by Mari Carr
First published 2016
Jack harbors a secret from his closest friend Emma. When Emma asks him to perform a pirate fantasy at Scoundrels, the fetish club she manages, she unknowingly unleashes something powerful in both of them. Jack's dominant pirate role brings his hidden desires to the surface. Emma discovers herself drawn into BDSM, wax play, bondage, and public encounters that challenge everything she believed about her vanilla preferences. Their heated stage performance ends with Emma submitting to Jack's control. She realizes her simple missionary position days may be over, and under Jack's dominance, she questions whether she wants them back. Meanwhile, Shea Landon makes a desperate choice. Broke and homeless, she sneaks into Scoundrels after hours to sleep in a stage prop bed. Travis Knight, watching through security monitors, discovers his new waitress trespassing. Instead of firing her, he becomes captivated. Two isolated souls find connection through spanking, bondage, and forbidden fantasies. Bartender Becca Preston refuses to date actors after growing up with her unfaithful Hollywood star father. When waiter Parker Banks transitions from Scoundrels employee to successful actor, he still cannot win her heart despite achieving professional dreams.
Genres: romance, adult-fiction, thriller, erotica, bdsm, contemporary-romance
Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forbidden-romance, power-dynamics
Setting: Scoundrels
408 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content, sexual-content