Title: You Are Mine
Author: Jackie Ashenden
Publisher/Year: St Martin’s Press 10/6/15
Length: 304 Pages
Series: Nine Circles #3
Overview
He’s master of the game.
Zac Rutherford is one of the most powerful and sought-after men in New York’s private club scene. Masterful and demanding, he attracts beautiful women willing to surrender to his every whim, every desire, and every command. But Zac is in love with one woman, and one woman only. She is his true passion-and sole obsession. A glorious angel in the flesh…who refuses to be touched by any man.
She doesn’t play by the rules.
Eva King owes her life to Zac. Seven years ago, he rescued her from darkness. Still, in spite of her attraction to Zac, she refuses to allow any man to touch her body, let alone her heart. But when a dangerous enemy from Eva’s past reappears, Zac is the only one who can save her-if she’s willing to bare her soul, shed her inhibitions, and surrender control…to him.
My Thoughts
This is yet another great continuation of the story that i’ve become quite engrossed with. where we had Gabriel/Honor’s story and Alex/Katya, we know that things have to get messy with Zac and Eva. the duo of the group that has a very interesting relationship and one that we know has so much more potential than what’s been revealed so far.
So where we left off in the series is with Katya/Alex coming back from Monte Carlo with information leading us to believe that it’s not Conrad who was in charge of all that’s bad and evil in the mission, but someone else – yet we don’t know who it is. We do know that there’s a mercenary named Elijah who’s close to whoever is the ring leader who’s warning them all off from their investigation, but we also know that all these alpha males aren’t scared so easily.
Meaning that it falls into the lap of Eva who’s one of the best hackers out there and Zac who’s got more connections than we can imagine because of his security company and some of the mercenary work that he’d done in a past life.
The journey here is one where we see Zac come to terms with what he’s been doing for the past 7 years – protecting Eva because of what she went through, even though he doesn’t know the full extent. They met through the fact that she was trying to hack into his computer system and needed to be saved so he did that and they’ve been close ever since. Because their club doesn’t probe into what makes each person into who they are, no one has a clear sense of what it was, but with the nature of some of the stuff that we’ve uncovered, sex trafficking and the like, we start to put the pieces together to know that perhaps that’s what Eva was going through before she was saved. The other bit too is that Zac isn’t just alpha, he’s a dom, and while that’s typical with this type of character, we know that he’s in love with Eva and wants to push her to open up even though he knows she’s terrified of all that.
So complicated isn’t even going to cover it. He gives her tough love throughout the story in the hopes of breaking her open so she can overcome her fears – not just for herself but to help everyone figure out who’s behind the casinos and the murders etc. She’s the one that can link it all since we learn that it’s likely the same man who held her captive. When we learn what that link is, and a few twists along the way, we know that there’s potential for their world to be blown up even more.
Where we get the great abilities of our author is not just in the complexity of the story and how well it’s been interwoven between each installment in the series, but the different nature of this romantic/sexual relationship that we see bloom between Zac and Eva. Each one of our couples has had their own niche – their unique bit to make it special, and this is no exception. The way that Zac controls and over powers Eva is intense, taking away her ability to do anything aside from just experience and it’s hot. I know that if it were me, i’d absolutely be into letting someone like Zac do all that stuff. You even have to feel a bit bad for Eva because regardless of her tough exterior, she really has no chance.
The twist that we have through everything though is Elijah – he’s a wild card since he is employed by the man that they want to take down, yet he seems to be on the side of the Nine Circles. I really haven’t figured that one out yet and i feel like there’s so much more to that story that we don’t even know. I have to get into the 4th book since i feel like it’s going to get even dicier knowing that it’s not a nine circles member being drawn in, but the best friend of Honor – who’s got ties to the whole story as well. So on that note – enjoy and have a great weekend!
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