Title: Finders Keepers (Rainbow Alley Series Book #2)
Author: Jaime Samms
Publisher: Total e-bound
Characters: Rory Sanders, Gabriel Stark
Pages: 176
POV: 3rd
Setting: Contemporary
Sub-Genre: BDSM
Book Cover Rating: 4
Kisses: 5
Blurb:
All his life, Rory Sanders just wanted please the people he loves and always thought he failed, until the day Gabriel Stark rescues him from Kane’s abusive hands and Rory’s own misconceptions of what it means to be submissive.
His search for a way into the world that lets him live out his need to serve others has left Rory Sanders estranged from his family and without a lot of friends. When he meets Kane, he thinks his dreams have come true. Those dreams are shattered when he discovers Kane is less interested in his submission than his total subjugation and humiliation. Unable to figure out how to please Kane, Rory is left in a dangerous and humiliating position, bound and helpless in a fetish club where he at last meets people who understand.
Gabriel Stark is not only the private investigator called in to figure out who Kane is and why he has been abusing submissive men, he’s also a professional Dom and the man of Rory’s dreams come to life. It remains to be seen if Gabe can overcome his own losses and mistakes and be the Dom Rory needs, or if he will let his own past be the ruin of yet another submissive who needs his help. That Rory is physically, emotionally, and intellectually everything Gabe has been looking for only makes Gabe more determined not to get emotionally invested in Rory’s recovery.
Keeping Rory safe from Kane might be more than Gabe can manage on his own, and the result of failure could cost the submissive his life.
Review:
With a blurb like the one above, I don’t think it’s necessary for me to rehash the story for you. What I’d like to do is concentrate on my feelings about it instead. First off, I strongly recommend that you read the Rainbow Alley books in order, as to get to know each of the characters better. I read them out of order and actually re-read them in order and was glad I did so. Each team that Jaime writes of are so well suited that I can honestly say that I connected with each of them on their level, on their terms, in their own stories. Each book has a plot, and that plot is setting the next plot up for the next story.
Rory in this story is a man taken to the edge of death not once but twice by the same sick minded love stricken man who went over and above Master/sub BDSM, he went right to violence and ignored the common safeword, so to speak.
Gabe is the PI who falls in love with Rory and handles the hurt man with kid gloves while at the same time remaining the Dom who gives the sub a reason to keep fighting against the feelings of unworthiness. What Jaime does here is nothing short of amazing. These characters are so real, their situation heart breaking, the events which took place all too real.
I have come to love this series, as I love each piece Jaime writes. She covers BDSM, angst, true to life stories with characters that I have loved from page one. Nothing is forced between them, conversation smooth and believable, and her Dom/sub couples are ones I plan on following for as long as she shares them with me.
Reviewer: Michele