What this series is described as and what it really is, are two different things.

This is not a serial about forbidden fantasies coming true, but of a single woman who wakes up in a dark room surrounded by 8 doors and has no memory of anything whatsoever. She has no concept of her name, her life or anything beyond understanding that she has no memory.

Each book in this serial is a different scene behind each door that the heroine is compelled to enter.

The scenes are different, but are pretty much the same in that she enters through a door and instantly forgets she was anywhere other than the upcoming situation she lands in. She meets in one fashion or another the same dark-haired, dark-eyed, well-endowed man who is always the love interest in the scene. Maybe he is the modern, wealthy boyfriend or the post-civil war era gunslinger who purchases her. Doesn't matter the scene or setting, they get together and it is always with a feeling of kismet.

The scenes take anywhere from a couple of hours to a couple of weeks, but they all follow the same format of her walking through a door, entering a "scene", immediately falling into character, meeting the hero, screwing the hero (any perhaps others), then with great sadness said hero says "You can't stay here anymore" and ushers her through the now visible door that she had come in through Heroine wakes up in the dark room, on the cot, with no memories of what happened and why she was there. As the series progresses the heroine starts to remember the hero post-"wake-up" and small details of what went down.

For the longest time the reader is left to wonder what the whole story is about, why this woman is being in a room and manipulated into various scenes that couldn't possible be reconstructed by human means. Why the same man, and why is he so sad but insistent that she leaves in the end. Although the Hero is a constant theme in the series, there is also an unknown red-headed woman and a blonde man who make their presence known here and there as side characters.

So for the first half, I was questioning what the whole premise was, beyond getting the heroine laid in every conceivable way. It was not unlike those themed-room hotels where each room had a different setting for sex.

When the reader finally is able to understand what is going on, and settles in for the "big-reveal" and satisfying conclusion....there isn't one.

I purchased the series individually from Amazon, who offered a final, end book that was supposed to be the "hidden door", which was what I had hoped would be the final concluding part of the series where all is revealed and tied up with a neat bow. However, with the ending of Beta still in my memory, I shouldn't have been surprised.

Read the series because the steam that Jasinda is known for is the star of the books. Don't expect to be given anything past the heroine finally understanding what was going on, and don't read it when you want to be engaged in a plot. Read it for the "Ben & Jerry's" empty-calorie, guilty pleasure it ends up being. Also, don't let the kids find it. ( )