Reviewed by Kimberley
TITLE: Negotiating Love
SERIES: Sin City Uniforms #5
AUTHOR: Morticia Knight
PUBLISHER: Pride Publishing
LENGTH: 176 pages
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Can the kinky billionaire owner of Dark Fantasy Resort Casino capture the heart of a muscled SWAT officer with a secret fetish?
SWAT Team Hostage Negotiator, Steve, wonders why he can’t stay away from the spoiled rich Allistair, owner of Dark Fantasy Resort Casino. They have mutual kinks – ones Steve can’t find with other lovers—but there’s something else about the emotionally detached, beautiful man that calls to him.
Billionaire Allistair stays alone in his luxury penthouse apartment at the top of Dark Fantasy, terrified of the real world and of opening himself up to genuine emotions. He takes lover after lover, all of them allowing him to do whatever he wants to their bodies, in the hopes that they can scam something from him.
One night is all he ever shares with a plaything—he knows they only want the money and luxury he can offer them and nothing more. But the down to earth Steve is different. They share the same kinks and are explosive when together. But could the muscled law officer ever want more than the lust-filled encounters that have become such an addiction?
As they grow closer, they discover they also have to find a balance between Steve’s everyday world and Allistair’s entitled world before they can truly find an ever after. They also have to make sure Allistair stays safe. Filthy rich playboys are too tempting to those who seek the ultimate payday—and who aren’t afraid of hurting someone to get it.
Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of BDSM
REVIEW:
This is the 5th book in Knight’s wonderful Sin City Uniform series and it gives us Steve’s story. I must admit that I was a bit outdone with Steve over the way he sort of broke it off with Cole in book #4 (Held Hostage). That was resolved once I saw the situation from Steve’s perspective.
In a series, it’s always important for the books to flow seamlessly from one story to the next and this author does it beautifully. She is able to pick up where she left off in the last book. The dialog, scenes, and storylines fit perfectly together, like pieces of a puzzle.
I particularly like how the author ‘flipped the script’ with her characters. Here, you have Steve who is this big and buff, tough, butch SWAT team officer, cool negotiator who is completely submissive in the bedroom. The author gave us a treat with Allistair’s character. Allistair is extreme wealthy yet extremely lonely. He’s worldly, yet innocent. He’s prince-in-a-castle out of touch with everyone else yet humble. He’s dangerously mysterious yet sweet and kind, vulnerable and insecure. That insecurity has everything to do with his wealth and people constantly trying to take advantage of him and use him because of it. The best part is that Allistair is slightly effeminate, wears makeup but is a top. A Dom, even. And that is what I loved about this story. You wouldn’t think this effeminate, makeup wearing, prince-in-a-castle couldn’t be a total top. She didn’t fall back on the common top/bottom roles, instead, she chose to mixed it up.
This story answers a lot of open questions from the last story and successfully resolved then issue with Cole. Then there are these little gems with this story: the BSDM and their shared enjoyment of Steve’s fetish, which, by the way, is very hot.
I love this series. Set in Las Vegas, you get to experience the glamor and glitz of the casinos to the seedy underbelly that makes up Sin City.
This is Book 5 in the Sin City Uniform series. The series shares an overall story arc with many crossover characters playing minor roles in each book. They may be read as a standalone but it is recommended you read them in sequential order.
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