My Liege of Dark Haven by Cherise Sinclair 
ASIN B0092V0V5C
Story Rating: 5 out of 5 paddles
Sting Factor (kink): 5 out of 5
It is an awesome author who can create a world so real you hate to leave it when the book ends, but that is exactly what Cherise Sinclair has done with My Liege of Dark Haven. The book is part of her Masters of the Mountain series.
From the opening scenes when Abby steps foot into Dark Haven to conduct research on the BDSM for a sociology paper to the role-playing capture scene near the end, Sinclair weaves a tale of a submissive who learns to accept herself in spite of betrayal, and a Dom who regrets the mistakes that hurt his submissive-even when he doesn’t want to accept that she is his.
Abby has been dumped by her boyfriend, and needs to write a paper to keep her teaching job. Since her boyfriend left because she would not become involved in BDSM, she decides to do her paper on the topic of the lifestyle. She figures since the scenes are played out in public, there will be no harm in observing. She is dismayed to find a long waiting time to become a club member, but by-passes that by volunteering to serve as receptionist.
Xavier, the most power Dom and owner of Dark Haven, lost his wife under unhappy circumstances four years ago and now keeps his women compartmentalized-some for the Club, some to train for other masters, some to date socially. His new receptionist, Abby, is the first woman to start crossing those lines, and he finds himself drawn to her more and more. But can their relationship survive her deception and his apparent betrayal?
There are some unusual BDSM scenes in the book, including chemical play, and, as usual with Cherise Sinclair, the sex scenes sizzle off the pages. But the emotional draw is the real key to this book. Abby is delightful, and Xavier is shown as both tender and caring, in spite of being such a powerful Dom he can wear the “My Liege” title without question. Some of the secondary characters are so appealing that we want to read more about them and we revisit some friends from previous books in the series, although this is completely a stand-alone title.
The book was so powerful that after reading the last page, I started right back at the beginning and read it again. This was a masterpiece, written by an author with a powerful voice, and a sense of character that has to be experienced to understand.
Reviewed by Karen H
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