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Hard Limits
When Mistress Sinestra, a high-profile Lesbian Lifestyle Dominant, goes missing one night after visiting a private club in Atlanta, Hemphill County Sheriff Wynonna Fletcher takes up the case. The first person she suspects is her ex-lover Brett Wolfe, lesbian novelist and Old Guard Leather Dom. Complications arise as the lives of the suspects and perpetrators intersect in this edgy novel that takes you inside the world of kinky dynamics.
Torture, punishment, kidnapping, blackmail, and murder are all uncovered as Deputy Sheriff Fletcher attempts to answer the question on everyone’s lips. What happened to Mistress Sinestra?
Torture, punishment, kidnapping, blackmail, and murder are all uncovered as Deputy Sheriff Fletcher attempts to answer the question on everyone’s lips. What happened to Mistress Sinestra?
166 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 17, 2017
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About the author
Pascal Scott
14 books28 followersPascal Scott writes lesbian noir novels and short fiction and erotica. She is the author of Hard Fall: A McStone and Martinelli Thriller; Hard Luck: An Elizabeth Taylor Bundy Thriller; and Hard Limits.
Her short fiction has appeared in Thunder of War, Lightning of Desire: Lesbian Historical Military Erotica; Through the Hourglass: Lesbian Historical Romance; Order Up: A Menu of Lesbian Romance and Erotica; Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink; and Best Lesbian Erotica II and III. In another life she was a reporter for the gay and alternative press in San Francisco.
She is retired now, living happily in Decatur, GA. She is married to the author Josette Murray.
Her short fiction has appeared in Thunder of War, Lightning of Desire: Lesbian Historical Military Erotica; Through the Hourglass: Lesbian Historical Romance; Order Up: A Menu of Lesbian Romance and Erotica; Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink; and Best Lesbian Erotica II and III. In another life she was a reporter for the gay and alternative press in San Francisco.
She is retired now, living happily in Decatur, GA. She is married to the author Josette Murray.
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June 28, 2020
The first half of this book is slightly boring and slow. It wasn’t til I was at the halfway point when things started to pick up and I was hooked. I love me some mystery and add the f/f.... I was sold. The two main characters are Wynonna and Brett.
Boy did I despise Brett. I didn’t like her one bit. She was older and seemed to be hating on the younger generation, she was bitter, and slightly unhinged. Her obsession with Skyler was a bit much and let’s not forget how she took no responsibility for her actions. I’m not sure if I was supposed to be rooting for her, but I didn’t. I didn’t like how strong she came on with Wynonna and just overall the vibes I got from her were bad. Wynonna was kind of cookie cutter but overall I liked her way more than Brett.
Boy did I despise Brett. I didn’t like her one bit. She was older and seemed to be hating on the younger generation, she was bitter, and slightly unhinged. Her obsession with Skyler was a bit much and let’s not forget how she took no responsibility for her actions. I’m not sure if I was supposed to be rooting for her, but I didn’t. I didn’t like how strong she came on with Wynonna and just overall the vibes I got from her were bad. Wynonna was kind of cookie cutter but overall I liked her way more than Brett.
July 20, 2017
A great read by an author with a really good ear for dialogue. Pascal Scott, published in a number of short story anthologies, has moved to the novel format and I'm glad she did. This terrific ride from the countryside of North Carolina to the concrete alleys of Atlanta follows complex characters in a twisted tale of murder and revenge. I can't wait for her next book.
December 30, 2017
Fun! Engaging characters and a mystery that pulls the book forward, all wrapped around a kinky queer community.
January 25, 2020
Hard Limits concerns the hard luck stories of predators and prey.
Wynonna Fletcher is a Deputy Sheriff in small town North Carolina. She takes an active interest in the brutal murder of a lesbian in Atlanta, GA. She knows the investigating officer on the case and knew of the victim through a former lover. The case involves a household of BDSM practitioners. The household included a lesbian Mistress, her two sex slaves, a straight married couple and a straight man. The Lesbian Lifestyle Dominant agrees to a plea deal in exchange for her testimony against the married couple and straight man.
Hard Limits alternates narration between Deputy Fletcher and her kinky former lover named Brett Wolfe. Brett was intimately acquainted with the murdered woman and blames the Mistress for her tragic death. Wynonna and Brett are caught up in several different games of cat and mouse throughout the novel. Hard Limits is a multilayered mystery which explores the philosophical, political and psychological underpinnings of certain BDSM practices. Since it's a short novel, the complexity of a kinky lifestyle receives little more than a cursory glance. The academic leader of a group called Women Against Kink Everywhere made an laughably easy target as the token feminist opposition. Deputy Fletcher comments on the criminal nature of even consensual BDSM practices, not just in cases of abuse, violence or homicide. Pascal Scott has written an excellent mystery that was both thought provoking and entertaining.
Wynonna Fletcher is a Deputy Sheriff in small town North Carolina. She takes an active interest in the brutal murder of a lesbian in Atlanta, GA. She knows the investigating officer on the case and knew of the victim through a former lover. The case involves a household of BDSM practitioners. The household included a lesbian Mistress, her two sex slaves, a straight married couple and a straight man. The Lesbian Lifestyle Dominant agrees to a plea deal in exchange for her testimony against the married couple and straight man.
Hard Limits alternates narration between Deputy Fletcher and her kinky former lover named Brett Wolfe. Brett was intimately acquainted with the murdered woman and blames the Mistress for her tragic death. Wynonna and Brett are caught up in several different games of cat and mouse throughout the novel. Hard Limits is a multilayered mystery which explores the philosophical, political and psychological underpinnings of certain BDSM practices. Since it's a short novel, the complexity of a kinky lifestyle receives little more than a cursory glance. The academic leader of a group called Women Against Kink Everywhere made an laughably easy target as the token feminist opposition. Deputy Fletcher comments on the criminal nature of even consensual BDSM practices, not just in cases of abuse, violence or homicide. Pascal Scott has written an excellent mystery that was both thought provoking and entertaining.
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