{Review} Asking for More (Asking for It #2.5) by Lilah Pace (@LilahPace @BerkleyRomance)

The incendiary author of Begging for It and Asking for It again plunges readers into the shadowy depths of love, pain, pleasure and peril...

How far is too far?

Finally sure of each other's strength and love, Jonah and Vivienne continue to explore their darkest fantasies together. However, what should be a night of ecstasy takes a dangerous turn, injuring Vivienne. She shrugs off the incident, but Jonah is haunted by it, particularly by the fear that others may believe he abuses her, or even glimpse the truth of their erotic obsession.

Then Jonah receives a call from his younger sister, Rebecca, who's dealing with trouble of her own in South America. When Vivienne travels with him to aid Rebecca, she learns yet more about his tortured history—and Jonah opens up to Vivienne as never before. 

Can Vivienne help Jonah cast off the shadows of his past forever?

​Vivienne has been trying to return to normal after the vicious attack by the Austin Stalker.  Things seem to be right on track.  Her career as an artist has taken off and even her relationship with Jonah has grown in ways that she never expected.
 
They have become even closer and have discovered that they can connect intimately even when they’re not playing out their dark fantasies.  But when one small mistake during a scene results in injury for Vivienne – Jonah retreats into himself and she doesn’t know how to bring him back.
 
Before Vivienne can even try, Jonah’s sister – Rebecca – reaches out to him for help from Central America and now they must travel through continents and the pain of the past to finally put all of the ghosts to rest.

“Guilt shuts Jonah down, I realize. Rather than do more harm, he’ll pull back entirely. In some ways, that’s been my role in our relationship since the very beginning: the one who absolves him of guilt he shouldn’t feel, the one who allows him to start moving forward again. Without someone like that in his life, I think Jonah could easily become paralyzed by his past.

I’ve finally learned how to let the past go. But Jonah’s not there yet.
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Snuggling back against him, I pull Jonah’s arm more firmly around me. He waited a long time for me to work through my issues. I can wait for him too. As long as it takes.”

​When I first heard whisperings about this new series from Lilah Pace, I knew that I had to read it. But what I didn’t know at the time was that it was destined to raise the genre of Erotica to a whole new level!
 
The first two books took the controversial subject matter and infused it with an unexpected undercurrent of feminine strength and choice. In Asking for More, the story of Vivienne and Jonah comes full circle. They find their own kind of hard-won acceptance in the end that’s only possible when you truly love someone – demons and all.  And it’s that acceptance that makes these books so utterly iconic….

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