Black Light: Brave (Black Light #16)
By Maren Smith
Published by Black Collar Press
Release Date: March 11, 2020
Design by: Eris Adderly
Go Live Price: 4.99
Genre: Contemporary BDSM
It started with Piggy. It escalated with Kitty. It ends with
Puppy. For almost a year, Ethen O’Dowell has been locked behind bars and yet
Puppy is far from free. A legal ward of her parents, she shares her bedroom
with Pony, the only part of her old, submissive life that she has left... apart
from the guilt, the fear, and the weekly punishments Ethen dishes out every
time they visit him. Escape is all Puppy dreams about. Escape and somehow
finding the courage to once more become the person she used to be--someone who
lived life on her own terms and never let herself be afraid. Sadly, those days
are long over, and as the old saying goes, there’s just no getting them back
again. Or is there?
It’s a dead night at Black Light when ex-military man
Carlson Garvey decides all he wants is a quiet drink and some downtime to
practice his Shibari. What he isn’t expecting is the petite brunette who plops
down at his table, squeaks out a terrified hello, and promptly flees again.
There’s a story here and although he doesn’t know it, Carlson doesn’t need to.
He recognizes a broken soul when he sees one.
Sometimes the only
thing a broken person needs is the right Dom willing to intervene.
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Official published review:
Building back up
Puppy is one of those characters that you immediately
connect with and want to see only the best for her. The author was really able to channel the
emotional devastation of an abusive relationship and the aftermath that takes a
while to shake. I love that the author
gave her what she needed to grow into who she was meant to be. Be prepared with a box of tissues because you
are going to need them. I can’t wait to
read the next book by this author.
4 stars
“Do you want me to stop?” he repeated himself.
Heaven help her.
“N-no, Sir,” she gasped.
Tipping his head, slowly he said, “Don’t call me that again.
Not unless you want me to take that role. It’s Carlson. Just Carlson. Do you
understand?”
God, why couldn’t she have found someone like this instead
of Ethen all those years ago?
Let go, she told her hands. If she let go of, then
eventually Carlson would too. They’d untwine. Their time here would end and who
knows if he’d ever invite her to sit with him again, because she was
inappropriate and messed up, and God, but she just couldn’t make her fingers
release him. Not anymore than she could make herself stop trembling, or blink
back the rush of her tears now spilling freely down her cheeks. And yet the
worst was still to come, because when she opened her mouth to apologize, what
came pouring out was every bit as unstoppable as those awful burning tears.
“I’m not allowed to leave the house, so I sit in the tub. I lost my job a year
ago, and now I live with my mother. If I tried to get my coat, Pony wouldn’t
have let me come tonight and I had to get out of there. I had to! He’s
punishing us again, because of me, and I’m sorry. I’m just so sorry. Please.”
She needed to let him go, and yet her fists only tightened their grip on the
sleeves of his shirt. “Please, Sir, don’t stop.”
She didn’t sound sane, even to herself. That he didn’t
immediately dump her off his lap, with an appalled, ‘Jesus, lady,’ as he
quickly walked away, would forever be a miracle in her mind.
“I told you not to call me that.” But instead of pushing her
away, Carlson pulled her closer, embracing her with the kind of strength she
only wished she had.
“I’m sorry,” she sobbed.
“Maybe, but probably only half as sorry as you’re going to
be. This isn’t the way it’s done,” he said, holding her tight. “You want a sir?
Well, you’ve got one now.”
Maren Smith: Fortunate enough to live with my Daddy Dom, I
am a Little, coffee whore, pain slut, administrator at two of my local BDSM
dungeons, resident of the wilds of freakin' Kansas (still don't know how I
ended up here) and submissive to the love of my life. An International and USA
Bestselling Author, I have penned more than 150 novels, novellas and short
stories, and am the author of the Masters of the Castle series.
I also write under the names of Denise Hall, Darla Phelps,
and Penny Alley.
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