The Mistress, book #4 of the Original Sinners, by Tiffany Reisz is far more than an erotic novel though it delivers on that level in so many powerful ways. It is, as the prior novels before it in the series, even more about the people than the acts themselves. To put a finer point on it, you will be over 100 pages into this book before you come upon the first truly graphic sex scene.
Nora Schreiber is missing. Taken actually. Kidnapped from her fiancé's arms and stolen into the night. Her friends and lovers search in vain but slowly the truth of who has taken her becomes clear. Because Nora is far from a normal woman. A member of an exclusive dominatrix group and writer of erotic stories, Nora is loved and hated by many. Her master Soren, manager Kingsley, and fiancée Wesley soon learn who has Nora and why.
Soren's long dead wife and Kingsley sister Marie-Laure is back from the dead and has Nora in her grip.
..."Damaged, my brother called my husband. Broken. Lies, obviously. He wasn't broken. He was stronger than anyone I'd ever met. So I thought perhaps he was too strong to love me. Love makes one weak, makes one vulnerable. Perhaps he didn't love me because he would not allow himself to be so weak. But he was weak."
"Soren is not weak. Not now. Not ever."...
Reisz does much more than write exciting BDSM. She writes about the people who live these lives and how they think and feel. How for them, there is no other life. Theirs is the reality while the others who only live with safe sex are "vanilla". It is a glimpse deeper into not only the sexual practices they enjoy but their very souls as well.
...Dominants with boring day jobs earned respect with the power they created out of their own dignity and desires. Exquisite submissives - male and female - who laid themselves out on the altar of sacrifice and sexuality in order to find themselves at someone else's feet. Wesley always accused the people of her world of putting on costumes and playing dress-up. He had no idea that the suits and the ties and the beige pumps and navy slacks her people wore during the day were the real costumes that they shed when they came out after dark...
Under Marie-Laure's control, Nora is forced to explain her love for Soren. To tell the most intimate details of their lives. To explain how their sexual appetites drive them. Like a modern day Scheherazade, she tells the tales of her sex life with Marie-Laure's husband to keep herself alive one more day. To by time for Soren and Kingsley to find her.
Marie-Laure's anger and judgment is only matched by her curiosity as to why her husband Soren did not want her but wanted Nora instead. How the love of a wife could not satisfy him.
...Look, I don't give a damn about a wife or a mistress. I am who I am. I don't need paperwork to prove Soren loves me. I don't need paperwork to prove anything."
Paperwork...good word. It's the only thing that separates you from me. A wife is nothing but a mistress with paperwork. At least he loved you. He never even gave a damn about me..."
The Mistress is another exciting and incredibly well developed novel by Tiffany Reisz. The fact that it's erotica is just a bonus.
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