Length: Novella
Requested
Blurb: Marcus and Max own Maximilian's, the hottest and most exclusive club in town. The only invitation harder to come by is to their ultra private BDSM club, After Hours. Max is the face of the club, Marcus, the silent partner. But when Max decides to offer a class on the Art of Domination, there's only one Master fit for the job: Marcus. And for the first time in all the years they've known each other, Max is ready to play Marcus' way, with no holds barred.
Jolynn is at a crossroad in life. She has a terrific new job, but her lover left her, and she can't help feeling she needs something more in her personal life. When she finds an invitation to After Hours, she jumps at the chance, wondering if she has what it takes to play the Dom/sub game. By the time Jolynn realizes she knows the mysterious Master, it's already too late, she's under his spell. But would a true Master leave her bloody and beaten unconscious? Marcus believes someone deliberately lured Jolynn to the club to try to kill her, but will she trust him and Max enough to let them help her? Or will the killer find her first?
Jolynn is at a crossroad in life. She has a terrific new job, but her lover left her, and she can't help feeling she needs something more in her personal life. When she finds an invitation to After Hours, she jumps at the chance, wondering if she has what it takes to play the Dom/sub game. By the time Jolynn realizes she knows the mysterious Master, it's already too late, she's under his spell. But would a true Master leave her bloody and beaten unconscious? Marcus believes someone deliberately lured Jolynn to the club to try to kill her, but will she trust him and Max enough to let them help her? Or will the killer find her first?
Reviewed by Joe: I have mixed feelings about this one. First let me start off by saying that Ms. Harner is an amazing writer. Her characters are real, her dialogue is crisp and her sex scenes are so hot you’ll need a cigarette. With that being said, I wasn’t super wild for Salvation.
As a bisexual I love reading about bisexual relationships and I love reading about good bisexual relationships; which is what this story is about. I thought the relationship between the three main characters was real and interesting. I rooted for them. I liked them. I had no problem with that. I wanted the three of them to get together and live happily ever after, here is what I did have a problem:
Without giving too much away, in the book one of the main characters is attacked and brutally beaten. The only problem is I figured out who it was that attacked her. I don’t know if this was deliberate or not but when the reveal came, for me it was anti-climatic. There was no pay-off so I didn’t care. I would have liked to have been kept a little bit more in suspense of who could have held a grudge so great against this character that they would attack her in the manner they did. I feel that if more minor characters could have been introduced the mystery wouldn’t have been so easy to figure out and I wouldn’t have felt cheated. Because of this I kept waiting for something bigger to happen, some greater conflict to arise, but nothing ever did so I felt a little cheated.
I definitely liked the characters and I’m glad that the story turned out the way it did but I just wish there was a bigger suspense and buildup to the mystery of the attack. I will definitely check out more work by Ms. Harner though.
B-
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