White Collared Part One: Mercy
By Shelly Bell
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The first sexy installment in Shelly Bell's four-part serialized erotic thriller about a young law student who must go undercover at a sex club to prove her client is not guilty of murder.
Driven by ambition …
Third-year law student Kate Martin outran her tragic past to become an intern for her idol and secret crush, the powerful attorney Nicholas Trenton. She is thrilled when Nick assigns her to represent his best friend and client, millionaire Jaxon Deveroux … the prime suspect in his submissive wife Alyssa's murder.
Seduced by desire …
Kate knows they have only a few days to find the real killer, and since signs point to a member of the BDSM community, she volunteers to go undercover as Jaxon's submissive at Benediction—the private sex club where he is a member—to covertly investigate Alyssa's last few months. For years, Kate has kept her dark fantasies a secret … but a chance to explore them with sexy, dominant Jaxon is just too tempting to pass up.
Shelly Bell
Shelly Bell writes sensual romance and action-filled erotic thrillers with high emotional stakes for her alpha heroes and kick-ass heroines. She began writing at the insistence of her husband, who dragged her to the store and bought her a laptop. When she's not practicing corporate law, taking care of her family, or writing, you'll find her reading the latest smutty romance. Shelly Bell is a member of Romance Writers of America and International Thriller Writers.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There's a gothic sensibility at the core of Alissa York's first novel, Mercy. The town of Mercy, Manitoba, is a hotbed of eccentricity and irrational longing where people nurse secret loves, illicit desires and hidden obsessions and where the town drunk lives on the bog in a house made of empty bottles. August Day is a young priest who arrives in Mercy to replace the recently deceased Father Rock. August's mother was a prostitute, and he bears the scars of an emotionally challenging upbringing. His first task upon arriving in Mercy is to preside at the wedding of Thomas Rose and Mathilda Nickels, the town butcher and the young niece of the church housekeeper. But the moment August and Mathilda lock gazes their tragedy is set in motion, and for the remainder of the first part of the novel, which is set in the late 1940s, Mathilda tries to seduce August while he resists her advances with every ounce of strength and every scrap of faith he can muster. It is, however, not enough. When we return to Mercy for act two it is now 2003, and we encounter some of the folks whose lives and fates were shaped by the tragic events of those early years. Alissa York writes beautiful prose, but one reaches the end of this novel feeling that perhaps a firmer editorial hand would have been of benefit to the book and its author. There are too many obscure passages and vague connections, and the odd behaviour of some of the characters seems to have no purpose other than to be odd. There is also a tacked-on quality to the second part of the book, which is less than dramatically satisfying. Some readers, as they approach the end of this section, will be scratching their head wondering what it's all about. Mercy is, in the final analysis, a first novel, and its weaknesses are of the sort that an experienced writer will solve next time out. But Alissa York's talent is undeniable, and because she knows how to use compelling characters and dramatic tension to pull the reader into her story, her next book will be worth seeking out.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was an incredibly haunting and compelling read, which I enjoyed very much. Beautifully written, with a great descriptive storyline. The characterization was impeccable, and I became very attached to the players, particularly the butcher, his wife, and the young priest in the first half of the book. I loved the religious and slaughterhouse references throughout the first half as well. My interest waned significantly during the second half, and I couldn't help but wish that the author had developed the story further in the first half, and perhaps left her (interesting enough) ideas in the second half for a sequel or another book entirely. I would have loved to hear more, more, more about the burgeoning illicit attraction, and also about what ended up happening to the kindly butcher after his wife was lost. I'm giving it a solid three out of five stars and will look forward to exploring more works by Alissa York, a Canadian author whose name I was not previously familiar with.