‘Submission of the Siren’ by Bella Settarra
Sirens and Sailors #3
When
Kalliope’s boredom leads her into the arms of another man, Rechavia’s reaction
jeopardises the future of Refrainia. As
they struggle to save their beloved homeland and their relationship, Rechavia
has to decide whether he can ever trust Kalliope again. Will she submit to his
demands or will his dominance scare her away forever?
Kalliope misses her life as a Siren, and begins to
resent all the changes to her beloved homeland, the ancient Island of Refrainia. Disgruntled and bored, she finds herself
attracted to the charms of wealthy businessman, Zigor Durango.
When her handsome boyfriend, Rechavia, catches them in a compromising
position, he humiliates Durango,
banishing him from the island. The
interloper plots his revenge, and arranges to take over Refrainia, ousting the
islanders from their home. With his
wealth, position and some surprising contacts Durango appears unstoppable.
When Kalliope
takes matters into her own hands she ends up stranded on Eastland with two of
her friends. With nowhere else to spend
the night, their only option lies in Durango’s
bedroom.
As they battle
to save the island, Kalliope and Rechavia also battle to save their
relationship. But can the beautiful
Siren ever be trusted to stay faithful?
And will Rechavia’s natural dominance bring Kalliope to her knees or
scare her away forever?
Available From http://www.bookstrand.com/submission-of-the-siren
Review:
This is one of those series books that you really need to read the previous books to get all the details and understand some of the conflict. Before you start delving into Submission Of The Siren, be sure to pick up the first two books.
Kalliope has been a siren her entire life. Big changes have come to the island of Refrainia. Sailors have moved in with the sirens and are settling down, setting up agriculture, and making a home for themselves. However, not everyone is thrilled with this prospect of domestic bliss and Kally is a the ringleader. Oh, and by the way, she doesn't think Rech is giving her enough sex.
This book makes an acceptable read for those long carpool lines or the seemingly endless hours of waiting on the kids to finish practice. The language is graphic, meaning don't use the text to speech, but the scenes aren't overly rough. There is a BDSM label on the cover, and there are moments later in the book where Kally and Rech have some Dom/sub play, none of which should be a problem for the average romance reader. The kink is there but not over the top. I did have a bit of a problem with some of Kally's pre-submission behavior, but she did atone for her actions. I give Submission of the Siren three and a half stars.
About
the Author
Bella’s
love of writing started at a
very young age. While at Junior School,
she was once asked to write a story that was to be displayed on the window due
to lack of wall space (remember Portakabins?)
Unfortunately, once she gets going she tends to run with an idea right
up until the conclusion – and it has to have a happy ending! The story was so long it covered several
windows and caused a blackout in the tiny classroom!
She is
British and lives in the beautiful English countryside with one of her three
gorgeous daughters and her wonderful husband, often referred to as her “current
husband” just to keep him on his toes!
They live in
a big haunted house therefore Bella’s housework is never done as the ghost
keeps moving things around - the bedroom isn’t the only place where things go
bump in the night ;)
Open top cars
and country music are among Bella’s favourite things and her fondness of
shopping is only surpassed by her love of Châteauneuf-du-pape.
‘Sirens and Sailors’ is Bella’s first series,
she hopes you like it!
Bella would
love to hear from her readers. Connect
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Story Excerpt
“How did you
get on?” Ligia was excited, though
surprised, at the sudden change in her friend.
Kalliope
opened her mouth to answer, then looked over at Rechavia, who sat opposite her
on the ground. How had she got on? He hadn’t
said whether he approved or not.
“She
did a great job.” Rechavia grinned,
nodding to her. Kalliope flushed again
and sighed with relief. She looked down,
unable to keep her hold on his gorgeous stare.
He chuckled. She loved that
sound, deep in his throat.
“That’s
good.” Ligia chirped on, a little taken
aback at the exchange between the couple, but very glad that they seemed to
have worked things out. “I’ll show you
how to cook later, if you like.”
Kalliope
never thought she would be so grateful, but she was. “That would be wonderful.” She found herself looking up at Rechavia
for—what—approval? Maybe.
She was pleased when he nodded anyway.
“What
did Eban say?” Aitan turned to Rechavia
as Ligia poured the green tea.
“Some
asshole has applied to the People’s Government of Eastland to buy this
island.” Rechavia’s good mood seemed to
dwindle as he recalled their conversation.
“Can
they do that?” Aitan asked, astounded.
“Eban’s
Dad’s looking into it for us. Apparently
it made front page news, even on Westland.”
“So
the press already know about it? How the
Hell did that happen?” Aitan’s eyes
widened.
“I’ve
no idea. There were photographs all over
the paper, and an article about the changes we’ve been making to the island.”
“They’re
recent photographs then? Not the ones
they took last time?”
Rechavia
hadn’t realized that. “Yep, someone’s
taken some very recent pictures, including the fields, the whole landscape and
the flowers. They’ve been very
thorough.”
Ligia
and Kalliope exchanged a look of horror.
“D-do
they know who put the application in?”
Kalliope asked timidly.
“Eban’s
going to find out, we hope.” Rechavia
sounded calm but angry. “The paper just
said it was some rich businessman with enterprising new ideas for the
place. Eban reckons if someone’s buying
up the whole island it will be to make money on, not to live on. We’ll all be out of a home soon.”
“That
won’t happen,” Aitan assured them, seeing the girls’ looks of dismay. He shot a look to Rechavia. Scaremonger!
“You’re
right there, bro’,” Rechavia concurred, “we’ll fight this tooth and nail.”
Kalliope
wasn’t quite sure what that meant, but it sure didn’t sound good. A feeling of dread was already building up in
her stomach. It didn’t take a genius to
guess who was taking photographs of the island recently, and the wealthy
businessman could only be one person.
Rechavia would go mad when he found out!
Ligia
got up to clear away the breakfast things, and Kalliope was suddenly aware of
Rechavia’s eyes burning into her. She
looked over. He looked expectantly at
her. What?
He
looked at Ligia then back at her. Oh!
“Let
me help,” she got to her feet and took the rest of the dishes from the
table. Ligia looked at her, amazed, and
then grinned. “Thanks,” she said, and
showed her where to put the pots.
Kalliope
glanced over at Rechavia and got a nod of approval. Yes!
“Will
you show me how to make flatbread?”
Kalliope asked Ligia, loud enough for the others to hear.
Maybe if I keep him happy he won’t be too mad when he
finds out who’s behind the takeover!
While
the girls were washing the dishes and clearing up, the men set off to work.
“We’ll
be in the woodland for a couple of hours, darlin’” Aitan announced, giving
Ligia a big hug. “We’ll come back for
lunch.”
“OK.”
Ligia promised with a smile, “I’ll have it ready.”
Rechavia
kissed Kalliope and gave her a big squeeze before gathering up some tools and
marching off towards the woods.
“Oh
my God!” Ligia exclaimed as soon as the
men were out of earshot. “Benat must
have taken those pictures. He asked all
sorts of questions about the island. I
never thought, I just told him everything!”
Kalliope,
who had automatically felt responsible for the fiasco, suddenly realized that
perhaps she wasn’t solely to blame.
“What
did he ask you?”
“He
was mainly interested in the flowers. He
asked how much they were worth. I told
him I didn’t know exactly, but I knew it was a lot. Do you think that’s what they want it
for? The flowers? He did say it was a shame we’d planted so
much fruit and vegetables—I don’t know what they expect us to eat!”
“That
makes sense if they don’t want us living here.
If they just want to grow the flowers and sell them they could make a
lot more room by tearing down our huts.
And if no-one lived here they wouldn’t need to grow food, so they could
go back to growing nothing but the flowers here.” Kalliope’s mind was in a whirl.
“Is
Zigor rich?” Ligia asked.
Kalliope
thought for a moment. She knew damn well
he was loaded. His smart clothes,
quality beer, lovely food—just the fact that he had managed to take the journey
to the island and back two days in a row suggested that he was rich enough to
own his own ship. And what about the
things he had told her? He had a big
house. He was willing to take care of
her if she wanted to join him on the mainland…
“Kally?” Ligia’s voice pulled her from her thoughts.
“Umm,
I dunno. We never really discussed
it.” She lied.
“Well
what did you discuss? He seems to know enough about the island to
want to buy it.”
“We…er…didn’t
really spend much time talking, if you know what I mean.” Sometimes
it was handy that everyone knew you were a slut!
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