Meridian Hunter had the hots for her boss. There was no other way to put it. She must have had the hots for her boss when she spent office meetings imagining the new CEO using her as his sex slave. Even worse was when he noticed she wasn't quite paying attention. She was worried he knew exactly where her mind had been wandering. She should have more sense than to go straight back to her office and relieve herself of her "tensions." Little did she realize that he was in his office doing the very same thing.

Merrie's assistant Kennedy had a pretty good idea what was going on. She'd found the BDSM websites on Merrie's computer, so she knew how her wires were kinked. She also saw how Merrie drooled over the CEO. Kennedy said she was going to be Merrie's kinky godmother, and find her a way to blow off steam so she didn't lose her job. It was Kennedy who convinced her to pay a visit to the Xchange site, where people advertised for BDSM partners, Kennedy who invented Merrie's screen name, procured the bondagewear, took the pictures for the ad, and worded the message. But it wasn't Kennedy who answered the ad. It was Marshall Wilder. The hot CEO starring in Merrie's daydreams, night dreams and all other dreams.

He didn't answer that ad accidentally or innocently. Marshall was a former Dom who had sworn off the BDSM lifestyle after two unhappy relationships. The problem was he was so attracted to and excited by Meridian that he had to do something about it; so, he visited the Xchange site that he hadn't seen in two years. He looked under new members and lo, whose picture did he find? It took some figuring out because none of the red haired woman's pictures revealed her face. But they did reveal her ring. It wasn't that hard for him to deduce why those pictures looked familiar, since he'd had that very ring and its owner in his office only hours before hitting the website. He recognized those pictures, and appalled and frightened that Meridian was going to ruin her life, Marshall decided to teach her a lesson. He decided to masquerade as a Dom, lure her in and scare her off so that she didn't end up dead or worse after hooking up with some random internet psycho bondage master. But he had no idea what was in store.

Is this a hot read? Yes. This is your book if you like Alpha heroes, fantasies about Alpha heroes, non-pc relationships, sexual domination and basically the entire B/d gamut. It's an interesting variation on a theme when the UberMaster intends to give anti-bondage training to talk the uberslave (both of whom are madly attracted to each other) out of the whole experience, while perversely both of them end up getting into deeper and deeper waters.

Reviewed By: Maitresse
©July 2004