"A schoolgirl crush grows up"

Marly has been in love with Cade for years. His family raised her since she was 12 years old when her mother needed a place to hide her from her perverted stepfather. After all of these years Marly's feelings have changed from thinking of Cade as an uncle to thinking of him as a man she loves. Unfortunately, Cade seems to still think of her as a little girl.

Cade's father was a miserable old man and had made everyone's life miserable. Cade and his two brothers seem to have escaped their bad childhood fairly unscathed but they share a dark secret and aren't sure about letting Marly know all about it.

Marly comes home from college to attend Cade's father's funeral. She's determined to show Cade that she's no longer a little girl and sets out to seduce him. Over the past two years she has been reading everything she could find on sex so she'll know how to satisfy him completely. Just as they seem to become close, a nightmare from their past comes back to haunt them.

I found this to be one of the better novels that Ellora's cave has released this year. The main story between Cade and Marly had a great build up and the scenes once they were together were very hot.

Sexual Content: NC-17, oral and anal sex, voyeurism, and multiple partners.

Reviewed by Emily Anne
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted January 1, 2003

Summary

Marly's love for Cade has spanned her teenage years, and survived strong and intact into womanhood. Her fantasies and daydreams have sustained her, but she's no longer content with merely imagining the touch of his hands, the taste of his kiss. It's time to seduce the tough, sexy cowboy.

She's heard the rumors for years, the tales of his sexual preferences. She's prepared herself to accept his desires. Prepared her body for his touch. But she wasn't prepared for the choice to come...

Cade's dark desires, his sexual excesses are based in the past. In a time when pain, shame, and blood stains his very soul. He carries a secret shared only with his brothers. A secret that has scarred the bond, the ability to be a brother or to accept the love of the men he was raised with. He knows the only way to prove his loyalty, his love for those brothers and Marly will be the key.

She has a choice. She can surrender to Cade's needs, his soul deep desires, or she can walk away. A choice only Marly can make. A choice that will change her life forever.

Sexual Content: NC-17. Genre: contemporary.