Ice Queen, By Joey W. Hill
Pulished by Ellora's cave
Grade: B+

Back cover reads: They call her the Ice Queen. At the exclusive BDSM club known as The Zone, Mistress Marguerite is a legend. Tyler Winterman has been fascinated with her since he's known her, though the rules of their world say they shouldn't share more than mutual admiration. He is her male counterpart, one of the most powerful male Doms practicing at The Zone.

Due to a computer error, Marguerite lacks the mentoring program stipulation required of all Zone Doms, which includes spending a number of hours learning about BDSM from the submissive's perspective. Tyler considers it an act of fate that Marguerite chooses him to be the Dom who helps her fulfill that requirement. He is convinced she is a "switch", a closet submissive, but the truth will be even more remarkable than the theory, changing their lives in ways neither of them anticipates.

Having no equal except one another in their skills at stripping a sub's defenses bare, these two Dominants will turn their considerable talents on each other and discover that who is Master and who is slave doesn't matter, not when two souls have found their mate.

This is the first part of the story. You have to purchase both books or else you are left with a cliff hanger, not knowing how the story ends.

Marguerite is a Domme who goes to The Zone. She is the most sought after Mistress. Tyler is part owner and top Master at The Zone. Both of them had a part in Mac and Violet's story. Violet and Tyler are best friends, so Mac and Violet showed up a lot here.

Marguerite asked Tyler to help her fulfill all the requirements in order to stay a member of the Zone. The requirement is for her to see it all through the eyes of one of her submissives. She doesn't want to do it, she doesn't see the point of it or think that it will help her be a better Mistress. After all, she is the most famous Mistress at The Zone.

Tyler convinces her to spend the weekends with him at his house, and is surprisingly gentle with her. He doesn't make her call him Master, he insists she looks him in the eye anytime they speak and of course he gives her a safe word. I forget what it was, but it had something to do with tea. Marguerite owns a tea room and is very into the art of tea. She teaches him about tea, and he breaks her in a sub.

She starts to get very upset when she realizes how easily she submits to Tyler. She is shocked that she enjoys it so much, and Tyler is thrilled about it. He has had the hots for her for a long time, but never thought a relationship was something that could happen between the two of them.

When Marguerite discovers that not only does Tyler care deeply for her, but she also cares for him. she can't handle it though and she retreats and gets mean. Tyler wants to know about her and be with her but she just pushes him away. There is something scary in Marguerite and Tyler knows it has to do with her past. She has scars on her body that she wont talk about, and she very easily reacts with violence in threatening situations. She beat the shit out of a drug dealer with a bat, she fought really hard against a mugger, she even broke the rules of The Zone when she went too far with a sub. She found out that he was abusing one of her other subs, and she almost cut his penis off. The Zone security stopped her before it went that far.
We know her anger comes from something that happened to her in her past. We don't find out what happened to her in this first part of the story, except that it's horrible and has scarred her emotionally and physically for life.

Marguerite went back and forth about Tyler. One day she wants to be with him then the next day she doesn't. Naturally Tyler is annoyed, but he doesn't give up on her. In order to prove to her that he will do anything for her, he tells her that he wants the chance to submit to her. She agrees, and they set up a day and time at The Zone.

This is when it gets really interesting. She has him strapped down naked, spread out and she just goes crazy. She starts to beat him, breaking all the rules about what is and isn't allowed to happen within the walls of The Zone. She takes all the pain within her and she lashes out at him while he helpless to do anything about. She beats the hell out of him. She goes on and on. It was hard to read the abuse she inflicted onto him.

Finally she stops has no idea what to do. Tyler is pretty calm about it though. He tells her it's OK and since he is still strapped down he guides her over to him. This part of the story ends with her holding onto him accepting that she can't Dominate him-that she doesn't want to. She wants him to Master her.

Mirror of my soul, By Joey W. Hill

Published by Ellora's cave

Grade: A

Back cover reads:

Some stories can't be contained between the covers of
just one book. In Ice Queen, Tyler helped Mistress Marguerite fulfill the
mentoring requirement The Zone club imposes on all its Dominant members, to
learn about BDSM from the submissive's perspective. Though Marguerite is one of
The Zone's most sought-after Mistresses, Tyler is convinced she is a "switch", a
closet submissive. But the truth that is revealed is more remarkable than
that.As he begins to unravel the complex and terrible layers of her past, Tyler
must do what he's never been willing to do before. Open up his own soul,
offering Marguerite his own dark places in order to help them both heal. Only
then will they be able to surrender to a force stronger even than The Zone's
most powerful Master and Mistress—a force that can bind them together
forever.

This second part of the story starts off right where the first part ended, so unless you read the first part you will be very confused and have no idea what is going on or who any of the players are. Great news is that this part starts off right where the first one left off.

We now learn everything that happened to Margarite when she was a child. From the age of 8-14 her father raped, sodomized and and put cigaret burns on her. He was a sick sonofabitch who has issues with his mother, so he took it out on his daughter. Asshole.

After Tyler finds out about her past he is more determined that ever to help her. Not only for her sake, but his own. Tyler's had a wife who commited suicide, and he feels guilt for that. He thinks that he should have been able to stop her and since he couln't, he wants to help Margarite.

Things just get more complicated when Tyler finds out that Margarite has a secret hidden sexual obsession. When she is alone she strangles herself into orgasm. That really makes Tyler angry and scared because he is afraid that she will get killed.

Tyler and Margarite finaly find happiness together and he asks her to marry him, but before she can yes their relationship is once again put to the test when Margarites father is let out of prison and comes after her.

This is a very powerful and romantic read. This here is a favourit part..

“Angel.” He pressed a kiss on the lid of each of
those confused blue eyes. “Since the time I’ve met you, you’ve set your own
style, your own way of doing things. You can call me anytime you want. Anytime.
Every second, every hour. And every time, I’ll answer the phone with the same
eagerness to hear your voice as I did a second before. I’m here. I told you that
last night. I’m not going anywhere.

Natural Law, by Joey W. Hill

Published by Ellora's cave

Grade: A

Back cover reads:

Mackenzie "Mac" Nighthorse is a highly respected
homicide detective and a career cop. There isn't a dangerous situation that can
back him down.However, the personal becomes uncomfortably entangled in the
professional when he goes undercover in a high class BDSM club as a male
submissive in order to find a Dominatrix who is winning the trust and then
murdering her chosen partners.

When his path crosses Violet Siemanski's, he
realizes he's found a Mistress willing to be his ally in finding the murderess.
But Violet is also going to shatter Mac's shields and make him question who he
is and what he wants, a challenge more disturbing than any case he's ever
worked.

This book is a head trip, and I loved it. Violet is a female Dominatrix who hangs out at The Zone. A BDSM night club. Mac is big sexy alpha male who is also a sexual submissive. Hmm, Interesting.

Mac works as a homicide detective who is working an undercover case. Some crazy Mistress (Mistress is a female Dom for those in the vanilla sex world) is killing her subs. Since Mac has been involved in the s/m scene for a long time it's only natural that he be the one to hunt down the killer.

While working the case he meets Violet and there is an instant attraction between the two of them. Violet wants to own Mac body and soul. Mac wants to let her.

The thing about Mac though, is that he is such an alpha male that he doesn't always submit to Violet. He talks back, he pushes her and boy does he ever make her mad. As she falls in love with him, Violet wants nothing more than for Mac to open up and be honest, to stop fighting her.

Violet is one powerful Dom. She breaks him down emotionally and physically. Nothing that any other Mistress has ever been able to do. In his role as sub he has never used a safe word. Violet is all about the rules of the game, so she gives him a safe word, and she wont give up until she makes him use it. When he finally does submit to her body and soul it's an amazingly gut wrenching moment. I breathed a big sigh of relief for the both of them.

There is some action in the book. Violet is shot and Mac takes extra special care of her. It was so sweet.

The killer attacks Mac and Violet and I really didn't think they would get away, but of course they did. You can't have the hero and heroine being killed off during their own love story.

I recommend this book to everyone. Especially those of you who think that BDSM is nothing but leather, whips and beating each other during sex. It's not that at all. This book will educate you.