Search - Laced with Desire: No Strings Attached / La Petite Mort / Honor Bound / Rhio's Dancer

These are four VERY different stories, of course with ultimately happy endings. "No Strings Attached" by Jaci Burton is a story you've read many times before - the young widow who finally gets together with her late husband's best friend, who has been patiently waiting in the wings. "La Petite Mort" by Jasmine Haynes is about a woman who has a cancer scare. Her boss gives her her fantasy - two men. "Honor Bound" by Joey Hill could stand alone as a book. After a scorching one night stand at a BDSM club, the hero goes off to the Stan, the heroine to Iran, where she is seriously wounded & permanently disabled. After his tour, he finds her & tries to re-establish their relationship. This is NOT light reading. I personally found it disturbing & depressing. The last story, "Rhio's Dancer", by Denise Rosetti, was a futuristic fantasy fluff piece. The sex scenes in all four stories were very well written, detailed, graphic, explicit; exactly what I expected from these four authors. I was not too happy with some of the storylines, but that's just my personal taste.

Only read the Joey W. Hill story and it was great. At about 150 pages it is a novella in this collection of short stories. Honor Bound is about two soldiers who meet at a Bdsm club and have a sexy one night stand. But they have such a great connection they agree to find each other again in one year after both return from deployment overseas. However the heroine is gravely injured and comes home scarred and blind. Their crazy chemistry and their roles in the dominant/submissive relationship help her begin to recover. Third "book" in the Knights of the Boardroom series.

Only read the Haynes and Burton's stories. Those two were very good, a solid 4 stars. Hill's was a little too strong BDSM with military h/h, both subjects making it a turn off, so dnf.