Imagine a cocktail, one part Anaïs Nin, another part John Grisham, laced with a secret ingredient, a little something that gives it that extra zing, and what have you got? The new erotic thriller by Emma Lawless Games. Emma Kaufmann leads you into an exclusive, high-stakes world of passion and deception - where two ambitious lawyers are locked in a furious power struggle. John Richardson, the ruggedly handsome partner at a top London law firm, handled his business affairs the way he handled his women – with charm, daring and ruthless self-control. A man used to the very best, John hired Chloe Hamilton, and assumed the proud beauty would be just another easy conquest. Destined for each other, yet wary of each other’s motives, John and Chloe engage in a dance of suspicion and passion that tests the very soul of their star-crossed love. As a twisting path of secrets takes them from London’s courtrooms to the witchcraft-imbued Cat Island, Chloe finds herself ensnared in a bewildering web … a seductive, dangerous trap of pride, passion, loyalty, and overwhelming lust.
Chloe Hamilton is young and on vacation after graduating Law School in England. She awakens not sure where she is or whom she is in bed with. That is soon rectified and she discovers that she has unwittingly made a connection for future employment. Her bed partner is Jaspar Richardson currently on the run from some mob like figures due to gambling debts. His uncle is very powerful in the law firm of Clancy And Durham in London and he will talk to his uncle about getting Chloe a job.
The call is successful and she goes to the law firm to meet with John Richardson. Before she meets John, she meets Felicity Richardson, Jaspar's sister and John's niece. She takes Chloe to meet with John and get her first assignment. In addition to her work at the law firm, John is immediately interested in a more serious intimate relationship with her. While Chloe feels very tempted, she isn't quite ready for what he wants from her.
Soon after a short fling with another employee, she begins to accept more responsibility at the firm. Coupled with her responsibilities to the firm, she must navigate increasingly difficult political family infighting as well as John's sexual requests. He leads her in sexual ways that she did not know that she wanted and at the same time craves once exposed.
The stakes steadily increase, both publicly for the firm in their case, as well as privately between John and Chloe. Deceit, family relationships, office politics, blackmail, the occult and other topics come to life as the sex and the action moves to the Bahamas and back to London. As Chloe slowly discovers, nobody is what they appear and their public face hides many truths.
This is a pretty good book and a real pleasure to read. While the sex is hot, it is secondary to the various themes and intrigues among the characters. This is very much like a mainstream work with just some graphic sex pleasurably added to it.