Innocence [Mass Market Paperback]

I agree with the reviewers who labeled this book sick and offensive. The "hero" abuses the heroine. Also she acts so stupidly, you don't really care what happens to her. Save your money and your time.

Not what I expected. Filled and I mean FILLED with too many characters to make much sense. The secondary characters filled way too much space in the story that the reader loses interest. The main characters do not get enough 'screen time' to fully develop and you're left feeling empty and as if you've missed a few chapters somewhere along the way.
Disappointing...
The plot of the heroine being an ex-nun got old and tedious after the author kept harping on that fact and reiterating that she was so 'innocent' and sweet and somewhat of a martyr. I lost interest in her character and never really got to know her much better later on.
The hero was too messed up to be interesting and needed a serious shrink, not an ex-nun to heal his wounds. I never bought the back story on his reason for S&M and the torture chambers that filled his basement.
I never could accept that the heroine would find him interesting or sexy in any way. I was left feeling befuddled and confused in the end.
The things he does to her would make any woman run, but not 'martyr-Saint-Mary Frances', the heroine of this tale. I also never bought the fact that she would go under cover as a callgirl to find her sister's killer and that no one would think it was weird.
All in all, I had a very hard time finishing this book and thought the author had great promise with the plot, but should've taken out the side characters and really focused on the main characters and showed us why we should love them, instead of disliking them.
By the way, this is marketed as more of an 'erotic romance', it isn't. Just thought I'd let that out for all those interested...
Innocence is all Mary Frances Murphy has. An ex-nun and the only one who can find her sister's killer, she poses as a call girl and infiltrates a secret ring of deception, prostitution and murder.
The one thing that will stop her? A man known for his 'torture chamber' in the basement and violent history with women. This is the man she must seduce and trick to find her sister's killer. A man so frightening, the service she works for is intimidated. A man named Webb Calderon. Known for his weird and dangerous sexual appetites and the last person who was with her sister...
An empire that can't be toppled and the one person too innocent to understand the depraved depths it goes to to stay secret...
can the dangerous Calderon heal his soul with one touch of her innocence?

Tracy Talley~@

"Innocence" was the first book I ever read from Suzanne Forster but definitely not my last! Mary Francis Murphy devoted her life to becoming a nun. She was kicked out of the convent for not wanting to die a virgin! The man whom inspired such passion is Webb Calderon. Webb is also the man suspected of killing Mary Francis' sister Brianna, a call girl for Cherries, an exclusive escort service and Webb's former mistress. In order to find out if Webb is Brianna's killer, Mary Francis pretends to be a Cherries escort. Her spy game doesn't last long but this is when the real action begins to happen! Without giving too much away you can expect intense aphrodisiacs, the Golden Needles of Ecstasy, and a phallic shaped serpent's head. Believe me, you want to know!