RH, SA, DFS (Dark Fantasy Smut - my term). Many readers did not approve of the book's redemption arc, but I think it is a smart twist. Overall, the creative cosmos and storyline of this book make it a far more worthwhile read than most books in the genre.

The setting is ingenious and propels the story: a bleak unending landscape (I just finished I Who Have Never Known Men which has a similar setting!), a daily renewing fire that heals all physical wounds and burns away clothing, universal amnesia, accepted polyamory due to a shortage of women, a shortage which sets up the idea that women are treated as commodities, and the seeming afterlife effect that leads to not needing food, water, air or rest. All of the wild, otherwise preposterous, scenarios set up in the story are rationally acceptable because of this strange world. It's a flawless pornographic environment!

Jo finds herself naked and confused next to a stranger whose name she somehow knows is Christopher. They explore their new hellscape together, forming a bond, until she runs into Adam whom she vaguely remembers loving in a former life. Eventually, the two antipathetic men must work together to save her, but can they learn to share her peaceably?

The book includes a brutal rape scene. And, though it is not "right," this is erotica, people. Be warned, then choose to read or not to read. I found the reconciliation between the abuser and their subject to be acceptable given the amnesia they suffered before growing their relationship. It adds the emotional jolts that make a sex story even more arousing. Honestly, I could not put the book down.

Unfortunately, after reading all of the reviews of the sequel, I doubt I will continue this series. Reasons being: disjointed narrative, whiny FMC, pregnancy, and seriously how can Jo not already appreciate what she has with Adam and Christopher?! But, I am satisfied having read it as a stand-alone.

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I love how many acronyms I learned reading this book and its other reviews lol!!