Asking for It
2015 • 338 pages
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Graduate student Vivienne Charles is afraid and ashamed of her own fantasies: being taken by force by a man who will claim her completely. When the mysterious Jonah Marks learns her secret, he makes a stunning offer: they will remain near-strangers and meet in secret so that he can fulfil her fantasies. Their arrangement is twisted. The sex is incredible. And soon their emotions are bound together as tightly as the rope around Vivienne's wrists. But the secrets in their pasts threaten to take their arrangement down an even darker path.
Series
2 primary books3 released booksAsking for It is a 3-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Lilah Pace.
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I started this thinking it sounded intriguing, if a little (very) unconventional, but I was not prepared for the emotional depth of this story. Both the hero and heroine had something horrific happen in their childhoods that twisted sex in their minds, and because of this, they understand each other in a way no previous sexual partners have. The more you learn of their tortured pasts and the reasons for their proclivities, the more your heart breaks for them, and the more you root for them as they tentatively try to form a meaningful bond outside of a sexual one. They are just two strangers fulfilling a mutual need, but they long for so much more.
