Burn For You (Mephisto series) [Kindle Edition]

Annabel Joseph (Author)

Book Description

When Molly loses her longtime Master, she feels lost, angry. Confused. She’s unsure of her future, even her calling to the BDSM lifestyle. She knows her Master always intended her to go to his friend Mephisto next, but their emotionally—and sexually—fraught history is still a confusion of desire and fear in her mind.

Mephisto wants to help Molly, but he doesn’t want to force her into service she’s not sure she wants. He owes it to Clayton to help her find happiness, but how? Molly and Mephisto advance and retreat from one another as they try to untangle their complex feelings for one another. More and more it seems their tense standoff will only end one way…

This 63K word novel contains consensual BDSM play, Master/slavery, sado-masochism, anal play, objectification, caging, and other consensual activities which some might find offensive.

Product Details

• File Size: 291 KB
• Print Length: 198 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Scarlet Rose Press (May 16, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B008458ESS
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,411 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Balance, redemption, discovery, pain, and pleasure = Amazing Read! May 21, 2012

By AlexJouJou TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

How did I love this book? Let me count the ways. Firstly - this book has achieved what both of the other books lacked and that is balance. Balance in the lifestyle and balance in the emotions of the characters. I feel as if both the other books were like a prelude or first course and this is the main meal. This one satisfied your appetite - the other books whet it. If you have NOT read the preceding books you must do so - they are critical to understanding and appreciating the incredible journey's end here (Club Mephisto and Molly's Lips: Club Mephisto Retold)

Second - FINALLY FINALLY I actually developed some level of appreciation for Molly. If I dig deep down my loathing of her (or at least dislike) stems from the fact I tend to have a similar personality. I, like Molly, tend to extremes. If I do something I do it 180%. So it is not like I cannot relate to her - it is that I want her to rise above what she thinks she can do and do what I know she can do. Here she makes that leap. Granted she does it with a less than gentle shove from Mephisto - but she gets there to the place where the journey truly begins as an exploration of who she is. The book masterfully handles this and you very much get the idea it is a work in progress and she will persevere and she will survive and thrive.

Thirdly Mephisto grows, changes, develops into someone you can really respect, understand, and yes love. He is complete and completed by Molly. He was patience personified, reasonable and provides the foil Molly needs to finally grow herself.

I never did like Clayton at all whatsoever so fourthly it just reinforces for me that Clayton was, in many ways, a class A jerk. He had some redeeming qualities but they cannot make up for this almost heartless feel you get about him. He sees Molly not as a true partner with her own needs and wants but merely an object to satisfy his own. I kept thinking he could of just as easily had a sexbot built to take care of his needs. Then towards the end when the depth of him was revealed I felt only pity - for what he could of had if he had but realized it. The sad thing is he thought he had it all - but truly he didn't have Molly. Not the real Molly - merely an empty shell existing as he wanted to please him. Mephisto realized very early on that this was not what he wanted no matter it did carry an appeal. He innately understood the danger of that, to Molly herself. He wanted more. Clayton was satisfied with his creation.

In the end it all comes down to balance. The emotions that Molly and Mephisto go through, the way he pushes her into exploring herself so she is not rebounding with him. What happens at the end - I felt like it was complete. Here at last is the HEA we all wanted and felt like Mephisto deserved. It was a real pleasure to read this one!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Read This INSTEAD of Fifty Shades July 11, 2012

By R. Tapley

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I'm glad Annabel Joseph finally got out of the mire of the conventional. I've read her earlier books about D/s and I thought the characterization was her weak spot. A typical weak spot, I might add, in this literary/story genre rooted in the premise that kinky folk are broken, abused, mentally ill, and the like. Even our 'classics' (The Story of O, Secretary, and now-- though it gags me to say it--Fifty Shades of Grey) feature characters drawn to pain because they are sick. Joseph's previous attempts are no different from this. But her writing is solid, and her grasp of the dynamic between Dominant and sub/slave is also pretty solid, so I persevered. Now I'm glad I did, because she produced these books: Club Mephisto, Molly's Lips, and I Burn For You.

I don't want to give the story away, so I won't dwell on particulars. But in these books, Joseph explores areas of the kinky psyche that I haven't seen before. Furthermore, she doesn't treat the 'ideal' Master/slave relationship with kid gloves. I appreciated that. I think people who are looking for a substantial understanding of kink will appreciate it, also. So I can't recommend these books highly enough. Read them all, read them in the order I listed above for maximum effect, and-- most importantly-- recommend them to others. Push these books instead of Fifty Shades, for the sake of kinky people everywhere.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Worth the wait... January 29, 2013

By Cindy O

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

For two years Clayton knew he might die but he never told anyone and die he did at the beginning of this book. And Molly acted how he was afraid she would. She is totally lost - I think a line Mephisto says about her at the funeral was spot on "...Molly was in a tunnel now, in the dark. She had gone into the tunnel from Clayton's light.. " It was a safe place for her to be. Mephisto also struggle with should he do as Clayton asked and tell her he loved her and that he wanted to be her new Master. He'd never been in a romantic relationship. He only knew TPE and master/slave.

But Molly's reaction at Clayton's grave site throws him for a loop. She decides the last 8 years were for nothing and she is ashamed of who she had become. And boy does she go off on Mephisto. They do not part on good terms and Mephisto is questioning whether he pushed an emotionally and damaged woman toward a man that was to powerful for her.

Molly goes back to her life of drugs and being totally out of control. But one night when she is high she end up back at the club a raving lunatic. She wonders the next morning what lead her there - was it the sense that Mephisto and his club were the only play she felt safe? Mephisto helps her realize that she is letting shame rule her life like all those years ago before he found her.

Instead of Mephisto forcing his will on Molly he decides to give her rules - vanilla rules. She is to get out in the real world and help others anyways she wants. To be Molly again to find out who Molly is what she wants out of life. This works for Molly she likes having the freedom during the day to do normal things, to get involved in charities that her husband was also so generous in giving to and she even finds a nice young man she is attracted to. All this works because at the end of the day she gets to come back to the club which is her safe haven even though she no longer participates in the life.

Its was almost heartbreaking to watch Mephisto have to stand back and let Molly do her thing and not interfere in anyway. He did the if you love them set them free.. And eventually Molly did come back to when she realized she could not go back to a vanilla life.

From here promises and vows are made and a really big surprise. The first two books were like the hell two people have to go through to get to the other side where true happiness awaits them. Molly is not unlike many people - we start off with certain beliefs and an image of ourselves and when we detour onto a very dark path we don't come out the same person on the other side. And since this person we come out as is a stranger to even us we don't know how to act and can revert back to self destructive behaviors. Molly had to go through all of this to become the woman Mephisto knew she could be and he waited patiently for her to do so. This was not a conventional love story but it was a powerful one all the same.

More About the Author

Annabel Joseph loves to write about the romance of dominance and submission. The characters in her books all have one thing in common, they are "into" BDSM and they have lives that are richer, fuller, and more complex because of it.

If you are interested in sensual power exchange and the dramatic emotion of BDSM relationships, you will find the novels of Annabel Joseph both titillating and satisfying in a completely original way.

Annabel also writes non-BDSM erotic romance under the pen name Molly Joseph.

She loves to hear from her readers at annabeljosephnovels (at) gmail.com.

Amazon Author Rankbeta 

(What's this?)

#76 in Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Erotica

#82 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Erotica

#76 in Kindle eBooks > Literature & Fiction > Erotica

#82 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Erotica