Wicked Angel

Benjamin is a neurosurgeon whose life changed for the worse when his wife and daughter died over a year ago in a car accident caused by a drunk driver. Benjamin can not seem to care about anything until he meets up with a beautiful stranger at The Wicked Horse Vegas and his body reacts to her in a way it has not reacted in a long time.

Elena has no trust in men after a long string of bad relationships make her start to wonder what went wrong with her choice in men. When The Wicked Horse Vegas starts offering a fantasy app she decides to make a blind date, literally, allowing this man to do what he wants with her without her being able to see or speak.

Benjamin and Elena start in a purely sexual relationship that builds into a full relationship until Elena is hurt and Benjamin starts to feel vulnerable and believes the best thing to do is to walk away before he suffers the same hurt as he did a year ago.

Wicked Angel is the sixth book in the Wicked Horse Vegas series which can be read as a standalone or as part of the series. The book is written in the dual POV of the hero and heroine. Wicked Angel is a story of growth and overcoming grief. I was not a fan of Benjamin's lack of compassion at the beginning but the growth he made through the story changed my opinion of him thanks to Elena.

4.25 stars--WICKED ANGEL is the sixth full-length instalment in Sawyer Bennett’s contemporary, adult WICKED HORSE, VEGAS erotic, BDSM, romance series focusing on the members of an exclusive Las Vegas $ex club known as the Wicked Horse. This is neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Hewitt, and hair salon owner Elena Costieri’s story line. WICKED ANGEL can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. There is a slight cross-over with the author’s Jameson Force Security.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Benjamin and Elena) WICKED ANGEL follows neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Hewitt, approximately one year after his life was destroyed, and his world fell apart. Having withdrawn from the upscale social scene Benjamin finds himself looking through the Wicked Horse Vegas Fantasy app in the hopes of finding someone that might catch his eye. Enter hair salon owner Elena Costieri, and the woman with whom Benjamin will fall in love. What ensues is the friends with benefits, sexual relationship between Benjamin and Elena, and the potential fall-out as Benjamin is unable to let go of the past.

Dr. Benjamin Hewitt’s world imploded fifteen months earlier, and in that time our hero became a mere shadow of his former self. Anti-social, belligerent, and oft-times nasty and rude, Benjamin is unable to move beyond the emotional heart break, and physical pain that remind him of everything he lost. Meeting Elena Costieri gave Benjamin a hope for the future but too many painful memories forced Benjamin to walk away on more than one occasion. Elena Costieri was tired of the dating scene having jumped from one disastrous relationship into another but when her best friend bought her a temporary membership to the Wicked Horse, Vegas, our heroine was hoping to take full advantage of everything the club had to offer.

The relationship between Elena and Benjamin begins as an arrangement made through the exclusive Wicked Horse in Las Vegas. Having no expectations for a happily ever after Elena begins to fall for a man whose past continues to haunt his heart and his soul. Benjamin is desperate to feel, to feel anything other than the mind-numbing heart break of loss, and in this our hero begins to step out starting with a no-strings attached relationship with the woman with whom he will fall in love. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

We are introduced to Benjamin’s business partner Dr. Brandon Aimes; Jameson Security agents August Greenfield and Cage Murdoc; Elena’s large family including parents and siblings; as well as the return of Jorie Pearce and Walsh Brooks (Wicked Wish #2).

WICKED ANGEL is a story of grief and loss; heart break and pain; falling in love and letting go of the past. The premise is emotional and captivating; the romance is seductive; the characters are colorful and energetic but in the case of Benjamin Hewitt, wounded and lost as he struggles with his very own self-destructive demons. WICKED ANGEL is an inviting, tragic, sensitive and sensual look as one man gets a second chance at love and a happily ever after.