Chains by Shiloh Walker

quick weekend read in the sun & by the pool...Shiloh Walker's "Chains".  Not quite what I was expecting but still a nice leisure read packed with some tantilizing sexy romance to go along with a mystery.  Just what I needed to kill the time.  Thinking not a pre-requisite.

Author:  Shiloh Walker

Publisher:  The Penguin Group, Berkeley Publishing Group

　

What does the author say?

They weren’t friends. They weren’t enemies. The only thing the three girls had in common was the high school they went to in Madison, Ohio—until one tragic night. Now, fifteen years later, they’re returning home where passion—and danger—await…

Renee Lincoln was the homecoming queen—with the perfect boyfriend and the perfect life. After that horrible night, she rebelled the only way she knew how: by submitting to her wildest fantasies…

Tall, blonde, and athletic, Lacey Talbot was a golden girl with a bright future. She’s found success as a photographer, but no man has ever been able to satisfy her. No man but the bad boy she left behind…

Sherra Salinger has always looked like a princess out of some fairy tale. The books she writes, though, stem from the nightmare of that one night. And she shrinks from any man’s attention—especially the one stalking her…

They’re coming back to Madison—and it won’t be happy reunion. There are three men, all dangerous in a different way. And when each of them surrender their bodies to the heat, when they succumb to desire, they’ll find the safety they desperately need…

My review:

One backstory told from three points of view that brings the three heroine’s back to Madison, OH.  Shiloh Walker gives us a little BDSM erotic romance and then two sexy vanilla romance stories that build upon each other in order to solve a mystery.  Shiloh Walker takes care in making sure her main characters are well supported and given some depth, even though each of the short stories comes in around 100 pages.  Although 15 years are between the connecting backstory and where the characters re-surface no time is lost and we learn exactly what has shaped the heroine’s as well as their true loves.

This is a great read if you can just let yourself go and fall into their world putting aside the whirlwind romances that encompass the three women.  I had expected a bit more spice under the description “erotic suspence”; however, I do love a good mystery filled with unlimited sexual tension that culminates into some very sexy and sex descriptive scenes.

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