Review: The sadist with a submissive dynamic rocks!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2014
Brief plot summary:  Lindsey is on the run and hiding from her past life in Texas, where the bad guys are/were her former husband and the cops.  Because she's hiding, she can't use her education or get a particularly good job, so works as a receptionist at Dark Haven for her membership, while eeking out a marginal living in menial and temp jobs.  After calling in his contest "winnings" (essentially a night with Lindsey), deVries mistakes her background and makes negative assumptions about Lindsey's motives, which sets things up for the relationship part of the angst-ridden moments.  Lindsey's past coming back to haunt her make for the rest.  Throw in a dungeon or two, several very hot "scenes" and all the feelings Cherise is so good at generating, and all I can say is 5 stars!My interest was definitely peaked by deVries in "My Liege of Dark Haven" and I was really glad he got his own book.  The premise of a die-hard sadist and Dom matched with a non-masochistic submissive was more than a little intriguing, so I was waiting for this one from the time I heard about it.  It does NOT disappoint!  I loved the feeling the book evoked when reading about the interactions between deVries (our sadist Dom) and Lindsey (our oh so not a masochistic submissive).Their chemistry started in My Liege, and came full force in Edge (you don't have to read any of the others, but they certainly add the back stories of other couples in Edge and details you may like should you wish to do so).  I particularly loved that Cherise went into the details of how deVries' sadism manifested itself and the struggles he and Lindsey went through to deal with their differing needs while still staying true to their feeling for each other.  I also really liked seeing them (mostly him, lol) in a non-sadist mode, where the way he was feeling about Lindsey wasn't tied up in his sadistic needs - he was just feeling.  He's a Dom too after all, so he often played in that role both with and apart from the sadist role; and on top of all that, he was the guy going for the girl he liked (with food and movies and hikes and things like that).Another hit entry to the Dark Haven series - if you like this genre, this is a definite winner!