Review: Joey W Hill never disappoints!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2014
If you have never read Joey W Hill this would be a great story to start your journey. If you’re already a fan this is one of the stories you have been waiting for. Divine Solace can be read as a standalone or you can read it as part of the Natures of Desire series.This is Gen’s story.Gen has everything she needs. She has a great job working for Marguerite Winterman at Tea Leaves. She waits tables along with her friend Chloe and takes care of the books for the business. She has a nice little house that she is buying and continuing her education. She’s doing it a couple classes at a time. She wants that bachelor’s degree. She doesn’t see her mother much anymore but that isn’t a real problem for her. Gen has Marguerite and Chloe, her chosen family.Gen is in her thirties. She has loved and lost a few times, including two marriages that not only failed but took a toll on her emotionally and spiritually. So she has settled, becoming content with being by herself. She is even planning on adopting a black and white tom cat from the shelter she volunteers at that is starting to like her. She belongs to a craft group that has a craft party/pot luck the first Thursday of every month. What more could she want? Well that is what she thought until the morning Lyda Coltrane walked into Tea Leaves to speak to Marguerite.Disconcerting, this is the word Gen uses to describe her encounter with Lyda. She couldn’t have picked a better word. Lyda is owner of Growing Things Nursery. Lyda is one of those women who can capture the eye of any male or female with her dark red hair that has golden highlights, fair skin and the way she moves you just know she takes good care of the complete package she is. When Marguerite arrives and is told her friend is waiting for her, Gen is given a reprieve and sent out to the storage shed to get more tea leaves. But the odd encounters don’t stop there.On Gen’s way back in to the main building she runs literally into a human wall. “Hello Noah.” Tan skin, well-muscled, dark hair and rich brown eyes and strong hands that keep her from tumbling from the collision. As Noah recovers from his shower of tea leaves and Gen refills the bowl they have a few minutes to chat. Noah works for Lyda at the nursery when he isn’t teaching sailing at the college: the same college where Brendan, Chloe’s husband teaches. Noah and Brendan became friends after meeting in a club in New Orleans. Brendan also helped Noah get the teaching job at the college. As Gen and Noah reach the stairs to enter Tea Leaves she does something that surprises her. She reaches out and touches Noah in kind of the same way Lyda touched her. Can this day get any stranger?!If you know anything about Joey W Hill’s writing/story telling the answer is a resounding YES! Gen’s safe quiet world is about to collide with her friends and loved ones world of BDSM. Mistress Lyda needs a place for her sexy submissive Noah to stay for the weekend. She is having a girl’s weekend with some of her college friends and no boys are allowed. Gen is remodeling her kitchen and she needs help with the labor. So when Noah is offered to her for the weekend, is it a match made in heaven or is it a match made in some place a little less tame?Although this is Gen’s story, no good love story is one sided. This is also Noah’s story. He is going to fire your fantasies and rip your heart out. These two are going to make you laugh, cry, pull your hair out and need to turn up the A/C. We are also given more of Mistress Lyda’s story as well. Will these two break the cold Mistress we met in Branded Sanctuary or will her strong heart and spirit save them all? Or will Gen be the one to save them? Maybe it is Noah who saves them. But nothing can happen until Gen makes her decision. You are going to love this story. Enjoy!If you want to catch our sexy trio and the other characters from this story from the beginning check out Joey W Hill’s Nature of Desire series. Noah appears in the Knights of the Boardroom series book 5 Hostile Takeover.