Unforgettable Pleasure
 
Ally Kendal knows returning to her hometown to sell her mother's house isn't going to be easy. She left in disgrace years ago and hasn't been back since. But she's never forgotten the one man who awakened in her a secret yearning for wildly erotic sexual pleasure...

Undeniable Desire
 
Rob Ward is surprised at the surge of desire he feels when he first sees Ally after all this time. He's gotten over the betrayal he felt when he found her and his best friend together on the eve of his wedding, but it's obvious he's never given up wanting her. And now that she's back he'll show her what she's missed, how good he makes her feel, how easy it is for him to take control and bring her to the edge of sweet surrender...

Okay let me put this out there, I had an unreasonable need to read this book.  I mean it.  I read an excerpt of it a couple years back, before it came out, and had wanted to pick it up when it came out at my local Borders (where I normally picked up my romance books, don't judge).  Unfortunately I could not find it!  And I couldn't find a reason to add it to my Amazon queue either (its pretty full).  Finally I broke down and bought it on my Kindle.

So did it live up to my expectations?

Yes and no.

It was hot.  Very very hot.  Pearce has got sexy writing down pat.  What I found wanting is everything else.  The 'incident' that broke Ally and Rob up originally is given more vague explanations then concrete information.  Basically Ally was found in bed with Jackson by Jackson's then girlfriend Susan and Rob.  How she got there is up to debate, why she was there is up for debate, how Rob really felt about it is up for debate.

Then there's Rob entering the 'scene' (that is, the BDSM scene) in college.  Its just tossed out there.  Not how he got into it though.  Basically he 'got into it really deep' and if I was understanding things right, he rushed home to his girlfriend to basically be like 'omg it all makes sense you are a sub I'm a dom and that means you HAVE to do what I say!', which freaked her out since um hey she has no idea what he's talking about and he really has no idea what he's talking about.

Apparently at some point in the ten years since he last saw Ally he found experience though, and decided it really wasn't for him after all.  I don't even know.

There's Jackson, who I'm not even sure where to start with him.  He claims to have coerced Ally into his bed when she was vulnerable.  He claims to have always had physical feelings for Rob and Ally.  And a whole bunch of other things.

The mystery subplot is weak--you can guess who it is a mile away and the fact Ally is constantly 'weirded out' by this person just cements the deal.  Her need to resolve the lingering issues with her recently deceased mother are also apparently just kind of there.

Honestly I probably would have been happier thinking this was a Plot-What-Plot erotic novel because the plot was paint by the numbers, the romance was meh and the mystery even meh-er.  The sexy scenes made it worth continuing however.