Title: Jack’s Back
Series: Indiscreet 02
Author: A.C. Katt
Genre: D/s, Mystery
Length: Novella (117pgs)
Publisher: ManLoveRomance (15th February 2013)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥2½ – 3Hearts
Reviewer: Pixie
Blurb: Jim Menetti was Reed Davis’s sub until Reed’s old flame Jack came back. Jim picks himself up and makes a life for himself apart from his job at Indiscrete. He even begins to date but then Reed changes his mind.
Jim Menetti had a life at Indiscrete, the Gay BDSM club owned by Bear Drummond and Reed Davis. His life revolves around Reed, his Master, and his position as manager of the Club. On Jim and Reed’s third anniversary, Jack Leary, Reed’s on and off flame comes back and Jim’s relationship with Reed unravels. Jim picks himself up and makes a life for himself apart from his job, he buys a home, makes it a cozy retreat and gets a cat he names Waltzing Matilda. He even has a new love interest, the mysterious Professor Caleb Brickner, an expert in the Spanish Inquisition and medieval torture. Then, Reed changes his mind.
Purchase Link: http://www.mlrbooks.com/ShowBook.php?book=AK_JBACK
Review: Jim loves his Master, Reed and is making a wonderful anniversary cake to mark their third anniversary. But, he is scared to death, because Reed didn’t come home the night before and Jack’s back. Brian and Bear (from A Matter of Trust) help Jim to pick up the pieces of his life and start afresh. But, just when his life is looking up and a new man walks into his life, Reed decides that he might have made a mistake.
This is a story that has a few surprises in store for us, but is disappointing if you were expecting BDSM. Jim has been Reed’s sub for three years and he thought that everything was nearly perfect between them. But, when Jack, Reed’s ex, comes back to town Jim is dumped and slowly begins to rebuild his life. When he meets Caleb he thinks that he just might have struck gold. But, it isn’t long before a shadow hangs over them and Jim begins to have his doubts. Reed has a past that haunts him and he truly believes that Jack is the only one who can accept him the way he is. But, he begins to think he has made a mistake and he realizes what he threw away when he let Jim go.
Jim is the character to watch in this story as he has a lot hidden up his sleeve and he is far from the twink we first imagine him to be. Reed is a character that you hate and then warm up to, as you learn just what in his past haunts him. You still find it hard to forgive his treatment of the wonderful Jim, but you begin to understand what drives him. The storyline is interesting with the mysterious Caleb and his overpowering nature and Bear and Brian are wonderful friends to Jim. The only disappointment that I truly had, was there was no BDSM or anything like that really. It was mainly focused on Jim’s new man and on Reed’s handling of his past.
I will recommend this if you love complex men and their emotional difficulties, mysterious dangerous men, hidden depth’s, admitting your faults and finding forgiveness and love.