What happens to a powerful man when a beautiful married woman chooses him as her lover?
Michael is handsome, powerful, and rich. He gets to pick and choose who he sleeps with, and has only one rule: no married women. They aren’t worth the trouble.
Then he meets Joanne. She’s got everything Michael feasts on. Stunning eyes. An amazing body. Brains. A smart mouth and sensuality.
But she’s very married.
Joanne is so hot Michael breaks his rule about married women. He’s used to getting what he wants, and he’ll have Joanne. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that Joanne has her sights set on him, but wants to keep her husband too.
Join Joanne, and the men in her life, on a journey that goes beyond discovery into the deepest recesses of fantasies old, new, and unforeseen.
Part of the Allure of a Vixen series, which can be read in any order. (This book was previously titled Rules for the Billionaire — if you’ve purchased that one, don’t buy this one again!)
Yep, more explicit goings on by the wife with her lover, don't think he saw her coming! He thought he'd never go with a married woman..that changed, he never thought he'd involve himself with a work colleague..that changed. This woman (& book) is something else..excellento
Another in the series about Joanne, who lives by her rules. In this one, her lover Michael has to figure out what those rules are and which of his own rules he's willing to break. There's some overlap with "The Husband," but in those cases we read about the same scenes from Michael's point of view. Wonderful emotions and even hotter sex. I didn't like Michael as a character as much; he's pretty arrogant, but that's probably what you'd expect from someone in his position.
The following spoiler is about Joanne's rules:
The following spoiler is about the ending.
I can't wait for the other books in the series, "The Wife" and "The Bull."
Wow - This is going to be a great series of books. Each one is a different character viewpoint of what is happening. The teases and cliffhangers are great.
The books I like in this genre are the ones with great characters and great character development. This book has both.
The Lover is a wonderful story written from the perspective a lover in a seemingly Hotwife story. It’s a hot and steamy affair until the lover (Michael) discovers his mistress (Joanne) is married.
Michael has knowingly broken his rule of not bedding employees of his company (he’s a part owner of a fast-growing company with no managerial responsibilities for Joanne). He’s a little bent out of shape when he discovers Joanne has at least one other lover and he’s totally thrown when he discovers he’s talking to Joanne’s husband Phillip (he didn’t know she was married); thus breaking another of Michael’s rules not to bed married women.
As Joanne talks her way out of getting the boot from Michael once he realizes Joanne is married, Joanne delivers a beautifully nuanced description of her husband Phillip, his mindset and/or kink, and how it’s intertwined with Joanne’s mindset/kink. Michael makes Joanne ‘pay’ for causing him to break one of his rules yet that’s just an interlude in their passionate affair.
This book is not a cliffhanger: it ends with a great night of sex with leads into other stories. This is a terrific standalone book, and it has a companion stand alone book “Allure of the Vixen: The Husband” which, if you’re interested, lays the foundation for Joanne and Phillip’s sound marriage.
CC Morian is one of my favourite authors because of the characters she writes, the sexual tension she reveals and the always creative sex. She’s indicated there are two more books in this series with the first being “The Bull”. I’m going to be fascinated how a Bull handles Joanne, clearly an Alpha Hotwife.
If you don’t like to read stories, skip this one. For it is a story. It’s not just about sex, although sex is what ties it together.
It’s sort of about love, in all its various forms.
Sometimes that love leads to sex and sometimes that love leads to more understanding. But then there are also things that none of us can understand.
We are not meant to understand everything. Sometimes we just have to understand because of love and we all should know that we can’t understand love.
For that’s what this story is about, not understandable love. It’s put out there, right before our eyes, love in many forms and none of it can we comprehend. But it’s there, in front of us, right there on the page.
But can any of us truly say that we’ve ever understood love? It’s right there on the page and yet I can’t understand it. I can feel it, but I don’t understand it.