Madeline "Maddy" Stone has been living in Paradise, Nevada for a year waitressing at Joe's Diner. Maddy is seeing a therapist after her sister's death from an auto accident with Maddy as the driver. Upon advice of the therapist to create a "bucket list" of her fears in helping with her healing, Maddy begins in Vegas at a casino bar intending to start her tasks with the poker tables. This is the beginning of the most passionate and astounding events of which Maddy would never have dreamed possible.

Spying the lovely young woman at the bar, Alex Fraser is driven to engage her in conversation. Thus begins the casual friendship which quickly turns to provocative and overwhelming passion for both. Alex owns the casino and besides being totally hot, is also totally rich. For some reason, Alex prefers the gentle woman with an abundance of spirit to the Vegas beauties at hand. Maddy is introduced to exotic sex from Alex's darker desires of BDSM. Both with deep secrets they are unable to reveal, they enter the dark and erotic world of forbidden sex. Maddy begins to realize that Alex is able to take her secrets of the past and put them away. The more she works towards becoming a subservient to his Dominancy, she becomes more and more reliant on Alex's lifestyle to forget her own. Without their hidden secrets being revealed to each other in pursuing complete trust, the one thing Maddy needs might not become reality.

I seldom read BDSM as it is not something I am comfortable with, however, Madeline's trek from the quiet troubled woman to a self- reliant and confident woman she becomes is a good story. The world of a dominant is a complete new view of life but something that this woman found she needed. BLUSH was well written and certainly gives a lot of information concerning this dark and erotic style of life. The rich and famous lifestyle of a handsome and sexy man is always an exciting read!