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Deviant Intent: Obsession
“Hate me or love me, I get results…”
When Dominic Law left the force for a more lucrative offer from a childhood friend to run his private security firm, he thought that his days of suffering as a police detective were over, and he could sit back and finally live the “good life” and take the cases that he wanted, when he wanted.
Was he ever wrong…
Before he could settle into his cushy new office and flirt with his sexy secretary, simultaneous cases that the firm accepts finds Dominic in the midst of a different set of politics and rules that he thought he escaped when he left the force. A sexy detective assigned to the first case seems to keep his eyes and hands) full, while the other case involves a victim close to his heart and unexpectedly reunites him with a former partner that never forgave him for leaving the force… and her.
From the lustful scenes within the fetish and swingers night clubs, to the relentless heat of the streets that he used to walk as a rookie cop, Dominic is engrossed with solving the cases in a libidinous underworld where the rules are different, and nothing (and no one) is as they seem.
Deviant Obsession introduces fans of Chronicles of the Nubian Underworld to the former APD detective as the main man in the first of this new “Kink Detective” series, where you never know who or what might turn up next.
When Dominic Law left the force for a more lucrative offer from a childhood friend to run his private security firm, he thought that his days of suffering as a police detective were over, and he could sit back and finally live the “good life” and take the cases that he wanted, when he wanted.
Was he ever wrong…
Before he could settle into his cushy new office and flirt with his sexy secretary, simultaneous cases that the firm accepts finds Dominic in the midst of a different set of politics and rules that he thought he escaped when he left the force. A sexy detective assigned to the first case seems to keep his eyes and hands) full, while the other case involves a victim close to his heart and unexpectedly reunites him with a former partner that never forgave him for leaving the force… and her.
From the lustful scenes within the fetish and swingers night clubs, to the relentless heat of the streets that he used to walk as a rookie cop, Dominic is engrossed with solving the cases in a libidinous underworld where the rules are different, and nothing (and no one) is as they seem.
Deviant Obsession introduces fans of Chronicles of the Nubian Underworld to the former APD detective as the main man in the first of this new “Kink Detective” series, where you never know who or what might turn up next.
302 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 11, 2010
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About the author
Shakir Rashaan
59 books273 followers“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.” ~ Virginia Wolfe
Conjurer of worlds. Sorcerer. Man. Myth. Legend. Prototype.
All of these words describe Shakir Rashaan, who has been creating mind-twisting stories and lavish worlds for well over a decade, rolling onto the national literary scene as a contributor to Z-Rated: Chocolate Flava 3 in 2012. His raw, vivid, and uncut writing style captured the attention of the Queen of Erotica herself, Zane. A year later, Shakir’s debut novel with Strebor/Atria/Simon & Schuster, The Awakening, opened to rave reviews, while the follow-up in the Nubian Underworld series, Legacy, garnered even more success, and the third installment, Tempest, helping to make the series one of the most unique and best-selling in the erotic romance genre.
Rashaan would later add to his impressive catalog with the debut of the Kink, P.I. Series in 2015, starting with Obsession and following up with Deception and Reckoning. Drawing comparisons to Walter Mosely’s Easy Rawlins series, Kink, P.I. has developed into yet another best-selling series, carving its place as a “throwback to the days of classic mystery books” in the mystery genre.
Further adding to his impressive portfolio, Rashaan was a regular blogger for USA Today’s Happy Ever After blog, where readers could find him at his “Manly Musings” personal blog, reviewing books, television shows, and movies from a man’s perspective. He wrote recaps for various shows for the STARZ Network, including The Girlfriend Experience, POWER, and Survivor’s Remorse, before the blog was retired in late 2018.
Shakir has gone on in recent years to pen a series of bestselling novels, including In Service to the Senator, a sexy political thriller surrounding an up-and-coming vice presidential candidate, The Devil’s All-American, a unique paranormal romance featuring a rising college basketball star, Unthinkable, a not-so-conventional romance set in the entertainment industry, Love, Lust & Beautiful Liars, a romantic suspense novel about an international weapons dealer who was looking to retire and enjoy his HEA, and most recently in 2021, Queen of Cambridge, part of the Queens of the Castle anthology series.
Shakir has switched gears, jumping into the young adult world, developing the Neverwraith series, a YA paranormal fantasy for Entangled Teen/Macmillan, and the South Hampton series, in addition to several other YA and New Adult projects to expand his NEBU universe. Neverwraith is his most ambitious project to date, about a teenage descendant of an ancient metahuman bloodline who searches for the truth about the death of his parents and their connection to a centuries-old blood feud over sacred texts contained inside of his native Kindara, an island nation located near the West African coast ... all while navigating high school
Shakir currently resides in suburban Atlanta with his wife, soon-to-be college graduate daughter, and a Jack-Chi named Teddy.
Conjurer of worlds. Sorcerer. Man. Myth. Legend. Prototype.
All of these words describe Shakir Rashaan, who has been creating mind-twisting stories and lavish worlds for well over a decade, rolling onto the national literary scene as a contributor to Z-Rated: Chocolate Flava 3 in 2012. His raw, vivid, and uncut writing style captured the attention of the Queen of Erotica herself, Zane. A year later, Shakir’s debut novel with Strebor/Atria/Simon & Schuster, The Awakening, opened to rave reviews, while the follow-up in the Nubian Underworld series, Legacy, garnered even more success, and the third installment, Tempest, helping to make the series one of the most unique and best-selling in the erotic romance genre.
Rashaan would later add to his impressive catalog with the debut of the Kink, P.I. Series in 2015, starting with Obsession and following up with Deception and Reckoning. Drawing comparisons to Walter Mosely’s Easy Rawlins series, Kink, P.I. has developed into yet another best-selling series, carving its place as a “throwback to the days of classic mystery books” in the mystery genre.
Further adding to his impressive portfolio, Rashaan was a regular blogger for USA Today’s Happy Ever After blog, where readers could find him at his “Manly Musings” personal blog, reviewing books, television shows, and movies from a man’s perspective. He wrote recaps for various shows for the STARZ Network, including The Girlfriend Experience, POWER, and Survivor’s Remorse, before the blog was retired in late 2018.
Shakir has gone on in recent years to pen a series of bestselling novels, including In Service to the Senator, a sexy political thriller surrounding an up-and-coming vice presidential candidate, The Devil’s All-American, a unique paranormal romance featuring a rising college basketball star, Unthinkable, a not-so-conventional romance set in the entertainment industry, Love, Lust & Beautiful Liars, a romantic suspense novel about an international weapons dealer who was looking to retire and enjoy his HEA, and most recently in 2021, Queen of Cambridge, part of the Queens of the Castle anthology series.
Shakir has switched gears, jumping into the young adult world, developing the Neverwraith series, a YA paranormal fantasy for Entangled Teen/Macmillan, and the South Hampton series, in addition to several other YA and New Adult projects to expand his NEBU universe. Neverwraith is his most ambitious project to date, about a teenage descendant of an ancient metahuman bloodline who searches for the truth about the death of his parents and their connection to a centuries-old blood feud over sacred texts contained inside of his native Kindara, an island nation located near the West African coast ... all while navigating high school
Shakir currently resides in suburban Atlanta with his wife, soon-to-be college graduate daughter, and a Jack-Chi named Teddy.
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March 16, 2013
With a glimpse into the B/D/S/M community, Shakir Rashaan definitely jumps in head first with this story centered around Dominic (or Dom to his friends). A former police officer for the Fulton PD, he is now a private investigator and sometimes consultant for the police department, with "all things kink". This makes it interesting in itself because he is actually called upon very often in the diverse city of Atlanta, Georgia. Along with his partner and mentor Ramesses, he is called to solve the case of not only a missing local Dominant but also a case for a serial killer. The dynamic world of D/s and M/s is explained and explained through this fictional tale. Fans of suspense, intense action and drama, BDSM, whirlwind relationships, and a definite page turner should be pick up or download this book ASAP!!! Can't wait to read the next novel in this series, Deviant Intent: Deception.
April 14, 2012
From Steven Hart - Erotica Revealed Reviews (http://www.eroticarevealed.com)
Obsession by Shakir Rashaan is one of those books you wait for if you are an erotica reviewer. The sex is hot and kinky with variants for all sorts of appetites and imaginations from the playful to the gruesome. But better still is the fact that the author has taken us out of the grinding bourgeois redundancy of most erotica plots. His book is not about middle class ennui or angst. It’s about “the flying underbelly’ -- as Amiri Baraka put it in Dutchman -- of Atlanta life.
Atlanta is a city of diverse communities that negotiate a separate peace with each other. Not surprisingly, the city reflects the deep racial divisions that pervade the state of Georgia, and an extreme disparity of wealth and poverty is inescapable to the visitor. The very poor live in restive proximity to the most blatant conspicuous consumption. The streets of the city of Atlanta are deserted of pedestrians after dark, and the feel of the place is like an uneasy truce.
“Obsession” presents that world well. It’s hard to say precisely who is obsessed with what in this book as almost every character – kinky or vanilla -- has one or another absorbing compulsion. They are the denizens of the interior BDSM world of Atlanta, a city that seems bent on presenting itself as Scarlet O’Hara in a thong. Thus Obsession is a pleasant relief from all that glossy coffee table hype. What’s more it is a truly grizzly detective novel of the old school before crime fiction was coerced into a long series of cozy Miss Marple clones.
To me the author most invokes the “alls-fair-in-love-and-crime” cheerful detachment of Phillip Marlowe created by the immortal mind of Raymond Chandler. His characters are fair-minded, but often brutal when necessary to make a point. They are urban and hard, but accept the dynamics and limitations of other people. They are the best of what it is to be street smart.
Most of them are black and most of those characters are into kink of one sort or another. The author is scrupulously and effortlessly careful to circumscribe the kink world from the series of psychotic murders that drive the plot of the novel. Here too, the author shows himself an able player. He writes convincingly about cops and police procedure through the voice of the novel, an ex-cop turned PI who has a passion for domination. The hero is also a caring, likable guy who is highly evolved in his perception of others as well as himself.
The best thing about the book is that it sorts out the various rule systems to which the hero has to conform, those being the law, the street, the cop world, and the inner hierarchy of the BDSM community. Far from being inhibited by all these interlocking matrices, the hero seems to thrive on working through them. As such, he is an urban American Renaissance man.
This novel is really an inspired act of invention in the field of erotica. The author captures both the view of the inner world of BDSM and the viewpoint of those who fear it, or simply don’t know what to make of it, on the outside. The writing is competent and consistent, and the plot details scrupulously researched and detailed. Rashaan knows the world he is writing about at all its levels, and he tells a good story in the process. If you miss the hard ass crime fiction for which Americans were once famous, you cannot go wrong with Obsession.
Obsession by Shakir Rashaan is one of those books you wait for if you are an erotica reviewer. The sex is hot and kinky with variants for all sorts of appetites and imaginations from the playful to the gruesome. But better still is the fact that the author has taken us out of the grinding bourgeois redundancy of most erotica plots. His book is not about middle class ennui or angst. It’s about “the flying underbelly’ -- as Amiri Baraka put it in Dutchman -- of Atlanta life.
Atlanta is a city of diverse communities that negotiate a separate peace with each other. Not surprisingly, the city reflects the deep racial divisions that pervade the state of Georgia, and an extreme disparity of wealth and poverty is inescapable to the visitor. The very poor live in restive proximity to the most blatant conspicuous consumption. The streets of the city of Atlanta are deserted of pedestrians after dark, and the feel of the place is like an uneasy truce.
“Obsession” presents that world well. It’s hard to say precisely who is obsessed with what in this book as almost every character – kinky or vanilla -- has one or another absorbing compulsion. They are the denizens of the interior BDSM world of Atlanta, a city that seems bent on presenting itself as Scarlet O’Hara in a thong. Thus Obsession is a pleasant relief from all that glossy coffee table hype. What’s more it is a truly grizzly detective novel of the old school before crime fiction was coerced into a long series of cozy Miss Marple clones.
To me the author most invokes the “alls-fair-in-love-and-crime” cheerful detachment of Phillip Marlowe created by the immortal mind of Raymond Chandler. His characters are fair-minded, but often brutal when necessary to make a point. They are urban and hard, but accept the dynamics and limitations of other people. They are the best of what it is to be street smart.
Most of them are black and most of those characters are into kink of one sort or another. The author is scrupulously and effortlessly careful to circumscribe the kink world from the series of psychotic murders that drive the plot of the novel. Here too, the author shows himself an able player. He writes convincingly about cops and police procedure through the voice of the novel, an ex-cop turned PI who has a passion for domination. The hero is also a caring, likable guy who is highly evolved in his perception of others as well as himself.
The best thing about the book is that it sorts out the various rule systems to which the hero has to conform, those being the law, the street, the cop world, and the inner hierarchy of the BDSM community. Far from being inhibited by all these interlocking matrices, the hero seems to thrive on working through them. As such, he is an urban American Renaissance man.
This novel is really an inspired act of invention in the field of erotica. The author captures both the view of the inner world of BDSM and the viewpoint of those who fear it, or simply don’t know what to make of it, on the outside. The writing is competent and consistent, and the plot details scrupulously researched and detailed. Rashaan knows the world he is writing about at all its levels, and he tells a good story in the process. If you miss the hard ass crime fiction for which Americans were once famous, you cannot go wrong with Obsession.
February 27, 2011
It's...Complicated
P.I. Dominic Law, a former police officer in Atlanta, finds himself in the middle of not one, but two cases. For the first case he's been hired by a submissive Peaches to find her dominant, Aris. Just as he's learning the intricate details of the case, he finds himself personally involved in a completely opposite case as the victims are all connected to him. Is there a pattern? Working with his old partner, Niki, and a new partner, Natasha, Law finds himself intimate with both cases as well as both women.
I picked DEVIANT INTENT: OBSESSION by Shakir Rashaan to read and review because I love mysteries. However, I was disappointed in the deliverance as the story didn't hold true to be an earnest account of one mystery, let alone two. Cheated, the story breaks away from the crimes to explain the lifestyle of BDSM (bondage, dominance and sadomasochism), yet you don't really feel as if you learned anything about them that the name doesn't explain. I wish that the author would've taken the time to delve further into the cases, especially where the main character is personally involved. Both stories are weak, lack mystique and even as the pieces start to fit, you still don't get the same relief of knowing a crime is solved. Add to this mix, disappointing editing and all in all it's just not a good fit. I believe certain words were capitalized or left lower case to get the feel of submissive/dominant. If that is the case, I think he should've explained that to readers. Also there are a lot of missing and misspelled words.
I would suggest that Shakir Rashaan focus more on writing the story as a mystery can't be faked. ALSO, if sex is to be deviant, then offer more of an insight. With the onslaught of cable television and the internet, readers would like to know something that isn't simple enough.
Reviewed by: Crystal
P.I. Dominic Law, a former police officer in Atlanta, finds himself in the middle of not one, but two cases. For the first case he's been hired by a submissive Peaches to find her dominant, Aris. Just as he's learning the intricate details of the case, he finds himself personally involved in a completely opposite case as the victims are all connected to him. Is there a pattern? Working with his old partner, Niki, and a new partner, Natasha, Law finds himself intimate with both cases as well as both women.
I picked DEVIANT INTENT: OBSESSION by Shakir Rashaan to read and review because I love mysteries. However, I was disappointed in the deliverance as the story didn't hold true to be an earnest account of one mystery, let alone two. Cheated, the story breaks away from the crimes to explain the lifestyle of BDSM (bondage, dominance and sadomasochism), yet you don't really feel as if you learned anything about them that the name doesn't explain. I wish that the author would've taken the time to delve further into the cases, especially where the main character is personally involved. Both stories are weak, lack mystique and even as the pieces start to fit, you still don't get the same relief of knowing a crime is solved. Add to this mix, disappointing editing and all in all it's just not a good fit. I believe certain words were capitalized or left lower case to get the feel of submissive/dominant. If that is the case, I think he should've explained that to readers. Also there are a lot of missing and misspelled words.
I would suggest that Shakir Rashaan focus more on writing the story as a mystery can't be faked. ALSO, if sex is to be deviant, then offer more of an insight. With the onslaught of cable television and the internet, readers would like to know something that isn't simple enough.
Reviewed by: Crystal
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