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His Intimate Knowledge Episode Five
His Intimate Knowledge Episode 5
Leo Gold is no stranger to women. He has a history of satisfying love affairs that end well. He never engages deeply. No woman has ever got under his skin. He has never experienced raw, obsessive passion. Never felt an inescapable, driving need to possess.
Until he needs to possess Raisa Gordon.
Vice-cop Raisa Gordon has worked hard to erect effective barriers to emotion. She has spent years carefully constructing her persona as ‘The Queen of Disconnect". She never allows herself to connect with the men she hooks up with and certainly never with her criminal targets.
Until her target is Leo Gold.
Extract
I focus on following his lead, reveling in the strict dance stance he molds me into as he adds variation after variation to our movements. I forget his anger and my fear in the eroticism of the dance. His commanding technique supports me and I move as gracefully as he does. The crowds melt away and it feels like we have entered an undulating place of our own. I am slipping back into that world of his making that I first encountered in his arms this afternoon.
He guides us through three, maybe four dances, never breaking his hold on me throughout the lulls between the music. Finally, he brings our movements to an end. Holding our stance with his arm wrapped around my waist, he releases the hand at my hip and moves it up to my nape easing his fingers under my damp hair. Certain that my pulse and heartbeat are pounding, I listen to his heartbeat racing against my forehead as I rest it against his chest. It has to be from emotion. The moves of the dance were intricate, but slow.
He surprises me by dropping his lips to softly kiss my hair. I begin to hope that the sizzling intensity of the dance has dissipated his anger. Until his hand moves smoothly from my nape to my neck, his long fingers encircling it to encompass the sides of my slender throat, and I know his rage is intact.
Squeezing ever so slightly, his thumbs force my head up to face him. In slow motion fear, I feel him take his arm from around my waist to push my hair aside from my ear, the fingers of both his hands now meeting around my throat to press just a little harder. I hold my breath, my gut clenching as I await the inevitable words. He sweeps his wet tongue in and around my outer and inner ear. I shudder, my pelvis clenching and my pussy weeping at the eroticism of it all, despite, or perhaps because of my building fear. Unhurriedly, his Italian accent uppermost, he utters the words with a silken, sinister whisper.
“What part of ‘you are mine, now’ did you fail to understand, cara mia?”
His Intimate Knowledge is an e-serial that unfolds over multiple volumes ranging from 6,000 to 20,000 words each. It is an erotic romance with sexual content with elements of DD and BDSM.
Leo Gold is no stranger to women. He has a history of satisfying love affairs that end well. He never engages deeply. No woman has ever got under his skin. He has never experienced raw, obsessive passion. Never felt an inescapable, driving need to possess.
Until he needs to possess Raisa Gordon.
Vice-cop Raisa Gordon has worked hard to erect effective barriers to emotion. She has spent years carefully constructing her persona as ‘The Queen of Disconnect". She never allows herself to connect with the men she hooks up with and certainly never with her criminal targets.
Until her target is Leo Gold.
Extract
I focus on following his lead, reveling in the strict dance stance he molds me into as he adds variation after variation to our movements. I forget his anger and my fear in the eroticism of the dance. His commanding technique supports me and I move as gracefully as he does. The crowds melt away and it feels like we have entered an undulating place of our own. I am slipping back into that world of his making that I first encountered in his arms this afternoon.
He guides us through three, maybe four dances, never breaking his hold on me throughout the lulls between the music. Finally, he brings our movements to an end. Holding our stance with his arm wrapped around my waist, he releases the hand at my hip and moves it up to my nape easing his fingers under my damp hair. Certain that my pulse and heartbeat are pounding, I listen to his heartbeat racing against my forehead as I rest it against his chest. It has to be from emotion. The moves of the dance were intricate, but slow.
He surprises me by dropping his lips to softly kiss my hair. I begin to hope that the sizzling intensity of the dance has dissipated his anger. Until his hand moves smoothly from my nape to my neck, his long fingers encircling it to encompass the sides of my slender throat, and I know his rage is intact.
Squeezing ever so slightly, his thumbs force my head up to face him. In slow motion fear, I feel him take his arm from around my waist to push my hair aside from my ear, the fingers of both his hands now meeting around my throat to press just a little harder. I hold my breath, my gut clenching as I await the inevitable words. He sweeps his wet tongue in and around my outer and inner ear. I shudder, my pelvis clenching and my pussy weeping at the eroticism of it all, despite, or perhaps because of my building fear. Unhurriedly, his Italian accent uppermost, he utters the words with a silken, sinister whisper.
“What part of ‘you are mine, now’ did you fail to understand, cara mia?”
His Intimate Knowledge is an e-serial that unfolds over multiple volumes ranging from 6,000 to 20,000 words each. It is an erotic romance with sexual content with elements of DD and BDSM.
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First published July 8, 2014
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About the author
Helen Karol
50 books84 followersWriting is my great love. I finally made time to devote to it in 2013 and self-published my debut novel, Chances and Choices. Since then I have gone on to write my best-selling ongoing e-serials Her Keeper and Intimate Knowledge, as well as HIS By Design, the erotic version of Chances & Choices. In 2015, I published the first book in my Hope Junction Series, The Rancher’s Woman, with Stormy Night Publications.
I am a Canadian, currently living in England. As well as my writing, I am an international teacher. I have worked in many different countries where I have had the opportunity to participate in their culture and make wonderful friends. Before teaching, I was a photographer in the Canadian Air Force. In those days women were scarce in the military and we were lucky to have our pick of so many alpha men. I married one of them and we were blessed with our beautiful daughter. As a mother and a (very, very young) grandmother, I treasure time with my family.
I write stories I love to read. My students will tell you I am cynical but the fact is - scratch a cynic and you find a romantic underneath! So I really am a romantic at heart and write and devour romance of any kind. Naturally I write romantic love stories. I love strong yet nice guy, tender heroes – the bad boy has never really grabbed me – well okay maybe once or twice but I never let him hold on for that long!
I have been lucky to teach media and film for years and l am a big fan of romantic comedy, as well as crime and supernatural films and television. I particularly love the ones with a great enduring love story mixed with intrigue where they are friends as well - like Bones and Vampire Diaries. My love stories are a combination of these - enduring friendships and feuds, romance, alpha males, strong females, bad boys and girls we love to hate, along with cast of characters and a dollop of tongue in cheek humor here and there. My other characters will often have their own love stories in their series while still following the original couples.
I love magazines, fashion and the world of film and television so that is where the action is set in my Choices Series. Hot cops are a turn on and thrillers intrigue me so I explore these in my Detectives & Desires Series. I also spent a number of years in the Canadian Rockies and the ranchlands of Alberta and that has inspired my Hope Junction Series with Stormy Night Publications. It is set in a small town in the Wyoming Rockies.
I also have a series of stand-alone short stories planned around The Raffertys - a family with hot alpha males and feisty women who we first met in Intimate Knowledge and Her Keeper. Look out for the first in the series, Her Forbidden Spring. In addition to Her Forbidden Spring, I’m working on the next episodes in my e-serials as well as the next book in the Hope Junction Series.
I am a Canadian, currently living in England. As well as my writing, I am an international teacher. I have worked in many different countries where I have had the opportunity to participate in their culture and make wonderful friends. Before teaching, I was a photographer in the Canadian Air Force. In those days women were scarce in the military and we were lucky to have our pick of so many alpha men. I married one of them and we were blessed with our beautiful daughter. As a mother and a (very, very young) grandmother, I treasure time with my family.
I write stories I love to read. My students will tell you I am cynical but the fact is - scratch a cynic and you find a romantic underneath! So I really am a romantic at heart and write and devour romance of any kind. Naturally I write romantic love stories. I love strong yet nice guy, tender heroes – the bad boy has never really grabbed me – well okay maybe once or twice but I never let him hold on for that long!
I have been lucky to teach media and film for years and l am a big fan of romantic comedy, as well as crime and supernatural films and television. I particularly love the ones with a great enduring love story mixed with intrigue where they are friends as well - like Bones and Vampire Diaries. My love stories are a combination of these - enduring friendships and feuds, romance, alpha males, strong females, bad boys and girls we love to hate, along with cast of characters and a dollop of tongue in cheek humor here and there. My other characters will often have their own love stories in their series while still following the original couples.
I love magazines, fashion and the world of film and television so that is where the action is set in my Choices Series. Hot cops are a turn on and thrillers intrigue me so I explore these in my Detectives & Desires Series. I also spent a number of years in the Canadian Rockies and the ranchlands of Alberta and that has inspired my Hope Junction Series with Stormy Night Publications. It is set in a small town in the Wyoming Rockies.
I also have a series of stand-alone short stories planned around The Raffertys - a family with hot alpha males and feisty women who we first met in Intimate Knowledge and Her Keeper. Look out for the first in the series, Her Forbidden Spring. In addition to Her Forbidden Spring, I’m working on the next episodes in my e-serials as well as the next book in the Hope Junction Series.
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October 4, 2014
This series of stories was gifted to me for an honest review including the prologue by the author. Keep in mind, I did not have any knowledge as to the basis of the book nor did I read any blurbs or see the book cover prior to reading this book.
I read the prologue first....it's three POV's that cycle between the main characters Leo Gold and Raisa Gordon. I was hooked by the second page. The hot scene unfolded and drew me in and laid premise to the story leading up to that point. I wanted more. This is written as a serial and I read parts 1-7 and apparently it's not done, because I want to hear the rest of the story. I want to find out what side Raisa chooses, her job or a future with Leo?
The story itself is about Vice Detective Raisa Gordon who gets the position of her dreams as an undercover agent in the Task Force. Only, she got more than she bargained for, she got the attention of Leo Gold, successful architect, international businessman and heir apparent to Gold crime family. Her own desires, passions and repressed traumas emerge as Leo seduces her. Leo loves hard while remaining faithful and pleasuring his women. There is more to Leo as well. How can there not be? Heir apparent to Gold crime family, Raisa's mission is to verify and gather Intel on Leo's connections to bust the whole operation. Meanwhile, Leo wants to peel her like an onion and discover, embrace and devour every inch of Raisa from the minute he noticed her at an art gallery as she gazed at the works. What he finds in Raisa, taps into his own dark tendencies of his bloodline he has tried so hard to compartmentalize within himself. Raisa, the "Queen of Disconnect", plummets down the rabbit hole while Leo evolves into himself throughout the book. I can't wait to see where this series goes from here! The imagery is vivid, tension is razor sharp and dialogue is free flowing and story keeps moving, which is awesome. There are definitely no drags in this book!!! Page after page, was a new discovery and twist and one more piece of the puzzle to both Raisa's desires and Leo's evolution.
November 14, 2014
Intimate Knowledge Part 5 covers chapters 16 through 20 in the book. After a lull in the action in Part 4 things pick up dramatically in this release. Leo finds Raisa dancing with another man at a local college hangout. Chapters 16 through 20 are dedicated to Leo reestablishing his dominance over Raisa. This release has enough action and heat to work as a standalone release, and it really helped balance the lull of Book 4.
January 11, 2015
5 hot and dirty stars!
Leo is dark, dominanat and delicious! Once again Helen Karol has written super hot scenes that will definitely feature in my fantasies.
This had more of a dub-con feel than Her Keeper 2 and I loved it. The punishments were delicious and I wish there were more in this volume. Like always, bigger is better ;)
This was kindly sent to me by the author, thank you!
Leo is dark, dominanat and delicious! Once again Helen Karol has written super hot scenes that will definitely feature in my fantasies.
This had more of a dub-con feel than Her Keeper 2 and I loved it. The punishments were delicious and I wish there were more in this volume. Like always, bigger is better ;)
This was kindly sent to me by the author, thank you!
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