And to think that I almost didn’t get the book! The BDSM trope didn’t appeal, but the blurb of the book was so intriguing that I decided to go for it, and it turned out to be one of my 2024 favorites!
Kieran and Talia met when she was 14 and he was 18 years old. They met in a Dublin cemetery, she was drunk, he was smoking a joint. Talia was touring with her family, her sister took her to a pub, gave her two shots, left her, the owners threw her out and she ended up drunk in the cemetery. Kieran found her, talked to her, and took her back to her hotel. Not without first telling her she needed to be the queen of lions, and he would be the king. She would be ok and people would kneel at her. She’s now 31, a psychiatrist, and an old college roommate asked her to take in a new patient. When she finds out it’s Kieran, she makes room for him.
And this is how this fantastic story begins and took me on a journey of nanotechnology, assassination attempts, a psychiatrist who is also a sex therapist, she used to work as a dominatrix, and he used to feel guilty over losing his wife and turning into a player. The author’s writing is sophisticated and witty, the characters are complicated and so interesting. I loved all the psychology involved in their interactions and psyches, loved the slow burn of their attraction and the ethics involved as their attraction evolves and Talia can’t manage to separate feelings and professional actions.
This story felt like a psychological thriller, not so much from the plot against Kieran for his nanorobotics research, but from the thrills I felt at all the psychological interactions between Kieran and Talia, and Talia’s consulting with her fellow therapist Leo Chastain. I love anything psychological, and paired with love, sex, and the bit of BDSM involved, it felt like a dream love story. There’s also real suspense, industrial espionage, bodyguards who protect with their lives on the line, attempts at their safety, nail biting, and girl gossip. I loved that the author inserted several humorous scenes because otherwise it would have been hugely intense, I needed the relief of some laughs!
This book needs to be enjoyed page by page, every dialogue, every interaction, all their thoughts and all their feelings. It was an intense ride and so very enjoyable, I totally recommend it!
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Why you need to #ONECLICK this book…
🔥Doctor/Patient
🔥Second Chance
🔥Dislike to Obsession to Love
🔥Billionaire Romance
🔥He Falls First
🔥Suspense
🔥BDSM/kink (light)
🔥Irish Hero
🔥Spicy Contemporary Romance
🔥Characters in their 30s
🔥Female Domme
🔥Alpha Hero
🔥Possessive Hero
About the author
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