REVIEW: Crosstown Crush by Cara McKenna

Crosstown Crush by Cara McKenna: Samira and Mike are a very happily married couple. A few years ago, Mike can clean with a very particular kink that almost ended their relationship. Over time, Samira has gone from being wary, to grudging accepting, to an active participant, and now she’s at the point where she has a few fantasies of her own.

Sam decides that it’s time to turn her husband’s wicked fantasies into reality. After talking it over, they decide it’s time to bring another man into their marriage to further spice up their sex life. Sam loves to plan, so she begins the search for the right man to enact their fantasies.

“We’re shopping for a man we think deserves to sleep with you. Be as picky as you want. It’s not the kind of decision you should rush or force yourself into.”
She smiled at that, pleased to know that no matter how much he wanted this, there was no pressure. He valued their relationship and her feelings above his fantasies.

After weeding through the responses, Sam finds potential in Bern. He looks like exactly the type of guy they were looking for and they decide to meet. Sam and Bern are attracted to each other, so the three of them decide to move forward. They each have their roles, and everything seems to be working flawlessly.

Their arrangement progresses quickly and they are always anxious for their next encounter. The longer their arrangement continues, the deeper they fall into Mike’s fantasy and the better they are able to fulfill everyone’s fantasies. However, the lines become blurred as feelings grow deeper than expected. When lines are crossed, they have to consider if their threesome is worth continuing and if Sam and Mike’s marriage can withstand the impact of a crush.

What was still Mike’s?
Our love. Our home, our day-to-day life, my family. Those were a lot. Those were huge, but she couldn’t help but feel that this was wrong somehow, even with the camera running.
In her gut, and in her heart, it was just the two of them.

Crosstown Crush is a kinky, erotic thrill as three people explore their fantasies and deal with the consequences. Cara McKenna tells this intriguing tale in Sam, Mike, and Bern’s POVs, which helps to convey the motivations, intentions, and feelings of everyone involved. Ms. McKenna created a very unique set-up where honesty, loyalty, and trust were key components. Fans of Megan Hart, Opal Carew, Erika Wilde, Nicole Edwards, and Roni Loren would enjoy Crosstown Crush.
 

Book Info:

Publication: September 1st 2015 | Signet | Sins in the City #1

The first in a new series from the “wicked-hot”* author of Hard Time and Give It All explores the fantasies of a daring married couple—and those of a stranger invited to play along in their scandalous little games… When he’s working, Mike Heyer is all business—every inch the alpha male, with the hard, capable body to back up his persona. But at home he can be a different man entirely, harboring appetites only his wife gets to glimpse…

When Samira first learned of her husband’s fantasies, she was reluctant, even alarmed. But after witnessing the way they set him on fire, she yielded, and happily indulged. As their games have intensified, so has the rush. And now so has the risk—they’re poised to take Mike’s indecent desires to the next level, by opening their bed to a sexy, brazen stranger. A man seeming custom-made to grant every last one of Mike and Samira’s sinful wishes.

Welcoming someone new into their lives was always a dangerous proposition, but the couple imagined if anything was at stake, it was their privacy…not their hearts.

*New York Times Bestselling Author Jaci Burton