Not Kit Rocha's "Beyond" series, but same setting and descriptive text
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1RowanTribeNew
It's been a hot minute since I've been here, and I'm back with metaphorical hat in hand to ask your help in finding a book I read a few years ago.
I APOLOGIZE FOR ANY CONTENT THAT IS .. uh, FRISKY. PLEASE DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T LIKE DESCRIPTIONS OF KINK STUFF.
Physical book: Adult erotic/romance mass market paperback, fairly hefty (500-600 pages?) yellow-orange cover, probably with a nekkid man chest. Found in a paperback swap.
Author: Woman. I looked them up on goodreads, and found that the author has written a decent number of "traditional" romances, and this was their first foray into wilder (kinky and explicit) tastes, and her reader base was NOT THRILLED. Traditionally published, but this was likely the only one written or published traditionally. It was designed like a romance novel to have extra characters for spin-offs.
Plot: the blurb is going to sound exactly like Kit Rocha's Beyond series, but unless she re-wrote the thing, it's not that.
Post apocalyptic place, it seems like maybe Canada or Montana-ish area? Lots of forests and interesting terrain (not much time spent on it, but it's important to the setting somewhat) Main City with Handmaid's Tale meets Immortan Joe's place vibes, outside is lawless, and everybody is VERY INTO SEX WITH EVERYONE ELSE like it's totally a casual thing with people just going at it in public. The City is way more prudish and controlling about morality.
We start with a gang of guys (5ish) who are in a sort of "pecking order" Dom/sub multi-person polyamorous thing going on. They're at a bar that they frequent with a whore-house in the second story. There is a brief fight and they leave, and a "city" woman comes out with them and begs and smart-asses her way into being taken with them by pretending to be someone else. They head back to a compound in a jeep.
The h is really the daughter of a senior Council person in the City (there are more cities but they are very far away and held by different rulers/countries?) and she was given exceptional freedoms and tattooed like a boy member of their version of Hitler Youth Club - she left because her fiance was an utterly terrible person even to the standards of that city, but he was a more important council-person so her dad pretty much had to. Her family is WHOA IMPORTANT to the city and SPOILERS her brother is the big bad of the series, which ends up being a great big misunderstanding on the part of the main H (i did not read this for the plotting)
H is the boss of the guy gang, even though he keeps swearing that he's not their boss. He is a very reluctant caretaker, and doesn't trust people easily. The gang is a mostly-gay couple, a young guy or two who are trying to find their place in this world, and an older couple guys who are also previously loner mercenaries who realize things are better with friends. Very seven dwarves but kinky and very gay.
There's lots of kinky stuff and lots of explicit sex scenes, the gang raids a military storage facility while they're still deciding whether to trust the h, there's lots of hurt feelings and tragic back stories (i think the guy's first wife and kid got killed by the big bad when the City's stormtroopers murdered a whole town because of ????) The end is rushed and confusing and has a helicopter, and a pledge from the brother to try not to have the City be so freaking evil, and from the H to stop blaming people for murder when all he has is hearsay. The actual baddie is awful and I believe is the h's proposed fiance from the start of the book.
Thanks to Kit Rocha, I may NEVER find this stupid book again.
Thank you all.
I APOLOGIZE FOR ANY CONTENT THAT IS .. uh, FRISKY. PLEASE DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T LIKE DESCRIPTIONS OF KINK STUFF.
Physical book: Adult erotic/romance mass market paperback, fairly hefty (500-600 pages?) yellow-orange cover, probably with a nekkid man chest. Found in a paperback swap.
Author: Woman. I looked them up on goodreads, and found that the author has written a decent number of "traditional" romances, and this was their first foray into wilder (kinky and explicit) tastes, and her reader base was NOT THRILLED. Traditionally published, but this was likely the only one written or published traditionally. It was designed like a romance novel to have extra characters for spin-offs.
Plot: the blurb is going to sound exactly like Kit Rocha's Beyond series, but unless she re-wrote the thing, it's not that.
Post apocalyptic place, it seems like maybe Canada or Montana-ish area? Lots of forests and interesting terrain (not much time spent on it, but it's important to the setting somewhat) Main City with Handmaid's Tale meets Immortan Joe's place vibes, outside is lawless, and everybody is VERY INTO SEX WITH EVERYONE ELSE like it's totally a casual thing with people just going at it in public. The City is way more prudish and controlling about morality.
We start with a gang of guys (5ish) who are in a sort of "pecking order" Dom/sub multi-person polyamorous thing going on. They're at a bar that they frequent with a whore-house in the second story. There is a brief fight and they leave, and a "city" woman comes out with them and begs and smart-asses her way into being taken with them by pretending to be someone else. They head back to a compound in a jeep.
The h is really the daughter of a senior Council person in the City (there are more cities but they are very far away and held by different rulers/countries?) and she was given exceptional freedoms and tattooed like a boy member of their version of Hitler Youth Club - she left because her fiance was an utterly terrible person even to the standards of that city, but he was a more important council-person so her dad pretty much had to. Her family is WHOA IMPORTANT to the city and SPOILERS her brother is the big bad of the series, which ends up being a great big misunderstanding on the part of the main H (i did not read this for the plotting)
H is the boss of the guy gang, even though he keeps swearing that he's not their boss. He is a very reluctant caretaker, and doesn't trust people easily. The gang is a mostly-gay couple, a young guy or two who are trying to find their place in this world, and an older couple guys who are also previously loner mercenaries who realize things are better with friends. Very seven dwarves but kinky and very gay.
There's lots of kinky stuff and lots of explicit sex scenes, the gang raids a military storage facility while they're still deciding whether to trust the h, there's lots of hurt feelings and tragic back stories (i think the guy's first wife and kid got killed by the big bad when the City's stormtroopers murdered a whole town because of ????) The end is rushed and confusing and has a helicopter, and a pledge from the brother to try not to have the City be so freaking evil, and from the H to stop blaming people for murder when all he has is hearsay. The actual baddie is awful and I believe is the h's proposed fiance from the start of the book.
Thanks to Kit Rocha, I may NEVER find this stupid book again.
Thank you all.
2RowanTribeNew
bumping, thank you for reading
3RowanTribeNew
bi-monthly bump. thank you.
