book, there were times that i did not connect with either character.
His warm hands entered my underwear, cured my bare ass, then pulled down my bottoms until they were on the ground. I lifted each foot and he removed the underwear. He stuffed my panties in my mouth, and i felt a pleasurable burning inside me.
"This will help you okay me," he said. I wanted to glare at him, but couldn't under the blindfold.
Owen and Riley are in their first sexual scene together, with her only having had a walk through Owens Dungeon and to be honest at time i really wondered why Riley let him do what he did.
"We can go back to my hand, but i will hurt you as much as i want. I won't limit myself to one more strike," he said slowly.
Can i just say, this is still Riley's first scene with Owen and it made me feel that Owen was not right in the head. He almost seemed to get off in causing pain, its perhaps a harder read than i am used too and i have read a fair amount of this kind of thing.
He pulled my hair and raked my head back so quickly and violently that it hurt, straining my neck. "You should be," he said. He bit down on my skin until i cried out. He had bitten me before, but this time it felt like he was chewing the tendons, trying to break the flesh. Then he flung my body on the bed. I felt my neck, expecting to find broken skin, but i didn't find anything.
This especially i found a little disturbing. I felt like this book should come with more of a warning, i am not of the sensitive type, but this had me squirming that this was not right and i did not like it.
Riley is supposed to be a strong woman yet i feel like she lets Owen get away with a little too much and her treatment of others like clay and Michael could be a little insensitive at times.
I liked the way that this story was put together and it was written well, however i know that i will not be finishing this series.
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