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BOOK BLURB:
Love hurts ~ and not always in a good way! For two years Rhys has had a casual D/s relationship with Draven. It was never supposed to be anything more than an arrangement; a way for Rhys to occasionally indulge his submissive side.

Draven made it very clear at the outset that he was not looking for forever, and Rhys was happy to accept this. But somewhere along the line he fell in love. Now he is forced to keep his real feelings for Draven a secret. Will the truth drive Draven away?

BOOK REVIEW:
If you like nothing better than a steamy hot, kinky read on the BDSM side ~ skip this review, and go buy this book right now.

Still here? Well, don't say I didn't tell you so!

No one does heart-stoppingly erotic stories better than Cassidy Ryan, and Bound by Love is no exception. Previously published in the Bound Brits anthology, this story well deserved to be published on its own. I picked up this book on a day when I had a million other things to do, and thought, "Well, I'll read a few pages." (Don't laugh.) After I finished reading it all the way through, I started back at the beginning and read it again.

Rhys Matthews is an up-and-coming artist. As Bound by Love starts, he's incredibly busy preparing for an upcoming one-man show, but when he receives a note from his sometimes-lover Draven Laird, he's ready to drop everything and go.

Draven and Rhys have been in a casual D/s relationship for two years, casual in that Draven only summons Rhys from time to time, but serious in terms of structured rules of sexual play and increasingly serious in that Rhys has fallen in love with Draven. The agreement is 'no strings attached,' and Rhys knows that if he lets Draven know that he's got feelings, he'll drop him, but he doesn't want anyone else. Draven wants Rhys, too, but he has issues with commitment. These two men have no barriers sexually, but can they break the more difficult emotional barrier brought about by past hurts and fears?

As you read this book, the sexual tension, which starts high when Rhys receives a summons from Draven, only ratchets up, as Draven takes Rhys to his house in the country for the weekend for the first time, where he has a fully equipped dungeon. Things are going so well, till Rhys slips and says just the wrong thing. Is this an irredeemable error?

Ryan brings her characters and their emotions to life in her carefully crafted prose. Even the secondary characters jump colorfully off the page. The lyrical eroticism and attention to detail will catch you up in the story, and you, too, will be sorry when it comes to an end.