4.5 Stars Birdie + Ryan Seven years ago Ryan Bell was in Birdie's art class. Birdie was a pretty sought after wood-carving artist for Christian sculptures and she taught one art class at this religious college. She was 29 and he was 22 - when he seduced her in her workshop. She obviously got fired and hid back home on her family's old farm and she didn't make another religious sculpture for years until... Ryan Bell never gave up looking for her and now he finally has new clues to find this woman - the one he could never get out of his head. But innocent shy little Birdie could never want him with all his kinks and whatnots - so he has to blackmail her a little bit. ═══════════ Well...that was ... kind of adorable. The reader is warned at the beginning that this would be a very dark book with a pretty heartless hero. But I didn't see it that way at all. Up until I've read half the story, I didn't know what Sierra was going on about with all the darkness and bad guy and whatnot. I loved Ryan - obviously. We love all the Bell boys! But even with the kinkiness and the 'blackmail' and the 'forcing' her to be with him and with her past and her family - it wasn't dark or bad. It was sweet. Of course there are secrets and darkness and thoughts and stalkerish and controlling things, but they are both so obviously in love with each other that it's all just so very adorable. As always in Sierra's books... I could've done without all those endless religious parts - I hate religion - but the rest of the book was sweet and sad and heartbreaking and erotic and sweet and adorable and I just loved reading it. ► DEViL was such a sweet reverse age-gap love story with some very dark and serious parts. But it was also so very adorable and sexy and funny and so much more - READ IT!