BLOG TOUR STOP: 5+KINK Review Enough Time by Alexis Riddley

Title: Enough Time: Truth.Redemption.Trust

Author: Alexis Riddley

Genre: Dark Erotic Thriller

Alexis’s Muse: Marshall Arkley

Cover Designer: Tiffany Huegele

Release Date: October 13, 2015

I was raw, exposed like a nerve with no protection from the present, nor the horror of my past. Winston West was a man I no longer knew. He was an illusion, an enigma of a life that I once led. So how was I alive? Oxygen was inhaled, life sustained, but I was dead inside. Such a cliche.

To the outside world I was strong, confident, determined. But when you got close, and really looked at the man in front of you, that’s when the ugly showed itself. The demons of my past played over and over in my head. I saw the world through jaded eyes.

Life with Charlie was bright, vibrant. Moments and memories existed in technicolor. That was gone. An epic sequence of events which ended in a collision of fantasy and reality. I couldn’t even say her name; that was too real, too painful. I had made her a vow, a promise and I was struggling to keep it. No more lies, no more secrets.

I thought the sins of the past were buried deep. That they would never resurface. I was dead wrong. One phone call, one insignificant event in a life so off course, begins to shatter what sanity I had left.

I was prepared to give up. Chalk my life up to a mistake of biblical proportions when she appears. I didn’t want to like her, let alone need her. Funny thing is, I wasn’t the only one harboring secrets. Could I become the person I needed to be, that she deserved? Was I even worthy of redemption?

What she offered to me was something I never thought I deserved.

Hope.

When you are chock full of tears falling down your face while reading, you have a 5 KINK review

An unexpected KNOCKOUT! I wanted to read this story, my first by the author, based solely on the synopsis.  This was not what I was expecting. It was much MORE.  I laughed, I cried.  It’s about love, death, sex and violence.  The opening chapter grips you immediately. The storyline and the characters are flawless.  The main hero, Winston, is very much flawed too, but you want to reach in and hold him during his bouts of weakness and depression.  It’s a smart, searing thriller that moves perfectly.  A romance of tender intimacy and erotic sensuality.
“I will not make you do what you do not want to. But understand me when I say this. When the time comes…you will not only ask me you will beg me”
A major life altering event sends Winston West to L.A. to start a new life.  After being struck by one of life’s tragedies, Winston looks forward to work and more work to drown his demons and sorrows.  
He has suffer a life altering event leaving him damaged, withdrawn and lonely.  He goes through life, devoid of any human interaction outside his office.  Even his new life, his do-over, in L. A is not bringing much solace until he bumps into Kacie Reese ~ literally.   Fate keeps throwing her in his path on many occasions.  Each time the sexual pull gets stronger. 
As told through Winston West’s POV, you have the pleasure of experiencing the highs and lows of both his desire for Kacie and his loss. Who is this woman? Why does his body all of sudden responds to her so sexually? 
Kacie’s life is not all perfect either.  She is carrying the weight of the world too.  She comes into Winston’s life during a time of torment and guilt; when he has given up all hope.  As a couple, they are both dealing with difficult pasts.  Together they can become what the other person needs.  She can help him fight for what he wants.  
As a reader, you will find views of lust, love, marriage, loss, forgiveness and hope in a different dynamic.
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Alexis Riddley spends her day’s knee deep in the grind of corporate America, but her love of reading is what pushed her to put pen to paper. Bringing to life the stories that once existed only in her head. Alexis loves the outdoors, adventures, and music. Oftentimes music is the catalyst or the trigger for memories, and emotions that she uses in her writing. Alexis rarely watches television, but is a total comic book freak, superheroes, the whole lot of them. She is obsessed. Alexis is willing to try anything, at least once, as long as it keeps the soul free and the mind open. She is a kid at heart who refuses to let age define her and limitations contain her. Alexis is a romantic, with a twisted mind and sexy imagination. She still believes that happy endings exist, just that sometimes they do not come in the pretty packaging you may have expected.