I’ve been excited to get to this one. Maggie’s story. The only woman in the Salacious Players Club. The quiet one. The enigma. Once I realized the MMC was Emerson’s son? The crappy ex-boyfriend from ‘Praise’??? I just about blew a gasket. Beau was not awesome in the first book, to put it simply. Sara Cate has spun some crazy relationships out of the past books in this series, though, and if anything this revelation just made this book more exciting to me. I LOVE a good redemption arc, to say the least.

After reading the I do think ‘Mercy’ ended up being my favorite of the books in the series! At least to me it seemed to go by much faster than the others. The topics dealt with are serious, as in the other books and by far this is the most intense book kink-wise. Delving into BDSM and impact/punishment/ degradation. I think in part what I liked about this was that the plot was paced really well and the relationship between Beau and Maggie was built up really steadily, there’s some excellent characters in this book and I loved that that took center stage for most of the story.

Sara Cate has the perfect blend of plot and erotica in her fourth Salacious Players Club novel, Mercy. Maggie has been enigmatic and understated throughout the entire series, and she was due to come into her own. How appropriate, and frankly how appropriate, that Maggie’s sexual awakening happens with her business partner’s son.

Mercy is one of Cate’s best novels. She flaunts her writing skills by sufficiently tying loose strings together while unraveling other storylines to be developed for the future of the series, and doing so while putting it all together in a sexy package guaranteed to have you saying “yes ma’am”.

*age gap
*forbidden
*friends son/ dads friend
*sex club


I love this series and each book is completely different than the last . Honestly Sara writes a great smut book with keeping an amazing story line .

Mercy is my favourite book in the Salacious Players series. I love Maggie and Beau. Maggie had a lot of internal work to do to get to the level of sexual liberation that she reached. As someone whose platform centers on recovering from purity culture and sexual shame caused by religious institutions, Mercy was especially special for me. A femdomme story is always excellent, and adding the older woman/younger man aspect into play heightens the story. I keep coming back to Maggie’s story when I think of what it means to fully let go of internalized sexual shame and be who you are. I think that’s why the SPC series is so important.

I am so thankful for the opportunity to read this story another time and that it will be in bookstores.

This book was a little hard to get into but once I was in, I couldn't put it down. Beau deeply annoyed me in the first book but I appreciated that we were able to see more of his perspective. What person in their 20s isn't lost? And we have all lashed out at those we think we love. Was he still mildly annoying - yes. But did it work for his character and this story - yes.

I also appreciated that we were able to actually see Maggie, as she has been an outside character to most of this series, and that we were able to watch her journey. As with most of this series, some of the characters are older, but that doesn't mean they stop learning about themselves. This just highlights that you are never too old to find yourself.

This book was spicy in a way that is very classic to Sara Cate, I didn't feel there was anything new or overly exciting to report. If you have liked the Salacious Players Club series so far this book will not disappoint.