Title: HIGH (The Indigo Lounge Series #1)
Author: Zara Cox
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Genre: Erotic Romance
Synopsis
Welcome to The Indigo Lounge, the scandalously sexy sky-high playground where anything can happen…
Flirty, dirty and utterly delicious, HIGH is the perfect next read for lovers of the internationally renowned This Man series from Jodi Ellen Malpas & Sylvia Day’s Crossfire series.
Zachary Savage is a man accustomed to getting whatever and whoever he wants. He’s buried his demons and risen from the ashes to become the playboy owner of the internationally renowned Indigo Lounge, a fleet of ultra-exclusive sky-high pleasure palaces.
He has everything he wants, until he sets eyes on Bethany Green. One look is all it takes ~ she has to be his.
Bethany Green has endured the worst year of her life; bad luck and heartbreak at every turn. Karma swings wildly in her favour when a money-can’t-buy golden ticket lands in her lap – an invitation to experience the scandalously sexy Indigo Lounge for herself.
Green by name and green by nature, is she brave enough to accept the hottest ticket in town?
One glimpse of Zachary Savage is enough to convince her that she isn’t cosmopolitan enough to play in his glamorous, sinfully sexy world. But they’re already in the air, and reality is a long way behind them. The only way is up.
The Indigo Lounge. Step aboard and check your inhibitions at the door.
Review
Dominant billionaire alpha males with a past filled with ghosts and demons are a dime a dozen in romance writing these days, so if a writer is going to journey into the genre with a similar storyline and characters, the writing needs to be flawless and the content needs to hook readers from the very beginning. Zara Cox achieves this in her first installment of the Indigo Lounge Series, High.
Bethany Green, the book’s heroine, accepts the invitation to the exclusive Indigo Lounge with some coercing from her best friend, Keely. Bethany hasn’t had the best year, and she’s determined to shake off the pain she’s felt at the hands of her ex and go on a once in a lifetime adventure, but what she doesn’t see coming is the mysterious Zachary Savage. Savage is a tortured soul; he has demons that haunt him on a regular basis, so the life that he’s lived is one of routines and arrangements until he sees Bethany enter his building. All it takes is one look…one touch and both Bethany and Zachary are ready to go all in, but will the secrets he has be the end of their relationship before it even really gets started?
I loved High. Zara Cox created two fantastic characters in Bethany and Zachary. They’re multi dimensional, so throughout the story, different layers are revealed, and to be able to see their first meeting as well as other important situations through both of their point of views definitely makes them clearer and much more interesting. The connection between them is electric, and the steamy sex scenes illustrate how in sync Bethany and Zachary are. It made sense to have them consumed with one another’s bodies at the beginning; it definitely shows the strong lust they feel for one another, but as their feelings for one another grow, the past starts closing in on them, and Zara does a great job of letting Zach’s past creep up on them until finally, at the end of book one, it’s brought out into the open, not completely, but enough to have Bethany reeling and readers threatening bodily harm with the cliffhanger they’re left with.
If you’re looking for a steamy read with strong characters and a bit of mystery to go with it, you’re definitely going to want to pick up High, and fortunately for new readers, you can dive right into Higher to find out what happens to Bethany and Zachary.
A complimentary copy of the text was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.
4.5 poison apples
Excerpt
Dropping her bag on the delicate cream console table, she turned to find Zach leaning against the doorjamb. His gaze scoured the room then returned to rest on her.
“So I’ll see you in about an hour?”
He nodded but made no move to leave. The look in his eyes made her throat dry.
“Something on your mind?” she said, noting how husky her voice had grown.
“This is the last time you get a massage from anyone but me, Bethany.”
The possessive throb in his voice made her stomach clench. “Enough with the highly charged words, Zach. For a man who constantly screws me with his eyes, the fact that you haven’t even bothered to kiss me makes me wonder if you’re all talk.”
He jerked upright so fast her breath caught. He took a step forward, then stopped, fists clenched against his thighs. Her senses screamed with the need for him to close the space between them. But he just clamped his gorgeous lips together and shoved a hand through his thick black hair.
Realizing he wasn’t going to come any closer made the insane need to feel his mouth on hers grow stronger. She watched him force control back into his body.
“We met thirty-eight hours and forty-six minutes ago, Bethany Green. I intend to extract a kiss from those bee-stung lips of yours for every minute of that time—when the time is right. I will kiss you till you beg for mercy. Then I’ll kiss you elsewhere, right between your legs. I intend to eat you for hours, until you beg for my cock. And then I will fuck you until you pass out from screaming my name. And if you think those are just words, that I don’t intend to rock your fucking world, then I feel sorry for you. Because the reality will blow your goddamn mind.”
Her mouth was still gaping open after he’d turned on his heel and left. It was only the sound of his door slamming from across the hall that roused her from her stupor.
In a semi-daze, she stared around the room, unfocused and unsteady. She stumbled to the exquisite divan and collapsed into it.
Without a doubt, Zachary Savage had a way with words. And she was discovering her body had developed a unique and heady way of responding to those words. She looked down and cringed when she saw her nipples erect, aching and clearly visible through her top.
“God!” Disgusted with herself, she jumped up and headed for the suite’s bedroom.
By the time the sweet, middle-aged masseuse appeared fifteen minutes later, she’d talked herself down from the raging, sex-depraved stranger she’d become and back to being the normal, sex-deprived woman she was used to.
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