Two university students thrown together in the midst of a raging storm, one a Shibari expert, the other an instinctive submissive. As the flood waters rise, so does Kasinda's panic. When she allows Cree to use his expertise to ease her fears, she finds herself healing from the trauma of her past.The floodwaters may soon subside, but their passion for each other is just beginning to grow. Cree may be the rigger, but it's Kas who has his emotions in knots.
Rocco, isolated by his horrific past and imprisoned in the impenetrable cage of his own mind, knows how damaged he is. Resigned to a lonely fate, he finds solace in the bonds of a shibari rigger's ropes.Casey is determined to use her newfound rope skills to break through to the flawed, submissive Rocco. She knows her dominant personality and newfound expertise will benefit the young man, but her own childhood trauma may jeopardize teaching the anxious, introverted virgin the more intimate ways of rope and endanger the promising relationship between them.One night in a dungeon, two broken souls will be bound together.
"There's a moment when it comes to amazing books... where you realize that the book you're reading completely and irrevocably owns you... Surviving Raine] has that moment." - Ash the Book Snob As the captain of a schooner catering to the elite on the Caribbean Seas, Sebastian Stark does his best to avoid any human encounters. Interacting with people isn't his thing, and he prefers the company of a bottle of vodka, a shot glass, and maybe a whore. There's no doubt he's hiding from a checkered past, but he does well keeping everything to himself... ...until the night his schooner capsizes, and he's stuck on a life raft with one of the passengers. Raine's young, she's cute, and Bastian would probably be into her if he wasn't suffering from alcohol withdrawal. As the days pass, DTs, starvation, and dehydration become the norm. Even the most closed person starts to open up when he thinks he's going to die, but when she realizes their traumatic pasts are connected, it's no longer the elements that have Bastian concerned. He has no idea how he's going to Survive Raine. "Shay Savage's website almost cockily proclaims that she writes "Fiction with Teeth". HA Nothing cocky about the truth, my friends. I guarantee, that is maybe the *only* accurate way to sum up the dark, unsettling, exciting, unapologetic, fascinating, shocking, frank, graphic, primal, crude, sexy, at times horrific, consistently compelling experience that is Surviving Raine " -Elizabeth (Sweptawaybyromance.com) There are moments in Surviving Raine that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make your heart (and other parts) clench. This is one you will definitely want to put on your TBR list -Kassie and Lauren (fics2flicks.com)
For Matthew Rohan, every day is a struggle. Each task others complete without thinking is a challenge for him. Recently orphaned, he has to finish the last few months of high school and take care of his disabled sister on his own.When Mayra comes into his life, his comfortable routines implode. Matthew can't handle change, but Mayra is unrelenting in her quest to understand him, to show him acceptance and maybe even love. When she breaks through his shell, Matthew's world will never be the same again.An awkward boy with Asperger's Syndrome, a persistent girl who pulls him out of his isolated existence, and a lottery ticket that will change their lives forever.
