Review: Sweet story-  Loved the relationship - loved Drake!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2013
I did receive an ARC from the author in exchange for an honest opinion.Graduate student Kate McDermott is trying to find herself and her place in her powerful family's future. Her life has been mapped out and controlled by her father and she has always felt inadequate and that she could never meet up to his expectations of her and she was not happy with the plans he had for her. After a traumatizing experience while being embedded with relief workers in Africa - Kate has a nervous breakdown that leads to her floundering and trying to find herself. She changes her focus of her major and after tasting a little of the BDSM lifestyle from a former boyfriend - she decides she would like to write about the lifestyle - anonymously of course, as she does not want to have any backlash on her powerful father who has political aspirations. She meets up with a Domme through her research on the internet who gives her a series of letters that fire up Kate's imagination and the Dom that her mentor feels would be he best suited to show her the lifestyle turns out to be a close family friend, Dr. Drake Morgan who has no desire to have his secrets exposed either. They begin their relationship with an Agreement that leads to situations and feelings that neither of them anticipated, expected or wanted.This is a for lack of a better word - sweet and loving story - the BDSM is more of a focus of the lifestyle and a Dominate/Submissive exchange rather than being about pain and S&M.; The distinctions in the book are made quite clear.I loved how Kate grew during her relationship with Drake and discovered that things are not always as they seem within families. She is not necessarily nave and she does have an idea of what she is getting into - what she did not expect was to fall in love with Drake.Drake is a very unique character in this type of book - he is not the stern alpah's alpha who is a bit of an ass as he tries to control the situations and the scene - he is funny, engaging and seductive - every inch the dominate - and he falls in love with Kate despite wanting to keep his play and professional and personal lives separate. You can't help but fall for Drake!The way that their relationship develops is natural and not an overnight thing - very (ahem) very steamy and sensual -this book hit all of the right places for me and the letters from the dominate were awesome - I could read them over and over.On the Goodreads scale - I am rating this book as a 4 (Really liked it)and on the Amazon scale of a 5 (I loved it) overall rating of 4.5.~Gina[...][...][...]