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Loving You Easy, The latest Loving on the Edge story by Roni Loren is an erotic and suspenseful menage romance that looks at adult online gaming and making fantasy a reality. IT specialist Cora’s had no luck with real life partners, her last friends with benefits arrangement going sour. When she discovers the online BDSM game Hayven, she goes from voyeur to a willing participant with Master Dmitry, a safe way to indulge her secret fantasies in the safety of her own home without worrying about being rejected in a real relationship. Yet, the things she shares with Dmitry and the conversations they have quickly spill over into personal territory. When her online gaming results in a real life visit from a participant in the game she’d previously rebuffed, she takes her security concerns to the owner of the company, Ren. It’s just her luck that she previously met him at an industry party in rather unusual circumstances she’d have rather forgotten. Plus Ren’s business partner Hayes, recently released from prison for a sex crime he denies committing, is definitely a man she knows she should stay away from. When Ren and Hayes hire her to track down the security breaches in their game, concerned about the safety of Cora and the other players, she reluctantly agrees. And when the attraction she feels to both Ren and Hayes confuses but arouses her, they are quick to assure her discretion if she wants to make her secret fantasies a reality. Both are Doms and have done scenes with women together before, though this time around Ren and Hayes are also ready to admit that they have feelings for each other. When danger comes knocking again, will the three of them survive unscathed to get their happy ending?

This story has just the right amount of dramatic intensity to keep you on your toes while providing a very satisfactory erotic menage romance. All three characters get equal page time and have their own set of past issues to deal with. Cora’s are the least dramatic, a simple case of never having met the right guy to fulfill her desires and feeling that her more geeky nature is more of a hindrance than an asset in the relationship department. Playing in an online game is freeing because she can use a visual persona of her choosing (someone who is a little more alluring than Cora feels she is in real life) as well as enact scenarios she doesn’t feel she’d have the courage for in real life. She has a fairly close relationship with her mother who is a police officer often involved in violent crime cases. Cora has done some work for the police department to catch suspects using her IT training, but her mother has stopped her from applying for a full-time job there, worried about her safety were there to be a backlash attack from someone they put in jail. She always takes extra safety precautions at home, so when her safety is violated by someone who calls her by her onscreen name, she knows that the Hayven game has had a serious breach and immediately seeks to repair the damage before someone gets really hurt.

Ren and Hayes have been friends since they were quite young. At one point when Ren ran away from home as a teenager and got involved with an older man in what became an abusive relationship masquerading as BDSM, he came to Hayes for help and Hayes was able to provide the safety net he needed to get away from the situation and move forward with his life. The two of them stayed close, Ren’s bisexual nature never coming into play in their friendship. As adults, they’d moved into the club scene together and started Hayven. When Hayes went to jail accused of assaulting a woman in what was supposed to have been a mutually agreed upon scene Ren was devastated and did everything he could to get his buddy out of jail. With the current security breaches happening in the game, it looks like the person responsible for setting up Hayes in the first place isn’t done with him yet. Amid the backdrop of trying to catch the perpetrator, Hayes and Ren finally admit that their feelings for each other are more complicated than just friendship and they share some steamy scenes together, before adding Cora into their relationship. Soon things come to a head and Cora must decide where her loyalties lie and whom she should believe. Loving You Easy is a tight mixture of sex and suspense that will keep you turning pages late into the night. I enjoyed every aspect of this story and I intend to catch up on the earlier books in the series that I’ve missed!

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Note: a copy of this story was provided by the publisher via NetGalley for review