Review: Beneath the Scars by Cherise Sinclair
Josie doesn’t need any help raising her son.
Pregnant at sixteen, Josie learned the hard way about men and their empty promises. She picked herself up and is raising her eleven-year-old son. By herself. And that’s the way she intends it to stay. Unfortunately, her impressionable boy becomes fascinated by the scruffy, intimidating biker who lives next door.
The scars on Holt’s face are only the most visible of his wounds.
Out of the hospital after being attacked in his own damn house, Holt is coming to terms with the fact that his scars frighten people. Like his now-ex-girlfriend who ran after one look at him. Like his redheaded neighbor who hauled her boy away as if Holt was a serial killer. Fine. He’ll give the pretty bartender all the space she wants.
The Shadowlands will bring them together…
When Josie starts bartending in the exclusive, private club, she discovers her neighbor is a member. And a Master--a skilled powerful Dom who can make her fantasies come true. Slowly, the firefighter breaks down the walls around her heart, teaching her how to trust. How to love...
But when her son’s choices lead to disaster, can their relationship survive?
We are able to follow not just the heartache that Josie goes thru trying to give everything to her child but we also see how Carson feels about another man coming between his mom and himself and his reaction to it.
I loved, like always, how Sinclair goes about presenting the BDSM aspect of the relationships. Many authors I've read this genre from, make the sex aspect dirty and makes you think of the woman as being a doormat or a nympho. Cherise Sinclair makes you fall in love with the characters and gives you different levels of submission.
The only thing that irked me about this story is that Josie gave Carson a lot of free reign with the way he expressed himself. If I have done what he did to Holt after the backpack confrontation my mom would have tanned my hide for being so disrespectful. Other than that I loved every minute of this book and I can't wait for the next story, which I hope is Ghost!
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