Boy, I had issues with this book, especially with Aidan, as you can tell from my status updates.

There's also some editing that should have been done better. Names were messed up, spelling, punctuation, etc (I've got them highlighted, so I'll be posting examples).

Lucas is a bar tender, together with his friend Ben, who is in a D/s relationship with his Dom William, a local club owner. Lucas is not into the scene, as he repeatedly says to Ben, to William and to Aidan, another Dom. 

Aidan is the one who caused me to rage a few times while reading this book. 

We initially meet Lucas at William's house, helping Ben get ready for a party. Lucas ends up tending bar for the night, and is drawn into a poker game in which he loses a bet with Aidan, and then ends up going home with him. 

Aidan has a reputation for never getting into a relationship with a sub, and only doing one scene per sub, ever. He promises Lucas a night he'll never forget and certainly delivers on that part - the first scene is very hawt (*fans self*). 

Then Aidan does a stupid, cruel thing. He does this because he panics, and because he's scared.

From the blurb:

Captain Mike Kelley does not ignore his intuition, so when sexy bartender Will Hayes captures his heart, Mike embarks on a mission to win him over to a Domestic Discipline relationship. Will accepts with one caveat: Mike must promise not to renew his Army contract. Mike agrees, and they spend a year building a life together, getting married, and starting a business. 

Only days before their café’s grand opening, Mike receives news that threatens everything he and Will have built. The Army invokes the Stop Loss military policy to involuntarily extend his commission and send him back overseas. Will, left alone to cope with the café, must rely on the support of old friends who may no longer be trustworthy. Through emails and Skype calls, Mike and Will keep their love and structure alive…until the day a horrific terrorist attack occurs on Mike’s outpost. 

Mike awakens in a hospital with a devastating injury and no memory of the attack. As the only survivor, Mike’s memory may be the key to national security. Mike struggles to cope with his injury and Will struggles to support the man who always held him up. Both fear they have lost their previous relationship. Will has Mike back rather than a folded flag, but in the aftermath of war, can they rebuild the life they had before? Especially when those closest to them may not have their best interests at heart?

Not a bad story in this book, and I liked the DD relationship between Mike and Will, which was depicted really well, and also touched on some of the outside perspectives of it, but the sex scenes were ruined for me with language that was often ridiculous.

For example....

Page 32 of 199: "Their hips bucked, pressing throbbing members together."

Page 35 of 199: "He anchored himself with a hand to Will's shoulder as they pumped, squeezing the white juice from their bodies."

Page 46 of 199: "...unique salty sweet taste of the trickling pleasure fluid."

So, no me gusto the sexy times. 

But wait, there's more!!