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Run To You

Run To You, July 2013
by Charlotte Stein

HarperCollins
Featuring: Janos Kovaks; Alissa Layton
200 pages
ISBN: 0007530226
EAN: 9780007530229
Kindle: B00DFPDB2G
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"An erotically charged, yet compelling love story..."

Fresh Fiction Review

Run To You
Charlotte Stein

Reviewed by Rachel Williams
Posted January 28, 2014

Romance Erotica Sensual

In the oddly intriguing erotic short story RUN TO YOU, Alissa is just your everyday middle-class working girl in England. She finds the surprising and fascinating diary of her friend Lucy, along with a list of her sexual assignations. Curious, Alissa goes to the Harrington Hotel to find out for herself what Lucy found so delicious in these wicked rendezvous. What Alissa finds is the sophisticated Janos Kovacs, an uber-rich Hungarian businessman who takes quite the interest in her, both sexually and personally.

The first part of RUN TO YOU is all about how Janos leads Alissa into his sexual world and his particular kinky needs. Janos seems to know what she is thinking, and all her wicked feelings, even though she cannot express her desires to him verbally. He makes her feel desirable, even when she is not so sure of herself. He understands her needs better than she understands them herself, and stretches her limits further than she ever imagined possible. Janos is darkly seductive, talks dirty to her, and plays deliciously sexy mind games with her. He opens up a sexuality in her that she didn't know she possessed.

RUN TO YOU really opens up and takes off in the second half. Janos has taken Alissa only so far in each session, and keeps himself in tight control. Eventually, however; Alissa starts breaking down his emotional barriers and self- control. His loss of control when it comes to Alissa is a beautiful thing to read and see unfold. What is darkly erotic during their sessions becomes a sensual blaze when it turns into lovemaking. They are leaving the assignations behind and treading the edge of an emotional relationship, a place Janos is not sure he is capable of going.

RUN TO YOU is a lovely little tale about finding the one person in life who totally understands and can completely 'undo' us; and the compromises we make for the one we love. As with all Charlotte Stein stories, the prose is formal and a bit stilted, and takes a bit of getting used to. This is a writing trait of the author, but the underlying story more than makes up for that slight annoyance. Charlotte Stein has really outdone herself with this compelling sensual short story. RUN TO YOU works well as both a erotically charged tale of forbidden assignations and breaking down emotional barriers; and also as a tender, emotional love story.

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SUMMARY

Alissa Layton leads a dull and ordinary life, safe in routines, with no plans to escape. But when she meets businessman, Janos Kovaks, and is introduced to his kinky lifestyle, Allissa’s entire world changes…From Charlotte Stein, author of best selling Mischief titles ‘Power Play’, ‘Deep Desires’ and ‘Make Me’.Alissa uncovers a hidden world of secret assignations and kinky meetings between like- minded high fliers at an exclusive hotel. The businessman Alissa spies on seems far too handsome, sexy and worldly for someone like her, and he's into the kind of things she's not sure she can do.Janos Kovacs has spent so long indulging in emotion-less dalliances that he's forgotten what real passion is. But the more time he spends with Alissa, the less control he has over himself. By the time he's finished teaching how deliciously naughty sex can be, he might be the one learning the lessons


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