Bonds of Love

by Sarah K.

If you loved Fifty Shades of Grey¸ you’ll LUST after this true story of dominance, submission, lust and temptation. Sarah K is like any normal woman. She lives in a quiet suburban town. She has a couple of kids; a steady job as a writer. But behind the bedroom door she enters a different world – a world sexual power play and erotic control. For Sarah K is a submissive, and she willingly surrenders her body to the passions of a dominant lover. Still reeling after ending things with her first dom, Max, Sarah finds herself unable to move on. As Max had warned, once you’ve tasted the forbidden fruits of dominance and submission, you can’t go back. So when Sarah meets Alex – a tall, handsome man who shares her erotic desires – she finds herself cast under the dark spell of pleasure and pain once more. As they explore one another, like an addiction, Sarah begins to crave Alex – his touch, his breath, his smell. Shocked at the emotions he has awakened within her, Sarah tells herself this is just lust. She had learnt the hard way that falling in love is one line that can’t be crossed. So why does it feel so wrong when Max re-enters her life, determined to possess her once more? Should she admit her true feelings for Alex, and potentially expose herself to the worst pain of all – heartbreak? Hotter than fiction, this intoxicating and explosive true story will set your pulse racing as Sarah K strips away the mask to reveal what it’s really like to be a sexual submissive.

Genres: Romance

288 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 2013

About the author

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Reviews

[Kara-karina · Rating 4 out of 5]

I remember reading the first book The Secret Life of a Submissive last year and enjoying the heck out of it. Bonds of Love was just as awesome. "Why?" you'd ask.

The majority of BDSM fiction can be easily read as fantasy, but this was so normal and realistic, you have no trouble accepting it as a part of Sarah's life.

First of all, she was a divorced mother of two in her late forties. She was not fragile, she was not damaged and she knew what she wanted from life. I had great respect for Sarah who used her brain, no-nonsense attitude, a network of friends to rely on and a good-natured behaviour to get on with her life after she walked away from her first Dom, Max in the last book.

When she started dating again and met Alex I could have just hugged them both. He was such a sweetheart, the pages would lit up every time they were together.

This was a beautiful piece of intelligent, bittersweet, romantic fiction from a British author with an ending worthy of an English chick lit movie, and I loved every moment of it. Very much recommended.

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

"It's been sevral months since Sarah took the painful decision to end it with Max, the intoxicating Dom who turned her lifelong fantasies of sexual submission into heady reality. He'll be a hard act to follow -- he not only showed her the ropes (and the handcuffs, and the cane) as a submissive, but unexpectedly captured her hert to..

"When Sarah meets Alex --deliciously witty and keen to explore the addictive thrills of pleasure and pain -- the chemistry is instantaneous. But can Sarah trust her instincts? And is she ready to risk getting hurt again?

"Determined this time to be ruled by her head, not her heart, Sarah embarks on a journey to find the perfect Dom. It's a journey tht will lead her into an explosive and thrilling world of the most wicked kind of play, but it could also lead her into danger -- and into making a mistake that could cost her tht elusive happy-ever-after."
~~back cover

A charming story -- the plot stands by sitself and works without the BDSM element.

[Phair · Rating 3 out of 5]

Erotic romance novel with BDSM theme. As this type of book goes this was fairly "clean". It was almost an apologetic/basic course in BDSM with lots of emphasis on safety and the psychological aspects and variations in these relationships. Apart from this feeling a bit like BDSM 101 and ultimately rather vanilla it was a pretty good romance.

[Gem · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this book will keep an eye out for more by Sarah. She has a kindle book out soon, short story

[Nik · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not as well written or interesting as the first book, but I'm glad Sarah K found her happy ending. :)

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed this but it really could've used an epilogue. Unless a third book is in progress, but I'm not finding that info anywhere.

[Amanda Christina · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love Sarah K's writing style. This was good, but it paled in comparison to her first book, 'The Secret Life of a Submissive,' which is the book I recommend.