Exploring their fantasies could save their marriage…or push it over the edgeLegally Bound, Book 3 Samantha Archer’s life has hit a wall. Her world is housework, homework and reminding her husband—the biggest kid in the family—to help out at home. Once she felt confident, powerful and sexy, but Brady doesn’t seem to notice her anymore, and now all she feels is invisible. Brady has tried being … feels is invisible.
Brady has tried being the goofy guy who stole Sam’s heart, but it’s not working. He’s losing the woman he loves and doesn’t have a clue how to fix it. He’s keeping his darkest fantasies hidden too, sure they’re not what Sam wants, and his inability to please her cuts him deeper than she knows.
When Sam lands a new job at a law firm, Brady still won’t pick up the slack, and one night giving him orders unexpectedly reignites their missing spark. Sam discovers the Femdomme she didn’t know she was, kindling Brady’s submissive desires.
But while things heat up inside the bedroom, life outside it starts unraveling. Brady’s need to call the shots at work complicates his hunger to kneel for his wife, and Sam has longed to experiment in more ways than one. Their exploration of dominance and submission goes a step too far when they invite Sam’s sultry switch coworker into their bed, and the fallout could cost them everything.
Warning: contains a six-foot-five, ex-football player geek and a ballsy, badass redhead who’s learning to unleash her inner Domme. Scenes depicting humiliation, pegging and threesomes could disturb, or stimulate a thirst for adventure.
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5 Cranky Stars
Yeah. Sometimes is just be like that!
Their Discovery is the final book in this Legally Bound series. If you haven’t read the 1st 2 books DO SO!!! But be warned: these books are NOT for the prudish at heart! BDSM these abound….
Their Discovery is Brady and Sam’s story and it is quite different than the typical Dom/Sub relationship. While Patrick and Cassie’s relationship may have made some uncomfortable or trigger certain emotions, Brady and Sam may very well awaken certain similar notions within ourselves!
I loved this series not only for excellently presenting the BDSM world with actual knowledge but the author does a fantastic job of showing us that the characters are just REGULAR folks…who like some kink in their lives! She shows us the very real societal pressures to conform, to hide and to be ashamed…and just how liberating it is to be FREE.
Now, it may be a bit farfetched to think that this one group of friends ALL indulge and enjoy in BDSM, but hey?? A girl can dream can’t she???
Overall, well done with the entire series!
Have you ever read a book and didn’t want it to end? Have you ever read a book and thought now I can really relate to that? Have you ever read a book and said FINALLY a book that shows the struggles of real life and it doesn’t blow smoke up your ass telling you life is just one big rainbow and your the pot of gold at the end of it? Well, for me this book was absolutely the one I didn’t want to end, the one that I could relate to (for the most part anyway), and it definitely didn’t blow smoke up my ass about how great life was….and I LOVED every minute of it!
Their Discovery showed the everyday struggles of a married couple that lost their way in the romance area of their relationship. They are bogged down with two daughters one that suffers from ADHD, work, dealing with aging parents, you know real life stuff and it’s not surprising that they forgot how to communicate with one another especially since each of them have been hiding a side of them the other knows nothing about.
Brady and Samantha have to find a way to make things work or their marriage may collapse under the struggles of life. Samantha has a gift for reading people but for some reason she can’t read Brady she can never figure out what he’s thinking or why he doesn’t do the simplest things she asks so she starts to let her inner Domme out and she sees a difference in him, can’t it be that he’s hiding the fact that he’s a submissive just like she’s been hiding she’s a Domme? Their friends are in the lifestyle, Brady’s older brother Jack is a Dom, we met him in book 1 His Contract , so maybe they need to face the fact that they enjoy kink as well.
This story is not full of hearts and flowers so if that is what you are looking for you won’t find it here, what you will find is a story about two people you can relate to because their struggles are real whether you have kink hidden in you or not.
I purchased the audiobook and I have to say that the dual narration by Burke Stevens and Roxanne Castro was superb. They did a great job with not only bringing Brady and Samantha to life but also the secondary characters as well. If you have the opportunity to listen to the audiobook I would definitely do it.
This book is for 18 and over due to subject theme and sexual content. Happy Reading…or listening!!!
I read both an early copy of this story what seems like forever ago, and I also read the finished product this past week. I didn’t review the early copy because it was all kinds of problematic for me and the problems were my dislikes/likes/opinions and not on the actual craft itself so I walked away … until last week.
I’m not going to give you a plot-point review of the first draft I read because honestly, the author took the early review criticism and addressed it in her final copy and she wrote a blog post you can find on her website and the finished product was one heck of a read.
I loved the realism in this story. Relationships take work. They take communication and they are constantly growing and changing. You have to change with them or your relationship will not survive the test of time. Brady and Sam were struggling thru this change and growth in their marriage. That’s the focus of this book. It’s extremely realistic and relatable. No, not everyone is going to take the path they took to re-discovery, but it’s their life and their marriage and their choice. I feel they chose wisely. By exploring their sexual relationship, it opened their eyes to other characteristics in their relationship and of themselves that needed work. They learned communication is vital and honesty is key. And they did it all thru some delicious sexual exploration. That’s a #win for me!
So, my advice to those who only read an early copy of this book is to give the final product a try or at the very least, read the blog post on the author’s website. Rebecca Grace Allen hasn’t always hit the mark, but this story and this series are a product of an author who is serious about her craft and has improved her craft ten fold over the years.
This book had a few issues. Some of the things that kept coming out of MC’s mouth were a bit questionable. Some things are never funny and it’s due to that I’m giving this a 3.75*.
But when you (if you can) look past that this story was an OK read. I liked how Sam embraced her newfound self. I liked Brady’s villingness to let her explore even when he wasn’t all that comfortable with it. Maybe what I liked the most was that I genuinely believed in their love despite everything looking like a bit grim for their future.
***Review copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads Blog***
This was a new author for me and also book 3 in the Legally Bound series, but this can easily be read as a standalone – I was intrigued by the blurb about a married couple and their marriage being in trouble, finding out about Dom/Sub relationship and seeing if it would fix their marriage??
I must say this was an engaging read for me, quite realistic and relatable to – no marriage is perfect and everyone has their ups and downs, sexual problems, trouble with the kids, loss of self worth, etc., The author took the time and trouble laying down a good background to the family and its normal hectic life involving the kids, work, shopping and cleaning and shows how you can become ‘lost’.
Samantha is a mum of 2 girls, one with ADHD and a strapping 6ft 5 husband ex-football player of a husband. She never realised her dreams from college and ended up married with kids and being a full time mum. Life is hectic with her two children who need a certain type of set routine in order to function at their best. She can’t remember the last time she had sex with her husband, Brady, or even had a cuddle. Things seem to be at a stalemate and she is not happy with the way things are.
Brady set up his own company in computing after busting his knee, taking him away from football. He thinks he may have his own type of problem like his daughter as he struggles with remembering things and needs constant reminders. He knows Sam is unhappy but hasn’t got a clue how to fix it, he cracks jokes all the time as a buffer, and has some sexual fantasies he has kept hidden from his wife, being sure she will want nothing to do with them.
By accident they discover that Brady is a sub and enjoys it when his wife takes control and even worse he likes it when she humiliates him, much to his chagrin. Can this be the magic fix required for their marriage?
I really enjoyed the story line and loved the characters, you could really see and feel what was happening for them. Brady was wonderful in a big goofy way, he loved his wife to bits but just didn’t know how to talk to her and tell her what he wanted or needed, all he really wanted to do was to love his wife and be loved back. Sam I felt for, the way she felt I can totally relate to in some ways. But their marriage isn’t a quick fix and things don’t quite work out for them, they have difficulties separating being dom/sub from wife and mother / husband and dad and have a lot to talk about.
Its a delicate situation, one that teeters and falls apart after a particular scene, but this was needed in order for them to open up and talk to each other. Be prepared for some hot and sexy scenes that may well push your boundaries and leave you all of a fluster! I enjoyed it and would definitely read the others in this series.
Their Discovery by Rebecca Grace Allen (contemporary, self-published, April 2019)
Series: Legally Bound, book 3
Rebecca Grace Allen’s Their Discovery is a marriage-in-trouble romance featuring a husband and wife who are both close to their breaking points. Samantha is exhausted and strung out trying to take care of her home, her kids and her husband Brady. All while trying to get back into the workforce.
Meanwhile, Brady knows something is wrong with his marriage, but he can’t seem to remember to do anything right. Additionally, his tendency to make jokes about things is not going over well with Sam – at all. Nothing seems to be going right, and neither Sam nor Brady seem to be able to communicate about it.
Well that is until one evening when the two reconnect sexually with explosive results. The difference is that Sam takes charge and tells Brady exactly what she wants him to do. While Brady responds to Sams orders, he does have trouble processing what his need to submit to his wife means in a broader sense.
Ultimately, Brady has trouble accepting his submissive side. He and Sam flirted with power exchanges when they were first dating both in and out of the bedroom. When they first started dating, Sam used to leave Brady notes with instructions that helped to center and guide him. But as they got married and their lives grew more complicated much of that went by the wayside.
As Brady struggles and comes to cope with the realization that he has ADHD, Sam is trying to get back into the workforce and find something for herself outside of the home. Both are in some serious pain over the state of their marriage, but they struggle so much over how talk to each other in a meaningful way.
There were definitely times while reading Their Discovery that I wanted to shake Brady and Sam (mostly Brady) and scream “JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER ALREADY!” But honestly, Brady needed to come to terms with his sexuality and with his attention struggles. Sam also needed to come into her own outside of the house.
Brady and Sam have serious chemistry especially once Sam starts to discover her dominant tendencies and how her husband reacts to them. The sex scenes are both kinky and super hot and will appeal to readers looking for romance with a dominant female.
There is also some serious emotional angst as one might expect in a marriage-in-trouble story. While Their Discovery is the third book in Allen’s Legally Bound series, it can be read alone. I will say that the previous books do set the stage for Brady and Sam’s marital trouble, so reading the series in order does add depth to their HEA.
Femdomme, kink and emotional angst are the hallmarks of Rebecca Grace Allen’s Their Discovery. This romance is an excellent addition to the Legally Bound series which is a kinky and erotic series that I highly recommend.
Book Disclosure: An ebook was provided by the author.
The blurb did a good job giving the basics about this book. I could relate to Sam in some ways early on, with her frustrations with her life and her desire to make changes. Brady was a lovable guy, wanting things he was afraid to ask for and not sure what to do about it. However, I had big issues with this couple incorporating BDSM into their marriage when they couldn’t even communicate enough to say, “I love you,” and just spent time wishing the other person would say it.
One of their children had severe ADHD, but Sam didn’t recognize the same traits in her husband. Brady saw it in himself, but he was too ashamed to seek help. I spent the majority of the book angry with both of them over this, though it was handled eventually.
The person who Sam invited into their bed was unlikeable and made me doubt Sam’s instincts. At least Brady stayed on my good side there, since he didn’t like her either. The threesome was probably my least favorite part of the story, due to both women’s apparent lack of concern for Brady, the submissive who should have been able to count on his Domme.
By the time the book ended, I liked Brady a lot more, and I was starting to like Sam. I was hopeful they wouldn’t repeat their previous mistakes. I loved their daughters.
I am very interested in reading the first two books in this series, which have great blurbs and good reviews. If the author offers another story with a Domme I can respect – even if it’s Sam after some serious research, training, and communication – I will absolutely buy it. I appreciated her writing skills. This one was just not for me.
I really enjoyed this story. This is the first novel that I had read from this author. I was able to read this story as a stand alone. The story between Samantha and Brady kept me captivated. I really enjoyed the realistic story and that fact that they both made mistakes was great. Also their kids and friends are not perfect either. I also found it interesting because you have a female Domme and Male submissive character. I have not come across many novels that involve those kind of characters. The scenes between the two characters are hot as well. It was like a breath of fresh air to see something other than a male Dom and female Submissive. I voluntarily reviewed this story and I liked this story so much that I bought the other two books in this series.
Emotionally scintillating! With the last book in the Legally Bound series, we finally get down and dirty with Brady and Sam. We’ve been familiar with the problems running rampant throughout their marriage since his brother Jack’s story in Book One, and now we get to know them behind the scenes. The story line was attention grabbing, and brought love and emotions to the forefront. I enjoyed the entire series!
Samantha Archer is in a rut. She used to be powerful and ready to take on the world, but these days she’s struggling to hold onto her sanity while she cares for the kids and keeps the house running smoothly with no help from her over grown child of a husband. She is seriously at her breaking point … somethings got to give!
Brady Archer tries in his own quirky way to make his wife happy, but he’s not great at putting in the effort when it’s something he’s not interesting in picking up the slack on. When one too many mistakes makes her lose her temper big time, they stumble upon the fact that she just might be into the lifestyle he’s long yearned for but was afraid to try. Let the game’s begin!
Their Discovery by Rebecca Grace Allen is my first read by this author but I am most definitely putting the first 2 books in the Legally Bound series on my to be read list. I read my share of BDSM stories, powersharing, kinky and not so kinky. This one kind of encompasses all kinds of different stories into one although the main story line of this story is Domme/sub. I rarely read this kind of story and not necessarily because I don’t enjoy it, but primarily because it doesn’t come across my plate as often and some are not very well written because they are all about the sexual part. This story is NOT all about the sexual part although I will say there are some wonderfully steamy, naughty parts indeed. This story is more about the background, the learning to be truly open to your partner, your desires, your needs, your life. It is about getting what you need without having to destroy who you are. I completely enjoyed the push and pull and having both points of view really helped get me into the mindset, the thought process these two characters have to go through in order to save their marriage…if it can even be saved.
Their Discovery is the third book in Rebecca Grace Allen’s Legally Bound series. It tells a story of a couple stuck in a rut in their marriage. They discover a rekindling of their flame, but experience some stumbling along their way of redefining their connection with one another.
There are aspects of the book I think some readers (especially parents) can identify with, and some that hit me wrong or unrelatable. But the story still had my attention. What I really liked is that their story was well written, the characters developed well and we got to know them through their thoughts and their actions within the story. There were parts of the story that made me smile, laugh, heat up for… and their were parts that made me want to cry from frustration with them but it was realistic. You discover things, you try things, you succeed but sometimes you fail…. you love and sometimes you hurt or get lost.
I really liked Brady. He just needed to learn to communicate better and say what he was thinking. That’s not always easy to do until lines are crossed, which is what we see here. I loved his love and devotion to his wife and her happiness. Sam, well her character was a bit more complex on the likeable or not spectrum….part of me could see how her mind worked, but other times I really wanted to smack her honestly. Okay, sometimes he frustrated me too. But they felt real and felt relateable most of the story.
Overall, I enjoyed the story and think it’s worth reading. It’s well written and interesting. The characters and their story is developed… It has a lot of story, not just some Dominate/submissive scenes. It isnt not the fairytale romance but instead tackles a realistic marriage scenario. I really needed to finish the book and yearned for a happily ever after for these two.
I received an advanced reader’s copy of the book and I am voluntarily leaving my honest review and recommendation.