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    Sanctum: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella
    Sanctum: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella
    Sanctum: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella
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    Sanctum: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella

    By Lexi Blake

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    A contract broken...

    Ryan Church and Jill Paxon enjoyed their life as Master and submissive until the day Ryan's entire world crumbled. No longer able to fulfill his end of the contract, Ryan did what he thought was best for Jill. He let her go.

    An unexpected reunion...

    Eighteen months later, Ryan is working for Ian Taggart as the Dom in Residence at the elite BDSM club Sanctum when his former submissive walks through the door looking for a job. Jill has changed, but his desire for her is still insatiable. Jill, shattered by his past rejection, can't trust Ryan, but she needs the job. Back in the community where she once felt safe and secure, she longs for the life she lost and the man she loved.

    A last chance for love...

    Ryan is presented with an opportunity to restore his wealth and name, but it could cost him his last chance at rebuilding a life with the woman he loves. When the secrets Jill has carefully hidden from Ryan are exposed, a terrible twist of fate might take her out of his life forever.

    A Masters and Mercenaries Novella by Lexi Blake

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLexi Blake
    Release dateNov 9, 2016
    ISBN9781937608583
    Sanctum: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella
    Author

    Lexi Blake

    New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband and three kids. Since starting her publishing journey in 2010, she’s sold over three million copies of her books. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance that she found success. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings.

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    • 4/5
      I liked this novella, which is set in Blake's Masters and Mercenaries world. Even though it's short, it fills out the characters in an interesting manner.Worth owning.

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    • 4/5
      Since this is a novella the review won’t be very long. It is hard to write much about a short story since most of the time I don’t want to give anything away. This is the first time I have read about these characters. That doesn’t mean they haven’t appeared. Ryan Church probably has since he has been the manager of Sanctum for a little while. Ryan is a little slower than most men. He is a great guy he is just clueless through most of the book. He keeps making the same mistake in different ways. I was glad that he finally woke up and found a way to get Jillian Paxon back.Jillian is a smart and caring woman that needs to take a few lessons in what a good submissive is responsible for in a Dominate/submissive relationship. She is as responsible for these two breaking up as Ryan is. Jill has not had an easy life during the eighteen months that she has been away from Ryan. She is so stubborn that she won’t take any help from those that care about her. It takes her getting shot and a lecture from Ian Taggart for her to see that maybe she should give Ryan another chance.I loved Ian in this book. He has some of the funniest scenes I have read about him in a long time. I always expected that he was a matchmaker and a nosy, busy body and this book proves it. I loved the scene where he talks to Jillian after she has come home from the hospital. Very funny.This is a great short story and it reads very quickly. If you are a fan of Lexi Blake then you need to read this story.

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    Sanctum - Lexi Blake

    Praise for Lexi Blake and Masters and Mercenaries...

    I can always trust Lexi Blake's Dominants to leave me breathless...and in love. If you want sensual, exciting BDSM wrapped in an awesome love story, then look for a Lexi Blake book.

    ~Cherise Sinclair USA Today Bestselling author

    Lexi Blake's MASTERS AND MERCENARIES series is beautifully written and deliciously hot. She's got a real way with both action and sex. I also love the way Blake writes her gorgeous Dom heroes--they make me want to do bad, bad things. Her heroines are intelligent and gutsy ladies whose taste for submission definitely does not make them dish rags. Can't wait for the next book!

    ~Angela Knight, New York Times bestselling author

    A Dom is Forever is action packed, both in the bedroom and out. Expect agents, spies, guns, killing and lots of kink as Liam goes after the mysterious Mr. Black and finds his past and his future… The action and espionage keep this story moving along quickly while the sex and kink provides a totally different type of interest. Everything is very well balanced and flows together wonderfully.

    ~A Night Owl Top Pick, Terri, Night Owl Erotica

    A Dom Is Forever is everything that is good in erotic romance. The story was fast-paced and suspenseful, the characters were flawed but made me root for them every step of the way, and the hotness factor was off the charts mostly due to a bad boy Dom with a penchant for dirty talk.

    ~Rho, The Romance Reviews

    A good read that kept me on my toes, guessing until the big reveal, and thinking survival skills should be a must for all men.

    ~Chris, Night Owl Reviews

    I can’t get enough of the Masters and Mercenaries Series! Love and Let Die is Lexi Blake at her best! She writes erotic romantic suspense like no other, and I am always extremely excited when she has something new for us! Intense, heart pounding, and erotically fulfilling, I could not put this book down.

    ~ Shayna Renee, Shayna Renee's Spicy Reads

    Certain authors and series are on my auto-buy list. Lexi Blake and her Masters & Mercenaries series is at the top of that list... this book offered everything I love about a Masters & Mercenaries book – alpha men, hot sex and sweet loving… As long as Ms. Blake continues to offer such high quality books, I’ll be right there, ready to read.

    ~ Robin, Sizzling Hot Books

    I have absolutely fallen in love with this series. Spies, espionage, and intrigue all packaged up in a hot dominant male package. All the men at McKay-Taggart are smoking hot and the women are amazingly strong sexy submissives.

    ~Kelley, Smut Book Junkie Book Reviews

    Sanctum

    A Masters and Mercenaries Novella

    Masters and Mercenaries

    Book 4.5

    Lexi Blake

    Sanctum: A Masters and Mercenaries Novella

    Masters and Mercenaries, Book 4.5

    Lexi Blake

    Published by DLZ Entertainment LLC at Smashwords

    Copyright 2013 DLZ Entertainment LLC

    ISBN: 978-1-937608-58-3

    McKay-Taggart logo design by Charity Hendry

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights.

    This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or establishments is solely coincidental.

    Table of Contents

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Author’s Note

    An excerpt from Love and Let Die

    About Lexi Blake

    Also by Lexi Blake

    Chapter One

    Tell me something, Ryan.

    Ryan Church looked up from the documents he was reviewing and managed to avoid the long sigh that threatened. Ian Taggart stood in his office doorway, a frown on his face. The frown wasn’t a surprise. Ryan was pretty sure the big bastard never smiled. The fact that he was standing there, requesting a talk, was new. Ian Taggart almost never talked to him unless something had gone spectacularly wrong. What do you need, Mr. Taggart?

    Cool blue eyes rolled and Ian stalked across the office like the predatory animal he was. Ryan had worked with sharks before, but none of those Wall Street assholes ever made him wary the way Taggart did. Those businessmen might be ruthless when it came to contracts and lawsuits, but Ryan was pretty sure Taggart had more than metaphorical blood on his hands. Yet, despite the man’s intimidation factor, he was one of the most honest men Ryan had ever met. And that damn straight meant something to him.

    You know you’ve been managing this club for almost a year now. I think you can call me Ian.

    Ryan set down the account books. All right, Ian. How can I help you?

    So polite. Ian stuffed his massive body into the only available chair in the office. Ryan couldn’t help but think about the fact that at one time his office would had been five times this size, with a spectacular view of downtown Dallas, and his desk had been big enough to fuck on.

    A vision of Jillian, her body spread across his desk and that sunshine smile on her face, assaulted him. He’d taken her right on top of his custom-built mahogany desk one sweet summer afternoon. He’d shoved his paperwork out of the way, ordered her to spread those long legs of hers, and feasted on her pussy right there in the middle of the day with his full staff working just outside the door.

    He forced the thoughts away because they were the past, and now he had a view of the back alley and a boss with a determinedly sarcastic view of the world. He waited because Ian would talk when he wanted to talk.

    I need to make a few things clear to you. You see, I thought since you’ve been in the lifestyle for so many years, that you would know how protocol in a club works.

    Fuck. What was this shit about? Ryan had been a Dom since he discovered the lifestyle at the tender age of nineteen. He and his frat buddies had visited a club to laugh at the freaks, and Ryan had only seen beauty and passion and a purity he’d looked for all his life. He’d quit the frat, found a mentor, and realized discipline was more than a word his parents used to rail at him. It was everything. He’d been a Dom for half his life, but he’d only been running a club since everything had fallen apart. What have I gotten wrong, Mr. Tag…Ian?

    Ian’s lips twisted up in his impression of a smile. It was arrogant and had every female in Sanctum panting after the big man. You’re the manager, but you’re also the Dom in Residence. You train the other Doms and help couples and run scenes with unattached submissives.

    He wasn’t telling Ryan anything he didn’t know. And?

    You can fuck the girls. He brought his hands up and made a deeply junior-high gesture. The penis goes into the vagina like this.

    It took everything Ryan had not to roll his eyes. The last thing he wanted was for his personal life to become club fodder. Of course, sex was on the menu at Sanctum every night. That didn’t mean he had to partake. He was on a diet. A starvation diet. What if I don’t want to fuck the girls?

    Okay. I went about this all wrong. I can see that now. Ian leaned forward, a serious look on his face. "You can fuck the guys. The gay ones that is. I wouldn’t try fucking the straight ones. They get irritable. Now, I haven’t done this one, but I think it’s similar. The penis goes into the anus

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