Shadow Sorenson is a new king over a troubled world of vampires. With a rebel uprising at hand, Shadow reluctantly agrees with his brothers he is in need of a wife. If he joins with a human female, his powers would be elevated to a state that no rebel would be able to touch him. His throne would be secured and his clan protected. Now, he just has to convince his Chosen one that she wants to be Queen.

With a mage spell in hand, Shadow finds his Chosen working in a rundown BDSM shop. She's everything and more than he expected: A feisty spitfire of a woman, a perfect vampire queen.

When Regan wakes the next evening and finds herself married to a gorgeous, but arrogant, control freak, she wants out. She's been on her own for years and there is no way some guy whose kidnapped her, bit her, and forced her into an unwanted marriage is going to keep her. Her mind just has to keep telling her heart that, because every time he touches her, he seems to know her darkest fantasies and her needs better than herself.

Shadow's enemies learn he has a queen, and they want her dead. He learns that if his wife dies his powers would be nullified, and the kingdom would be at the hands of his enemy. Somehow he must convince Regan that being his Queen and he her Master, in and out of bed, is what she really wants. If he can keep her alive long enough?

DARK MASTER is book one in Tawny Taylor's new Master of Desire series. Ms. Taylor has done a great job introducing us to her new world of BDSM Vampires. I do love an Alpha Vampire, and they don't get anymore Alpha or dominant than Shadow. While the sexual interactions between the hero and heroine are provocative, I was somewhat put off by the hero's unexpected interactions with others in the book as a mode to force his heroine's obedience. I enjoy reading ménage relationships in erotic romance, but his interactions were used as a way to punish his heroine who he was supposed to be falling in love with. The book is smoking hot, but unfortunately, those scenes left me feeling unsettled.

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