again, digging way back in my reading journal, sorry for not posting this earlier...like way earlier! As usual Beth Kery doesn't disappoint - I always enjoy her books

I can’t remember how or why I picked this up but it did not work for me. It read like another 50 Shades of Grey ripoff, with a dominant, super-virile, super-rich, improbably young hero and a bland, innocent, sweet and beautiful heroine. It actually turned out to be the third book in a series but I don’t think that mattered – the backstory was pretty well explained. The book opens with h/h having hot D/s sex; immediately afterwards he finds out a devastating truth about his parentage and disappears, leaving the heroine in charge of his multi-million-dollar business empire (of course he would; she’s an artist barely out of college!). Stuff happens. They end up back together and have more hot sex when he’s not rambling around some creepy chateau in France, dealing with the truth about his ultra-creepy origins. There’s a villain who tries to destroy them; it’s all obvious and lame. My grade was a D.