Author: Skye Warren
Published: February 2012
Genres: Dark Erotica, Erotica, Suspense, Romance
Format: Ebook provided by author for review
Mia longs for the daily torture to end, but one last task keeps her holding on. In a betrayal of the crime lord who pulled her from the gutter, she’ll free the shipment of human cargo, and if she’s lucky, die in the process. The alternative is unfathomable, even to a woman well-versed in erotic torture. But luck abandons her yet again when she meets the security expert in charge of the shipment and finds herself face to face with her childhood crush. The man she once begged for help. The man who failed her.
Tyler Martinez is an undercover FBI agent with one chance to right the wrongs of his past. Thrust deep into the seedy world of human trafficking, he must put aside his guilt over abandoning Mia all those years ago in order to save her now.
Someone’s pulling the strings in this sadistic play on trust, but Tyler and Mia may not live long enough to see the curtain fall. Trust in Me is a story of erotic pain and incipient romance, spiraling ever faster toward betrayal or redemption.
WARNING:This book contains explicit scenes of dubious consent, graphic violence and sex. It also depicts abuse and captivity situations. Not appropriate for anyone uncomfortable with these situations or anyone under the age of eighteen. This is a work of fiction.
Trust In Me… this
is a fabulous story. I’m not even sure
how to classify this book. Erotica, Dark
Erotica, Suspense, Romance… all of the above?
This story is so multifaceted that I’m still thinking about it a week
later. It is beautifully written, and
you find yourself really attaching to the main character, Mia, and her struggle
within and to save other girls who are about to be in her same situation. But before I go on, let me say that the
Warning is correct; this book is not
for everyone. There are some really deep
issues involving sex slavery inside, and it’s a no-holds-barred type of
thing.
Mia works for Carlos as his whore. Well, no, working would imply that she gets
paid. There I’m wrong again; she gets
food, shelter, and clothing. But she also
gets shared, beaten, and abused in every way imaginable. He took her in when she was younger, took
care of her, and after many years their “relationship” is anything but a
relationship. He beckons, she
comes. Time, place, nothing else is a
factor other than what he wants and when he wants it. And he has a bit of a sadistic side, so when
she struggles, he is even more excited about it. And if she is disobedient there is a definite
price to pay.
And yet she has this sort of Stockholm type of regard for
him. It was pretty fascinating to just
follow her mind through the way she processes and rationalizes things. It’s ok that he is abusive to her, because
that means someone else is being spared. She continually berates herself when she feels
she is being disloyal, but at the same time her brain also knows that everything
happening is very wrong. It’s really
quite a look at the psyche of someone who is thrust into this situation at a
young age, and this is all they know.
“He
could never have been a bad guy; the lighting was all wrong.”
And then Carlos offers her to share her for a moment with a
new business associate. Only one
problem, she knows him. Tyler, her childhood neighbor and big-time crush. This really throws a wrench in anything. Why is he there? And then she panics for a moment about him
seeing her like this. He didn’t save her
when she was younger and needed his help, so what is he doing here now? Personally, I really liked Tyler. There were times when I didn’t know if he was
a good guy or a bad guy, I couldn’t discern where he was coming from. But he just seemed like he would be the guy
to trust, out of all the people involved.
Lesser of all evils, perhaps? I was really pulling for him to be a good
guy, to be the knight in shining armor.
The whole story is a whirlwind of events taking place over a
rather short period of time. Mia learns
that she is stronger than she thought she was, and her will to live was greater
than she thought, also. Tyler is a man
on a mission, but there is definitely doubt cast against him as some things are
brought to light. Carlos is…well, Carlos
is a bad guy. And he is written so well
that I hope I never meet him because he is quite scary.
*******
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The sequel, Hear Me, comes out this July - don't miss it!
She doesn’t remember her past, only her training. She can’t talk, not that a good slave should speak out of turn. None of that matters when she wakes up in the warm, rustic room. Her new master is distant, but kind. There’s only one problem: he doesn’t want her.
Longing for the shackles of safety, she pulls from the last dregs of her will to prove her worth as a slave. It seems to be working. He responds first to her body and next to her submission. The secrets of his past haunt the cabin, fraying the tightening bond between Master and slave, but it is her own memories that may finally unravel it.
