[Siren Ménage Everlasting: Erotic Futuristic Sci-Fi Ménage a Trois Romance, M/M/F, with M/M elements]
Crown Prince Jayce Cobmara has taken a lover—his bodyguard, Damian Scarpela. On a planet that oppresses women and persecutes any alternative lifestyle, the men steadfastly protect their secret relationship. When a woman stumbles across the lovers, they have no choice but to take her captive.
Law-enforcement agent Izzie Szabo must fight her attraction to her two handsome captors. Although she assures them that she’ll keep their important secret, they keep her at a desert hideaway that turns to paradise as the three explore their mutual attraction. The fiery-haired Izzie refuses to consider becoming a princess on a planet that treats women like second-class citizens.
When an assassination attempt is made on Jayce, Izzie and Damian work together to uncover a plot that will shake the prince’s faith in his homeland. Can the love the three of them share help Jayce find a way to fulfill his royal destiny?
Elizabeth Raines makes her home in the Midwest. A fan of all genres of fiction, she enjoys blending her love of science fiction with romance in the books she writes exclusively for Siren Publishing. Her favorite movies are Pride and Prejudice and Love, Actually, and she spends far too much time watching shows like The Tudors and Mad Men. Elizabeth has been happily married for almost thirty years and tries to express that kind of enduring love in all her stories, hoping to help all her heroes and heroines have their own happily ever afters.
CAPTIVATED has a great feminist heroine and sexy MMF menage romance but it's all wrapped up just a tad too neatly for my taste.
I like Izzie for her non-labeled feminism. The author isn't heavy-handed saying Izzie is a feminist but shows how Izzie believes she's equal to any man and is a self-determined person who happens to be female. This self-confidence is displayed in her sexual liberation in exploring her attraction to Jayce and Damian, who have been committed lovers for years.
I also liked the balanced romance between the three leads. Jayce and Damian are clearly as in love with each other as with Izzie and I like this balance as it's more believable than some menage where the men just suddenly turn gay for the menage's sake.
But what I had a difficult time with was the convenient, neatly wrapped ending. The issue of women's rights and the public relationship between the three is resolved so neatly and quickly at novella's end that I felt a tad cheated. Yes, I want a HEA as much as the next reader but I could have done with a little less perfection.
CAPTIVATED is a good MMF romance with plenty of well written sexual intimacy and a nicely liberated heroine.