{"id":34815,"date":"2025-07-18T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=34815"},"modified":"2025-07-10T20:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T01:13:48","slug":"review-darkromance-the-contract-dangerous-games-1-by-rina-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=34815","title":{"rendered":"#review #darkromance The Contract (Dangerous Games #1) by: Rina Saint"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dante<\/span>
\nMy moral compass is broken. That\u2019s why I need rules. They keep me from killing people I shouldn\u2019t. They keep me from crossing certain lines. I\u2019m possessive. Obsessive. Deviant. And I like to fight.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I see in Tristan when I spot him working in the swanky nightclub. His cool detachment is a mask. He\u2019s angry, he\u2019s lost, and he\u2019s totally new to what he\u2019s feeling.<\/p>\n

I want to feel that anger. I want it to burn me. I want him to fight me\u2014then I want to feel him submit. He won\u2019t have any choice, not in my play room. He would look perfect there on the black sheets \u2026 with red blooming across his creamy skin.<\/p>\n

Tristan<\/span>
\nOkay, so I\u2019m not as straight as I thought. I can deal with that, but I don\u2019t know if I can deal with\u00a0him<\/span>. I could tell Dante was dangerous even before I saw him talking to a mobster connected to my brother\u2019s death. I mean, Dante cornered me and\u00a0bit<\/span>\u00a0me. I don\u2019t even know him! He\u2019s a thousand red flags. And yet \u2026 my body has never responded to anyone like it responds to him. That\u2019s why I sit down with him one night after work.<\/p>\n

Is this real? Are we actually about to discuss a\u00a0sex contract<\/span>? It looks so normal at first. He can\u2019t hit me in the face. He can\u2019t maim me. Why do we need rules for this?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019re understanding this,\u201d Dante tells me in his dark, sexy voice. \u201cThese are hard limits. Everything else\u2014everything<\/span>\u00a0else\u2014is fair game.\u201d<\/p>\n

He won\u2019t tell me what that means. Half the fun, he says, is finding out.<\/p>\n

*Books in the Dangerous Games series can be read as standalones, though some events are connected and characters may cross over. Please note that these<\/span>\u00a0dark MM romances have HEAs but contain potentially triggering content. Each book’s content list (which will contain spoilers) can be found in its ebook sample.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Review by Twinsie Tenise<\/p>\n

Tristen starts a new job at an upscale bar. He thinks it is the best place to start to possibly get a lead on what happened to his missing brother. On night one he meets Dante. Dante has Tristen’s attention and Tristen is trying to figure out why he is so affected by the other man. I mean, after all Tristen is straight. Or is he really?<\/p>\n

Dante is not a good man but he is good for Tristen- if that makes sense. As I read and slowly figured out Dante’s story, it made me want to fight someone. There is a reason hes the way he is and when Dante meets Tristen for the first time, he is addicted to the other man. He couldn’t stay away if he tried. Tristan turns out to be Dantes perfect match.<\/p>\n

This one grabbed my attention from the get go. It was hot af with so much sexy time. The book is labeled as dark but I would also add that everything between the men was consensual. Everything the men did to one another was within the parameters of the contract. 2 consenting adults with some crazy kinks. Yeah things were violent at times but nothing that made either man want to stop. Please proceed with caution and read the warnings if you have triggers.<\/p>\n

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Rina loves her romances dark and dirty. Her books take you into the erotic lives of her complex, morally gray characters. If you love high intensity and fabulous smut, Rina\u2019s got you covered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dante My moral compass is broken. That\u2019s why I need rules. They keep me from killing people I shouldn\u2019t. They keep me from crossing certain lines. I\u2019m possessive. Obsessive. Deviant. And I like to fight. That\u2019s what I see in Tristan when I spot him working in the swanky nightclub. His cool detachment is a … Continue reading #review #darkromance The Contract (Dangerous Games #1) by: Rina Saint<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-93x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34817,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34815\/revisions\/34817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}