Both New York Times Bestsellers in one Bundle!THIRTY DAYSThat’s all Adam Steinbeck demands of his wife.Thirty days in a remote cottage, doing everything he commands. After that, he’ll sign her divorce papers and give her complete ownership of their company.That’s how long he has to rediscover the man he once was. The Dominant Master he hid when he fell in love with her five years before. She … five years before.
She wants the business they built badly enough to go to the cottage for a month. Cut off ties to the world and do his bidding. She can submit to him with her body, but her heart will never yield.
She thinks this is his pathetic attempt to repair their marriage.
She’s wrong.
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This box set contains the complete Games duet – Start to finish!
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I binged on the The Complete Games Duet and then reread it. Understanding these characters was hard only in the sense that they had so many layers. Most authors keep it simple and you know what is going to happen. One needs to take the time to understand and feel the emotions that drive these people, Good read all way around.
I can’t believe I waited so long to read this. Adam and Diana start at the lowest point of a marriage. First he’s fighting to salvage it, then her. It gets better them actually even worse. This is a story of pain, sensuality, acceptance, and deep love. At times I was so angry at both of them, wanting to yell at them. I cried. I got hot and bothered. I rooted for their love.
I haven’t read a bdsm book in quite awhile, and I don’t read a lot of stories with preformed couples. They pull at you in a different way. They go deeper, stronger, the bonds are different. The fall is further and the results can be more extreme. I love this and slap me if I ever wait so long to read a CD Reiss book again.
I enjoyed this story
Marriage Games
What an ending! I did not see that coming…. at all!
Adam, a dominant, and his wife Diana, not a submissive, have a great life together. They meet as he jumps in to try and take over her family’s struggling business. They fall in love, something Adam has never done, but is he really present in this relationship, if he is ignoring his dominant side?
This story proceeds with falling out of love, and trying to rebuild what they had. But I did not expect that ending.
Now I have to read Separation Games to find out what happens!
Separation Games
The ending to this Games Duet was heart wrenching and at times totally cry worthy.
My heart was breaking for Adam and Diana as they struggled to come to terms with the perimeters of their relationship.
Diana needed completion of what Adam started with these games, and Adam did not want to be that person because he was afraid he could not love her that way.
C.D. Reiss gives the reader the emotions of her characters and makes them feel the joy, the despair, the love, and the hope in these novels. I read stories to be moved in some way and this series definitely gave me that.
This story is Ok. HEA when it’s all done. There are other stories, but I’m not driven to read more about the peripheral characters.
i will read anything by CD Reiss
It was a good book. I love cd reiss. This is not a quick read and goes back in time and to the present. Has some bdsm elements, but not hard core.
Discover who u really and reunite with your wife Happily ever after!
I did try to read it, truly I did. But the format in how it’s written just seemed too disjointed to keep my interest. Plus, I couldn’t connect with either of the main characters. She was a straight up *itch, & he was a bit too heartsick. I also disengage any time theire’s a hint of possible infidelity (just not to my taste). It’s a shame because the story’s intent was promising. You might enjoy it if you get that far.
All her books are so dark. This one is no exception. I liked the characters, but they could have been more developed. And even though I finished… it was difficult. I wasn’t driven to find out what happens next. These characters were so anguished for almost the entire book. It was hard to read
Adam Steinbeck gets a rude awakening one day when he finds a note on his kitchen counter from his wife telling him she no longer loves him and she is divorcing him. He has no idea she feels this way.
He loves his wife deeply with all his heart. He has never loved another.
This is how this book starts and we are treated to chapters in the present alternating with the past to give us the backstory of how Diana and Adam met and married give years ago. This first part of the book is told in Adam’s POV only. We get an understanding of Adam’s past and what he has been repressing all these years. He proposes 30 days away together for his own personal reason. Diana thinks it is to change her mind. She couldn’t be more wrong.
Part 2 picks up in Diana’s POV which helps us understand a lot more of what she has experienced during their marriage. The 30 days away takes on another purpose to Diana after she becomes immersed in Adam’s lifestyle and she is determined to win him back.
There are some rough scenes in this book dealing with BDSM which may be triggers for some people, dealing with rape role playing and choking. The sex scenes were very hot and I will say I didn’t skip over any, which I do have to in some other books. These were great and just right.
This was to me an exceptional book, I became very invested in Diana and Adam’s future. I was very satisfied with the ending. I always know I can one click a CD Reiss book and have no qualms I’m gonna love reading her book!
Shocked, stunned, and beyond words… that is how I feel now that I have finished this book.
For me, it is the anatomy of a marriage. There is love, there is loyalty, and there is a partnership of equals. What appears to be a perfect marriage is only the surface gloss of two souls who are in denial of who they truly are. This story delves into the psyche of these two lovers while sharing from both their POV’s their most intimate secrets.
Would you change yourself to the point of not being able to recognize your needs and desires for the sake of someone you love? I would have to say yes. I have lived it. You want to preserve the love. Denying and adjusting who you are and seeking a status quo is easier than delving deep inside or forcing your partner to look deep inside and analyze. Sometimes there is a definite terror to further analyzes. What if it changes what you now are comfortable with?
This is our author’s unequivocal masterpiece. I have read everything this author has written. In my opinion, this is her writing at the peak of her gift.