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This was a captivating and well-written story about the love between young Ryan and debonair fencer and professor Mikhail. The story covered several interesting issues such as the wealthy’s perception of normal which oddly was eerily in line with how my W.A.S.P friends project themselves, the age gap between lovers, the dominant/submissive roles and different levels of BDSM, different perceptions of love, and of course how we must fight for love.

The author peppered the story with plenty of BDSM and deliciously steamy love scenes. Mikhail is the strong, stalwart, stable and caring Dominant. The story starts because of their mutual fencing interest. Ryan comes of as an aggressive arrogant young fencer and Mikhail sees his potential. We are taken through Mikhail helping Ryan improve his fencing skills, Mikhail’s support as Ryan struggles for freedom from his toxic family and various other instances of Mikhail supporting Ryan and showing his love for Ryan. The story carries us through the development of their love and Ryan’s growth into a strong independent man capable of loving someone.

Mikhail’s indulgence of Ryan’s sexual fantasy leads to a pivotal upset in their relationship. After a bit of heartache and reflection, our couple unites, married and live happily ever after.

At some points, I thought the story would never end, but each chapter was pivotal to Ryan's development as a happy lovable character.


I did note 3 editorial/grammatical issues that threw me off and I believe the story would benefit from the revision of these.
● Chapter 12: “as much coach” read weird sand made much more sense “as my coach”
● Chapter 12: “maybe i was just halfway out of his mind” didn't read correctly in the context of its entire paragraph, the entire sentence made more sense as “maybe I was just halfway out of my mind”
● Chapter 37: Ryan was in Eric when Jack joined in, but the author accidentally said Caleb was under Ryan in the Lucky Pierre (“prompting a low moan from Caleb”) but about a paragraph later mentioned it's Eric, Ryan and Jack while “on the other side of the bed, Tom, Anthony and Caleb were quite…” please consider fixing these in the final release.

An ARC was provided to me in exchange for an honest review.