I discovered this series several years ago when my two friends that bring me books brought the first 4 books in the series. I was hooked. I finally purchased the last three since Hoopla didn't carry them and my two guys didn't have them. Now they say I have to loan these to them:) Collars and Cuffs is more than a BDSM club...it's a warm, caring, close-knit "family". On second thought, some families should be so lucky. I thought after the first chapter that I was going to have to invest in Kleenex stock. I ached for Jared, a 50-year-old submissive with his broken heart and bone crushing, mind numbing loneliness, caring the weight of grief for his lost "Master" and his own need to just belong. He remained so hopeful even when things went wrong, and ageism reared its ugly head over and over. Ageism is something that effects people as much as any of the other, ugly "isms" that some people seem to get a great deal of pleasure from inflecting on different members of our societies. It's a nasty. ugly thing that can cause irreparable damage to the extent that some never live their lives to the fullest because of. I loved that Jarod was brave enough to continue his fight to find his happiness again and that Eli was the type of man that he was. The story line of this book is quite unique. All of the other characters...whose stories we have already read if we follow the series, were present throughout the story as in all the books, playing major roles in the outcome. There was a huge cliffhanger at the end that scared me to the bottom of my heart...but lucky me I have book #8 and spent another hour of sleep time to see if it was going to be something that I was going to have to invest more Kleenex money in. From the very first book, the characters draw the reader in and nicely bundle them up. This story of Eli and Jarod, like all the others was so beautifully well written. I have loved everything that K.C. Wells and Parker Williams have ever written, both individually and as a team. ( )