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#Review of Bound to Protect (Crescent City Kings #4) by Anya Summers w/a rafflecopter giveaway! #BDSM #contemporaryromance @anyabsummers @GoddessFish

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The weight of the world on her shoulders…

Sabrina Thomas needs to catch a break. By day she juggles two jobs, only to head home at night to care for her mentally ill brother. With their parents gone, the responsibility for his care, the doctor’s bills, the hospital stays, the at home care, falls to her. Six months ago, the trust fund their parents left them dried up and with the mounting bills, she has until the end of the month to make good on late rent payments before they are evicted. Sabrina knows where she could make a lot of quick cash with her looks: Bayou Sin, the classiest strip joint on Bourbon Street. But her plans go awry when Dante hauls her off the stage and takes her to his penthouse.

His lifestyle called into question…

Billionaire Michael Fitzgerald and his partner in crime, Dante Rousseau, have been topping submissives together for years. As the owner of the fifth largest sugarcane supplier, with a host of multi-conglomerate corporations to run, Michael has always kept his bedroom preferences under wraps. When a rival on the board attempts to engage in a hostile takeover and have Michael expelled from his own company, he knows he needs to find a woman he can trust to pretend to be his fiancée and put the kibosh on the illicit rumors spreading like wildfire through the company’s board members. When Dante shows up with their housekeeper, Sabrina, who is spitting mad at being denied the opportunity to make some fast cash, Michael knows she is just the woman for the job.

An offer neither can refuse…

Michael and Dante make Sabrina a deal: pretend to be Michael’s sole love interest for thirty days to dispel the rumors and stop the takeover. In exchange, they will pay her ten million dollars at month’s end. But the lines soon become blurred as to what is real and what is make believe. And when their time together is up, will they be able to walk away, or will they take the chance to make their relationship the real deal?

 

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Michael stepped off the elevator into the plush offices on the executive floor of Fitzgerald Foods, the company his grandfather had built from the ground up. He wore wealth like most individuals wore a pair of jeans—with absolute ease and familiarity. He was comfortable with his privilege now, at thirty-six, when he hadn’t always been growing up. But Michael had been raised in a world of wealth and privilege few ever achieved or experienced. He knew how fortunate he was, but at the same time, he bore a mantle of responsibility most people could never comprehend. This company and all of those he owned had thousands of employees who depended upon him to make the right decision for all involved. One wrong move on his part and his people, the people the company depended on to make everything run seamlessly, from the factory workers to the office personnel and distribution channels, suffered.

That was one thing his father had made sure Michael understood. He wasn’t the company. He was only its guide and navigator. The company ran because of everyone involved, from the Board members on down to the janitor. He believed in an honest day’s work, in ensuring that those who worked for Fitzgerald Foods—one of the subsidiaries of Ragnall Sugar started by his great-great-grandfather more than a century ago, or his Hollywood production company Conmar, or real estate firm Fitzgerald-Logan Realty—were well compensated for their efforts.

For this morning’s board meeting, he’d chosen a tailored suit in a crisp dark gray that made his indigo eyes standout and bespoke of that wealth. He was comfortable wearing the platinum Rolex on his left wrist and the black Italian leather shoes had been handcrafted for his feet the last time he’d been in Italy, along with the Cavalli silk tie adorning his neck in vermouth with a diamond-shaped pattern.

His dark golden hair, currently sporting lighter blond streaks from his time away under the sun on Pleasure Island, reached his chin. The longer style was an affectation he had developed while attending university abroad in Europe more than a decade past. He’d drawn it back into a stubby ponytail and figured that, combined with his trim, close-cropped beard, gave him a more down to earth appeal.

He didn’t miss the sly looks from the receptionist and administrative assistants that stated quite clearly they found him attractive. Many of them would be only too happy to be called into his office for something other than work.

Michael appreciated women in all their varied flavors. He respected them. But he also hadn’t been with a woman in the vanilla sense in fifteen years and doubted that most of the women vying for his attention would satisfy him. Not to mention, he seriously doubted they realized that, when he did select a partner, it was with the intent to share her with his best friend, Dante.

I need to warn you a little bit about the book.  It’s the fourth book in the series but you don’t have to read them in order.  The sex is hotter than hell.  Seriously.  Probably one of the hottest books that I have read in the last 5 years…at least.  The BDSM is handled very well and not heavy in the book.  The sex is more about the menage, MFM, and how the relationship works between Michael, Dante, and Sabrina.  Trust me, if you read the book, you will understand.  There are a couple of BDSM scenes, including one at the club.  That’s all the warning you will get.

Peeps, I just love this series.  Seriously, love it.  I’ve been following Michael and Dante for some time now and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this one.  I will admit that it took me a while to warm up to Michael.  I felt like Ms. Summers wrote him that way because between him and Dante, he had to most to lose and he was the one in the relationship that needed growing up.  Yes, for a 36-year-old man, he needed to grow in many areas.  Between being a snob, closed off to any female relationships, and really understand what Dante needed and wanted…yep, it took a bit for me.  In the end, I loved him but Dante is much easier to like and love.  Heavy-handed with Sabrina at times, necessary for sure when dealing with her brother and his needs but he does it lovingly.  He means well and is a true friend to Sabrina.

Sabrina is a great character.  Strong when it comes to her brother and the hand that has been dealt her but at the same time, very naive.  Again, no spoilers but I had to sorta kinda suspend disbelief in the beginning.  I’m glad that she was with Dante before Michael.  I loved watching them dance around each other.  Dante and Sabrina’s relationship is fun and romantic.  Sabrina and Michael’s is much more complicated and I feel like there is still more growing with those two long after the book ended.

One of the things that I loved is seeing the other Doms and their wives in the book.  They all rally around them when things get a bit wild but that’s what true friends do.  Support each other, love each other, and sometimes fight with each other.  That’s what it means to be a family and Sabrina gets that with her relationship with Dante and Michael.  *sigh*  I’m so in love with Dante right now.  Seriously, he has made my book boyfriend shelf.

I’m not sure how to end this review except to say, you really need to read this one.  I realize that it won’t be everyone’s cuppa and that’s okay.  I waited a long time for Michael and Dante’s book.  Like forever.  Like they are in the Pleasure Island series, too.  The wait was worth it.  I feel a re-read is in order of the first three in the series.  Yes, the series is that good.  You won’t be sorry to pick it up and read it.  Plus, there is Dante.  Enough said.

About the Author: Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Anya grew up listening to Cardinals baseball and reading anything she could get her hands on. She remembers her mother saying if only she would read the right type of books instead binging her way through the romance aisles at the bookstore, she’d have been a doctor. While Anya never did get that doctorate, she graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis with an M.A. in History.

Anya is a bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple fiction genres. She also writes urban fantasy, paranormal romance, and contemporary romance under the name Maggie Mae Gallagher. A total geek at her core, when she is not writing, she adores attending the latest comic con or spending time with her family. She currently lives in the Midwest with her two furry felines.

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Crescent City Kings

Lone Survivor, Book 1: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X4JN5DX
Far Reaching Consequences, Book 2: https://amzn.to/2SmLqWm
The Right to Remain Silent, Book 3: https://amzn.to/2URBzY2
Bound to Protect, Book 4: https://www.amazon.com/Bound-Protect-Crescent-City-Kings-ebook/dp/B08FCX75XZ/
Self Sacrifice, Book 5 – Coming December 2020
Never Surrender, Book 6 – Coming 2021
Oath & Indenture, Book 7 – Coming 2021

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