Beyond Shame

By: Kit Rocha

Narrated by: Lucy Malone

All Noelle Cunningham has ever wanted is a life beyond - beyond the walls of Eden, where only the righteous are allowed to remain, and beyond her stiflingly restrictive existence as a councilman's daughter. But only ruins lie outside the City, remnants of a society destroyed by solar storms decades earlier.

The sectors surrounding Eden house the corrupt, the criminal-men like Jasper McCray, bootlegger and cage fighter. Jas clawed his way up from nothing to stand at the right hand of Sector Four's ruthless leader, and he'll defend the O'Kane gang with his life. But no fight ever prepared him for the exiled City girl who falls at his feet.

Her innocence is undeniable, but so is their intense sexual attraction, and soon they're crossing every boundary Noelle barely knew she had. But if she wants to belong to Jas, first she'll have to open herself to the gang, and to a world where passion is power, and freedom is found in submission.

©2012 Kit Rocha (P)2013 Tantor

Critic reviews

"This won't just make my list for one of the best erotic books I've read this year, but it's also one of my favorite overall romance books of 2012." ( Smexybooks)

✫✫ 4 Stars ✫✫

If you are looking for something very different, dystopian & erotica mixed into one, this would be the book for you! It reminded me of Hunger Games or Divergent with the sectors and the different groups but with a very adult story line. Super hot with an interesting plot that left me wanting to continue on to book 2. The characters are all very different and pretty good at hiding their real thoughts.

The narration was good too!

Absolutely love this series. Perfect narrator.

I stumbled upon this wonderful series long ago and when I saw it was available on Audible I absolutely had to listen.
The narrators voice is perfect for this series. Especially when putting a voice to Lex - it's exactly how I'd imagined she would sound.
Lots of sexy times in this series and the narrator never hesitates or has any issue with making you really feel what the characters are feeling.
I prefer some of the later books in the series, but I have to say this drops you right into another world so seamlessly that it's not difficult at all to really believe it.

I want more of this series on audio

I really enjoyed this book, both to read and listen. I just love Jasper. He is just such a great guy. He is the tough guy who is one of the enforcers for the O'Kanes. Dallas O'Kane is the leader of the O'Kanes and runs Sector Four. I love the idea of the full forearm tattoos of all the gang members. Noelle is very sweet. I love the dynamic between her and Jasper. She is also great with Lex. Lex is a great character. She is very tough and independent.

The sex is hot, the characters are amazing. I really love this world. I read this in less than 24 hours. It is quite a page turner, I highly recommend it.

Wonderful start to an amazing series!

I absolutely love this series. It’s a gang yes, but really more of a family that kicks ass together. Men and women have rolls to play in the gang both equally important. This is the first book of the series, but still one of my favorites. I really wish audible would get more than the 5 or 6 they have. I still recommend the series even with the last few missing. It’s a new idea on how the world would look after the end of ours.

Good saucy story but I kept wanting more

Definitely liked the book. Very saucy and a good read But there was only 1 sex scene I could actively see in my head. I found the other scenes to not be described very well and once you throw in a third or fourth person, I'm totally lost on whose getting eaten out and whose not and vise versa. It kind of just had me wanting dirtier sex scenes.