STORY DESCRIPTION

Detective Angela Martin returns to pick up the pieces of her life – and track down a killer – in the darkly erotic thriller HELPLESS, the sequel to the acclaimed erotica suspense tale TAKEN: Fatal Obsession Book 1.

In TAKEN, Angela found herself in the clutches of a BDSM master who knew exactly how to control her body and mind, to make her feel pleasure – mingled with a hint of pain and submission – in ways she had never imagined. Then women started turning up dead in her town of Moose Creek, N.C., bound and tormented in ways eerily similar to what Angela’s mysterious master had done to her, victims of a serial killer with a dark BDSM appetite.

Despite the danger to her life and career, Angela couldn’t stop herself – she kept going back to him, ostensibly to learn more about him as she investigated the deaths, but in truth because she craved his touch, his control. She belonged to him, body and soul, though her devotion had tragic consequences.

In HELPLESS, she is working through the guilt of having killed, the grief of having lost, trying to rebuild her life and career. She is driven to seek out darker, more dangerous sexual thrills, even when the bondage killer, or a copycat, returns to Moose Creek.

Her life is complicated when a writer from a national publication shows up in her town, determined to do a series of articles on the bondage killer, and her life. The writer turns out to be more than expected – touching Angela’s heart, her soul, pulling desires from inside her she thought dead.

But the killer, or a skilled, depraved copycat, resumes the killings, and soon Angela finds herself fighting not only for her career and life, but maybe to save those closest to her as well.