Richard Doyle is a star on his semipro rugby team and a self-avowed ladies’ man, but he knows something is missing. Caught up in his ultra-masculine world, he’s resigned to making the best of his limited life—until an injury on the field brings him to the office of physiotherapist Alan Jennings and he feels the touch of a Master.
Alan Jennings isn’t looking for love when Richard walks into his office, but something draws him in, and Alan senses that Richard’s sexuality is coiled like a vibrating spring just under the surface.
The sex is amazing, but Alan will have an uphill battle if he means to convince Richard to trust him and to indulge fantasies that are taboo in his world. It will take all of Alan’s patience and careful dominance—and a visit to friends in Cornwall—to convince Richard to embrace his new erotic identity as a submissive gay man and to trust the found family that comes with it.
Review By Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
Richard Doyle plays on a semi-pro rugby team and has received an injury to his shoulder that could keep him from the semi-finals in three weeks. The doctor at the Emergency Room recommended he go to a sports therapist and gave him the name of Alan Jennings.
His first meeting with Alan led to more than Richard could have ever expected. Alan gives him a massage that extends to his privates and Richard has no objection despite him being known as a ladies’ man. Each meeting with Alan goes further and further in a sexual way and each time Richard finds himself not stopping it or walking away.
Alan is quite dominant when they have sex and once again Richard finds himself liking it. He always felt there was something missing when he had sex with women and never thought it was possible that he was gay or bi, but he is about to learn to not put names on what you are, and he is yet to learn how far his relationship with Alan will go.
A trip to Cornwall to see Alan’s friends Graham and Ali will introduce him to the full extent of BDSM. Ali is a submissive and begins to teach Richard everything he needs to know about being a slave in a Dom/sub relationship. Richard wants to learn everything and try everything, his education is just beginning.
In Graham and Ali’s playroom Richard is introduced to the tools of the trade, so to speak. Richard is into everything, the whipping the sex and total dominance. He is a very anxious pupil ready to learn everything from Ali who is taking him in hand to teach him what is expected to him.
The entire book relates to the BDSM relationship and there are explicit acts of sex. A man who believed he was straight it now learning about being gay and being submissive. His only problem is how to reveal what he has learned to his rugby team, his best friend Tom and his parents. Richard is experiencing an awakening to what he really is.
Hands of Power 
