Jane & the Sneaky Dom | Hannah Murray

Jane & the Sneaky Dom | Hannah Murray | Jane & the Sneaky DOM - Hannah Murray

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Jane & the Sneaky Dom

	Jane & the Sneaky Dom Hannah Murray Ellora's Cave, 2005 - 194 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Drastic times call for drastic measures, and Jane Denning's love life certainly qualifies as drastic these days. She's had a string of lousy relationships with Beemer driving, self-important yuppies that need a map and a guide to navigate a woman's body. Oh yeah, and who automatically defer to her on every decision. As a strong woman, she ends up walking all over them. BORING! She decides what she needs is a man who won't be so accommodating. One who will take control instead of giving it, demand instead of ask, command instead of cajole. One who knows what goes where when it comes to sex, for God's sake! But for a woman who's always been in charge, that's easier said than done. Enlisting the help of her best friend, together over ice cream, potato chips and chicken salad sandwiches, they hatch a plan to find the perfect man for this little experiment. As a career military man, Ian knows the value of being in the right place at the right time. So when he overhears Jane plotting with her friend in a crowded café, he's not above taking advantage of the situation, and sets about using all of his training to take the control she's so willing to give up. He has no trouble convincing Jane that he's the right man to give her a taste of what she's been missing for the short term. Trouble is, he figures out pretty quick that he doesn't want to just be her short term solution he wants to be there for the long haul. But Jane's leery of falling in love, and Ian's going to have to think fast and act faster if he's going to keep her around. Shouldn't be a problem for a sneaky Dom like him.

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sneaky dom

I wish I could find a man like Ian. To have a man treat me that way and to fulfill My darkest dreams I would finally find happiness. If only life could give me my dreams. Yes I will read it over and over.

Jane & the Sneaky DOM - Hannah Murray

What a wickedly delightful read!

Jane is a successful bookstore owner, but lately her sex life is a dud. What used to work for her just doesn't anymore and she's not sure why. So when her best friends suggest that maybe she needs to break away from her usual patterns, Jane decides to give it a go.

Ian can't believe his luck. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. So this gorgeous woman thinks she might like to try a little bondage? He's her man.

I enjoyed the way author kept the playfulness in the incredibly hot sex scenes. If you like light BDSM, but are turned off by thoughts of pain and extreme submission, then you should really give this book a try. This really was about what turned the two of them on while still concentrating on the growing relationship, respect, and trust between the two.

I'll be looking for more by this author.

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Jane and the Sneaky Dom

This book is a Must read... I loved it.. It catches you from the very beginning, and carries you all the way through.. I couldn't put it down until I read it from front cover to back cover.. Excellently written.. I highly recommend this book!!

Great Contemporary Romance!

To start out, things that bothered me in the book, were a few places where the dialogue was a bit overdone (a few too many "man's" and such), and one place where the writer has a politician carping about the horrendous state of popular fiction didn't ring true (t.v., yes, but I've honestly never heard a politician harp on popular lit.--except Huckleberry Finn, maybe *G*).

The editing was pretty good; only one error I noticed. And the story was very well done in all the ways that count with a reader. I'm not a big fan of contemporary romance, but this was really well written, in a Suzanne Brockman kind of style.

So, about the story:

Jane has worked hard to build her successful book-selling business. Along the way, she's managed to date more losers than Dorothy met on the yellow-brick bypath. And according to her best friend Lacey, they all have one thing in common: they're WIMPS! *G*

O.k., Lacey doesn't put it quite like that. *L*

But Lacey speculates that nice guys letting Jane call all the shots just doesn't ring her bell. Jane is a bit skeptical, but agrees to an outing to look for a gen-u-ine alpha male to test Lacey's theory. What neither of them knows is that the real article has overheard their conversation, and decided to make all Jane's fantasies come true.

Ian is retired military, now running his own security business, with all the hunky ex-merc hotness a reader could want. (Yessirreebub! *G*) When Ian shows up at the blues club where Jane and Lacey have gone to test Lacey's theory, all heat breaks loose in a STEAMY dance floor scene.

I had a bit of trouble wondering how this could take place on a dance floor and not get them arrested, but it was so hot, I just shrugged it off. (Yeah, it IS that hot! *G*) Anyway, they end up back at Jane's place, where Ian quickly takes Jane to her outer limits--and then some. *L*

An embarrassing moment with Jane's friend Lacey proves to be the catalyst where Ian knows Jane's a keeper. Then he finds out Jane's a committment phobic who's never allowed herself to get close enough to fall in love. Ian is determined to change that. But he knows he has to be careful or lose Jane for good. . .so he decides to wage war for his love, by all means sneaky and subtle. . .*G*

This well-balanced story caught and held my attention through the whole book. The dominance aspects are tasteful and playful, enjoyable and not overdone.

The story never veers over to the formulaic or boring, even when dealing with things that should be mundane, like trips to the zoo (where Ian takes her to ease her into getting to know him) and a visit Ian makes to Jane's office (hoo boy, don't get me started on that one!*G*).

And an interlude on the way to a party, in, of all places, Ian's garage, will leave you wiping the fog off your glasses (and maybe even heading to the nearest dealership. Kept thinking of that line from the movie True Lies, "The 'Vette gets 'em wet"--and the car's not even a Corvette.*L*).

The ending was good here--even though I didn't want this book to end! Left me wondering when the author's next goodie was due out? Soon I hope!

This book was not only up there on the hottie scale, the characters really cared about each other, and Jane and Lacey's friendship was really fun, with some great smart*ss dialogue. Ian has a tender and playful side that made him SOOO loveable, and he brings out this side of Jane as well, because he really likes her for who she is.

This book was so good, you can only wonder just how much room this author has left herself for improvement over the course of her career (and she'll have one, you betcha!). My answer: not much. She's stunningly good.

Hurry up with that next book, Murray! *G*

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What a great sneak!

This is a cute story, with a little bit of light BDSM. Not offensive at all.

Jane is a successful business woman, used to being in control, but complains about the men she dates not lighting a fire in the bedroom. She's having this conversation with her best friend at a local watering hole. Her friend suggests that she go our of her way to let the man take control - do the opposite of her normal tendency. Their conversation is overheard by a gentleman who happens to be a sexual dominant, and who happens to find Jane very attractive. So the games begin! Little does Jane know, the next time she's out at the club, that she's a target of this intrigued gentleman.

Things go well, fortunately for Jane, and the guy is to-die-for. He really is a gentleman and their relationship unfolds in a very happy way.

For me, the story should have been either a little shorter - it is a cute idea but probably not for 200 pages. Or there should have been more to the story. I don't mean contrived disagreements to stretch things out, but a little bit more to challenge their blooming relationship - like maybe a rival for Jane's affection. Nevertheless, this goes on my keeper shelf.

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