Trust is the theme here between Carrie and Gavin as they continue on in their Cannes adventure. Upon starting the story where Carrie walks into a girl on girl orgy in her bed, sans Gavin, naturally, she's pissed and wants to kill her boyfriend for not only leaving her at a party, but to come back to the hotel to find this. After an all too brief, but plausible explanation, the story continues. Carrie forgives and Gavin makes her forget what she saw. This vacation serves too purposes- one, to find and open a new Club Prive in Cannes, and two, to reunite these drifting lovers.
This is where the trust part comes in... Carrie wants to know why Gavin has shied away from his BDSM tendencies toward her. Carrie's insecurities are that he doesn't want to do those things with her anymore. When Gavin explains that after what happened (she was almost raped by his former business partner), he didn't want to feel as if he were using her, the walls came down and the kink came in.
But here's where the story lost me. Because the focus of this story is on business (not the relationship), characters have entered that as a reader, I don't trust, but that the characters do, somewhat. Of course, this being a novella, this was left on a cliffhanger, and I now have to read the third and final installment to see if any of what I think is going on, is actually going on.
The writing, while not stellar, does prove to be entertaining. This series is a clear statement piece on Human Trafficking and why it's bad. But as of yet, there has been no offer of how to stop it from happening, and the author goes so far as to claim that the government might even be involved, if the right price is paid.
I'm interested to see where this part of the story goes, but also to see how the relationship between Gavin and Carrie fares, because at this point, I don't see it faring well.