Review: Deeply satisfying erotic romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2012
I very much enjoyed this - it's a wonderfully, erotic romance between two broken souls who have both seen their fair share of heartache and have walled up their emotions behind cast-iron defences and believe that they will never find true happiness.Caden and Lauren both broke my heart - both have endured tragic losses in their childhood and have grown up in the aftermath of those tragedies to become the emotionally restrained adults they are today. But, even for these embattled souls, love is possible and can be shown in the simplest of gestures such as a constantly replenished vase of calla lillies.Lauren goes to work as a personal assistant for Caden, a highly successful erotic photographer, to cover for her friend Macie while she takes an extended break to go travelling with her boyfriend. She finds herself deeply attracted to the closed-off Caden and it is soon apparent that the attraction is mutual when Caden eventually makes a move on her.They enter into a relationship on the understanding that it can never be more than temporary, never more than the physical and that nothing can ever come of it. However hard she tries to deny it, Lauren is slowly falling in love with Caden and knows that he will break her heart. Their passion together is positively incendiary and the sex scenes in the book are incredibly hot.Caden wants Lauren and he wants her badly but he is so closed off that he is going to adamantly deny any deeper emotional feelings, both to himself and to Lauren but he cannot keep his hands off her."It's always like this with you," he murmured softly. "I've never wanted someone so much. I've never felt this kind of passion with anyone else besides you."Caden may just have to be indicted into my fictional boyfriend harem - he's very hot and very, very good in bed and I just wanted to take him into my arms and soothe away all the hurt. His speciality in photography is to capture the moment when women orgasm, when they throw their head back in the throes of passion. I have to say that it added to the eroticism of the whole novel especially as the one woman he wants to photograph in that condition is none other than Lauren.Lauren is a great heroine who is unfailingly honest to herself and those around her. She has had a difficult childhood and isn't sure that she can ever truly give herself to someone, to trust implicitly but Caden will awaken feelings deep inside her that she never knew she was capable of.This is such a beautiful and satisfying romance with both central characters taking an incredible journey from the beleaguered souls that they are at the beginning to the people they become by the end of the novel. There's no tortured dominant billionaire and there's no cliffhanger at the end - it's a stand alone and complete romance. There's also great peripheral characters to believe in too.4.5 stars erotic romance