Love In Handcuffs: The Secret Billionaire (Part One) (BDSM And Domination Erotic Romance Novelette) by Ashley Spector is a fairly short story totaling 47 pages from cover to cover. Katrina Solly is a female tired of her dead end job that takes her nowhere fast. The groping by her sleazy boss and lack of proper pay as well as frustration that she had nowhere else to go, Katrina embessled $300,000 dollars from the company then headed out on a cruise to Cancun. Anxious that she’s going to get caught by federal agents, Katrina just has to wait the few painstaking days until landfall. What she didn’t expect, however, is the tall and handsome stranger watching her from afar; is he a federal agent? Does he know? After fainting into his arms, she can’t help but confess her crime, but Michael Sheldon isn’t the person she thought he was.
With this novellette being the first installment of Ashley Spector’s erotic series, it was only 18,500 words. Love in Handcuffs is intended for a mature audience. The basic premise of the story is an interesting concept yet it could have been developed quite a bit better. It left me wanting to know these two characters more. With not knowing their backgrounds, how they got where they did, what drove them, etc, I was a bit disappointed due to not understanding exactly what the motives were for how they lived their lives. Between that and the fact that the story was written in first person, I found it hard to get through the story. Having the actions written in third person flows easier for this reader. I will probably end up not going back to this series or novel.