Friday, April 3, 2020

RE/LEASED by Michele Zurlo


Title:  RE/LEASED
Series:  Doms of the FBI #5
Author:  Michele Zurlo
Publisher:  Lost Goddess Publishing
Publish Date:   06.26.2016
Category /Genre:  Romantic Suspense, Erotic
Recommended for:  18+ due to sexual content
Grammar/editing:  received as an unedited ARC copy / errors excused
Received from:  Michele Zurlo
Goodreads link: Re/Leased
Date completed: 04.03.2020

Description from the publisher:
Honoring a promise he made to his late mother, David Eastridge, part owner of SAFE Security, returns home one final time-to help his father find the culprit responsible for embezzling three million dollars from his company. It should be an easy job-his father already has a suspect in mind.

After a series of tragic events that robbed her of a father and put her sister in a coma, Autumn Sullivan was forced to take on several jobs just to get by. She's an accounting assistant by day, an occasional service Domme on the weekend, and a thief-for-hire by night.

David's strategy of hiring Autumn-as a submissive-backfires when he finds himself enchanted by her sense of humor and playful attitude. Determined to prove her innocence, he enlists the help of Malcolm Legato and Agent Keith Rossetti to dig deeper. This enigmatic submissive is openly hiding things from him. Her secretive nature and the bread crumbs she drops about her past don't add up-not even when he assigns Jesse Foraker, his SAFE Security buddy-to tail her and search her apartment. None of them are prepared for what the FBI uncovers.

Falling in love wasn't in the plan, but David makes her believe that she isn't doomed to live a solitary life. Plunged into a world of lies and espionage-with a serial killer after her-Autumn is forced to come to terms with her past if she is to have any hope of a future with David.

Warnings: BDSM party games, sex toys, bondage, flogging, spanking, and a trip to the beach
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RE/LEASED is the sixth book in the Doms of the FBI series.  Each book in the Doms of the FBI series stands alone.  This one is the first of three books about the relationship between David and Autumn (Bree).  Their story continues in the first two books of the SAFE Security series.  Not to worry, this ends in a Happy for Now.

This story speaks to the aspect of trust in a BDSM relationship more than any other I have ever read.  Autumn has secrets – many, many secrets.  She makes no secret of that fact (see what I did there).  Neither David nor Autumn is blind to the fact that the other has secrets, or that trust and time will be needed to earn those secrets.  Since they have entered into a limited time relationship during his visit to solve the problems at his father’s company, Autumn doesn’t expect the time to be an issue.  Her walls are tall, thick, and have been built since toddlerhood.

This is another one of those stories when I wondered why put in chapter marks; I’m not putting it down.  This is a fast-paced, sexy, and romantic story with characters that I want in my circle.  This is entertaining – and complicated.  Fun, funny, and romantic, while twisted.  There is plenty of suspense, heat, laugh out loud moments, and a few tears.  Is it any wonder I grab these books as quickly as they are offered? 

Note:  While I received this book as a gifted ARC via Booksprout, my opinions are my own and are given freely.

Doms of the FBI Series:
1.      Re/Bound
2.      Re/Paired
3.      Re/Claimed
4.      Re/Defined
5.      Re/Leased
6.      Re/Viewed
7.      Re/Captured
8.      Re/Deemed
Also from Michele Zurlo:
·         Bear Country
·         Blade’s Ghost
·         Catherine and the Spanking Room
·         Discovering Desires
·         Dragon Kisses
·         Irrepressible Force
·         Master Eddie’s Sub (Club Alegeria #2)
·         Master Jett’s Surprise (Club Alegeria #3)
Awakenings Series: 
1.      Letting Go
2.      Owning Up
3.      Serving Sophia
4.      Hanging On
5.      Two Masters for Samantha
6.      Time to Pretend
7.      Stepping Stones
8.      Surreal Neal (Hanging on #2)
9.      In Their Hearts (Two Masters for Samantha #2)
Daughters of Circe Series: 
1.      Torment
2.      Desiree
3.      Riley
Kiss Me Series: 
1.      Kiss Me Goodnight
2.      Kiss Me by Moonlight
SAFE Security Series: 
1.      Treasure Me
2.      Switching It Up
Forging Love (Mercenary Hearts #0.5)
3.      Drawing on Love (Mercenary Hearts #1)
Broken Love (Mercenary Hearts #2)
4.      Shards of Love (Mercenary Hearts #3)
Safe Word: Oasis Series: 
1.      Yes, Justin
2.      By My Side
3.      Out of My League
4.      Wanting Wilder
5.      Mina’s Heart 











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