Frayed Silk ~Ella Fields

Our marriage wasn't just in trouble—mere threads were all that held it together.
What was once my perfect happily ever after had dissolved right before my eyes.
I can tell you when it started to happen.
What I can't tell you is why.
And after seven months of watching my husband turn into someone I didn't recognize, I'd given up hope in finding answers.

So I decided to break his heart
... and he did nothing to stop me.


Trigger warning: This book contains cheating and other sensitive subject matter.

I devoured this book

Loved Loved Loved!! Wow did not see that twist coming..

This book does have cheating so if that's an issue for you - do not read.. But in my opinion is what ultimately makes this story so unique and real.

Just WOW!!! the marriage aspect of the book, the families and children involved, the friends we keep by our sides in good and bad times, betrayal, secrets, insecurities, communication.. ALL of that played a role in this story and I devoured every bit of it! I was all over the place with emotions and stayed up late reading cause I had to know how it would end. Marriage isn't always pretty, it isn't always about googly eyes, kissy faces and definitely never perfect .. It's about sacrifices, selflessness, communication and at times forgiveness. 

Ella Fields swept us through Leo and Lia's life - the good and the bad and she did it wonderfully!!

AMAZON

A Love so Tragic ~ Stevie J. Cole

Promises. 

We all make them. Sometimes we break them. But what happens when the promise you break haunts your dreams, when that moment of betrayal echoes within every last beat of your heart? 

Love. 

Love is passionate, painful, and all consuming in the most brutal yet beautiful way. How many people have you said 'I love you' to? Five, ten, maybe no one? I've said that word to two men, but only one where I felt it. 

Tragic. 

This word sums up my relationship with Nicolas: devastating, painful, depressing. 

A first love that should have lasted a lifetime, but I ruined with a stupid decision. Nicolas is my star crossed lover, and even though Shakespeare has taught me that stories such as ours always end in tragedy, I can't not love him, even if I'm married to someone else.

I don't condone cheating, I don't think it's right in any way, shape or form
Blah Blah Blah!!
But I'm not gonna lie and say I made an exception to read this or "I had no clue" what this read might be about..
The fact is I really, REALLY enjoy reading about it.. I love the anticipation, the anxiety maybe the adrenaline rush from the possibility of getting caught..
That's why I read..
To immerse myself  in these characters lives to feel what they feel, from a spectators POV though,,

This is a story on how 1 mistake can change so many lives, how the simplest of acts can and will change the path of your life, how not every sacrifice or well meant decision is the right one.

Sometimes not even time can overcome fate..
Destiny is Destiny
Why fight it even if  it my lead to more heart ache or even tragedy?

I absolutely LOVED this Tragic Love story
cheating be damned because there was cheating..
But hey maybe one wrong can un~wrong another?

AMAZON

Tryst (Sexual Education, #2) ~ S.L. Jennings

Heidi DuCane is a tough-as-nails publicist with a passion for success and her husband Tucker. While they’re polar opposites, what they do have in common is a fierce love and commitment to each other. But their relationship—in and out of the bedroom—will be put to the ultimate test.

Rock superstar Ransom Reed is every woman’s fantasy, including Heidi’s. When she meets Ransom, she shares a wild night with him where Heidi gets to play—and Tucker watches, and enjoys, the pleasure Ransom gives Heidi. Though Tucker was a willing participant, Heidi still can’t help reeling with guilt. There’s no doubt that she loves her husband. While Tucker is the perfect lover—generous, attentive and gentle—she needs much more. She needs the mind-blowing ecstasy Ransom offers.

Tucker isn’t blind to the fact that Heidi has unconventional needs which he can’t satisfy. He loves his wife and will do anything to please her The night he watched her and Ransom was so scorching hot that Tucker can’t stop thinking about it. He decides he wants to join Ransom in pleasing Heidi. But as Tucker and Heidi soon realize, it’s not just the sex that is enticing. Heidi felt something within her awaken, and she felt so deliciously sated and loved by both men. Tucker felt it too, and he finds it impossible not to want that feeling again.

Ransom and Tucker satisfy a need within Heidi. And now that she’s had them, she can never go back to the way things were before. 

Heidi has some skeletons in her past she thought she'd been able to lock away..

She made a name for her self and has become an icon in her field of work!! 

We met her in Taint.

She's the best at what she does and it's all due to the support, love and understanding of her  husband..

With the Love of her life Tucker she was able to move on.. become whole.. she had everything she ever wanted.. treated like a princess, placed on a pedestal of glass, cherished and coddled..

But would it be enough to keep her dark desires tucked away?

It all started with an innocent question, 

a hypothetical question some lovers have asked in bed.. 

If you had the chance to?.......

Of course since this being part of the Sexual Education series, we know it has to do with exploration, letting go of your inhibitions, trusting your partner and being honest and open with your wants and needs..

There were a few parts that threw me for a loop but I have to say the sexual tension, story-line and overall flow and jaw dropping twist to the story had me up all night reading non stop to see if her marriage could be redeemed, and if so how could everyone get a happy ending..

I felt for all three characters in different ways and that ending was the BEST!!!

Especially enjoyed catching up with Drake Justice himself..

Looking forward to whatever else S.L. Jennings has in store for this series!!

Sexual Education Series

Taint #1

My Time in the Affair ~ Stylo Fantome

~Mischa~ 

I made a conscious decision to cheat on my husband. 

Now, before you judge me, hear my story. Hear how much I'm like you, how similar my thoughts are to your own. Yes, I'm a horrible person. Yes, I've done horrible things. Yes, I don't deserve forgiveness. Yes, bad things happened because of my actions. 

But I'm willing to bet I've done things that maybe, just maybe, you have thought of doing. 

Maybe, just maybe, you're not as innocent as you'd like to think. 

Or maybe I'm not so guilty ... 

Warning this book had to do with cheating

It's not sugar coated, she wasn't legally separated, she made a conscious decision to do so.

I do not condone cheating but have to admit I love the adrenaline rush I get when reading about it.. 

The unknown, the guilt, the emotions..It all plays havoc on me and I Love It!!!

It all starts with!!!

This was the first book I'd picked up by Stylo Fantome and I was hooked!!!

The pace of the book, the characters, the emotions all flowed so seamlessly

I Loved how Mischa wasn't in denial over what was going on.. 

she didn't blame anyone but herself for what she'd done...did she have second thoughts? Yes..

Did she question her actions and feel regret?  Abso~fucking~lutely...

Was there a back story and events that lead to her adulterous status? Uh Yea..

But she owned it.. She was honest with her self and to those she hurt when it was time..

But there was SO much more going on in this story.. 

believe it or not that was just a sliver of what had actually been set in motion..

There was suspense, there was drama, there were tear jerking moments I had to claim something got in my eye.. 

and there was SEX... rip your clothes off, up against the wall  smexin, dirty talking, panty drenching sex..

So Heck yes this was a Fan~freaking~tastic read..

which made me a total fan of this author

AMAZON

Swelter ~ Nina G. Jones

I married the right brother.

At least that's what I tell myself at night, when I stare at the ceiling and listen to the rhythm of the grandfather clock down the hall. It never feels like the mere passage of time, but a countdown towards something inevitable.

Bobby Lightly is selfish, irresponsible, and careless. I haven't seen him since the day I married his brother. He slipped out during the wedding reception without a word.

A year later, I heard Bobby was drafted to Korea. He never said goodbye. Never sent a letter. We had all come to terms with the fact that he was probably dead somewhere, either a victim of the war or its aftermath.

That is, until in the midst of an unrelenting heatwave, he showed up at the doorstep of the house I lived in with his brother. 

Everyone thinks I'm cruel. Everyone thinks I should be easy on him. They think I don't understand him. They all think I hate him. 

But what no one understands is that it was Bobby who broke my heart.

And I think he’s back to do it again.

I just need to rip the band aid off as they say since 

I just cannot seem to compose myself long enough to put my feelings and thoughts into words.. 

Long enough to express how this book took me on a ride that utterly wrecked me.. 

It let me see first hand how unfair and cruel the world is even when you think you made life altering decisions and sacrificed your own happiness for reasons you wholeheartedly believed were right!!!

Melancholy 

would be the word that describes this feeling I can't seem to shake.

There were so many whys while reading that I was left with that fluttering feeling of despair in my stomach
and even when answered were unjustifiable to me and just made me wish we could some how, some way Turn Back Time so they could've made all the wrong decisions and to hell with it all!!

The story was based in the mid 50's, and through out we get these enchanting flash back moments

 of  lazy summer days spent by a lake house, late night skinning dipping, basically kids having fun

 while turning into teens developing crushes and then the reality of young adulthood..

while reading I got to envision the fashion, 

imagine hearing the music, feel the heat of those Sweltering Summer months 

that changed so many lives and will stay with me for a very long time.

In my opinion it WAS a dark read.. not in a sadistic twisted way.. 

more like in a real every day way where you feel no matter what decisions are 

made someone will get hurt, someone will get the short end of the stick. 

Life isn't always about HEA's it's real and raw.. 

And we got our fair share of it.

I highlighted so many lines while reading,
but most I can't share without giving away so many pertinent pieces to Bobby & Lilly's story,
so many stolen moments that had me in knots, fanning myself cause they were so steamy or in hysterical fits..

So all I can say is go stock up on some Kleenex and READ IT!!!

AMAZON

Sins of Sevin ~ Penelope Ward

What happens when the one you want is the only one you can’t have? 

My name is Sevin.

Homeschooled and sheltered by my ultra-religious family, I was always taught that lust was a sin. 

Elle was the girl who’d been carefully chosen for me.

After a long-distance courtship, I’d be moving into her family’s guesthouse so that we could get to know each other in the months before the wedding.

Boundaries were set: no inappropriate touching, no kissing, no sex before marriage.

I’d accepted those rules and my fate.

Until I met the one I wanted to sin with.

That was when restraint became a problem…especially since "the one" wasn’t Elle. 

It was her sister, Evangeline.

You know what they say about best laid plans.

My name is Sevin, and I have sinned.

Talk about Angst!! Wow this one tipped the scales..
I am such a glutton for punishment because the deeper the story got the quicker I turned those pages. 

Sevin underestimated his worth..
But he always stood true to what he wanted and what he would do and give up to get !!!
I felt like such a hypocrite because I was rooting for Sevin and Evangeline from the very start and pretty much all the way until....
 I didn't like Evangeline anymore

I understood why she felt so guilty, I understood why she tried to keep her distance but I just couldn't understand and stomach what she did to Sevin.. 
I just had to tell myself she had good intentions, she ultimately wasn't being selfish, she paid for her sins.. And was able too breathe and finally got to cry happy tears when we got somewhat of a happy ending..

This was such an emotional read, about fate, beliefs, guilt, betrayal as well as trust and forgiveness..

A must read for Angst Lovers!!
It's all about
Forbidden Desires & Unconditional Love