Review: Pleasure, Then Business
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 9, 2014
***Received from Fated Desires Publishing for an honest review***I like that this short story was built around the oldest workplace fantasy: a relationship between a boss and his assistant. What I liked even more was that the assistant, not the boss, is the damaged person. That slight twist promised there would be some suspense as the boss tried to figure out his lady love’s past.Aimee’s past wasn’t pretty. It was shadowed by a reality that’s all too real for many women today: abuse. But she wasn’t broken, she wasn’t shattered. She was strong because of it. Her timidity and fragility at the beginning of the story were smokescreens for the incredible woman just waiting to break free and shine.She just needed the right person to help her get there. Kenton was that person.He didn’t know her past, knew very little of her present, but he knew he wanted her. When the window of opportunity opened, he stepped in and gently began the process that would make her his.I have to say that my favorite scene was when Kenton found Aimee after she’d been beaten by her ex-husband. No, I don’t delight in the misery of others. But I loved this scene the most because Ms. Davis wrote it out like it should be. It was after Kenton and Aimee’s night together. That afterglow that still surrounded Kenton fragmented into thousands of pieces when he found her. The shock and anger he felt just radiated from my tablet.Ms. Davis did a great job filling this story with romance and suspense. It might be short but it’s not lacking on detail, and it’s a great beginning to her new series.