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By His Desire
Keith Logan has something that Sarah Harper wants, and he’s going to use it to get what he wants.
Her.
All his life, Keith’s money and good looks were enough to charm anyone—except for shy, beautiful Sarah. Back in high school she was the one girl he couldn’t have, and the one girl who haunted his dreams. When he sees her again for the first time in ten years, he knows he’ll do anything to make her his—even if it’s just for one week.
There’s only one flaw in his plan. With a woman like Sarah, one week will never be enough.
By His Desire is a steamy romance novella of 20,000 words.
EXCERPT
Keith shook his head. “Whatever good opinion you might have about me, I’m about to destroy it.”
Sarah stared at him. “What are you talking about? How?”
“With the offer I’m about to make you.”
“What offer?”
He leaned forward across the table. “The museum has the portrait for one more week. When the week is up, I’ll have the painting delivered to you. It will be yours.”
“No, Keith. I told you I don’t want your charity.”
“This isn’t charity. Don’t you want to hear my price?”
She sat back in her chair and folded her arms. “Fine.”
“In exchange, for one week, you’ll live with me in my house. During the day, you can do whatever you want. There’s a gym, an indoor pool, a library, a home theater. There’s a study where you can write, and I have a chef who’ll cook you anything you want to eat. But at night...” he paused for a moment. “At night, you have to do whatever I want.”
Her.
All his life, Keith’s money and good looks were enough to charm anyone—except for shy, beautiful Sarah. Back in high school she was the one girl he couldn’t have, and the one girl who haunted his dreams. When he sees her again for the first time in ten years, he knows he’ll do anything to make her his—even if it’s just for one week.
There’s only one flaw in his plan. With a woman like Sarah, one week will never be enough.
By His Desire is a steamy romance novella of 20,000 words.
EXCERPT
Keith shook his head. “Whatever good opinion you might have about me, I’m about to destroy it.”
Sarah stared at him. “What are you talking about? How?”
“With the offer I’m about to make you.”
“What offer?”
He leaned forward across the table. “The museum has the portrait for one more week. When the week is up, I’ll have the painting delivered to you. It will be yours.”
“No, Keith. I told you I don’t want your charity.”
“This isn’t charity. Don’t you want to hear my price?”
She sat back in her chair and folded her arms. “Fine.”
“In exchange, for one week, you’ll live with me in my house. During the day, you can do whatever you want. There’s a gym, an indoor pool, a library, a home theater. There’s a study where you can write, and I have a chef who’ll cook you anything you want to eat. But at night...” he paused for a moment. “At night, you have to do whatever I want.”
105 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 12, 2012
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Kate Grey
11 books97 followersKate Grey believes a good love story should make you sigh and a good love scene should make you squirm...in the best possible way:). Her dream is to find the perfect balance between romantic and sexy, and she's recently teamed up with a writer who shares that goal. Kate Grey and Kim Case have released their first novella together, WITNESS ME, with more to come. There's an element of geekdom in this story that Kate and Kim hope readers will enjoy. As confirmed nerds themselves, they believe very firmly that geek girls deserve sexy alpha heroes (especially if they're closet geeks themselves.)
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June 16, 2016DNF...too many details about H's past smexual life for me
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August 15, 2017
★★★★! By His Desire – a quick sexy read about two people with secret crushes in high school who have one week to act out his sexual fantasy
Story is alternating between Keith’s and Sarah’s POV.
Hero: Keith Logan/28 years old/Billionaire/business mogul/black hair/blue eyes
Heroine: Sarah Harper/28 years old/writer/dark brown hair/green eyes
Unbeknownst to each other they both had secret crushes in high school. Sarah was too shy to react. Keith was at the time both perplexed and annoyed that he wasn’t able to charm her. Both moved on to separate colleges. Sarah was later diagnosed with social anxiety. Fast forward ten years. They now have seven nights to act out Keith’s sexual fantasies.
Keith is sexy and controlling. Sarah is shy and insecure. Nothing really goes as planned, and the sex leaves them both wanting more. This is a fast paced sexy romp.
“I want you in my bed and at my mercy. And I want to ruin you for your vibrator.”
“You can take off the blindfold after I’m gone.”
“His eyes searched hers. “What kind of connection are you looking for?” “Something messy and human and scary. Something real.”…”
***
Hero rating: 4.5 stars
Heroine rating: 3.5 stars
Sex scenes rating: 4.5 stars
Sex scenes frequency: 4 stars
Storyline concept rating: 3.5 stars
Storytelling skills rating: 4 stars
Story ending rating: 4 stars
Book editing rating (5 = no edits spotted): 4.5 stars
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Overall rating: 4 stars
Would I recommend this book: Yes.
Would I re-read this book: Probably not.
Would I read future books by this author: Yes.
Story is alternating between Keith’s and Sarah’s POV.
Hero: Keith Logan/28 years old/Billionaire/business mogul/black hair/blue eyes
Heroine: Sarah Harper/28 years old/writer/dark brown hair/green eyes
Unbeknownst to each other they both had secret crushes in high school. Sarah was too shy to react. Keith was at the time both perplexed and annoyed that he wasn’t able to charm her. Both moved on to separate colleges. Sarah was later diagnosed with social anxiety. Fast forward ten years. They now have seven nights to act out Keith’s sexual fantasies.
Keith is sexy and controlling. Sarah is shy and insecure. Nothing really goes as planned, and the sex leaves them both wanting more. This is a fast paced sexy romp.
“I want you in my bed and at my mercy. And I want to ruin you for your vibrator.”
“You can take off the blindfold after I’m gone.”
“His eyes searched hers. “What kind of connection are you looking for?” “Something messy and human and scary. Something real.”…”
***
Hero rating: 4.5 stars
Heroine rating: 3.5 stars
Sex scenes rating: 4.5 stars
Sex scenes frequency: 4 stars
Storyline concept rating: 3.5 stars
Storytelling skills rating: 4 stars
Story ending rating: 4 stars
Book editing rating (5 = no edits spotted): 4.5 stars
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Overall rating: 4 stars
Would I recommend this book: Yes.
Would I re-read this book: Probably not.
Would I read future books by this author: Yes.
March 17, 2013
This week they had together was an opportunity. A chance for both of them to step outside the cages they'd made for themselves - cages of loneliness.
A hot and kinky book about two old HS friends who were too shy to admit to their mutual attraction.
Both are grown up now... Keith is a successful businessman. Sarah is a shy writer whose father just passed. Father who painted a picture of Sarah that Keith acquired. Sarah wants the painting and Keith is willing to give it to her if she will spent a week with him. A week of her full submission to his kinky side.
I liked how the story was developed. It wasn't just a fluff piece to drive the story to more sex. Don't' get me wrong it was about sex, but it was also about developing something more.
June 26, 2012
The reviews I read about this book are a little misleading. They focus on the improbability of the arrangement and ignore the fact that although the heroine is painfully shy she is completely in control at all times. I will agree that the arrangement is a little creepy but the arrangement is an illusion. It is a mask both the characters hide behind. The heroine is at no point in the story a victim and she agrees to the arrangement not because of financial need or desperation but because of a fierce attraction that she has never been able to admit. And our hero, at a complete loss in trying to figure out how to break through her shyness to see if she is attracted to him, decides on a pretty desperate course of action. This was a very satisfying brief read. I would have liked to see the relationship between the characters continue to develop beyond the arrangement but I enjoyed the book and would recommend it.
July 27, 2012
Was this a fanfic? TBH, it read like one. Although I laughed HARD at the Edward Cullen reference in the beginning. I guess these straight erotica books just aren't for me. This one was just PWP.
And she gave him a puppy.
LMFAO and blech.
Go away kitties and rainbows and silly fur-lined cuffs.
And she gave him a puppy.
LMFAO and blech.
Go away kitties and rainbows and silly fur-lined cuffs.
June 8, 2012
By His Desire is a short erotic romance about a shy young woman with social anxiety and a billionaire who has crushed on her since high school. When he buys a painting her father painted of her that she wants, he offers her a deal. Spend a week with him, basically being his love slave, and he'll give her the painting.
While the story was definitely hot, I found my disbelief tested through out. I am not a fan of sexual blackmail nor of men or woman who imply the use of a safe word is wrong. And that is what the hero does. Here is a young lady who is not only sexually inexperienced but also has a condition requiring her to be in therapy and he disregards all that because he wants her. They haven't seen each other in 10 years but she's suppose to jump right into a sexual relationship with him and like it. I did like that our heroine wasn't a malleable lump and recognizes what he's doing. She turns the tables on him and that saved the book for me. She not only pushes her own boundaries but makes him push beyond his own. I admit a small part of me didn't like her thoughts in the end because she still feels that if she doesn't still do what he says, then it's all over. I wish that would have been addressed.
While the story was definitely hot, I found my disbelief tested through out. I am not a fan of sexual blackmail nor of men or woman who imply the use of a safe word is wrong. And that is what the hero does. Here is a young lady who is not only sexually inexperienced but also has a condition requiring her to be in therapy and he disregards all that because he wants her. They haven't seen each other in 10 years but she's suppose to jump right into a sexual relationship with him and like it. I did like that our heroine wasn't a malleable lump and recognizes what he's doing. She turns the tables on him and that saved the book for me. She not only pushes her own boundaries but makes him push beyond his own. I admit a small part of me didn't like her thoughts in the end because she still feels that if she doesn't still do what he says, then it's all over. I wish that would have been addressed.
June 6, 2012
Another of those try it - you might like it situations. Well, I didn't like it and it just wasn't my cuppa. The beginning started out fairly decent and I thought there was going to be storyline worth reading. But that did not follow through. An ending that leaves readers simply hanging.
June 24, 2012
Dear Ms. Grey,
I don’t have a clue who you are. Your book By His Desire is currently the third best-selling erotica and the twenty-eighth best selling contemporary on Amazon’s eBook list; it appears to be the first book you’ve published. By His Desire, currently going for 99¢, is actually a novella, and is worth every penny. In fact, I’d say it’s a steal. It’s my favorite erotica I've read this year. Your book is a winning combination of sex, sweetness, and bite. By His Desire is a lovely, deceptively elegant book. So, whomever you are, well done. And, please, keep writing!
I loved the setup of this tale. Keith Logan has, his whole life, been good-looking, smart, and obscenely rich. He breezed through high school as the coolest, hottest guy in class. Every girl wanted to be his, every guy wanted to be him. The only person Keith couldn’t get was, of course, the only one he really wanted: Sarah Harper. She shied away from him every time he approached her. Ten years after graduation, he still can’t stop thinking about her, so when her portrait, painted by her famous artist dad, comes up to auction, Keith drops a million bucks, and goes every day to stare at it as it hangs in MOMA for one last month-long showing.
One night, as the museum is closing, Keith turns to leave and sees, standing in the middle of the gallery, the literal girl of his dreams. For her part, Sarah is completely freaked out to see Keith.
Sarah’s body flushed hot, as though she’d stepped under a heat lamp. Keith Logan was standing just a few yards away. She recognized him immediately, even though it had been ten years since she last saw him.
There’s just something about the hottest guy secretly jonesing for the shy nerdy girl that works for me every time. Keith, whose sassy assistant has just told him to for God’s sake do something that would actually make him happy, decides Sarah is going out to dinner with him come hell or high water. He hustles her out of MOMA before she can muster a good reason to say no, and finally finally gets the date with her he’s always wanted... which she seems ready to escape from as soon as she can. That shyness Keith thought was a choice of Sarah’s in high school is actually a serious social anxiety disorder and while she’s made great strides with the help of a good therapist over the past few years, she’s still acutely uneasy around most people. She’s especially unnerved by Keith whom she’s always longed for and whom she’s always believed thinks she’s a dolt.
Keith is determined to somehow connect to Sarah and so he asks her why she sold her portrait. Sarah, more animated than he’s ever seen her, tells him her father who had Alzheimer’s, left his entire estate to her step-mother. Sarah says she’d never have sold the piece, it means the world to her, but her stepmother apparently values cash over compassion. When Sarah tells him this, Keith gets an idea. Rather like the Grinch, he gets an awful idea.
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I don’t have a clue who you are. Your book By His Desire is currently the third best-selling erotica and the twenty-eighth best selling contemporary on Amazon’s eBook list; it appears to be the first book you’ve published. By His Desire, currently going for 99¢, is actually a novella, and is worth every penny. In fact, I’d say it’s a steal. It’s my favorite erotica I've read this year. Your book is a winning combination of sex, sweetness, and bite. By His Desire is a lovely, deceptively elegant book. So, whomever you are, well done. And, please, keep writing!
I loved the setup of this tale. Keith Logan has, his whole life, been good-looking, smart, and obscenely rich. He breezed through high school as the coolest, hottest guy in class. Every girl wanted to be his, every guy wanted to be him. The only person Keith couldn’t get was, of course, the only one he really wanted: Sarah Harper. She shied away from him every time he approached her. Ten years after graduation, he still can’t stop thinking about her, so when her portrait, painted by her famous artist dad, comes up to auction, Keith drops a million bucks, and goes every day to stare at it as it hangs in MOMA for one last month-long showing.
"The portrait had been painted by her father, the famous artist, and he had captured his subject perfectly. Sarah had looked exactly like this in high school. Beautiful and intelligent, with a face like eager flame behind a veneer of shyness.
He’d never been able to break through that shyness. All his life, his money and good looks had been enough to charm everyone he’d ever met…except for Sarah. She was the only girl who’d ever haunted his dreams, and he’d never made a dent in her reserve. During the four years they’d gone to high school together he could hardly get her to talk to him, much less go out with him.
One night, as the museum is closing, Keith turns to leave and sees, standing in the middle of the gallery, the literal girl of his dreams. For her part, Sarah is completely freaked out to see Keith.
Sarah’s body flushed hot, as though she’d stepped under a heat lamp. Keith Logan was standing just a few yards away. She recognized him immediately, even though it had been ten years since she last saw him.
Her first instinct was to run and hide, as if she were a little girl instead of a grown woman. Her eyes actually went to the exits, as if she were planning her getaway.
Then she took a deep breath. What was she thinking? She needed to pull herself together and go say hello.
And she would. Any second now.
Move, feet. Move.
If she’d been prepared to see him, she would have taken the time to put on emotional layers of protection—enough to cultivate a polite, relaxed demeanor and a friendly smile. But as it was, she felt awkward and exposed, as if she were back in high school again with a secret crush on the most unattainable guy on the planet.
Her palms were actually sweating.
There’s just something about the hottest guy secretly jonesing for the shy nerdy girl that works for me every time. Keith, whose sassy assistant has just told him to for God’s sake do something that would actually make him happy, decides Sarah is going out to dinner with him come hell or high water. He hustles her out of MOMA before she can muster a good reason to say no, and finally finally gets the date with her he’s always wanted... which she seems ready to escape from as soon as she can. That shyness Keith thought was a choice of Sarah’s in high school is actually a serious social anxiety disorder and while she’s made great strides with the help of a good therapist over the past few years, she’s still acutely uneasy around most people. She’s especially unnerved by Keith whom she’s always longed for and whom she’s always believed thinks she’s a dolt.
Keith is determined to somehow connect to Sarah and so he asks her why she sold her portrait. Sarah, more animated than he’s ever seen her, tells him her father who had Alzheimer’s, left his entire estate to her step-mother. Sarah says she’d never have sold the piece, it means the world to her, but her stepmother apparently values cash over compassion. When Sarah tells him this, Keith gets an idea. Rather like the Grinch, he gets an awful idea.
“Sarah.”
She glanced up at him, admiring the way the candlelight drew out a gleam in his blue eyes. In this light they looked almost navy.
“Yes?”
“What if I told you there was a way you could have that painting?”
For a moment she just stared at him. What could he possibly...
Oh, no.
“If you’re thinking about giving it to me, just forget it. There’s no way, and I mean none, that I would let you do that. I didn’t tell you all that stuff about my family to make you feel sorry for me, if that’s what you’re thinking.”
She sounded almost fierce when she made that little speech, and Keith raised his eyebrows.
“I wasn’t thinking that. And I’m not planning on giving you the portrait. Far from it.”
She frowned. “I can’t afford to pay you a million, and selling it to me for what I could afford—maybe ten thousand, if I’m lucky—would be the same as giving it to me for free. I’m not your charity case, Keith.”
He leaned forward across the table towards her. “The museum has the portrait for one more week. When the week is up, I’ll have the painting delivered to you. I’ll transfer ownership to you legally. It will be yours.”
“I told you, Keith, I—”
“Don’t you want to hear my price before you reject it?”
She sat back in her chair and folded her arms. “Fine.”
“In exchange, for one week, you’ll live with me in my house. During the day, you can do whatever you want. There’s a gym, an indoor pool, a library, a home theater. There’s a study where you can write, and I have a chef who’ll cook you anything you want to eat. But at night...” he paused for a moment. “At night, you have to do whatever I want.”
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June 21, 2012
My Rating: ★★★
Book Description:
Keith Logan has something that Sarah Harper wants, and he’s going to use it to get what he wants.
Her.
All his life, Keith’s money and good looks were enough to charm anyone—except for shy, beautiful Sarah. Back in high school she was the one girl he couldn’t have, and the one girl who haunted his dreams. When he sees her again for the first time in ten years, he knows he’ll do anything to make her his—even if it’s just for one week.
There’s only one flaw in his plan. With a woman like Sarah, one week will never be enough.
My Thoughts:
This wasn't a bad story for a novella. The story built quickly, as is often the case with novellas, but I thought the characters and their motives were addressed well. The only problem that I had was Sarah turning from near virgin to minx in an instant. That was the one thing that seemed out of sync in the character development but I liked the story overall. There was an elusion to a HEA but the story ending felt more like a HFN. The story would have garnered a higher rating with a more decisive ending.
Included light BDSM: domination and bondage
Reading Time: 45 minutes
Book Description:
Keith Logan has something that Sarah Harper wants, and he’s going to use it to get what he wants.
Her.
All his life, Keith’s money and good looks were enough to charm anyone—except for shy, beautiful Sarah. Back in high school she was the one girl he couldn’t have, and the one girl who haunted his dreams. When he sees her again for the first time in ten years, he knows he’ll do anything to make her his—even if it’s just for one week.
There’s only one flaw in his plan. With a woman like Sarah, one week will never be enough.
My Thoughts:
This wasn't a bad story for a novella. The story built quickly, as is often the case with novellas, but I thought the characters and their motives were addressed well. The only problem that I had was Sarah turning from near virgin to minx in an instant. That was the one thing that seemed out of sync in the character development but I liked the story overall. There was an elusion to a HEA but the story ending felt more like a HFN. The story would have garnered a higher rating with a more decisive ending.
Included light BDSM: domination and bondage
Reading Time: 45 minutes
August 13, 2012
This is a great short story about Sarah who when in high school was to shy to tell Keith she liked him. And Keith who always wanted Sarah but never thought she wanted him. Ten years after high school they have a chance encounter at an art gallery where Keith is displaying a painting he bought that Sarah's dad painted of her when she was in high school. Keith convinces Sarah to go to dinner where he asks why she sold the painting. Sarah explains that her step-mother did and that she never wanted to let it go. Keith gets the idea to ask Sarah to stay with him for a week where he is in charge and what he says goes and at the end of the week she will get the painting. Sarah agree's and as there week together goes on they both have to decide if a week is enough. The only thing that could have made this better is if there was an epilogue 5-10 years in the future. I really enjoyed this novella. Kate Grey did a great job with this book, and I will definitely read more books from her in the future.
June 27, 2012
It could have been a five, but it ended too fast. I don't need it to be a full-length novel, but I wanted my whole week of naughty pleasures & didn't get it - I feel a little gypped. I was also hoping for more from Keith. Cuffs and blindfolds seemed a little tame. However, I did enjoy the story and liked the set up.
February 20, 2013
I was going through my kindle and found this. I couldn't remember what it was about and reading the blurb realized I had already read this. I remember it was a hot little short read. I find it hard to grade short stories, but for something quick and in between long reads this was a hot little story with a HEA.
June 17, 2012
This is a story that grabbed me from the beginning and kept me reading until the end. It has a perfect blend of erotica and romance!
June 17, 2012
If you liked Fifty Shades, then this short story is definately one to go for. It's sexy and a good form of escapism for a couple of hours!
January 5, 2022
No me gustó nada de nada.
La protagonista (que ni recuerdo el nombre) me pareció súper tonta... A pesar de tener un trastorno de ansiedad, que lo representa bien en el primer capítulo, rápidamente es olvidado y actúa de una forma tan desinhibida que no logré entender...
Y él... Ahhhhh me irritó tanto!!!!!!
En definitiva.. odié totalmente el libro....
La protagonista (que ni recuerdo el nombre) me pareció súper tonta... A pesar de tener un trastorno de ansiedad, que lo representa bien en el primer capítulo, rápidamente es olvidado y actúa de una forma tan desinhibida que no logré entender...
Y él... Ahhhhh me irritó tanto!!!!!!
En definitiva.. odié totalmente el libro....
June 3, 2012
I just didn't get this book and the writing style. The blurb of the story is interesting enough :
Keith Logan has something that Sarah Harper wants, and he’s going to use it to get what he wants.
Her.
All his life, Keith’s money and good looks were enough to charm anyone—except for shy, beautiful Sarah. Back in high school she was the one girl he couldn’t have, and the one girl who haunted his dreams. When he sees her again for the first time in ten years, he knows he’ll do anything to make her his—even if it’s just for one week.
Now Keith wanted her so badly that every night he would come to Sarah and insist that she was blind-folded. Ok, I know its part of the BDSM scene but I guess it just didn't sit well with me. Whereas Sarah on the other hand who is shy and suffers from anxiety just lets this guy do whatever he wants with her? Really!?
I guess for a short story this is an ok read.
Keith Logan has something that Sarah Harper wants, and he’s going to use it to get what he wants.
Her.
All his life, Keith’s money and good looks were enough to charm anyone—except for shy, beautiful Sarah. Back in high school she was the one girl he couldn’t have, and the one girl who haunted his dreams. When he sees her again for the first time in ten years, he knows he’ll do anything to make her his—even if it’s just for one week.
Now Keith wanted her so badly that every night he would come to Sarah and insist that she was blind-folded. Ok, I know its part of the BDSM scene but I guess it just didn't sit well with me. Whereas Sarah on the other hand who is shy and suffers from anxiety just lets this guy do whatever he wants with her? Really!?
I guess for a short story this is an ok read.
March 6, 2014
I really wanted to enjoy this book..I kept trying too. Keith and Sarah's story has been done over and over again by many different authors though this author did put a spin on it I just couldn't get into the story. I did however read the entire book and at the end I thought it was a bit better and that the ending should have been maybe in the middle of the book or even at the beginning of it. I think if your looking for a good read but not a fantastic read than pick up this book.
This is no way a bad review as it may come off. This book was just not for me but it might be for you. So pick up your copy and relax and enjoy the weirdness of this journey. Happy Reading..Kudos to the author I wish this was my kind of book but maybe the next read will be.
Smiles
This is no way a bad review as it may come off. This book was just not for me but it might be for you. So pick up your copy and relax and enjoy the weirdness of this journey. Happy Reading..Kudos to the author I wish this was my kind of book but maybe the next read will be.
Smiles
July 3, 2012
Reading the reviews, I had expected to be blown out of the water with this short novella. I barely felt a splash.
I don't like books in which the male character confesses his love for the female character i.e. I've wanted you all my life, you're the girl I wish I had, yadda yadda then treats her like crap. In this case, crap was not even trying to start out honest with her i.e. dinner but straight to bedroom kinky antics and she was blindfolded! And she just took it!!! Is this how you treat the woman that you think you love?
Luckily it was a quick read. But I'm slightly PO'd at myself for spending 99cents on this book.
I don't like books in which the male character confesses his love for the female character i.e. I've wanted you all my life, you're the girl I wish I had, yadda yadda then treats her like crap. In this case, crap was not even trying to start out honest with her i.e. dinner but straight to bedroom kinky antics and she was blindfolded! And she just took it!!! Is this how you treat the woman that you think you love?
Luckily it was a quick read. But I'm slightly PO'd at myself for spending 99cents on this book.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 28, 2014
I love romance novels but this was definitely more erotic. The story is interesting, and I liked that she did both POVs. However, I think the book could of used a lot more time to flesh out the characters and the story. The ending seemed a little sudden for me after they spent only a few days with each other and all of a sudden they are in love? Plus, nearly every time the had sex they never looked at each other. I don't mind some good old fashioned rough sex, but you have to have an emotional connection as well.
February 21, 2014
I loved the beginning of this book. LOVED IT. Then at about 45%, I felt like I was reading a different book with two different characters. He wanted her since high school and then 10 years later he gets his chance. Makes a proposition to have her live with him for a week. She accepts, but then he gets annoyed when she calls him???
It was a short and steamy read, just the last half of the book lacked some for me. I did no buy the ending.
It was a short and steamy read, just the last half of the book lacked some for me. I did no buy the ending.
June 6, 2012
This story is very "fifty shades " in style. A very sweet romance with a powerful punch of erotica. Really very good and I would 100% reccomend to anyone into romance with a twist.
June 29, 2012
All I learned from this book is that if you give a man a puppy at the start of a relationship, he will automatically open up to you emotionally.
October 5, 2013
I loved loved LOVED this book
Right to start this off I would like to say that is was the first time I read anything from Katy Grey and I was not disappointed at all...
This follows two people Keith Logan and Sarah Harper old time school friends well not really friends because Sarah was always to say to speak or even look at him but that didn't stop Keith from talking to her and making her turn into a tomato (blushing) anyhoo he has something she desperately wants and she has something he's always wanted..
This is a short little read where a dead was made and set in motion and my god it did not disappoint.
For one week only can Sarah keep her feelings in check and break through his walls and for one week can Keith get what he sexually desires from his walking, talking fantasy?.
All I can say is I found myself doing this...
But I would of liked more but that's only because when it comes to books I'm a book whore!!!
So in all a big massive 5 hugh stars
Right to start this off I would like to say that is was the first time I read anything from Katy Grey and I was not disappointed at all...
This follows two people Keith Logan and Sarah Harper old time school friends well not really friends because Sarah was always to say to speak or even look at him but that didn't stop Keith from talking to her and making her turn into a tomato (blushing) anyhoo he has something she desperately wants and she has something he's always wanted..
This is a short little read where a dead was made and set in motion and my god it did not disappoint.
For one week only can Sarah keep her feelings in check and break through his walls and for one week can Keith get what he sexually desires from his walking, talking fantasy?.
All I can say is I found myself doing this...
But I would of liked more but that's only because when it comes to books I'm a book whore!!!
So in all a big massive 5 hugh stars
July 19, 2015
This is a steamy read I have to admit, but not over the top. Keith look at a picture hanging in the gallery, think about the woman in that picture high school crush, the one he wanted but never got. In comes Sarah, that girl, ne thinks second chance, right! He gets her to go to café to talk, with Sarah she try to say no, but Keith is not one to take no, his willed and wealthy attitude is he gets what he wants at what ever the cost. now its Sarah. He make a deal to give him a week, the nights are his and she must do what he wants and the painting that her father painted of her will be hers. She does it, but not just for painting and he don't know she likes him and too scared to say. Let's say Sarah blows him away by things she does and the feeling the is starting to feel. That's all I'll say, I am not spoiling it, I rather you read and enjoy the book as I did!! This was more then the sexual aspect and exploring feeling past, future and other issues. I recommend it, be prepared for some hot scenes!!
March 18, 2013
Keith Logan can't stop himself from staring at a portrait of his high school crush, Sarah. No matter how hard he tried to reach out to her in high school, Sarah never let him get close and it still rubbed him the wrong way, after all he could have had anyone he wanted back then.
A chance moment has Sarah back in Keith's path and he has something she wants, the painting. Keith offers a trade of sorts, one week with him and he will give her the painting. Keith plans to keep their activities together strictly in the bedroom not wanting to develop anything more than the brief arrangement they have. He does not expect the introverted Sarah to keep throwing him for a loop every chance she gets.
Was a little rushed because it is so short but I thought the story was quite fun to read. I liked Sarah a lot, she had an unexpected quality to her and although she is shy and awkward she also has a bluntness to her that draws the reader in.
A chance moment has Sarah back in Keith's path and he has something she wants, the painting. Keith offers a trade of sorts, one week with him and he will give her the painting. Keith plans to keep their activities together strictly in the bedroom not wanting to develop anything more than the brief arrangement they have. He does not expect the introverted Sarah to keep throwing him for a loop every chance she gets.
Was a little rushed because it is so short but I thought the story was quite fun to read. I liked Sarah a lot, she had an unexpected quality to her and although she is shy and awkward she also has a bluntness to her that draws the reader in.
February 20, 2014
The reviews I read about this book are a little misleading. They focus on the improbability of the arrangement and ignore the fact that although the heroine is painfully shy she is completely in control at all times. I will agree that the arrangement is a little creepy but the arrangement is an illusion. It is a mask both the characters hide behind. The heroine is at no point in the story a victim and she agrees to the arrangement not because of financial need or desperation but because of a fierce attraction that she has never been able to admit. And our hero, at a complete loss in trying to figure out how to break through her shyness to see if she is attracted to him, decides on a pretty desperate course of action. This was a very satisfying brief read. I would have liked to see the relationship between the characters continue to develop beyond the arrangement but I enjoyed the book and would recommend it.
March 29, 2014
Keith that boy is all bada**, "a wicked gleam came into his eyes. "I want you in my bed and at my mercy. And I want to ruin you for your vibrator." You know Sarah she secretly has some lady balls and I was proud of her in some parts, "I don't know if we need to or not. I just know that I want to. If you don't, of course that's okay. But if that's the case then I'll be heading home today." I mean Keith can sometimes be an a**, "fine. You'll get your instructions at dinner." He ended the call, and then immediately regretted his abruptness. There was nothing stopping Sarah from changing her mind." I mean there were some parts that were funny that really shouldn't have been funny, but still were, "then her face cleared, and she gripped his pants and boxers in both hands and drew them down over his hips. His erection sprang free and almost hit her in the face." I really enjoyed Sarah and Keith's adventure.
April 16, 2014
This was a great short story and I think it could be fleshed out and turned into an amazing full length novel if the author wanted to do so. Keith and Sarah both harbored have secret crushes on each other since high school but neither one knew the other felt anything. So when they told each other they were both shocked speechless by the fact.
Sarah from the beginning saw the loneliness in Keith and wanted to rid him of it...she wanted him at whatever cost...even to agree to Keith's arrangement. Keith only knew one thing...he had to have Sarah at all costs so he offers her a deal, in exchange for her staying at his house for one week (where by day she could do whatever she wanted but by night she had to give Kieth whatever he wanted no matter what) and afterward he would give her the portrait her father painted of her that he had purchased.
I would definitely recommend this to people, would I read it again...probably not BUT not because it wasn't good...I just rarely reread books.
Sarah from the beginning saw the loneliness in Keith and wanted to rid him of it...she wanted him at whatever cost...even to agree to Keith's arrangement. Keith only knew one thing...he had to have Sarah at all costs so he offers her a deal, in exchange for her staying at his house for one week (where by day she could do whatever she wanted but by night she had to give Kieth whatever he wanted no matter what) and afterward he would give her the portrait her father painted of her that he had purchased.
I would definitely recommend this to people, would I read it again...probably not BUT not because it wasn't good...I just rarely reread books.
June 25, 2012
This novella was a fast confection with a “safe” way of approaching a very mildly kinky sexual relationship. What I liked about both of them–they were 100% honest w/each other. She said she didn’t have a lot of experience, he said it didn’t matter. She wasn’t a virgin and she had some working knowledge of a vibrator. So she was naive and quite inexperienced but not bizarrely so.
The story starts with a meet cute over a piece of art and I liked how art and how it makes you feel is a thread woven through the story.
The accessibility of the sex — and of course the absurdly low price — is what has the book selling like hotcakes, imo. I can't imagine people are snapping it up for the sex (although that's well-written) but what there is is on the vanilla end of the spectrum. I'd read Kate Grey again but next time I hope it's a full-length book.
The story starts with a meet cute over a piece of art and I liked how art and how it makes you feel is a thread woven through the story.
The accessibility of the sex — and of course the absurdly low price — is what has the book selling like hotcakes, imo. I can't imagine people are snapping it up for the sex (although that's well-written) but what there is is on the vanilla end of the spectrum. I'd read Kate Grey again but next time I hope it's a full-length book.
March 21, 2014
My review
This is the first in the erotic romance Desire trilogy by Kate Grey. The Desire Trilogy consists of three short stories consisting of By His Desire, His One Desire and Only Desire each story features different characters.
I got the first in this trilogy as a freebie e-book from Amazon.
It tells the story of Keith Logan and Sarah Harper who both secretly had a crush on each other at High School and we meet them 10 years on when Keith realises he wants her even if it's just for one week.
I enjoyed this short 20,000 word story and felt that the story was well written. I loved the relationship between Keith and Sarah and whilst it might be a little predictable it was an enjoyable way to spend an odd hour or two reading it.
Please note it's not overly erotic so don't let that out you off reading it.
I gave this an 8/10.
This is the first in the erotic romance Desire trilogy by Kate Grey. The Desire Trilogy consists of three short stories consisting of By His Desire, His One Desire and Only Desire each story features different characters.
I got the first in this trilogy as a freebie e-book from Amazon.
It tells the story of Keith Logan and Sarah Harper who both secretly had a crush on each other at High School and we meet them 10 years on when Keith realises he wants her even if it's just for one week.
I enjoyed this short 20,000 word story and felt that the story was well written. I loved the relationship between Keith and Sarah and whilst it might be a little predictable it was an enjoyable way to spend an odd hour or two reading it.
Please note it's not overly erotic so don't let that out you off reading it.
I gave this an 8/10.
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