Asking for It

This is who I am. This is what I want. Now I need a man dangerous enough to give it to me.

Graduate student Vivienne Charles is afraid of her own desiresashamed to admit that she fantasizes about being taken by force, by a man who will claim her completely and without mercy. When the magnetic, mysterious Jonah Marks learns her secret, he makes an offer that stuns her: they will remain near-strangers to each other, and meet in secret so that he can fulfill her fantasy.

Their arrangement is twisted. The sex is incredible. Anddespite their attempts to stay apartsoon their emotions are bound together as tightly as the rope around Viviennes wrists. But the secrets in their pasts threaten to turn their affair even darker...

Reader Advisory: Asking for It deals explicitly with fantasies of non-consensual sex. Readers sensitive to portrayals of non-consensual sex should be advised.