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Broken Kindle Edition

4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 123 ratings

Even as she pleads for her freedom, she hopes he will never let her go…

This British female may be beautiful, and she may look innocent, but I know better. She has broken into the royal palace, lied about who she is and why she is in my country. The evidence against her is damning.

She means us harm and I intend to get to the truth, whatever it takes. Who is she working for and why is she really in Akram?

I am brother to the Crown Prince, and I am the law here. Judge, jury, and if necessary, executioner.

This woman is mine.

The safety and security of those I love is at stake. I am sworn to protect my country and my family. I will stop at nothing to get it done. I mean to use every tool at my disposal, including her own submissive nature.


Captured. Stripped. Imprisoned in a cold, stark cell.

I don’t even speak the language, but I am to be questioned, tortured by this man who holds my life in his hands. I have no rights here. I am powerless, vulnerable, no one to protect me.

I am at his mercy, and desperately afraid that I may never see my home or my family again.

I am not the dangerous criminal he thinks I am, but I can’t tell him the truth, however much he might hurt me. And, he will. I know he will.

He may be handsome as sin, but he is heartless, cruel and determined to be obeyed. And, God help me, I want to please him.

He demands the truth, but I can’t tell him what he wants to know without condemning my sister to the same fate as me.

So, I am to be broken…


Warning: This book contains sexually explicit content which is only suitable for mature readers.
This book was previously published under the title Thicker Than Water, with different cover art.

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I could not put this book down- it was that good. (Amazon Reviewer)No fairytale here. This book is deep and dark. It's the finding of the true nature ofcharacters. Really good read and once you get going you just want to finish it. (Amazon Reviewer)

At each stage of the story the background information gave a clear picture of the emotions both Jenna and Zafar felt. .I enjoyed reading ofthe different traditions and culture that the story was set in. The secondary characters alladded depth and played an important role in this book. (Amazon Reviewer)

...an intriguing, dark, raw, gritty, intense and sensual story with an excellent storyline. (Amazon Reviewer)

...a suspenseful erotic romance with a darker ambiance. (Amazon Reviewer)

...a fast-paced, gripping and suspenseful story with plenty of sultry heat. (Amazon Reviewer)


This story was dark, intriguing, dramatic and intense. The charactershad me enthralled and on the edge of my seat on more than one occasion. Theauthor wrote an exciting story that moved quickly through the action butmaintained the intensity. Great storytelling. (Amazon Reviewer)

A darker erotic story with many toe curling moments for a variety ofreasons. This story of Zafar and Jenna is well written, complex, hair raising,erotic and has some great twists and turns. Great story! (Amazon Reviewer)

WOW, what Zafar does to get answers! (Amazon Reviewer)

This is a fantastic story. Loved it from start to finish. This is a story that will take youaround the world and evoke a wide range of emotions. I love a story that makesyou forget where you are and this is one of them. (Amazon Reviewer_

As I turned the last page,I forced myself to take a deep breath. The author created sensual imagery thatheld me captive and ready to cede all control to the point where I almostneeded a safe word to ease the sizzling tension. Fabulous read you won't wantto put down once you start. Five stars just isn't enough. (Amazon Reviewer)

Product details

  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08C36B222
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ashe Barker Books; 1st edition (June 29, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 29, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3106 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 245 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ B08C8RW7G1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 123 ratings

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Ashe Barker
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USA Today best selling author Ashe Barker is multi-published and regularly hits the Amazon best seller lists in erotic romance, BDSM and historical. She has been an avid reader of fiction for many years, erotic and other genres. Ashe still loves reading, the hotter the better. But now she has a good excuse for her guilty pleasure - research.

To find out more about Ashe, visit her website, www.ashebarker.com

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Ashe tends to draw on her own experience to lend colour, detail and realism to her plots and characters. An incident here, a chance remark there, a bizarre event or quirky character, any of these can spark a story idea.

Ashe lives in the wilds of West Yorkshire where she enjoys drinking Earl Grey tea, walking the Bronte moors and listening to Bon Jovi - loud.

Ashe has over eighty titles on general release, with publishers on both sides of the Atlantic, and several more in the pipeline. Most of her books feature BDSM. She writes explicit stories, always hot, but they offer far more than just sizzling sex. Ashe likes to read about complex characters, and compelling plots, so that's what she writes too. Strong, demanding Doms are a given, often paired with new submissives who have a lot to learn.

Ashe has a pile of story ideas still to work through, and keeps thinking of new ones at the most unlikely moments, so you can expect to see a lot more from her.

Customer reviews

4.1 out of 5 stars
4.1 out of 5
123 global ratings

Top reviews from the United States

Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2023
I lived this book. This was a new to me author hoping to find I like some of her other stuff as much as this.
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2020
This book starts with a wild premise: the heroine Jenna is convinced that her stepsister Melisa is being held against her will in her father’s homeland (Jenna and Melisa are related through their mother) when their mother passes away. So when she isn’t allowed to contact Melisa (who’s a young teenager), Jenna sneaks into the royal palace (yes, their mother’s second husband was a prince of a vaguely Arab country) to “free” Melisa. When she’s caught, Jenna ends up being cross-examined by Zafar, another prince of this realm. And this is when things get wild.

Instead of the typical torture that you’d expect any leader of a nation’s spies and secret police to use, Zafar employs sexual torture exclusively (only to discover this turns both Jenna and him on). I really wondered why, once he realized Jenna’s proclivities, he wouldn’t have switched to another form of coercion considering his deep suspicions about her actions. So this whole section, while exciting, didn’t make a lot of sense to me.

Jenna is finally released and returns to her family, but years later she is called upon to return when Melisa’s life is in danger, and she and Zafar rekindle their connection. I quite liked this second half of Broken, particularly a series of refreshing revelations on how Zafar and Jenna perceived one another’s families. I also really liked Melisa, who’s shown at several points in her teen years and actually *acts* like a teenager.

Barker is a wonderful writer. But BrokenBr has a curious feel to it that makes it not quite successful to me. There are wonderful parts, but they’re all in the second half of the book. So if you can work with the very odd first half, you’ll find an interesting book in the second part.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2020
Jenna is determined that she will not let her younger sister down she is determined to rescue her and to bring her back home however, sneaking past the small Arab State into the actual royal palace which was by no means easy.
She finds herself captured by the military police and then locked in a tiny cell where she is shown no mercy by no other than the Crown Prince, Zafar Nur al Talat has some extremely original methods to acquire answers.
The use of pain and pleasure used alongside each other caused devastating results and Jenna finds herself screaming in both pain and pleasure, begging him to stop but hoping that he would continue with the questioning. Zafar is sworn to protect his king and country and people however he cannot deny the attraction he feels towards this strong, loyal female he has within his control.
I voluntarily received and review an Advanced Reader Copy
I thoroughly enjoyed the book and look forward to reading any future publications; keep up all the great writing.
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2021
If you are into BDSM (I am not) you might like tge story. For the rest a typical explicit romance story. However the autor has pleasant writing style.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2020
It needed more time to develop the relationship between the main characters. The time they were together was very short.
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2020
This story could have used some more length just to flesh out the characters a little more but it was a fun read. The concept with it being set in the middle east but still woman positive was interesting to read. I'd recommend this book if you want a short, sweet, bdsm read.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Well-written story with right amount of heat.
Reviewed in Canada on September 25, 2022
The heroine, Jenna, has a half-sister, Melisa (they share the same biological mother, Sonia). Sonia had divorced Jenna's father and had remarried Nasim with Melisa being a child of that union. Since the untimely deaths of her parents when Melisa was about 10 (13?) years old, she had lived in Akram under the care of a cousin of the late Nasim, Crown Prince Rahmat.

Melisa had never forgotten Jenna and despite time and distance, Melisa was able to reach out to her sister via Facebook. Concerned about Melisa's welfare and happiness, Jenna managed to sneak into Akram and into the royal palace under false pretenses. However, she got caught and was thrown into prison. Prince Zafar, who was the brother of Crown Prince Rahmat, was the Head of National Security for Akram. As such, his duties included interrogating prisoners who could pose a potential danger to the family and to the country.

Zafar's interrogative techniques with Jenna were unique, along the lines of using his BDSM toys, though no less effective. Eventually, satisfied that Jenna's motives for attempting to see Melisa were quite innocent, Zafar released Jenna and she was allowed to leave Akram with the condition that she not return. Jenna resumes her normal life.

Flash forward 2 yrs later and this time around, we have Zafar sneaking into Jenna's home and abducting her to take her back to Akram due to the royal family's concerns about Melisa's health as a result of a horseback riding accident. The latter part of the book involves Zafar and Jenna developing their relationship and helping Melisa deal with her issues. I wish the book had spent more time fleshing out the relationship between Zafar and Jenna following her return to Akram. After all, Zafar had basically tortured Jenna two years ago and then she'd subsequently been expelled from Akram. Further details showing the development of their relationship would have made their HEA more realistic. Regardless, I did enjoy this book and bought my own copy of it as I had initially read it under KU.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Misunderstood
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2022
This is a pretty good story, it takes a little to set up the story at the start, but once its in motion you can easily figure out what is going to happen. I do kind of wish he'd have needed to protect or rescue his girl and it would have been a bit poetic had they had a wedding so she got to dress up and have her sister be her bridesmaid. its an interesting use of BDSM to extract information and interrogate, but he builds a bond with his innocent intruder that binds them eternally.
Christina M
3.0 out of 5 stars BDSM in an Arabic state
Reviewed in Australia on March 3, 2024
I don't recall where I found this book. The writing is good but BDSM is not to my taste. If that's your yum, then have at it.
doglover2
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2023
This author never disappoints
Ginka
5.0 out of 5 stars Anything for......
Reviewed in Canada on July 28, 2020
A darker erotic story with many toe curling moments for a variety of reasons. This story of Zafar and Jenna is well written, complex, hair raising, erotic and has some great twists and turns. Great story!
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