I don’t like to be touched. I’m the hacker-geek-goddess of the FBI. When I’m hiding behind my screen, I’m a safe distance from everyone; isolated, powerful. No man has ever touched me, but when I’m captured by Colombian drug lord Andrés Moreno, I no longer have the right to refuse. He’s scarred and scary, and his cruel brother Cristian has tasked him with breaking me. I try to fight, but I can’t … can’t escape his strong arms and harsh discipline. He demands that I accept his touch, and my virgin body can’t help but respond to his masterful manipulations.
The longer I remain trapped with him, the more I come to suspect that I’m not the only captive in his brother’s home. Andrés’ scars go deeper than the wicked furrows carved into his flesh, his pain reflected in the dark demands he imposes upon me. His obsession is twisted and wrong, but maybe I’m twisted, too.
Do I want to be rescued from him? Or is he the one who truly needs saving?
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Bliss: Sweet Captive Bliss. One of those should have been the title. That word ‘bliss’ prominately displays its need for total surrender throughout the book. A frigid, FBI agent is kidnapped and subjected to BDSM dominance. Of course she resists, but before long she is blissed out of her frigidity by the pleasure/pain administered by her tormentor. He has his own problems, and by the end, they manage to save each other.
Hey, what is romance but a fantasy we willingly subject ourselves to for a few hours every day. Maybe we suffer from Stockholm Syndrome, too; but I never want to be rescued, either. For I am sweetly captivated in bliss to Julia Sykes’ form of dark, mafia romance.
This is my first Julia Sykes book, and I absolutely love it! I listened to it on Audible and both the story and the performance by Lucy Rivers were amazing. This will definitely not be my last Julia Sykes book. I am off to listen to My Sweet Captive next.
Love these books, great entertainment a perfect example of the genre
Strong characters interacting together in dangerous situations. Read it three times! Well worth the read and the money. I will definitely recommend this to my friends. Julia writes the best dark romance on the planet!
I’m a little conflicted on how I actually feel about this book. This was an intriguing, dark, gritty, and raw story but where my confliction comes in is that Sam falls for her captor, Andres. Although I fell this way about the Stockholm syndrome love she felt for Andres, this story was good.
I loved this book!! I couldn’t put it down. I can’t wait to read the next book.
Actually couldn’t stop reading had to buy all of them.
Love the whole series . Must read
Very enjoyable
Creative writing telling an intense story.
It was a little sick and twisted in the beginning, but I soon saw it starting to turn around. Hot scenes, too!
Just wish it hadnt ended when it did as a cliffhanger. Havent bought the next book yet but I keep thinking I should right away!
Great read
***10+++Stars*** Hands down, this is one of my Top 10 All Time Fave books (& I have read literally THOUSANDS & THOUSANDS of books in just the last few years alone).
I have been so remiss in not reviewing this one before, but man oh man, how I looove it so. I have reread this one well over 15 times because everything about it just pushes my buttons, calls my name, makes me sigh, wince, worry, smile & tear up, hate (the villian); what more could a reader ask for?
Ms Sykes has created in this story (IMHO) a beautifully damaged, intense, DOMINANT, frightening Alpha male, Andres (anti-H) who is so much more than the reader & Samantha (h) suspect. Sucked deep into the horrifying world of his older brother’s drug cartel, Andres is brutally scarred internally as well as externally; he is violent, vicious & powerful, hard & tough. And he eagerly accepts as a ‘gift’, the kidnapped & terrified Samantha from his older brother. And yet, somehow, Samantha is much, much more to the damaged Andres than she realizes.
And Samantha is also damaged from a childhood trauma she no longer remembers except that she desperately loathes & fears being touched. She’s loaded with nervous energy, her brain is always in overdrive & other than on a computer finds it hard to focus & impossible to clear her mind. But Andres wants her as his, totally submissive to him in ALL things & ways, & he intends to touch her often & in any way he pleases. And Samantha will be completely HIS.
It seems as though their relationship is doomed from the beginning, is fraught with disaster & impossibility, & yet, maybe, just maybe, Andres & Samantha are exactly what & who the other needs . . . .
Again, Andres & Samantha’s story made me wince, tear up, angry, frustrated, worry; made me melt, smile, laugh & sigh happily: there is danger, suspense, betrayal, revenge, vengence, action. There is sizzling steam, heartwarming & heartbreaking tenderness, discipline, growth & mutual understanding, a painful journey of healing, but most of all, LOVE in the darkest & bleakest of places & circumstances . . . .
I flipping ADORE & LOVE this story more than I am able to express & I cannot praise it highly enough.
Be aware: this is DARK with triggers, but an excellent, superbly written & awesome story.
This is a good sexy story, in the mafia-bad-guy realm. I might reread it someday.
Once finished…you want to read the next one!
Loved this book! Wanted to read it again as soon as it was over.