Begging for it
"The provocative author of Asking for It once again explores the dark side of erotic obsession, and the secrets that make it as dangerous as it is irresistible. Some secrets should only be shared in the dark. Jonah and Vivienne's erotic bond--living out raw scenarios of captivity and force--began as no-strings sex between strangers who shared the same desires. Now the intimacy between them is turning into love, but it's a love built on fantasies so extreme that exploring them makes guilt inescapable. But the risks they're taking are far more dangerous than they'd imagined. A stalker is terrorizing the city, and one of Jonah's ex-lovers names him as a potential suspect to the police. Standing by a man under suspicion could cost Vivienne everything. But when Jonah's stepfather takes advantage of the scandal to seize control of the Marks family fortune, Vivienne is drawn into her lover's broken family and twisted past. Only then will she learn how dark the truth really is.."--
Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.
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What the reading experience may hold
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Fiction · Romance
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Dark tone · Steady pace
A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
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A quick reading snapshot
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- ISBN-13
- 978-0-4252-7949-6
- Language
- English
- Edition record
- OL27193516M
A more thoughtful way into this book
This guide uses the edition details and category signals above to help you choose deliberately. It does not replace the author's work or a full review.
A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.
Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.
Read for connection, not completion.
Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.
Three questions to carry with you
- What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
- Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
- What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?
Editorial framework by Wesley Bryan, BookenDeX Founder and Editor.
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