Synopses & Reviews
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 Viviennes erotic bondliving out raw scenarios of captivity and forcebegan as no-strings sex between strangers who shared the same desires. Now the intimacy between them is turning into love, but its 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 Jonahs ex-lovers names him as a potential suspect to the police. Standing by a man under suspicion could cost Vivienne everything. But when Jonahs stepfather takes advantage of the scandal to seize control of the Marks family fortune, Vivienne is drawn into her lovers broken family and twisted past. Only then will she learn how dark the truth really is...
Synopsis
This is who I am. This is what I want. Now I need a man dangerous enough to give it to me.”
Graduate student Vivienne Charles is afraid of her own desiresashamed to admit that she fantasizes about being taken by force, by a man who will claim her completely and without mercy. When the magnetic, mysterious Jonah Marks learns her secret, he makes an offer that stuns her: they will remain near-strangers to each other, and meet in secret so that he can fulfill her fantasy.
Their arrangement is twisted. The sex is incredible. Anddespite their attempts to stay apartsoon their emotions are bound together as tightly as the rope around Viviennes wrists. But the secrets in their pasts threaten to turn their affair even darker...
Reader Advisory: Asking for It deals explicitly with fantasies of non-consensual sex. Readers sensitive to portrayals of non-consensual sex should be advised.
About the Author
Lilah Pace is a pseudonym for a New York Times bestselling author. She is the author of Asking for It.