All the while, he tries to tamp down his growing feelings for Mac, yet cannot bear to leave his pet behind. A tragedy has him hurrying home to mend familial fences and fend off the predation of another male. He's also climbed the social ladder by making an advantageous mating. Narith is a brilliant young officer from a lower caste family who has risen quickly up the ranks.
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Narith is Mac's perfect fantasy lover, so much so that Mac does not hesitate to join him on a frightening trip to the Travian home world. At first an unwilling captive, he's now fallen hopelessly in love with his master. Stuart McKay, a young man always on the sidelines of life, has been reinvented as Mac, the beloved pet of an alien navigator. When a distant planet's ownership is in dispute, conquering aliens turn defiant human males into pampered sex slaves.
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Desperate, he accepts an offer from her innocent and spirited-and absolutely beautiful-sister Alex: She will turn him into a perfectly tamed suitor, and show him how to woo the shrew. He won’t see another pound from his parents, however, until he’s engaged to Lavinia. Owen has spent most of his bachelor years drinking, gambling, and skirt-chasing. But the duke has already chosen Alex’s infamously spoiled elder sister, Lavinia, for Owen. I don't feel that I am enlightened from reading it, nor will this story be in my thoughts for a long time.AN INDECENT PROPOSAL Lady Alexandra Hobbs, the daughter of the Duke of Huntley, has intended to marry Lord Owen Monroe since she first glimpsed him from the window of her bedchamber, back when she was just a girl. One does not have to look far to see unrestrained assaults happening on a variety of levels.Paying to listen to an extra eleven and an a half hours of turbulence, no matter how well written, was not the entertainment I was looking for. This book was not enjoyable - nor should it be. Call me Pollyanna, if you must, but I read for entertainment.
It’s a hard book to read for the violent incident is brutal and takes up better than one third of the book. The core of this book is in the eye of reader. Others will come away with the survival of a woman who was violently stripped of her self-worth. Some will read this book and come away with it being a story about a lawyer vacationing with her husband in Haiti who is kidnapped and abused. What it spoke to me was the violence against women,violence’s lasting trauma while also addressing the difference of the sexes. It’s fluid, strong and its voice is loud and clear.
It is the story of a willful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places. As it becomes clear her father intends to resist the kidnappers, Mireille must endure the torments of a man who resents everything she represents.Īn Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce.
Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom. The fairy tale ends one day when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father’s Port au Prince estate. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. In An Untamed State, she delivers an assured debut about a woman kidnapped for ransom, her captivity as her father refuses to pay and her husband fights for her release over 13 days, and her struggle to come to terms with the ordeal in its aftermath. Roxane Gay is a powerful new literary voice whose short stories and essays have already earned her an enthusiastic audience.