A tragic accident left his beloved wife just beyond his reach, haunting Kristoffer Roar Larson for four years until a chance meeting with Pamela stirs feelings best kept buried. Her assertive alpha personality coupled with her desire to submit and serve fascinates him. Will he allow her presence to shine light once more into the dark corners of his life?Dr. Pamela Jeffrey thrives on providing … providing medical assistance to those in war-torn corners of the world until a health scare grounds her stateside. While pursuing her deepest secret desire, she encounters Kristoffer, who reluctantly agrees to help prepare her for a future Dom. The bond deepens between them as does her desire for him to be that man in her life, but Kristoffer cannot meet all of her needs. Can she be satisfied without regrets with what he can propose?
As the undeniable connection grows between them, feelings of betrayal take root. How can Pamela convince him he deserves another chance at love? Will Kristoffer be able to fully open himself to the ginger-haired sprite who makes him question everything he once believed? Or will he lose the woman teaching him to live again as surely as he lost the person who first taught him to love?
NOTE: While this book is a standalone, it includes secondary characters from the Rescue Me Saga, including Gunnar Larson, Patrick Gallagher, and V. Grant and there is a scene in the Masters at Arms Club.
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ROAR
A very pleasant surprise of this book. A standalone in The Rescue me Saga. The book is about discipline and focus. Kristopher is Roar and is caring for his wife who is in a coma. He’s been celibate for years, until he met Pamela. He agreed to help discipline her. What an intriguing journey they travel.
Different than the other books in the series, but so exquisitely delightful. I can really recommend this book. Roar and Sprite is an awesome read, by a fantastic storyteller
COMPLETELY CAPTIVATING!!!
Title: Roar
Author: Kallypso Masters
Designation: Full-length Standalone, NO Cliffhanger
Genre: Contemporary Romance liberally seasoned with light elements of BDSM
Reading Platform: Kindle Edition
My Rating: Five Captivating Stars*****
Wow! I loved, loved, loved Roar by Kallypso Masters! For the last several years, I kept hearing the name Kallypso Masters mentioned in romance reader groups and among my friends on Facebook. I’ve wanted to try her work for some time but just never had the opportunity…until now. A few days ago, a good friend offered to loan me a digital copy of Roar through the Amazon Kindle Edition Borrow Program and I jumped at the chance. Thank you, Kim Brown, for your generosity and for knowing me well enough to know how much I would enjoy this book. I will be eternally grateful for this recommendation and have now added Kallypso Masters to my list of all-time favorite authors. As a matter of fact, I enjoyed this book so much that I couldn’t stop thinking about it and, several weeks later, I actually purchased it to add to my library so I could read it again and again! Roar is a unique, realistic, superbly crafted and exceptionally well-edited full-length standalone contemporary tale filled to the brim with heated attraction, fiery passion, heartbreaking drama, agonizing angst, unconventional romance and liberally laced with elements of BDSM. But let me be perfectly clear, this is not erotica but at times it is steamy and does contain explicit sex. Although the BDSM elements are an important part of this book, the sexual aspect is secondary to the actual plot and serves only to enrich the story. The sex is not ‘the story’. I know that may be a little confusing to some, but I believe most of you know exactly what I’m trying to say. The narrative is beautifully written in the third person with alternating his and her perspectives. The dialogue is smart, snappy, seductive, well executed and flows effortlessly. But without a doubt, the pièce de résistance of this compelling saga is the cast of remarkable characters. I don’t think I’ve ever read a book where the characters were so vividly depicted, well portrayed and developed, or moved me so emotionally. I was immediately drawn into this story by the two protagonists, handsome grief-stricken financial advisor Kristoffer Roar Larson and beautiful selfless Doctor Pamela ‘Sprite’ Jeffrey. I fell in love with both Kristoffer and Pamela and found them to be captivating, intriguing, engaging, relatable and sexy. I was truly impressed by the depth of feeling the author was able to stir in me through her mastery of words. My heart literally broke for these characters. I cried with them, laughed with them, sympathized and empathized with them but by the end, I was happy, satisfied and well entertained. I read some of the reviews for this book before I accepted the borrow and was quite surprised by a few of the comments. Although I do agree with several reviewers in that the narrative moved slowly the first half of the book and was somewhat repetitive and tedious at times, I suspect the author felt the need to justify the choices and actions of the characters to prevent the reader from making preconceived judgments before the story was finished. I understand why the author believed the story must be told this way…and she was correct. This is an extremely unconventional love story and as such needed to be written unconventionally, but it was also one that needed to be told and most definitely needed to be written. Unfortunately, it is a subject avoided by most authors because it veers from what many believe to be traditional or socially acceptable. It may even be considered by some as socially unacceptable unless the story is told slowly, considerately, and explained in a thoughtful but realistic manner so the reader can truly experience the progression of heartache, grief, loneliness and self-imposed exile from life as felt by Kristoffer Larson after losing his beloved wife, Tori. But unlike most people, Kristoffer’s loss was ongoing and had been every day for the last four years with no hope to heal since his wife of eighteen years had been in a persistent vegetative state since the automobile accident that stole her from him. Nevertheless, as a result of today’s advanced medical technology, it’s a situation that does happen and needs to be addressed, honestly and sincerely as it was in this book. Well done, Kallypso Masters…well done, indeed! This may have been my first time reading Kallypso Masters but it certainly won’t be my last.
Kristoffer Roar Larson had already experienced great love in his life as well as great loss. He had no desire to experience either again. Unfortunately, it wasn’t that simple. After a tragic automobile accident involving him and his wife, he was able to walk away, but sadly she wasn’t. For the last four years, his beloved wife, Tori, has remained in a persistent vegetative state with no chance of recovery. Her atrophied and twisted physical body remains anchored to this earth but her awareness has long since passed. He vowed to love and care for her till death and that he would do…no matter how much it killed him every single day. He, too, was dying a slow, lonely death. Since meeting Tori twenty years ago, he had never even been attracted to another woman. They had now been married for eighteen years and he had no intention of ever falling in love again… until the beautiful, feisty and selfless Doctor Pamela Jeffrey blasted his cold dead heart wide open and forced him to live and love again. But will what he has to offer be enough for his vibrant, irresistible ‘Sprite’??? I guess we’ll see!
Did I Like this book? No, I LOVED it, so much so that I actually purchased it! Even weeks after finishing this novel and submitting my review, I couldn’t stop thinking about Roar Larsen and Pamela Jeffrey, so I returned to Amazon and purchased the book for my permanent library, making it possible for me to read it again and again. *sigh* There’s nothing better than re-reading a favorite book, reconnecting with beloved characters, and discovering all the little tidbits you missed in the first read-through, and I always find something. Would I recommend it? You bet and I am but only for adult readers! Will I read this author again? Absolutely! Was I entertained? Completely! Fabulous entertainment and an awesome read!
One man’s deep, emotional journey back to living after he self imposed himself into an emotional exile after his wife, the love of his life, is left in a permanent vegetative state after an accident.
As your reading Kristoffer Roar Larson story it does make you think what would you do if the person you loved with all your heart for 20 years is for all intensive purposes gone except for their beating heart. He chose to honor his vows of for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. This took a hearty toll on his soul. This is his story of unexpectedly finding his second soulmate in life and dealing with the guilt of is he dishonoring his vows or is he getting a second chance at love and to live again in the light.
I thought the author did a great job of showing us both sides – How the husband feels and also how his family and friends feel. I don’t think there is a right and wrong answer here it was truly heartwarming to see when Kristoffer finally gave into his feelings for Pamela. Just because he chose to love another woman again doesn’t mean that his love for his first wife is any less.
There is much more to the story that I am telling in this review but I’m going to leave that for the reader to experience themselves. This author has always written great emotional military stories in the past – this one is deep emotional story but of a different kind.