**THIS BOOK IS A STANDALONE WITHIN THE SERIES. READING THE OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES IS NOT NECESSARY BEFORE READING THIS NOVEL.**I was a Master.To understand me, you must understand my past.My father was a Master. My mother his Courtesan.I was raised in a business that trained women to become whores for the men that owned them. I was taught to train with a strict hand…but to seduce with a kind … strict hand…but to seduce with a kind heart.
Although my mother was one of those golden whores, the women broken and rebuilt to become everything their owner could desire, my mother – in her wisdom and beauty – trapped the heart of her Master.
Through her perseverance, she never let the man go.
Naturally, I followed in his footsteps, not only finding love, but almost gaining a son.
My heart was destroyed on a clear summer day when my child was stripped from my hands. Redemption for my crimes was lost, and loneliness like a man should never know was gained.
Until I found Seraphina…
She thought she could deny me. She thought she could choose her fate or determine the course her life would run. She thought she would never love another because she couldn’t love herself.
With a shattered heart and rebellious mind, she believed her life was broken. She chose death as an avenue to escape the life she was given, and she believed there was nobody who could stand in her way.
As her Master, it was my duty to show her…
…that all her beliefs were wrong.
**DISCLAIMER – This book is intended for mature audiences eighteen years of age or older. This story discusses sensitive subjects and readers sensitive to triggers should proceed with caution.**
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4.5 Stars
We waited and waited for another book in the Her Master’s Series…The wait was certainly worth the wait. This is book 3 in the series but can still be read as a standalone if you have not read the previous books.
In this book we meet Seraphina (Sera) a broken, lost, at her wits end and ready to throw away everything young lady. Trained as a courtesan, sold and abused, she has finally escaped and trying to survive.
Aiden is trying to survive in his world that has been turned upside down in the worst imaginable way!
Together Aiden and Sera will save each other if Master Anthony doesn’t enforce the ‘rules’ of the Society.
What a ride!
5 stars ++++++++++++++++++
Fans of Lily White and this epic series will be shocked with this third book, shocked because although the darker scenes are set and your thirst for darkness will be met this book is so much more and shows you who and what a true Master is all about.
Lily White made me laugh throughout which I never thought I would be doing reading this series, made my cry tears of sadness but also tears of joy. The sexual scenes are hot in every kinky way!
Loved that all previous Masters starred in this book and Master Aiden – I want to shake his hand!
No spoilers from me – Master Anthony & Seraphina’s story is not an easy one, two broken people giving up on life with no end in sight.
I hope we get more in this series, with a better understanding of the Master’s I think people will not be so fast to judge this series in a negative way.
“…the simple truth has more value than diamonds or gold.”
It is with the foresight of having read the four main books in the “Masters” series that I can say that this book, Her Master’s Redemption is my very favorite. And…while Aiden’s story is most compelling and he is a too cruel and devastatingly enticing dark hero, I have fallen most ardently in love with Master Anthony.
The storyline in this particular dalliance into the dark world of Master/Courtesan, created so graphically, lyrically and compellingly by the writing of Ms. White, is like the unfolding of a complex puzzle box. Every piece fits intricately in and around the other; the whole giving the illusion of a simple form. Redemption, the pervasive theme of the book, is not an overly complex idea. It is vindication, absolution, reclamation, rescue, repossession. The deep dive into the psychological twists and turns of the Master/Courtesan relationship written in the development of the three main characters make up the puzzle of this story of a Master’s redemption.
The story begins with Master Anthony rescuing a woman falling off a cliff. She was intent on suicide. It seems her self-loathing began years ago with early drug abuse. While we applaud Master Anthony for rescuing her, our dark heroine, Seraphina, we become very unsure if he was wise to bring her to Master Aiden’s house.
Told in first-person alternating POVs, Anthony and Seraphina detail an erotic adventure once again not fit for the overly sensitive, judgmental, (those readers who feel the characters need to behave according to their social mores and constructs) or faint hearted.
If this is a world you can walk your psyche through, there is so much beauty and truth on display. And…for the vengeful beast inside of you, just enough comeuppance for the true evil doers. But…for the sinners…ah, you guessed it…there is “redemption”, the Master’s redemption.
“To a man like me, seeing a woman give herself fully, to see her find the sexual creature inside and glorify herself within its power, was the same as seeing God.”
I was so intrigued with just how the masterful Lily White would write Masters Anthony’s story. I mean nice, quiet, caring Anthony. What could be said about him. Well I will this, Broken attracts Broken. That’s what Seraphina and Anthony are.
Their story is hard to read, brutal to be exact. The events that Seraphina has faced would certainly push a person over the edge. No one living through that nightmare would never be the same again.
Anthony was dealing with his own personal hell. Throw Aiden into the mix and the story is kicked up to another level. I mean this is Aiden that we are talking about, his mind knows no bounds. I really love to hate that man.
Her Masters Redemption is a real MF and Ms White certainly knows how to make us feel uncomfortable with her words.
This is a must read.
5 Pooch Stars
Master Aiden has always been the most intriguing and mesmerizing of all the villains I’ve read…….ever!. The MoFo has the cruelest streak and hardest hand when training courtesan.
Though the book has Seraphina & Anthony at the centre of all turmoil, This story has Aiden’s shadow all over. He is still in charge, holding the whip and Sera’s heart.
“He cast you aside after forcing you to love him. He handed you to the wolves, beautiful girl. He didn’t care whether you lived or died. But he can still have you. No matter how much you hate him, he can still do to your body what he does to hers. And there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.”
Sera is jumping over the cliff..literally and her life has been nothing but surviving in a pit full of ghosts of her past. She’s had enough . So she finds a nearest cliff to say goodbye to the cruel world but as fate would have it , Anthony saves her.
Sera actually dies on the bridge, a new sera takes her place . Finders keepers as they say .Her life , graciously saved by Anthony, now belongs to him. To break her and rebuild her again. But you can’t break the already broken, you can’t scare a woman who has nothing left to lose, no will to live. She craves pain, wants torture, begs for death.
An uphill task ahead for both masters indeed. Here’s where The astuteness of being a True Master comes into being.
Aiden takes over ( Yessss!!)
“A Master does his job by knowing his slave better than the slave knows themself. We read what a person is saying through non-verbal cues. We know when they’ve been pushed too far, and we know when they need to be pushed farther.”
The story in part is really amazing, the parts where Aiden steps in , that is. Anthony is all heart and soft emotions. Sera is broken and struggling, only Aiden has the ability to foresee everything and set it right.
The most amazing parts were how Aiden walks her through her torture , in order to heal her. He can sense which parts of her life haunt her, give her nightmares and since poison kills poison, he walks her through them, in turn purging her demons.
What will it be, Seraphina? Do you fight for your life or give in?
So Bravo for that Ms white !!
Some places I felt that the scenes was left undescribed. The real dark themes that lily is famous for were more fade to black. The theme was very intense, mood of the story ominous . Yet somewhere it just left me hungry for more.
She’s still the True Black Blood Queen of The Dark , no doubt , the book is excellent, just not my favorite of the series.
The END!! .. Master Aiden actually admits something!* gasp*
I’m gonna have to buy skates , cause the Hell has frozen over !!!
This was my first venture into Lily White’s Dark Romances and while this one wasn’t an out of the park homerun for me it does have me wanting to read more of her work. I enjoy a good dark read and that is exactly what we have here, If you are looking for butterflies and sunshine this is not the book for you, but, if you enjoy Dark reads you should give this story a go.
Anthony is the man you know you should hate but somehow he worms his way into you and you find yourself rooting for him all the way to the end. Seraphina is so broken I truly didn’t know if she would be able to be whole again, but with Anthony on her side it made her see a little light at the end of the road.
Master Aiden, wow ummmmm, can I say that I absolutely HATED HIM! To be honest I haven’t read the first two books in the series but since this can be read as a standalone I went for it. I don’t know if that was a good thing or not because Aiden and Rebecca are the couple in the first book in this series Her Master’s Courtesan and maybe, just maybe if I had read that book I would have understanded Aiden more and liked him….but I really doubt it, I cannot find any redeeming qualities in him whatsoever. Thankfully Anthony was a bit different and I did like him….
This story had me feeling a bit nauseous at times with the way the women were treated but I was in the right mindset for the DARK read thankfully. I have to stress that this is a DARK read there is nothing Light and Fluffy about it. So if you’re up for a good dark read I would recommend this book.
**I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Readers Copy**