Title: Commanded
Series: Club Sin #6
Author: Stacey Kennedy
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: 7 July 2015
Blurb
Club Sin comes alive once again in this decadent new romance from USA Today bestselling author Stacey Kennedy, perfect for fans of Fifty Shades of Grey.
A dedicated cop, Sawyer Quinn blows off steam by immersing himself in his role as a Master at the hottest club in Las Vegas. But when Sawyer goes after the perp who brutally beat his sister, he teams up with Chloe Nash, a sexy private investigator who awakens a sweet new need: to keep her to himself, away from the dungeon of Club Sin. Chloe is beautiful, smart, and too innocent for the BDSM lifestyle. Sawyer’s never wanted a woman like this before. Is her love worth swearing off the one thing that keeps him sane?
There’s something different about Sawyer: a commanding strength that pulls Chloe into a vortex of heady desire. But when she learns about his double life as a Dom, she’s shocked—and afraid she could never complete him. Then he saves her life, and just like that, Chloe knows she will be able to give him anything he desires. She is his—wherever and however he wants to take her.
Excerpt
Eyes cast down. Rope. Naked flesh.
Sawyer Quinn studied the bound submissive before him. The tight bindings squeezed her flesh in the proper way so that the black hemp rope accentuated the curves of her feminine body. Even though she was enticingly beautiful, his cock mourned the action tonight.
Tonight, he mentored the Dominant Max on suspension bondage. Sawyer observed the artful ropes that captured the dark-haired submissive named Amanda. He didn’t linger too long on her rosy, erect nipples, though, as she most definitely belonged to Max.
Keeping a close eye on Max’s proficiency as he bound Amanda’s knee, Sawyer leaned against the dungeon’s stone wall for support. Black leather couches surrounded glass coffee tables, and wrought-iron sconces dimly lit the room. The best of BDSM equipment decorated the square room, with St. Andrew’s Crosses, spanking benches, ropes hanging from steel support beams, and much more. Club Sin was a five-star BDSM club, and Sawyer happily renewed his membership each year.
Under his careful examination, Max fumbled with one of the knots before undoing it to try again. Max tended to become frustrated during their training sessions, being too hard on himself for not getting it right the first time. Sawyer knew Max was trying to stay focused as he corrected the error—not an easy task when you have someone looking over your shoulder.
All in all, Sawyer thought, Max had done well.
Throughout the fifteen years Sawyer had been practicing BDSM, he noticed two different types of people who enjoyed bondage. One type included those who tied up their lover to add kink into their sex lives. The other type included those who had a bondage fetish.
The people with a fetish got off on seeing their lover wrapped in rope, just as Sawyer did when he bound a woman. Sawyer had first trained with knots in his early twenties. Then he had focused on Shibari before moving on to suspension bondage. Over time, bondage had become second nature to him. He could bind a woman to increase her pleasure as easily as he could tie a shoe.
The loud slaps of a leather flogger against flesh echoed across the dungeon from the spanking bench across the room. Sawyer stayed focused on the task at hand, seeing that Amanda kept her eyes closed while Max continued working over her body. Max knotted the rope at pressure points that he’d learned from Sawyer during their first training sessions.
Pleased by Max’s care of Amanda, Sawyer took note of the crowd, while soft music came from the speakers above his head. It didn’t surprise him to find newer members watching the scene. He couldn’t spot Club Sin’s owner, Dmitri. Nor could he see any of his fellow Club Masters—Kyler, Miles, Aidan, and Porter—all of whom Dmitri had appointed to help run the club, oversee the submissives in the dungeon, and educate the members.
His fellow Masters were highly experienced, and the training aspect of the scene stole away the passion and intensity. Those who watched Max and Amanda tonight did so to learn.
Nevertheless, his students enjoyed themselves.
One quick look between Amanda’s thighs under the light and he saw her wetness. Sawyer grinned to himself, understanding their mind spaces. When he bound his ropes around a woman, locking her into his care, his cock hardened. Always.
Now, though, his dick lay soft and unaffected in his jeans. Needless to say, since he wasn’t doing the binding, a little boredom had begun to settle in. When he had first earned Master status in Club Sin, he’d taken great pride in teaching others. While he still enjoyed playing with casual submissives, the joy of mentoring other Doms had diminished.
“There,” Max said, breaking into Sawyer’s thoughts. “She’s good, right?”
Sawyer pushed off from the wall, moving toward Max to see his handiwork. Amanda’s erect nipples indicated the level of heat burning through her. Yet her arousal was not Sawyer’s concern. “Do your bindings feel all right, sweetheart?”
“Yes, sir.” Black pupils had overtaken her blue eyes.
Sawyer chuckled. A breeze from the wind could make this sub come. “I’m glad to hear it. You’re doing well.” Looking over his shoulder to the young, blue-eyed, baby-faced Dom, Sawyer commented, “I shouldn’t have had to ask the question. Ask your sub. All right?” At Max’s firm nod, Sawyer examined the bondage with a keen eye. “Excellent knots. Well done.”
“Thank you.” Max smiled with a Dom’s arrogance.
Review
Foxy Rating = Four 'Vanilla' Stars
*ARC kindly
provided by NetGalley on behalf of Random House Publishing Group –
Loveswept
This
is the sixth book in the Club Sin series but can be read as a
stand-alone book. This is Sawyer and Chloe's story, both of who have
appeared briefly previously in the series.
The
BDSM theme is not really explored in this book but as Sawyer is a Dom
at Club Sin, it is touched on and forms part of the storyline but for
those not into BDSM stories, then this is a read you can indulge in
without the kink being involved. There is some minor rope play but
nothing to make you run and hide!
Sawyer
and Chloe have met before as Chloe works as a PI for his friend,
Porter. Sawyer has held back from pursuing anything with Chloe, even
though he can feel the strong attraction they both have, due to her
dating another guy. But it is a situation with his sister that has
him seeking out her professional services that brings the pairing
together. Once he finds out she is now single though, all bets are
off and he pushes to make this beautiful vanilla woman his.
This
was a quick and absorbing read and although I do love BDSM romance
this was a very light touch on that. I loved that Sawyer was a Dom
though as his alpha-licious ways were swoon worthy! His natural
dominating ways were easily explored in his military career but once
he was released from duty he needed an outlet for this and Club Sin
was that outlet and lead him to his fellow Masters and friends.
Sawyer has seen the majority of the Masters find love and settle down
and he now wants that for himself. When his attraction to Chloe is
undeniable he knows he is at a crossroads of his life that will have
a lasting change forever. Little did he know what that change would
bring him to.
Chloe
was instantly likeable and I loved how she stood up for her belief in
herself. She could not allow herself to try to be something for
Sawyer that she knew in her heart she could not be, no matter how
much Sawyer meant to her. I also loved how Sawyer worked out what it
was he needed and made the decision he did, even though a tiny part
of me was saddened at what he gave up.
The
backstory of the attack on his sister was good to draw some
additional drama into the read but it did not detract from the
overall romance storyline.
It
was good to catch up with the previous characters who make a cameo
appearance. These guys just have me melting!
I
really enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend this series
if you love your alpha men with a touch of kink but not too dark like
some other BDSM series. Four stars.
Author Info
Stacey Kennedy is the USA Today bestselling author of the Club Sin series. Growing up, Stacey’s mind wandered the path less traveled, and that path most often led to love. She has always broken rules and she continues to feed off emotion—always staying true to her heart. Those traits are now the bones of her stories. She lives in southwestern Ontario with her husband, who puts any of the heroes in her books to shame, and their two young children. If she’s not on Mom duty or plugging away at a new story, you’ll find Stacey camping in the summer, hibernating in the winter, and obsessing over Penny Dreadful, Game of Thrones, and Sons of Anarchy.
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MY OBSESSION by Cassie Ryan
DEEP AUTUMN HEAT by Elisabeth Barrett
TAKE THE FALL by Marquita Valentine
YOUR TO KEEP by Serena Bell
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