Aidan O’Malley walked away from his fiancée, Lexi, and their best friend, Lucas, after a night of passion left him shaken to his core. Years later, Aidan returns home from Iraq haunted by all he has lost. The enemy broke his body, destroying his dreams of a career in music. Worse still, he lost Lexi and Lucas. That damage he’d done all by himself. While he can’t restore what combat took from him, he’s determined to reclaim the two loves of his life.
Lucas Cameron is a changed man. After connecting with his brother, he found the discipline to get his life on track. His legal career is flourishing, but his love life is a train wreck. The woman he loves is spiraling out of control. After Aidan abandoned them, Lucas and Lexi clung together but no matter how hard he tries, Lucas can’t find a way to heal the wounds that Lexi carries.
Lexi Moore feels like a jigsaw puzzle with too many missing pieces. Losing Aidan was hard, but the true reason for her shattered spirit is a secret she only shares with her beloved Lucas. She knows she is drowning and the time has come to heal, but the holes in her heart hold her back from moving on. Shedding the burden she carries is her only hope for a happy future, but she fears she will never have the strength to reveal her secret.
When Aidan walks back into their lives, Lucas and Lexi know everything is about to change. But as they fight to reconcile their past and reclaim what they lost, a vicious predator stalks Lexi. In order to stop the killer, all three must confront the secrets they’ve carried…before they’re buried by them.
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My Review
I’ve read quite a few menage romances, and I’m always in awe of how a threesome finds balance in their relationship…how they deal with jealousy…with meeting each person’s demands equally…with judgmental people who aren’t afraid to shame and even crucify those involved in a polyamorous relationship.
A connection involving three people definitely seems to have a number of obstacles, and in Lexi Blake’s newest release, Siren Beloved, Aidan O’Malley, Lexi Moore, and Lucas Cameron experience more than their share of the highs and lows of loving more than one person, not only from those outside of their relationship but also from those involved because of their tangled past, Aidan’s conflicted feelings, and Lexi’s heartbreak over Aidan’s initial departure despite Lucas’ efforts to mend Lexi’s heart.
Siren Beloved allows readers to learn about and understand all three of the main characters in the story, and each one of them brings a different dynamic to their threesome, but the person who seems to be able to hold them all together, despite the fact that he left town the first time they experimented with their mutual attraction, is Aidan. Aidan wants to right his wrongs, fix the heartbreak he caused, and bring them back together in a way that will solidify their connection forever, and regardless of what he has to do to make that happen, he’s ready to fight…to battle his head, Lexi and Lucas’ disbelief, and anything else that gets thrown at the loves of his life.
Lucas is probably my favorite in the trio; he embraces who he is and he knows what he wants, and he works hard to give Lexi everything she needs, but he knows that without Aidan to guide both he and Lexi, they’ll never feel complete, and Lucas is strong enough to admit that fact because he most definitely wants to be dominated by all who Aidan is as well.
Lexi’s the wild card for me; she hasn’t dealt with her past, and it’s that idea that could destroy what is slowly being rebuilt between her and her two men. Don’t get me wrong, I loved her sass and her heart, but I worried about the situation she put Aidan and Lucas in and worried it would be a point of contention for all of them.
I liked how Lexi Blake brought this threesome back together after Aidan fled from his true feelings because it’s exactly what Lexi and Lucas need for their relationship, and it gives Aidan the opening he needs as well to make things right between them.
Siren Beloved is an emotionally charged second chance romance; I was pleasantly surprised by the depth of feelings exposed and explored in the storyline. The situation that Aidan, Lexi, and Lucas are in is definitely strained and tenuous, so care must be taken and watching it all play out allowed me to truly understand what was at stake for all three of the characters and what they were all willing to do to reclaim the ones that have always been theirs despite the distance and the hurt feelings caused.
4.5 Poison Apples
Excerpt
Lexi realized she was in serious trouble the minute the words left Lucas’s mouth. Hell, she’d realized she was in trouble the minute she opened her mouth. What was she thinking? She knew damn well how to behave in a dungeon, but something about this Master made her want to push him. Damn it. She’d been this way all of her life. She had to push. She thought about taking a step back, but before she could make her feet move, Master A had her in a fireman’s hold.
“Hey!” She shouted as her world upended. She turned her head up to throw a desperate look Lucas’s way.
Lucas stood there, a stony cold look on his face. In that moment, he was all Dom, and she’d never seen him look hotter. There was a confidence about him she had rarely seen when he was around her. Lucas was utterly in command at work, but his surety faltered when she walked into the room. Even when he performed a scene with her, she knew he worried about her comfort. He didn’t look worried now. He looked ready.
Her heart started to pound as Master A turned, and she lost sight of Lucas.
“I need a chair, Lucas.” The words came out of the Master’s mouth like a judge delivering a sentence.
“Yes, Sir.” Lucas’s words were silky smooth. There was not a hint of hesitation now. She could hear him moving to do Master A’s bidding.
“What do you think you’re doing?” she asked, though she was a bit less hostile now. She’d fucked up. She was glad Julian wasn’t around to witness it, though Leo would probably tell him. Tears pricked her eyes. Damn, she was proving to Leo she couldn’t handle the lifestyle. “Look, Sir, I’m sorry. It was wrong of me to be rude to you, but I was merely pointing out that Lucas and I had a plan for tonight.”
Reason. She could reason with him, surely. It worked on all the men in her life. Of course, usually she was looking at them instead of trying to plead her case to a group of back muscles. The muscles were unbelievably tight, but his skin—oh, his skin had been decimated in his lower back. It was a mess of white, puckered flesh, and she could see both neat, surgical lines, and jagged edges. She reached out to touch the mass of scars, but she was jerked back over his shoulder and set on her feet before she could make it. She wobbled on her heels, but Master A’s big hands held her shoulders.
“I don’t think you understand how this is going to go, sub. I am the Master, and you are the one being punished. I won’t put up with a spoiled princess telling me how her punishment will go. It will go the way I say it will go. First, you will pay for the insult to me, and then we’ll proceed to the sawhorse.”
“I don’t like the sawhorse.” The words came out breathy and small, because she was beginning to understand that this was serious.
Master A didn’t look like he was planning on giving in. And she hated being called a spoiled princess, but a part of her worried that he was right. The last few years, she’d allowed herself to become spoiled and dependent. She’d fled from everything that hurt her. She’d hidden. She’d let her stepfathers and Lucas coddle and provide for her so she didn’t have to face the truth.
Master A didn’t flinch. “I don’t care. Lucas has done the best he can, but the truth is he wasn’t trained to be a Dom. He might enjoy it from time to time, but he prefers bottoming. You require a firm hand. If you don’t want it, then you’re free to leave. No one is holding you against your will. This is all about consensual play, so you have to make the choice. Do you want the session to continue?”
She hated this part. This was the part that she’d never understood. She had to make the choice, and she couldn’t put it off on anyone else. She wanted for him to simply do it. Then she could blame him later, but that wasn’t what The Club was about. She’d been coming here for over a year, and she finally had to decide to make the choice—stay and put herself in the hands of a stranger, or go and never know what it was like. And then there was the fact that Master A was right. Lucas needed something she couldn’t give him.
She cast her eyes down submissively. How bad could it be? “Yes, Sir.”
“Then strip.”
NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband, three kids, and the laziest rescue dog in the world. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance and urban fantasy that she found the stories of her heart. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings no matter how odd the couple, threesome, or foursome may seem.
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