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"The story is action packed with plenty of twists and turns to keep the reader guessing what will come out next." ~Kristan~
From the Inside Flap
They
say revenge is a dish best served cold; but, I know better. Revenge is hot. It
never cools, and it never dies. It burns inside your veins, and grows stronger
with every beat of your heart.
To understand what happened after, you have to know what came before.
I don't remember a time when I didn't dream of being a wife and mother. My earliest memory is of playing 'wedding' in my parent's backyard. As the bride, I was draped in my mother's antique white lace tablecloth, my head covered with a homemade veil and my arms laden with the roses she grew in her garden that summer.
In my mind's eye, I can see myself as I was then. A thin, serious looking child with long brown hair and big brown eyes walking slowly up the garden path like it was a cathedral aisle, toward my groom, the love of my life, the man that would take care of me forever.
By the time I turned 19, I knew that my real life groom would be Steven Flynn. He was the perfect man; he would be the perfect husband. I still remember the first time I saw him. A freshman in college, I ran into my psychology class 15 minutes late on the first day. Breathlessly, I took a seat in the last row and started madly arranging myself, my books, and my notepad; when I looked up I saw Steven.
As the teaching assistant, he was standing at the front of the class passing out the syllabus. After a moment, he caught my stare and smiled at me. He waved me to the front to get a syllabus and I slowly approached him taking in every inch of his stunning good looks, from his dark brown hair and intense blue eyes, to his perfectly chiseled body, on down to the tips of his elegant shoes. He was dressed conservatively, in a neatly ironed button down shirt and gray slacks. He looked like he'd walked off the cover of GQ magazine.
As I got closer to him I could feel him watching me approach. His intense gaze made me feel naked. I couldn't believe the other students weren't staring at him. To me, he looked like Prince Charming. The other students swarmed around, talking and laughing but my eyes never left him. When I reached out my hand to take the syllabus from him, he handed it to me but didn't let go. I stared at him and he looked back at me with a knowing smile. In that moment I knew; my life would never be the same again.
When Steven decided he wanted me too, he courted me recklessly; never taking no for an answer, never leaving me alone for a moment. After that first day, I don't have a single memory from that time that doesn't include him. He brought me red roses to make me smile, took me to see movies that made me laugh, and when we were alone he took me in his arms and made me tremble with desire. For the first time in my life I felt loved.
It makes me squirm with shame to think of it now. My childhood was a cliché, a joke. Abandoned by my father before I was even born; I was a shy child raised by a busy single mother. I didn't have a lot of friends, preferring to spend my time in solitude reading and day dreaming. My classmates thought I was strange and they left me alone. I was ripe for a man like Steven. I see that now, but then, oh but then all I felt was desire and love to the point of obsession. He was my fantasy. I needed him to love me more than I'd ever needed anything else.
I loved him, but I felt so unworthy of his attention. I tried desperately to reinvent myself into the woman he wanted me to be. I was in awe when I looked at him. Steven was everything I wasn't. He was handsome and successful, while I was average looking and quiet. When we met, he was a senior graduating at the top of his class with a degree in Psychology and a full scholarship to Harvard Law School; I was a freshman without a clue as to what I wanted to study. He was on his way to becoming a master of the universe, and all I wanted was to be at his side.
His first request changed the way I dressed when we were in public. Instead of the unofficial jeans and t-shirt uniform of my classmates, I eagerly agreed to upgrade my wardrobe to dresses, heels, and pearls. When he told me I looked lovely and gave me a smile, I knew I had made the right decision.
His second request was more complicated.
Steven needed me to be the perfect woman in the bedroom as well as in public. He would settle for nothing less. He valued my virginity and blind trust because they made me pliable - there was nothing I wouldn't do to bring him pleasure. As a child, I'd lived in my imagination without many friends and a mother who didn't have time or interest in teaching me about the world. Sex was a mystery that I didn't have a clue to solving. Steven's limitless needs and desires were my secret to carry alone; I didn't have anyone to discuss him with, no girlfriends to gossip with about his need for blindfolds, whips, and endless sexual punishment. All I had was my obsession to make him happy, to earn his praise, to maintain my place in his heart. For those reasons I would do anything he asked - and he asked a lot. I became the essence of the properly dressed lady in public and a sexual slave in the bedroom.
When he asked me to marry him the night he graduated I felt triumphant. I felt as proud of myself as if I'd been the one accepting a diploma that day. His proposal made me feel that it had all been worth it; the meticulous attention to my wardrobe and the sometimes painful "lessons" in the bedroom - I was going to be Mrs. Steven Flynn. I eagerly quit school and moved with him to Boston. My only ambition was to be a good wife to him.
I maintained that blind ambition for seven long years. I stubbornly insisted to myself that Steven's fierce control, his rigid standards for my dress and appearance, and his increasingly cruel sexual desires were normal, just his way of dealing with the pressure he was feeling as a lawyer with one of Boston's most respected firms, Bradenson & Arthur.
My only job was to be the perfect wife and partner. In my mind there was no limit to our success, I was enveloped in my dream of a secure and happy life with my husband and that was all that mattered.
Until the day I woke up.
To understand what happened after, you have to know what came before.
I don't remember a time when I didn't dream of being a wife and mother. My earliest memory is of playing 'wedding' in my parent's backyard. As the bride, I was draped in my mother's antique white lace tablecloth, my head covered with a homemade veil and my arms laden with the roses she grew in her garden that summer.
In my mind's eye, I can see myself as I was then. A thin, serious looking child with long brown hair and big brown eyes walking slowly up the garden path like it was a cathedral aisle, toward my groom, the love of my life, the man that would take care of me forever.
By the time I turned 19, I knew that my real life groom would be Steven Flynn. He was the perfect man; he would be the perfect husband. I still remember the first time I saw him. A freshman in college, I ran into my psychology class 15 minutes late on the first day. Breathlessly, I took a seat in the last row and started madly arranging myself, my books, and my notepad; when I looked up I saw Steven.
As the teaching assistant, he was standing at the front of the class passing out the syllabus. After a moment, he caught my stare and smiled at me. He waved me to the front to get a syllabus and I slowly approached him taking in every inch of his stunning good looks, from his dark brown hair and intense blue eyes, to his perfectly chiseled body, on down to the tips of his elegant shoes. He was dressed conservatively, in a neatly ironed button down shirt and gray slacks. He looked like he'd walked off the cover of GQ magazine.
As I got closer to him I could feel him watching me approach. His intense gaze made me feel naked. I couldn't believe the other students weren't staring at him. To me, he looked like Prince Charming. The other students swarmed around, talking and laughing but my eyes never left him. When I reached out my hand to take the syllabus from him, he handed it to me but didn't let go. I stared at him and he looked back at me with a knowing smile. In that moment I knew; my life would never be the same again.
When Steven decided he wanted me too, he courted me recklessly; never taking no for an answer, never leaving me alone for a moment. After that first day, I don't have a single memory from that time that doesn't include him. He brought me red roses to make me smile, took me to see movies that made me laugh, and when we were alone he took me in his arms and made me tremble with desire. For the first time in my life I felt loved.
It makes me squirm with shame to think of it now. My childhood was a cliché, a joke. Abandoned by my father before I was even born; I was a shy child raised by a busy single mother. I didn't have a lot of friends, preferring to spend my time in solitude reading and day dreaming. My classmates thought I was strange and they left me alone. I was ripe for a man like Steven. I see that now, but then, oh but then all I felt was desire and love to the point of obsession. He was my fantasy. I needed him to love me more than I'd ever needed anything else.
I loved him, but I felt so unworthy of his attention. I tried desperately to reinvent myself into the woman he wanted me to be. I was in awe when I looked at him. Steven was everything I wasn't. He was handsome and successful, while I was average looking and quiet. When we met, he was a senior graduating at the top of his class with a degree in Psychology and a full scholarship to Harvard Law School; I was a freshman without a clue as to what I wanted to study. He was on his way to becoming a master of the universe, and all I wanted was to be at his side.
His first request changed the way I dressed when we were in public. Instead of the unofficial jeans and t-shirt uniform of my classmates, I eagerly agreed to upgrade my wardrobe to dresses, heels, and pearls. When he told me I looked lovely and gave me a smile, I knew I had made the right decision.
His second request was more complicated.
Steven needed me to be the perfect woman in the bedroom as well as in public. He would settle for nothing less. He valued my virginity and blind trust because they made me pliable - there was nothing I wouldn't do to bring him pleasure. As a child, I'd lived in my imagination without many friends and a mother who didn't have time or interest in teaching me about the world. Sex was a mystery that I didn't have a clue to solving. Steven's limitless needs and desires were my secret to carry alone; I didn't have anyone to discuss him with, no girlfriends to gossip with about his need for blindfolds, whips, and endless sexual punishment. All I had was my obsession to make him happy, to earn his praise, to maintain my place in his heart. For those reasons I would do anything he asked - and he asked a lot. I became the essence of the properly dressed lady in public and a sexual slave in the bedroom.
When he asked me to marry him the night he graduated I felt triumphant. I felt as proud of myself as if I'd been the one accepting a diploma that day. His proposal made me feel that it had all been worth it; the meticulous attention to my wardrobe and the sometimes painful "lessons" in the bedroom - I was going to be Mrs. Steven Flynn. I eagerly quit school and moved with him to Boston. My only ambition was to be a good wife to him.
I maintained that blind ambition for seven long years. I stubbornly insisted to myself that Steven's fierce control, his rigid standards for my dress and appearance, and his increasingly cruel sexual desires were normal, just his way of dealing with the pressure he was feeling as a lawyer with one of Boston's most respected firms, Bradenson & Arthur.
My only job was to be the perfect wife and partner. In my mind there was no limit to our success, I was enveloped in my dream of a secure and happy life with my husband and that was all that mattered.
Until the day I woke up.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Katherine has the picture perfect life; handsome up-and-coming lawyer husband is her lifetime love, super townhouse: a modern day white picket fence dream... then somebody dropped the camera.
Is she right to suspect something's "off" or just misinterpreting things? What's with the bombshell at dinner begging for help? Does her husband really know anything about this, whatever it is, that is making her skin prickle uneasily?
Kat's character is very well fleshed out while Thomas is sketchier but still very believable and the supporting characters obtain realism with nearly vignette-style asides (very nice Ms Nelson!) . Enjoyed the introspection of Kat versus the action of Thomas, it made her reluctance to move quickly on her misgivings very believable. There is a bit of bdsm but it is not delved into too deeply.
This is more thriller/mystery than romance (at least in the eKindle version) and pretty fast paced. Great cliff-hanger segue to next book, I'm off to get it now.
Is she right to suspect something's "off" or just misinterpreting things? What's with the bombshell at dinner begging for help? Does her husband really know anything about this, whatever it is, that is making her skin prickle uneasily?
Kat's character is very well fleshed out while Thomas is sketchier but still very believable and the supporting characters obtain realism with nearly vignette-style asides (very nice Ms Nelson!) . Enjoyed the introspection of Kat versus the action of Thomas, it made her reluctance to move quickly on her misgivings very believable. There is a bit of bdsm but it is not delved into too deeply.
This is more thriller/mystery than romance (at least in the eKindle version) and pretty fast paced. Great cliff-hanger segue to next book, I'm off to get it now.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By B. Sharp
Format:Kindle Edition
My thoughts:
This is a fast read. The writing is descriptive and the character building is top notch. It was almost as if I could feel how slimy Kat thought her husband's boss was. I know I disliked her husband from the go, and he never redeemed himself (obviously). The plot was intriguing, but the story could have been fleshed out a bit more. It was almost as if we were running through the story, it's fast paced, only to end up dangling at the edge of the cliff that becomes the ending. I am not saying that it's bad, just that I wanted more story. It is well written and entertaining. Worth the read for certain. Will be looking forward to reading both book 2 and book 3 which are already out.
This is a fast read. The writing is descriptive and the character building is top notch. It was almost as if I could feel how slimy Kat thought her husband's boss was. I know I disliked her husband from the go, and he never redeemed himself (obviously). The plot was intriguing, but the story could have been fleshed out a bit more. It was almost as if we were running through the story, it's fast paced, only to end up dangling at the edge of the cliff that becomes the ending. I am not saying that it's bad, just that I wanted more story. It is well written and entertaining. Worth the read for certain. Will be looking forward to reading both book 2 and book 3 which are already out.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Cheryl M
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Absolutely could not put down! Very captivating. Highly recomend this book and this author! Will definitely read more from her.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting
Very intriguing. Well written...definitely kept my interest. Didn't guess where the story was leading. Wished the story was a bit longer, though.
Published 2 days ago by Rosemary Rosencrans
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't bother
Even for a freebie, I paid too much in terms of time reading until I just quit. Did skip to the end; nothing amazin there either.
Published 1 month ago by Lezlie
4.0 out of 5 stars
Intense
Although this book was a bit too short for me, it was compelling and intense enough to keep me riveted. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Lizzie
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great read nd I wanted it to be longer!!!
Kept me turning the page. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT ONE! Glad it is easy to find. What is NEXT????
Published 2 months ago by J. Felix
5.0 out of 5 stars
Total page turner!
I don't normally read any type of romance novels. This was surprisingly different. I didn't put book one down until I finished it. Now I dying to read book two!
Published 2 months ago by william h justice
4.0 out of 5 stars
Katherine Flynn
I liked the book and would read more. The writing is a little slow at times but did get better. I think as the story progressed the heroin got more backbone and became more... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Linda Z Knight
3.0 out of 5 stars
A very good half a book
Told in first person, CURIOSITY KILLED THE KAT was well done. The author has a good voice, the story flows nicely, and shares an "author's message," shedding light on human... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Wright Gres
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Partial Book
I couldn't put this book down. It contained an interesting story line and characters but since it's Book 1 of 3, I don't want to pay the price to find out the rest of what... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Turtle
1.0 out of 5 stars
Would Never Read Again
This book was riddled with sexual abuse and not something that I would consider a well written book. I wouldn't recommend it.
Published 4 months ago by Katie Harrison
5.0 out of 5 stars
Page Turner
Excellent read! Suspenseful! Couldn't put it down! Can't wait to read next one! Curiosity killed the Kat almost killed me it had my heart rate so elevated!,,
Published 4 months ago by Cliff
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Elizabeth wrote her first romance novel at age fifteen when she discovered writing about boys was way easier than actually talking to them. Since then, her flirting skills and relationship techniques have helped hundreds of others find their mojo. After earning a master's degree in secondary education from UNC, she worked abroad teaching English, bar-tended at late night clubs in Chicago, and continues various philanthropy projects that focus on empowering women. But she always returned to writing. Though she'll forever be a free-spirit at heart, she now lives in Los Angeles with her two dogs. If she's not working on her latest sexy story, you can find her reading, watching reality television, or indulging in her unhealthy addiction to rock concerts.
She also LOVES to connect with her readers through Facebook, so be sure check out her page Elizabeth Nelson - Romance Author -https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethNelsonRomance
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