The Risk by Caitlin Crews is her entry into The Billionaires Club series, the second novel in that multi-author series, and if you're in the mood for a steamy, sexy read, a hot, hunky, alpha hero, and if you love and understand the hard work, pain and effort that ballet dancers are willing to sacrifice in hopes of becoming prima ballerinas, you'll find all of the aforementioned in his novel, which gets 5 stars from this reader.
Darcy, our heroine, has been in the corps de ballet with the Knickerbocker ballet company in New York City for a decade. Having studied ballet for well over a decade myself, the depth of commitment her choice of career requires and her willingness to keep on striving says a great deal about her--but after 10 years of the brutal demands ballet makes on the bodies and souls of its dancers, she's still in the corps de ballet, dancing in the background, and has not yet advanced to the more elevated status of prima ballerina, and she's beginning to realize she may never reach her goal.
Darcy's friend and fellow ballet dancer, Annabelle, is quite kinky and free spirited, and she has been selling her body and working as an escort to supplement her income and to let her kink fly, but she has a conflict and needs Darcy to take her place as a burlesque dancer in an ultra exclusive Paris nightclub for one night. Annabelle, who shares a small apartment with Darcy, is aware of Darcy's favorite fantasy, spending the night with a strong, alpha male who will pay a lot of money for the privilege of controlling her, and demanding her submission to his every sexual whim. Eventually, Darcy agrees to replace Annabelle, and it's while dancing at that exclusive and private club, that she locks eyes with just the type of man she hoped to find, Sebastian, sitting right in front, and he finds himself enthralled and entranced by the lithe and lovely woman dancing on stage. He pays the club for a night with her, and what a night it is. If erotica and BDSM are not your thing, this book is not for you. If you are into it, prepare for some of the sexiest prose it's been my pleasure to read for quite some time. When Sebastian wants to purchase a second night, Darcy refuses his request, having fulfilled her fantasy, and she returns to New York. These two know virtually nothing about one another, not even their last names, but Sebastian manages to eventually track her down, propose an arrangement based on their incredible sexual chemistry for an indefinite period of time, and, eventually, having been unable to forget their one night together, Darcy agrees to his request--but what will become of their very specific arrangement?
Again, prepare yourself for a lot more steamy sexual encounters, and also be prepared to learn that although Darcy may be sexually submissive, she wants to delve deeper into Sebastian's life, learn his secrets, learn why he can't seem to open up to anyone, including her, learn why he has such low self-esteem, and why he considers himself both unlovable and incapable of loving anyone. Ms. Crews has, in this rather short novel, delved deeply into the minds, souls and hearts of these two very private, very self-contained characters to show the reader who they really are, what drives them, and why they make the decisions they do, and, quite honestly, I found it virtually impossible to put this novel down until almost dawn.
I consider The Risk to be Caitlin Crews' sexiest novel to date, and also the one where she displays an uncanny ability to let the reader climb inside the psyches of these two memorable characters and walk around in their shoes, and I'm happy to recommend it, but, be forewarned, this is definitely not a novel for the 18 and under reader. Personally, I can't wait to see how she's going to top this one.
I voluntarily read an advance reader copy of this novel. The opinions expressed are my own.
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