Josie and Max are finally moving into Corbin’s Bend where Josie’s grandparents, Liam and Nicky O’Donnell, are living a domestic discipline relationship. Josie is excited to be finally sharing her life with ex naval doctor, Max, as his submissive. But things do not run smoothly from the start, as one thing after another derails their lifestyle dynamic. Will they find their way back to one another, … one another, or will a dark secret from Max’s past tear them apart forever?
Publisher’s Note: This sweet contemporary romance contains elements of power exchange. It, like all other Corbin’s Bend novels, can be enjoyed as a standalone.
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The new season of Corbin’s Bend (entitled Back to Corbin’s Bend) kicks off with Vanessa Brooks’ Sub-Divided which is a belter of a story with which to start the new series.
Josie and Max have just moved to Corbin’s Bend and in a rather wonderful leap of faith the couple’s moving to the spanking-based community is also their first time living together as a couple.
They already embrace a D/s relationship and Josie already knows she loves Corbin’s Bend from her numerous visits to her grandparents, Liam and Nicky, who are current residents.
But it turns out that life isn’t going to be straightforward for the pair. For one thing Josie encounters a run of extraordinarily bad luck from the moment she arrives. Her house gets flooded, she almost gets run down, a night out at a club turns very weird, there’s invasions of moths, and locusts and hordes of zombies. Maybe not those last two. The bad luck comes so thick and fast that Josie suspects that foul play is at work but is at a loss to understand why it might be happening.
On top of that, Josie is struggling with what exactly she wants from her and Max’s Dom/sub relationship. While she might be adamant that she is “only a submissive in the bedroom”, Max doesn’t necessarily see it that way.
Josie and Max are great together. The sex and spanking between them is fantastically hot. The scene when Max first arrives at Corbin’s Bend… just wow. They’re clearly perfect for one another which makes watching them work hard at establishing their relationship, all the more satisfying.
It’s good to be back at the Bend and Vanessa Brooks’ story was the perfect homecoming.
This Corbin Bend book by Vanessa Brooks is a spanko’s dream: an actual city where domestic discipline and BDSM are not only accepted, they are the norm for the city and all its characters in one way or another. For me this was an enjoyable and fun read about the many things Josie did wrong in the eyes of Max as well as other citizens, all of which usually resulted in her getting a hard punishment lesson. Underneath this was a plot line of Josie attempting to understand what and where she stood in her relationship to Max in regards to BDSM rules and roles. There was also a sneaky plot of someone attempting to sabotage Josie’s happiness and new life in Corbin Bend. This is a voluntary review of an Advanced Reader Copy of this book from Blushing Books.
Readers of Vanessa Brooks’ prior power-exchange historical romances will be surprised by this new venture in to a contemporary setting. This story blends well with others in the Corbin’s Bend series – an isolated town where couples live their D/D, D/s, BDSM lifestyle with other like-minded people.
In this tale, Max and Josie are moving to Corbin’s Bend. Interestingly, Josie’s grandparents already live there, and they provide a background for the new couple’s integration into the community. Woven with Josie’s decision concerning exactly where the boundary of her submission to Max lies, the plot is a bit of a mystery as unexplained misfortunes hamper their adaptation to Corbin’s Bend.
The entertaining, likable characters will keep you turning the pages.