Corrupt Desires is a great mix of romance, adventure, and intrigue, mixed with spicy sex, all of which combines to make a perfect story.

Phee and Bryant's story is the classic girl from the wrong side of the tracks meets boy from the right side of the tracks and they fall in love kind of story. Only it's so much more than that.

Phee takes two busses and a train to get from her apartment in the fog to work at a diner downtown. That way she gets to see a little bit of sun and blue sky every day. Normally she ignores the people in her diner, other than to smile and take their order, but one day, a man with the eyes of a sea god comes in. When he starts talking about not being happy with the women he dates, she butts in and says that maybe he's dating the wrong women.

Bryant comes to the diner with his uncle, who is a high muckety-muck in the government. When he sees the beautiful Phee and she challenges him, he just can't resist. He calls her up and asks her for a date. Their date should have just been a one night stand, but it turned into so much more than that.

Phee and Bryant never really have it all that easy, even though they have this fairy tale romance going on. But neither one of them ever give up on their relationship. One thing that I really like about Phee is that she is joyously and gleefully kinky. A lot of times, you see heroines who don't know that they are submissive and like a little hanky-spanky until they meet the heroes. However, that's not the way it is with Phee. She knows what she likes, and she's more than willing to let Bryant be the one to give it to her. Bryant is strong and a warrior, but he doesn't want to negate Phee's strength. Together they are stronger than anything else.

I can never wait to read whatever Jennifer Bene writes, and with stories like this, is it any wonder? ( )

4.4 stars

This book was not at all what I had expected. I was thinking a darker shade of 50. I was wrong. It was entirely different future. It was intriguing. I enjoyed Bryant and Phee. There were parts of the story that seemed to drag on but not enough for me to not like this story. ( )

REVIEW: “…looking down at her with a look she’d never seen on another man’s face. Something like awe, something raw…something like love.” Bryant fell hard for Phee, a dreamer from the fog side of town. A dynamic story of the future with corruption and greed underlying it all. When it became apparent that the fairy tales were based on ugly truths, they fight back in a revolution. An imaginative plot with great characters. This is my voluntary review of an Advanced Reader Copy of this book.

DESCRIPTION, NOT REVIEW: Phee knows that girls like her don’t get the fairytale…

Falling for a man like Bryant Holbrook is just begging for heartbreak. Rich boys don’t look twice at waitresses from the fog, at least... not until now. One smart-mouthed taunt and his turquoise eyes are all over her. That cocky, bad boy grin tempting her with the impossible.
It should have stayed a one-night stand.
Now, it’s too late.
Phee is pulled into a world of danger and corruption where Bryant must put everything at risk to keep her safe, or risk losing her to keep his father’s dream alive.

“For so long she had been living in fairy tales in her head. She had been a forest queen, a mermaid, a winged bird sailing through clouds, and more than once she had been a warrior with no real wars to fight. Now, she had something real. These people had tried to kill her,” ( )