Sin

by Michelle Hughes

Sin. He definitely lived up to his name. The man was like looking straight into the eyes of pure sexuality. I never thought I'd walk into a strip club, much less be standing here asking for a job in one. Amazing what weeks of living off Vienna Sausage and Ramen Noodles would make you do.

I was in my last semester of college and struggling to make ends meet. My mom would have kicked my butt if she knew I'd walked into Sin's. I had no intention of telling her. I was a grown woman. At least I thought I was before I met him. After looking into those eyes of his I wasn't sure I'd ever lived before.

Sin was no prince charming. He made it clear from the beginning that he didn't do his girls. That didn't stop me from dreaming. One night in his private dance studio and I was ready to stop being the last college student who held the V card. I didn't go looking for temptation, but when I met Sin, it found me.

Genres: BDSM, Erotica, Erotic Romance, Romance, New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary

220 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2013

About the author

Michelle Hughes is an American author who writes contemporary romance. She was awarded a Kindle Press contract for her 2017 release, Cowboy Sanctuary, and has 29 other books self-published. Hughes studied journalism at Jefferson State college. Prior to a career in publishing she worked as a respiratory therapist. Michelle was also a Nashville recording artist who performed under the stage name, Regina Michelle.

Her continuing book publications include the Tears of Crimson series, Fantasy’s Bar & Grill series, and the You Don’t Know Jack series. Well known single book titles include, Five Nights, Rude, and Sin. A new series released September 3rd, 2018 is Fantasy Isle a continuation of the Fantasy’s Bar & Grill series.

Hughes lives in Verbena, Alabama with her husband. They have five children. Her goals are to continue writing and sharing her love of romance with readers.

Reviews

[Anne E ♡ emo + OTT Hs · Rating 4 out of 5]

22yo virgin college student heroine has worked as a waitress at a strip club owned by enigmatic mid-30s Hero for a month now. She now wants to work as a dancer & Hero wants to help her get in touch with her sexuality to be an effective pole dancer. Their training sessions turn into heated sexual exchanges, pushing controlled Hero to break his own rules. Heroine knows he doesn’t do commitments but is willing for him to become her first lover.

A steamy read with lots of explicit sex details. Yet still romantic. Alternating POVs from H & h, which worked to give a good feel of their increasing connection and their doubts about where their relationship is heading. OTT H with his alpha dominance. Good character development, especially H’s change from an indifferent player to a possessive & caring lover. h had a hold of him from the very beginning that he couldn’t comprehend. It was their time together that truly hooked him into her, as he got to see her character.

[Brandy Dorsch · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was given a copy for my honest review.

I have been a fan of Michelle Hughes long before I called her friend. I have read everything she has out and I am never disappointed. Sin is amazing. He is flawed and he is hard. He is sexy as hell but he is not what I consider your normal book boyfriend. He is edgy and dirty and I love it!

Anya is innocent but not annoying about it. This book was about a college student that wants to be able to pay her bills so her friend gets her a job waiting tables at a strip club.

When Anya runs into money troubles and wants to dance to make more cash, the steaminess hits the fan. There is nothing sexier than dancing with an incredible dancer and feeling the way your bodies move together.

Sin teaches Anya everything she needs to know and a few things he wants her to know.

This book is hot and spicy! If you are like me and like naughtiness in your books, you can't go wrong with Sin.

[K.G. White · Rating 2 out of 5]

Garbage. The pace of the writing felt rushed and incomplete. Sin's point of view was taken too far, over the top with his attitude, no one actually thinks and talks like that. Anya's point of view was just annoying most of the times. SPOILERS: the fact that he felt like women only wanted him for his body and that made him sensitive, he is the one that chose to become a male stripper instead of a doctor what the hell did he imagine a stripper was? Next, why was Anya so freaking sensitive about his ex when she put up with his couldn't care less attitude from the very beginning and fell in love with him anyways. I hate it when books make too much something out of nothing: I appreciate fabricated drama, but when it is so ludicrous I just can't get on board.

[Carole Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. I enjoyed this book, it was a lovely quick read. 211 pages at $2.99, well worth it. Possessive jealous former bad boy alpha. No cheating, HEA. Read it in one sitting. :-)

Slight SPOILER - heads up, there is some lite BDSM and one time voyeurism for those who don't like or like this type of reading.

Re-read attempt failed. Did not care as much for it the second time. Must have been in a book slump previously. Down grade to a 2.5 stars.

[Tiffany · Rating 4 out of 5]

GENERAL INFO
Year Pub/Re Pub:2013
Indie/Publisher:indie
Page Length:214
Genre/Audience: 18& up
Book's Price:2.99
Price I'd Value:same
Standalone/Cliffhanger/Part of a Series:standalone
Epilogue Included:​no but the last chapter takes place a year later,ties things up well.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION:​Anya an innocent college student working thru school. Needing more $$$, her friend Kera introduces her to strip clubs. Kiera's a dancer,agreed to speak to her boss Sin on her behalf. Anya is hired as a waitress even though she's surrounded by sexy naked women. Anya, in another financial bind, takes to dancing under Sin's tutelage. Anya is attracted to Sin and vice versa, which leads to Anya's sexual awakening.
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M/F-M/M-M/M/F-etc:m/f
HEA/HFN/etc Ending:HEA
Contains Cheating:no
Contains Children:no
Flashbacks:no
Jealy/Possy/OTT Rating:5,Once Sin and Anya become serious, he forbids anyone seeing her naked,won't let her dance at the club.
Overall Smex Rating:5
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CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
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HERO:Sin
Hero Description:ex stripper himself, he starts out just an angry,cranky strip club owner
Hero Likability Rating:​3.5/4
HEROINE:Anya-22
Heroine Description:innocent,naive but willing to take risks.
Heroine Likability Rating:4
Secondary characters:Kera-her friend and confidante. Luke- Kera's friend w/ benefits and bouncer at the club.
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H /h Relationship Info:starts out teacher/student, stays that once they become intimate. Sin intros her into his world of sex,bdsm
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OW/OM/Exes:yes Linda,Sin's ex comes in with news about his father(who Sin is not close to)
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Cheating Before/During/Outside H/h Relationship:no
Grovel Rating:Anya gets upset when Sin leaves with Linda, but she believes him when he tells her nothing happened with ex.
Did OW/OM/Ex Ruin the Book For You:no
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Triggers/Warning:bdsm
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Author Overview:Michelle Hughes
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Technical/Editing Quality:4
Writing/Content Quality:4
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Personal Overview
Overall Rating:4
Do You Recommend this Book:yes,though not for faint of heart
Will You Re-read this Book:maybe
Would You Read More Books by this Author:yes
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COMMENTS/NOTES: my only issue was I wanted a little more on Sin's background-his parents,why he's not close with his father, how he got into bdsm and why.

[Lelyana's Reviews · Rating 4 out of 5]

Surprisingly, I did enjoy reading it !!!

Complete review to come

His name is SIN, the owner of a strip club...but, he's not a pimp :)

I knew some of the girls here f***ed around. That was their choice. It didn’t happen on my lot. Selling the fantasy was one thing. Pimping? That was not my deal.

Before owning a strip club, Sin was a stripper once....

[Sousetsoso · Rating 1 out of 5]

What..?

[Lanette Jones · Rating 1 out of 5]

I only read the free opening chapter for this book and was appalled. Blatant use of foul language and a young woman being lead astray. Sin is right! Books like this and Fifty Shades should be banned for teaching our young people to degrade themselves. Appalled that this type of reading is what college students are reading. We need to be more involved with helping these young people find positive ideas of what romance should be about.

[Wolfie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Hated this book. Horrible. Couldn't even finish it. I didn't care AT ALL about the characters. :(

[Daniell Lewis · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book it went by really quickly but had a nice story to it and I love a happy ending!

[Sonja · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a great book and I thoroughly enjoyed it! I couldn’t put it down!

[Veronica-Lynn Pit Bull · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sin was a surprising 4 1/2 star guilty pleasure. It was short and sweet, mostly erotica with somewhat of a story line and a HEA.

Anya the heroine is a 22 year old college girl virgin who goes to work waiting tables at a strip club owned by the hero. As far as 22 year old virgins in romance novels go, Anya wasn't as annoying as most. She actually managed to pull off naive and innocent without appearing stupid.

Sin the older (mid thirties) hero was jaded and potty mouthed and didn't do relationships. Or rather he didn't do them until Anya needed money for her car and decided to dance, and he decided to "coach" her...and one thing led to another and then all of a sudden his psychotically possessive "MINE" gene was triggered.

There's a little lite BDSM - and one major overreaction from the heroine - who bounced back pretty darn quickly with some enthusiastic curiosity, and then sled right into a little voyeurism.

The characters were fairly well developed for a short story and I liked the chemistry between them.

On the negative side I would have preferred a longer story with more fully developed characters and more of a plot line. There were a couple of plot points that were mentioned and then just left blowing in the wind. There was insta-lust and then pretty much insta-love on both sides. The few moments of angst/conflict while quickly resolved, also seemed contrived.

But overall for a quick beach read, if you like a foul mouthed hero who acts like a jerk and then falls hard...I'd recommend Sin.

[Southern · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok I guess I'll try to keep this short and sweet. I'll start by saying I loved Sin and all his controlling hardness and I loved Anya and all her innocent sweetness. Them together was just hot! I also liked how hard it was for him to give in to how he was feeling but at the same time, even though she still held tight to that V card, it was so easy for her to give in to him. I thought how they came together was good too..different in a way.
Now saying that I have to say that I didnt feel like I got to know them. I didnt get enough of them. I know we get to see a little short and sweet Into their past but thats it.. I mean I like to hear about what these characters went through to make them who they are and how they got where their at. To me thats what makes a character tick...it's what makes them....well them. I also think thats what makes the characters relatable. Sometimes if you can see where they're from and how things were for them you can kinda get to know them..ya know? While this book was definitely hot I still thought it was lacking in a way..I mean what happened when he saw his dad? Where was he...what happened with his ex? I'm just left with questions and I hate it. The ending though really was good and it doesn't leave you wondering what happens and that I did like. So all in all I feel with a little more Info this book could've been a 5 star:)

[Amber Fueston · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had a bit of a love/hate relationship with this one

Desperate and shy virgin Anya goes into Sins strip club looking for a job. Both she and Sin are very drawn to each other but Sins mistrust of women makes things very hard. Then when Anya gets herself into a dangerous situation Sin realizes this is the one woman he can be a better man for.

For me, reading this story was much like watching a baby boy grow older. First we have the newborn stage: In the begining I have such high hopes and aspirations for what this book will become. Then we have the puberty stage: They are both so very horny and the sex is off the charts! There are some very steamy scenes but there are also fluctuating hormones that cause the characters to run hot and cold. Then like dumb college kids bad choices are made and they have to suffer the consequences though all is not lost because they learn from them. Then comes the midlife crisis, Sin was alpha enough without throwing in the more formal BDSM things. They just didn't seem to fit, it felt forced. At last we enter the golden years, everyone is at peace and comfortable.

I liked most of the story but found myself getting very frustrated sometimes.

[Meckesha Booher · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 Stars

This book started out ok but the longer it went on it was just annoying. Sin treated her like total crap. She would get upset and then act like it never happened. Sins alpha tendencies were just taken to an extreme that made this book less believable. And then towards the end he becomes so emotional. It just felt like everything was rushed. And again less believable.
Some of the parts in the booked felt like it was pulled from Fifty Shades and just re-worded (ex: His 'dungeon' that he shows her three quarters of the way through that holds all of his needs, his twitchy hands, the way he paddles her and she tells him to f@%* off and then he feels terrible) Seriously I've read a ton of books and the only time I've seen that exact word (twitchy) was is Fifty Shades. And maybe it has been used in other books but there were just too many similarities. Maybe that wasn't the intention of the author to make a reader to interpret it that way, and maybe it's just me, but that is the first thing that came to my mind because it's such a popular book. This is just my opinion. All in all the book was just OK.

[Louise Beck · Rating 1 out of 5]

What ever happened to editting before a book goes to print? On one hand "Sin" is a full knock off of Fifty Shades of Grey,and on the other it was poorly executed!in one scene of the book Anya gets plastered at the club.Sin brings her to his home,and she sleeps it off. In the morning he spanks her... when they discuss the spanking which supposedly occurs right before breakfast,he says "how did you feel about being spanked last night". The author didn't even keep her timeline straight! The grammar was poor,and when Sin is nararating you know the author has no idea how men think. The lip biting thing annoyed the he'll out of me in Fifty Shades,and this book had to over use it.I swear she sat down with E.L' s books and added a slightly different story plot. What ever happened to originality? Why are these people calling themselves writers? I regret the 4 bucks I wasted on this book. I'm even more annoyed that I read it! Do yourself a favor skip this crappy book. It is not worth it.I truly believe a middle schooler wrote it that's how bad it was...

[Sue · Rating 4 out of 5]

SIN was one of those little books that a few of my friends recommended and so I took a chance. It was everything it's title said it would be...full of sinful things and people and actions...but definitely a fun and sexy read.
I had to suspend reality while reading though, maybe because I'm getting tired of books where the heroine is a virgin, but she works in a strip club and then oh yeah, she loses her V-card to the hot older man she works for. Been there, read that many times, but it's always interesting to see if anyone will do it differently.
Sin (the dude) takes Anya (the virgin) on a thrill ride from complete innocence to craving a little pain with her pleasure...virtually overnight. It was pretty steamy and sexy to be watching this scenario like a peeping tom in the room...and you might need a cold shower after reading this one.
An HEA ending with some cute developments in there as well!

**** 4 **** "everyone needs a little sin in their lives" stars =)

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had the great opportunity from Michelle Hughes to read this book before it was released to the public. I was quite honored for this opportunity. This is not the first of Michelle's books I have read and wont be the last.

Loved the book. He is yet another hot Alpha male hot dirty sexy just the way I like them. Ex stripper owning a strip club and he has the moves.

Anya is a sweet student needing to make ends meet. Sin is the owner of a strip club where one of her college friends work. When waiting tables just does not make ends meet Anya needs to do more. That is where the fun begin. She needs a teacher and Sin is just the one to teach. Can he handle her taking it all off on stage?

Great story all the way through. No cliff hanger with hot dirty sweet sex.


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[Black Butterfly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'M SO GLAD I RSVP AND READ "INVITATION TO SIN". HOLY, MOLY!! I LOVED IT, SIN LEAPS OFF THE PAGE WITH ALL THAT MOUTH WATERING RAGING HOT SEX, THE WORDS OMG! THE WORDS YOU CAN FEEL THE FREAKIN HEAT. THE CHARACTER SIN IS A DOM/ALPHA EYE CANDY YUMMY MAN(SCREAM). I LOVED THE TITLE I HAD TO READ, FOR ME IT'S ONE OF THE BEST WRITTEN EROTICA'S I'VE EVER READ. THE BOOK SHOWS ANYA'S DECENT INTO SIN AND SHE CERTAINLY LOVES EVERY MINUTE OF IT. I SURE DID TOO! THIS BOOK SHOULD HAVE A KINDLEFIRE ALERT "CAUTION" YOU & YOUR KINDLE MAY SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST AND BURST INTO FLAMES. WHEW! MERCY!

[Sari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cukup #3 rating aja utk buku ini. Karakternya menarik sih, tapi mgkn gw memang ga begitu suka tipe BDSM seperti ini, ga nyampe ke otak apa yg diceritain soalnya. Mgkn klo ga pake ada cerita soal punishment or alat2 ga jelas, gw akan kasih rating #4 nih buku. Cuman krn ada adegan2 tsb, cukup membuat gw agak ilfil. Trus endingnya agak aneh, setelah Sin pergi utk nemuin bapaknya yg katanya celaka, yg membuat Anya salah paham, trus kenapa ga dijelasin sebenernya bapaknya Sin kenapa, kok tau2 mereka baikan, kan gw jd bingung bacanya.

[Elena · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a short steamy book, so some things developed really quickly but it never felt rushed. I should point that some plotlines weren’t followed… such as Lynda’s appearance. But if you ask me, I don’t have a problem with that the story was perfect as it was told. I liked how Sin’s point of view changed throughout the story, he understood that women tend to be different and so he must behave differently with them. Besides I liked that even when they fought, they talked things out instead of denying everything.

[Ashlee · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a new fresh SEXY novel! I loved this! Just the right amount of tease and sexuality! Not too much, not to little. And who the hell has ever heard of a virgin stripper!? Normally I'd be totally put off by this but I liked the character and she wasn't a prude so it worked. And the Sin- wow I need to see this man! I can only imagine how sexy and dominating he is. Come to momma! I plan to read more books by Hughes and I hope they are just as naughty and juicy but with a touch of romance. Just the way I like em'.

[Brian Bigelow · Rating 4 out of 5]

For one, I'm probably one of the few guys to read this book. I think it has a really good story line. A girl needs a job, gets it in an exotic dancing bar, she ends up falling for the manager of the place. It's something that sounds believable to me. Along the way they have some of the most incredible sex and I'm surprised either of them could walk afterwards. I kind of wonder what happens later on in their lives. Does he truly settle down? Of course that isn't exactly answered.

[Sid · Rating 3 out of 5]

I won't say this is a favorite book of mine but it had so great parts in it. The scenes were steamy, I really liked Sin and Anya together but did not like the ending to the book even though there was a HEA. It ended rather abruptly for me and it was bit sad because the was so much potential for this H. O. T alpha & naive virgin 22 year old stripper working her way through college. I will read more from this author though.

[Nilam Suri · Rating 3 out of 5]

one thing for sure, this book is BLAZING!!! The sex scenes is refreshing, and somehow new, i mean the author was pretty creative about it.. bur the pace is too fast, like you cant get a hold of the story, and suddenly it's over. there're a lot of missing plot as well, especially nearing the end...

but if you're hoping for a steamy romance without complicate plot, then this book is for you.

[Annmarie · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was good, I liked it but couldn't get past the image of this giant gorgeous guy swinging around a pole. Great alpha male otherwise, the lead character was good, she cried a bit much but not to the extreme. No cheating, I hate that, so that's a bonus, not that there wasn't angst, there was a sprinkling. The end was a bit rushed I thought but a good read.

[Jaymie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was almost good but left me wishing it was less rushed. The virgin girl thing was just silly in this story, honestly. I wish the author had just went full into erotica and left the virgin stuff at the door.

[ToddAn · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 star read. Just ok at times with one dimensional characters. Anya is 'just' the naïve virgin. Sin is 'just' the cold blooded player. The bdsm element threw me for a loop...didn't see that one coming and not sure it really fit. Still, all in all, Sin was a quick and easy read.

[Cloe · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this book was sexy and realistic.
happens all the time. A decent story line and an amazing dialogue that was hot hot hot.
normally not a fan of "the naive virgin" but anya pulled it off with out being to wishy washy. Steamy and I definitely recommend this book.

[Meetta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved this book! It was pretty hot in my opinion. In fact there were a couple places in the book that I had to re-read ;-)
It's a quick read and had a good pace to it. Looking forward to reading more by this author.