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Storm Warnings: Stormy Weather / After the Storm
Stormy Weather:
The storm raging outside isn't nearly as intense as the one in Zane Colby's head. The last thing he wants to do is rescue someone from a bay whipped to frothing whitecaps by a wicked wind. Little does he know that Dara is as damaged as he is. In the quiet of the little cottage, could his teaching her about the true wonders of Dominance and submission heal them both?
After the Storm:
For Dara and Zane, the storm that brought them together was a lucky break – a veteran with PTSD, and a girl escaping a brutal monster. Fishing Dara out of Estero Bay was the best thing that happened to Zane. Now they're settled into a healthy D/s relationship, but they both have to learn to trust again, and the reappearance of the man who held Dara captive for five years leads to a case of missing young women. Could Dara hold the key to finding them?
Publisher's Note: This two book set includes the USA Today bestselling Stormy Weather, as well as a brand new sequel.
The storm raging outside isn't nearly as intense as the one in Zane Colby's head. The last thing he wants to do is rescue someone from a bay whipped to frothing whitecaps by a wicked wind. Little does he know that Dara is as damaged as he is. In the quiet of the little cottage, could his teaching her about the true wonders of Dominance and submission heal them both?
After the Storm:
For Dara and Zane, the storm that brought them together was a lucky break – a veteran with PTSD, and a girl escaping a brutal monster. Fishing Dara out of Estero Bay was the best thing that happened to Zane. Now they're settled into a healthy D/s relationship, but they both have to learn to trust again, and the reappearance of the man who held Dara captive for five years leads to a case of missing young women. Could Dara hold the key to finding them?
Publisher's Note: This two book set includes the USA Today bestselling Stormy Weather, as well as a brand new sequel.
- GenresBDSM
117 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 15, 2017
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Desiree Holt
321 books1,276 followersA multi-published, award winning, Amazon and USA Today best-selling author, Desiree Holt has produced more than 200 titles and won many awards. She has received an EPIC E-Book Award, the Holt Medallion and many others including Author After Dark’s Author of the Year. She has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and in The Village Voice, The Daily Beast, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The London Daily Mail. She lives in Florida with her cats who insist they help her write her books, and is addicted to football.
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Learn more about me and read my novels here:
www.desireeholt.com
www.desiremeonly.com
www.facebook.com/desireeholtauthor
www.facebook.com/desireeholt
Twitter @desireeholt
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December 4, 2017
3.25 RATING- I liked the overall story line but felt that it would have been better suited for a full novel and not a novella. It was too much of a stretch to believe a damaged and abused submissive is found and immediately delves into a new BDSM relationship with someone she doesn't know and lives happily ever after. There was a ton of room to flesh things out and while I'm usually okay reading novellas I thought more was needed here.
November 18, 2017
THE COMING TOGETHER OF TWO TRAUMATIZED PEOPLE
The book is two parts. The first, Stormy Weather, was featured in the Hero to Obey box set and the second, After the Storm, will be six months after Zane and Dara met on that fateful night. After reading Stormy Weather, it left so many unanswered questions but with this combo, adding After the Storm, the reader now has closure.
Part One: Stormy Weather
Zane Colby is on forced leave after a tour in Afghanistan that resulted in the death of so many of his teammates. He is on a remote island at a cottage owned by a friend. Look out in the bay at a major rain storm he sees someone in a skiff, and when he goes to rescue them, it is a small woman, Dara Hanover. We never do find out why she is there; maybe she was escaping from a cruel master who abused her for five years.
Two people pulled together during a terrible storm, emotionally and physically, maybe this is what they both needed, for different reasons. Can Zane teach Dara the difference in trust with a safe, sane, and consensual D/s relationship after five years of an abusive M/s situation? “In the space of a few hours, he’d gone from seeing her as an irritant and disturbance, to someone who was, at last, pulling him out of his pit of despair.”
Part Two: After the Storm
The second part of the story brings some of the unknown to light, including the evil dominant that haunted and tortured Dara. She is moving on with her life, has started a job that she enjoys and is starting to make a few friends. Zane has left the military and works private security and is coping with his PTSD. He is even looking towards making a future with Dara.
“There they’d been, the scared girl and the stressed soldier, sure society had given up on them. But twenty-four hours later they both had a new lease on life. Now here they were, in the little cottage practically on the beach.” “I live to do my Master’s bidding.”
Zane and Dara are good medicine for each other and are living together in a full-time D/s lifestyle.
“Bit by bit he was teaching her what a true and good D/s relationship was.”
When talk at work of a new BDSM club, Indulgence, is tossed about, it will come with passes from one of her co-workers that Maya will be excited to accept. A trip out with Zane will bring her face-to-face with the nightmare from her past, but there is something more sinister in the works. When Dara finally can open to Zane, with the help of others, maybe this time the monster will be the one left in chains. The story has some intense and emotional moments that will cause Dara pain to relieve but also allow her a chance to heal and move forward.
“It’s dangerous to dip your toe in that water without knowing the pitfalls.”
The story emphasizes the difference between a cruel dominant, and one who practices safe, sane, and consensual. The chemistry between Zane and Dara includes love and respect with plenty of pleasure in their BDSM practices and D/s lifestyle. The scenes do include explicit sex scenes.
The book is two parts. The first, Stormy Weather, was featured in the Hero to Obey box set and the second, After the Storm, will be six months after Zane and Dara met on that fateful night. After reading Stormy Weather, it left so many unanswered questions but with this combo, adding After the Storm, the reader now has closure.
Part One: Stormy Weather
Zane Colby is on forced leave after a tour in Afghanistan that resulted in the death of so many of his teammates. He is on a remote island at a cottage owned by a friend. Look out in the bay at a major rain storm he sees someone in a skiff, and when he goes to rescue them, it is a small woman, Dara Hanover. We never do find out why she is there; maybe she was escaping from a cruel master who abused her for five years.
Two people pulled together during a terrible storm, emotionally and physically, maybe this is what they both needed, for different reasons. Can Zane teach Dara the difference in trust with a safe, sane, and consensual D/s relationship after five years of an abusive M/s situation? “In the space of a few hours, he’d gone from seeing her as an irritant and disturbance, to someone who was, at last, pulling him out of his pit of despair.”
Part Two: After the Storm
The second part of the story brings some of the unknown to light, including the evil dominant that haunted and tortured Dara. She is moving on with her life, has started a job that she enjoys and is starting to make a few friends. Zane has left the military and works private security and is coping with his PTSD. He is even looking towards making a future with Dara.
“There they’d been, the scared girl and the stressed soldier, sure society had given up on them. But twenty-four hours later they both had a new lease on life. Now here they were, in the little cottage practically on the beach.” “I live to do my Master’s bidding.”
Zane and Dara are good medicine for each other and are living together in a full-time D/s lifestyle.
“Bit by bit he was teaching her what a true and good D/s relationship was.”
When talk at work of a new BDSM club, Indulgence, is tossed about, it will come with passes from one of her co-workers that Maya will be excited to accept. A trip out with Zane will bring her face-to-face with the nightmare from her past, but there is something more sinister in the works. When Dara finally can open to Zane, with the help of others, maybe this time the monster will be the one left in chains. The story has some intense and emotional moments that will cause Dara pain to relieve but also allow her a chance to heal and move forward.
“It’s dangerous to dip your toe in that water without knowing the pitfalls.”
The story emphasizes the difference between a cruel dominant, and one who practices safe, sane, and consensual. The chemistry between Zane and Dara includes love and respect with plenty of pleasure in their BDSM practices and D/s lifestyle. The scenes do include explicit sex scenes.
November 19, 2017
This is a two book set. Book 1, Stormy Weather takes you through Zane and Dara's first meeting which is interesting enough in itself. Zane and Dara are both so damaged that you can't imagine how they will be able to interact.
Book 2, After the Storm is set when an extended period of time has passed, where both Zane and Dara have begun to heal. Their relationship is really the foundation of the book. A subplot of a criminal investigation hangs around the edges which provides some interest and suspense. This investigation pulls in information from the first book.
Storm Warnings was a fairly quick read. I would have enjoyed it more if the subplot had played out a little longer, but the premise of the book was the D/s relationship between Zane and Dara.
I voluntarily read and reviewed the Advanced Reader Copy.
Book 2, After the Storm is set when an extended period of time has passed, where both Zane and Dara have begun to heal. Their relationship is really the foundation of the book. A subplot of a criminal investigation hangs around the edges which provides some interest and suspense. This investigation pulls in information from the first book.
Storm Warnings was a fairly quick read. I would have enjoyed it more if the subplot had played out a little longer, but the premise of the book was the D/s relationship between Zane and Dara.
I voluntarily read and reviewed the Advanced Reader Copy.
November 17, 2017
Zane is a man who is battling PTSD and the betrayal of his last submissive. When he rescues Dara from the water he is reluctant to give in to his attraction to her. When he learns that she escaped an abusive D/s relationship and has some demons of her own he wonders if they might have a chance together.
I read Stormy Weather when it was part of the Hero to Obey anthology, but as much as I enjoyed the story I always felt that the end was too abrupt. I am thrilled that After the Storm is the continuation of Zane and Dara's story and enjoyed reading the book very much. This end was much more satisfying.
I read Stormy Weather when it was part of the Hero to Obey anthology, but as much as I enjoyed the story I always felt that the end was too abrupt. I am thrilled that After the Storm is the continuation of Zane and Dara's story and enjoyed reading the book very much. This end was much more satisfying.
November 18, 2017
I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader copy of this book.
Book One: Stormy Weather
Zane is taking a break from the trauma of his life. He is damaged from both love and war when he rescues Dara. She is equally damaged. Shy, scarred and afraid, and obviously a sub. They decide to explore the attraction between them.
Book Two: After the Storm
The story continues as Dara learns to trust Zane as the kind of Master she needs. Their relationship is intense and loving and her nightmares of the brutal man who mastered her before are slowly fading. Has she truly escaped him? Is she truly free to love Zane and belong to him?
BDSM
Book One: Stormy Weather
Zane is taking a break from the trauma of his life. He is damaged from both love and war when he rescues Dara. She is equally damaged. Shy, scarred and afraid, and obviously a sub. They decide to explore the attraction between them.
Book Two: After the Storm
The story continues as Dara learns to trust Zane as the kind of Master she needs. Their relationship is intense and loving and her nightmares of the brutal man who mastered her before are slowly fading. Has she truly escaped him? Is she truly free to love Zane and belong to him?
BDSM
December 5, 2017
This is a 2 novella book set . This is definitely needed as without it one can get lost in trying to understand this relationship and how it developed so quickly. This novella compares abusive BDSM relationship versus a sane consensual BDSM relationship and how the power of love and trust and gradually heal broken hearts. This is a fast pace paced book but sometimes hard to believe in how fast they heal in such a short story. Give it a try.
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