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Julia is
beautiful and worth a lot of money. Sold
to a master as a pleasure slave, Julia is unsure of her future and has
nowhere
to run.
Marcus,
Julia’s master is not what she expects.
Marcus can be harsh, yet tender and his punishments
are severe, but
Julia feels incredible desire for him, despite everything he puts her
through.
With new
feelings and misgivings about her future, Julia can’t imagine life
without
Marcus. But she is a pleasure slave,
shackled to him and his to do with as he will.
Could Julia ever be anything more?
Action and
intrigue on every page makes Diana Laurence’s short Love Bites story, The Scarlet Shackle, an exciting
read. Marcus, while at times severe with
Julia, “breaking her in” as his slave, was a man hungering for love and
TLC. I was ready to embrace his tortured
soul, he grew on me quickly, and is a pleasant surprise overall. Though a much too short story, The
Scarlet Shackle is unexpected
as well as original. When most of us
think pleasure slaves as those who are brutalized or used repeatedly,
Ms. Laurence showed that it is not the case with Julia and Marcus. Though I do feel I must mention that Marcus
uses his whip on more than one occasion on Julia, this doesn’t deter
from the
premise of the story or the reasons that Marcus does what he does. There is much more to this story than meets
the eye.
The Scarlet Shackle is a story of ultimate
surrender to
love, desire and at times the reader has to wonder who exactly it is
surrendering. Is it Julia to Marcus or
vice versa? Read The
Scarlet Shackle to find out, it’s definitely
recommended.
Reviewed by Tracey West
for The Road
to Romance
April 22, 2004
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