Blurb
Mackenzie “Mac” Nighthorse is a highly respected homicide detective and a career cop. There isn’t a dangerous situation that can back him down.
However, the personal becomes uncomfortably entangled in the professional when he goes undercover in a high class BDSM club as a male submissive in order to find a Dominatrix who is winning the trust and then murdering her chosen partners.
When his path crosses Violet Siemanski’s, he realizes he’s found a Mistress willing to be his ally in finding the murderess. But Violet is also going to shatter Mac’s shields and make him question who he is and what he wants, a challenge more disturbing than any case he’s ever worked.
Review
In book two in the Nature of Desire series, Violet Siemanski has been training for months in order to be a Dom. On her first night at the club without her mentor there to advice her, she meets Mac, a stubborn sub who doesn’t listen and does his best to charm her into doing his bidding.
Detective Mackenzie Nighthorse is an older, beefy submissive with an attitude problem, and he’s working undercover at the exclusive BDSM club to find a serial killer. Though he automatically marks Violet off his list of suspects, she’s unlike any Dom he’s ever played with.
Mac and Violet are perfect together. There’s an eleven-year age gap between them, but their maturity levels matched. She was no shrieking violet, no pun intended. She was definitely an alpha Dom to his alpha sub, ready to break him into a thousand pieces, help him surrender his desperate need for control, and piece him back together through strength and love.
The sexy scenes were scorching, as they should be in erotic romance. Every time Violet bound, gagged, flogged, and used plugs on poor Mac, it was so freakin’ hot.
Ms. Hill does a wonderful job creating real, flawed characters that you can’t help to hate or root for. I’m curious to learn more about Violet’s club friends, in particularly her mentor Tyler. I was surprised by who the villain was, which is always nice because I can usually guess correctly in a book’s beginning chapters.
I enjoyed this story, but sometimes I had to reread passages because of stray POV shifts and full-on head-hopping. There were a few punctuation errors, but nothing serious. Even though this erotic romance book could also be labeled romantic suspense, the narrative focused more on the H/h’s sexual relationship and emotional bonding than the serial killer angle, which served as a good subplot.
There are a few unanswered questions: what happened to Jonathon after the final climax (again, no pun intended); and after what happened with the villain, what will it be like for Mac and Violet when they finally go back to the club?
Anyway, the main characters, their D/s relationship, and BDSM culture makes this story a great read, but it’s not for the faint of heart (some of the incredibly hot torture/play scenes could be difficult for newbie readers of this genre). If you like female Doms taking charge of sexy male subs with a wide variety of toys at her disposal, then pick up a copy of this book.
4 Stars
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