Driven by Fate by Tessa Bailey (Serve #5)
Erotic Romance/Light BDSM
Entangled Brazen
Released: February 16, 2015

Reviewed by Sheena

Favorite Quote:  She’d worn Converse and ripped jeans to a BDSM club. Was she serious? 

Tessa Bailey is trolling the shit out of me.  That is  the only way this author can be so damn erotically hypnotic and good at these books. In the fifth installment of the Serve series, we meet our most explosive couple yet.  First, the cover is gorgeous! Loved it. Fit the character description to the letter.  In Driven by Fate, Francesca ‘Frankie’ DeLuca is a beautiful, proud,  cab driving firecracker who walks into Serve to stand her ground and pay her perceived debt to the proprietor.  What she didn’t expect was to be drawn into a room and owned by a mysterious dominant man who kindles her darker, hidden desires.

Porter Evans is a man with very specific erotic tastes who is under no circumstances interested in ushering a new babe into the BDSM woods.  arrogant, sexy (British!!) and detached from emotions, Porter catches sight of Frankie watching and obviously teetering on the brink of exploration and quite literally can not help himself from taking a taste.

Every line of his body was tension-filled…

When he spoke in a taut, yet smoky, British accent, the tumbling stilled instantly. Everything inside her went still. “If you choose to stand there much longer, you will be punished for your lateness.”Golden eyes locked on her. “Choose wisely.”

Besides being the most erotic book I’ve had the pleasure to read in 2015, Driven by Fate brings two people together who really have to work at being together, resulting in the most realistic HEA erotica has seen lately.  Frankie and Porter challenge each other’s limits and bulldozed one another’s walls.  Porter is autocratic and controlling but with a desire and draw to Frankie so strong that he breaks every rule for her.  Begrudgingly at first and then without pause as he falls in love with her.  Frankie hordes her independence and willful nature, determined to have her dream female empowered transportation business come to fruition while raising her coveted “big silly family”- yet, she is on the cusp of tossing it all away with both hands should it mean a chance at a forever where Porter owns her body and soul.

Porter and Frankie crash together just as often as they smash apart.  One extreme is just as explosive as the other.  I love that Bailey does not demonize Porter to garner sympathy for Frankie. There is no gratuitous douchebaggery for the sake od redemption.  Even when he hurt her, he wore his own pain.  There is nothing I did not enjoy about this naughty pleasure.  There was a shaky plot point here and there but dammit IDGAF, it all worked together in this erotic masterpiece.  So what if Porter was far more permissive than a dominant of his stature should have been.  Who cares if her drive to enter Serve was a little hokey?  He was enraptured and for all it’s weakness, her initial motivation eventually got her right where she was destined to be…on the receiving end of a delicious clit spanking!

“Spread your legs. I’d like to know the exact color of your pussy before I make it cry.” He rewarded her…quick, harsh smacks that caused that luscious button of flesh to swell with each strike. She came.

I’ve put forth a herculean effort to keep the gushing at bay and not completely fan girl out. So, I will just give you what you have been undoubtably been waiting for…

“I will chase you down, overpower you, and ram my cock as deep as you can take it. I’m going to leave your innocent white panties on while I do it, too. I want a reminder that I’ve got an eager young beginner spreading her legs for me.”

Her sexy, panting breaths warmed his neck. “That’s…that’s what I want.”

Porter unbuckled his belt and whipped it through all five loops of his pants with a woosh. “I’m giving you a ten second head start.”

*Please ignore my heavy-lidded eyes under my sweat soaked brow and the fine sheen across my flushed skin. Gulp….* Oh and relax, it’s not remotely rapey, just a dom letting his willing and enticed sub know the score!

“Yes. More, more. More.”“More, more,”he repeated. “You don’t hate me so much once I’ve stuffed you full of my cock. Isn’t that right, Francesca? We’ll have to make sure you spend a lot of time with your legs spread so you don’t forget.”

*Cue incoherent babbling that universally conveys: YES!!!!!*

The sexy times are mind-blowing. I suspect  I may need a grey matter transfusion.  *Fans self!*  Those wary of BDSM will not be overwhelmed or intimidated by Driven by Fate.  Tessa Bailey treaded the dark erotica line like a pro.  The BDSM moments are light enough to appeal to the curious amateur submissive with enough bite to appeal to any naughty reader.

Grade: A

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