Derek Brighton can’t find a woman to fill the hole in his heart and with what he thinks he wants…he very well may never find one! He is one of Dallas’s finest detectives and when he has a target in sight nothing can stop him. He uses that same intensity when he plays at Sanctum. But he feels something is missing. Now he is on a particular job that puts him working the case with a woman he has been aching for, Karina Mills. Karina Mills is a hard core PI with a reputation of being reckless, but she gets the job done. In her personal life, she yearns for something totally different and the one person she wishes could master her heart is out of her reach. Now that they are working on the same case together as a couple, what will happen? Will they both get what they want?Oh I absolutely love this series. Lexi does a fabulous job with it and it keeps you on the edge of your seat! The passion is smoking and the suspense is awesome! I can not wait for more of this series! Lexi has brought the inner Sanctum to the forefront once again with Derek and Karina. The demons that Derek and Karina have faced in their lives will tug on your heart strings. They are truly a couple that needs BDSM in order to function in their everyday lives. Karina is dealing with her dark past and finds comfort in getting into her sub space where nothing else matters. She does not need to have sex with a Dom and has not made love to anyone in over 5 years.Derek was in Afghanistan and is dealing with PTSD and a horrible cheating ex-wife. He needs BDSM for the control aspect. He needs control and no long term commitments because he was burned the last time he tried that. These two characters come from a law enforcement background and are stubborn as hell.My favorite part about the subs in this series are their bratty mouths. Karina can dish it out and can also take it."All right, Detective. You've got me alone. You want to tell me what crawled up your ass and died an obviously slow and painful death?"The funniest part of this story for me is what she does to Derek's ex-wife Maia after Maia tries to brow beat her and make her feel bad about herself. Bad idea Mrs. Brighton to be messing with one of Lexi's subs. They don't get mad they get even.Karina makes Derek crazy and I loved reading every minute of it. Here you have a serial killer on the loose with Karina in his sights and Karina being a the stubborn pain in Derek's ass that she is likes to make sure that the killer takes the bait. Of course this just about gives Derek a heart attack.I find that really outstanding authors have a gift for taking sub plot characters from a series that I could really care less about and turning them into these amazing hero's and heroines that I could never imagine would not have had their own story in the series from the very beginning. Lexi Blake is a master at introducing us to the inner sanctum and making us fall in love all over again. I started to read really slowly at the end because I did not want it to be over. I did not want to see the story end and I am just barely holding on until A View To A Thrill comes out. Simon Weston is swoonalicious.If you could take James Bond, and put him in some leathers, give the man some ropes, a paddle, and a spanking bench you would have yourself one of the many hot Doms from the Masters and Mercenaries Series. No one writes BDSM like Lexi Blake.
Do You like book Dungeon Games (2014)?
if you enjoy a bit of D/s in your romantic suspense then try this series.
—jay
Just love this story. Glad to see both Derek and Karina find love again.
—shamshir
