Title: The Fetish Queen Part 1:  Reborn
Author:  Nicole Camden
Publisher/Year:  Pocket Star 4/22/14
Length: 181 Pages
Series: The Fetish Queen #1

Overview

Newly single and loving every minute, Lille—a.k.a. the Fetish Queen—is unleashed and ready to dominate in the first chapter of the sexy, enticing Fetish Queen series.

Blond, buxom, and bold, pin-up girl Lillehammer Marceaux can get any man she wants, but she leaves her fiancé to move to Florida and run a sex shop called The Fetish Box, owned by her best friend. She immediately clashes with Max Jobman, the rough-hewn tattooed Irishman who owns the local pub. Not a very trusting man, Max is convinced she’s a spoiled beauty who’ll stay just long enough to find a rich husband. He quickly learns that Lille isn’t interested in a husband; she’s focused on making the business a success—but that doesn’t stop her from thinking about what an excellent lover Max will make…

What neither Max nor Lille realizes is that her efforts to become the Fetish Queen, which include making a type of reality show, have caught the attention of a dangerous figure from Lille’s past. Will her troubled past come back and drag her down, or will the Fetish Queen get her way?

My Thoughts

What i have to say about the overview above and what you get in the book are slightly different.  It makes it seem like more happens that really does, and it makes it seem like it’s certain things that are the cause of this attention, and we don’t get that from the book.  so…if you’re relying solely on the description, you may be let down.

What we have here is a nice novella style short first installment and introduction to this story.  We meet Lillie, who isn’t Lille at first.  she’s a young girl who’s living with her mother under less than savory conditions.  Her mother is a dancer (i.e. stripper) and her father is in jail for reasons unknown.  Because of the area that they live in, Lillie either stays with a neighbor while her mom ‘works’ or after a certain point, she goes with her mom to the club that she dances at just to be safe.  It’s what happens one night that changes Lillie’s life.  Her mom has always said that if her father gets out of jail ‘to run’ and this is what happens one night.  Her mom is at work and doesn’t make it on stage for a dance, instead, she disappears and leaves Lillie with a note that says ‘he’s out – run’ so that’s what she does.  They’ve made precautions in case this happens – a new ID, social security card, money and ’emergency pack’ so that Lillie can flee. this is where he life changes and her identity becomes Lillie. 

Fast forward a few years now from her rough past to a new life and ‘rebirth’ so to speak when Lillie is moving to Florida to help a friend with her business that was inherited.  It’s a sex shop which actually seems right up Lillie’s alley. 

Upon arrival in Florida, Lillie meets Max, Mary (her freind’s) neighbor and business partner, and John, Mary’s boyfriend.  It’s Max that turns things upside down as well since he’s got the look that draws Lillie in, while he’s not as malleable as she typically goes after.  See, Lillie is a dominant, and Max of course doesn’t seem like he can be tamed.

They both have darker pasts and this is why things would work yet we dont’ really get into that in this first installment.  what we do pick up on a lot is the constant fear that Lillie has from her past, and one night while she’s helping Max and Mary out bartending, she gets a card with a Vegas address and a phone number but no name.  Given that she used to live in Vegas with her mom and that’s where she fled from, that makes her nervous.  She is constantly looking over her shoulder and i guess that’s foreshadowing of what’s to come.

The other piece is that in coming to Florida, she’s going to help mary improve the business.  In doing this, she has an idea of creating videos to put online to help promote the store, and the last snippet that we get in this book is that because of Lillie’s beauty, she’s become the star of the video – becoming the ‘Fetish Queen’.  This of course makes her nervous because it means putting her face out there when shes trying to fly under the radar – and i guess that’s where her trouble will pick up.  

Since this is just about a 100 pages or so, it’ll be a quick read if your’e interested.  The good thign about this is that it’s a short story that packs a lot in.  It’s steamy in the sense that we get to see a female dom get in on the game which i haven’t seen a lot in the genre so far.  Lillie knows what she wants and knows how to direct Max how to give it to her, and that makes for a few steamy and heated pages in this book.  Enjoy and happy friday!