Fifteen year old Eleanor has never met a rule that she didn't want to break. Eleanor lives with her own realization that her mother would have preferred to be a nun than work her two jobs to make ends meet and raise Eleanor. When Eleanor declares she is done with church, her mother tells her about the new priest that rides a motorcycle, and Eleanor can't resist going to see what he looks like. When Eleanor gets her first glimpse of the gorgeous young Father Soren Stearns, suddenly daily Mass seems like a reward.

However when her father calls for her help, which is most definitely illegal, her mistake in getting caught nearly costs her everything. Instead of allowing her to go to jail, Soren steps in to save her. Vowing to repay him with complete obedience and in return, she wants everything from him....a whole new world is opened up to her as Father Soren reveals his deepest secrets.

After years of learning about Soren's dark world, Eleanor is finally going to get what she has wanted since she was 15......Soren. But can she handle his dark nature?

THE SAINT is book one of Tiffany Reisz's Prequel Quartet called The White Years. The original four books (The Siren, The Angel, The Prince, And the Mistress) are the Red Years. THE SAINT is beautifully written. The story is set up as flashbacks (from age 15-20) and present time, which flow into a story that is wonderfully devastating. Eleanor makes teenage self. Eleanor and Soren's relationship is you laugh and cry and sometimes just sympathize with her complicated at best, but so full of love and respect. This is my first time reading anything from Tiffany Reisz, and will certainly not be my last. This little taste has me hungry for more of her works.

Book Summary

Before she became Manhattan's most famous dominatrix, Nora Sutherlin was merely a girl called Eleanor.

Rebellious, green-eyed Eleanor never met a rule she didn't want to break. She's sick of her mother's zealotry and the confines of Catholic school, and declares she'll never go to church again. But her first glimpse of beautiful, magnetic Father Marcus Stearns—Søren to her and only her—and his lust-worthy Italian motorcycle is an epiphany. Eleanor is consumed—yet even she knows being in love with a priest can't be right.

But when one desperate mistake nearly costs Eleanor everything, it is Søren who steps in to save her. When she vows to repay him with complete obedience, a whole world opens before her as he reveals to her his deepest secrets that will change everything.

Danger can be managed—pain, welcomed. Everything is about to begin.

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