Once again, Ms. Alta Hensley has penned a story that is spine-tingling, on-the-edge-of-your-seat, I can’t look, but I can’t look away page-turning tale. There is a unique cast of characters, some you will hate, some will have you hot and bothered, and some, you just aren’t sure about. The characters and situations are explicated detailed. The story is not for those who want wine and roses with a sweet storyline. The story is raw, edgy, dirty, painful, intense, explicit and erotic.
Her grandparents raised Anita Kyle in a rundown mobile home behind a closed gas station in a hole-in-the-wall desert town in Nevada. She is all alone now and looks out for an elderly lady, Virgie, the only person she can even call a friend. The only color in her life is the colorful tattoos running down the right side of her body. Virgie decides to send Anita to New Orleans, giving her a chance to find something new in her life. With the help of a housemate, she will be hired to work at Spiked Roses.
The Spiked Roses is an exclusive private gentleman’s club with a very wealthy clientele. Men who enjoy the best in alcohol, cigars, and indulging in various proclivities and taboos, the club has private venues in an area called The Tasting Room, where private contracts are made between the men and women. The deals are contracts, spelled out in agreed upon terms, proclivities, time frame and payments, signed and seals with a drop of blood. It definitely isn’t for everyone. It is dark, depraved, humiliating, and the girls are giving consent to a set timeframe at the mercy of the men buying them.
The plot will have Anita leaving Nevada and arriving in New Orleans, and getting a job immediately at the Spiked Roses, a very exclusive private gentlemen’s club. But these men are no real gentlemen when it comes to their various proclivities. Kenneth Saxon, an attorney, and one of the club owners is impressed with the blunt honesty when Anita applies. “Who was this woman? She was very cool and collected, and yet so very naïve. Parts of her were hard, and I could easily see parts of her were soft. She was a jagged edge that I wanted to touch, even if it made me bleed.”
The Tasting Room will be hosting a very dark opening, with very few girls willing to participate, and newbie Anita is refusing to back down. When Marco Nunez purchases her by consensual contract, it will be out of Kenneth’s hands. She has been warned by Tennessee to read and understand the contract thoroughly. “You will read the contract carefully. And I mean carefully. If you feel you can't do something, you need to negotiate it out of the contract right away. When I allow you to leave with the buyer, I need to be sure that you are going into the situation with your eyes completely wide open and consensually entering the darkness.”
Anita negotiates the deal, but the cruelty of Marco is more than she can take and she will escape after only hours in his home. Kenneth’s reputation and the club are on the line and rather than let Marco’s henchmen catch up with her; he will retrieve her himself. It will be a battle of wills as he finds her and takes her back to New Orleans. She has two choices, to return the one hundred thousand dollars, or continue for two weeks with Marco. She refuses to give back the money, and Kenneth has no choice but to turn her back over to Marco.
The story is full of angst, depression, desperation, depravity, and determination. There is a love-hate status between Kenneth and Anita. Things will turn volatile and physical during their return trip to New Orleans, including spankings, non-consensual and consensual sex. “I craved his control over my body that willingly surrendered. “ “Sometimes you have to stare the devil in the eyes to be able to conquer him. I’ll get past this. I’m going to see it as a nightmare that I have woken from. I’m awake now. It was all a really bad dream.” This is the first book in this series and I look forward to the next one.
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Somehow there must be a glitch because I just downloaded this book and it’s the same as the 1st book you can see it’s not coming up with sinners&gin you can see at the top of my pictures of the 2 books but same story read all 5 just needed book 6 to finish the series
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