Rating: 4.5 ‘I Want To Punch Marcus’ Stars

Publisher: N. Slater

Genre: Gay Polyamory Erotic Romance

Tags: Contemporary, Age Gap, Erotica, Kink, MMMMM/Polyamory, Romance, Series

Length: 284 Pages

Reviewer: Cindi

Purchase At: Amazon

From Author – This book contains emotional and psychological abuse from a former partner, manipulation, gaslighting, abandonment, physical violence, group scenes, power dynamics, restraint, edging, overstimulation, subspace, aftercare, dubcon, free use dynamics, consensual degradation, praise kink, throat work, double penetration, use of a safeword, age gap relationship, parent of an ex-boyfriend as a love interest, brothers of an ex-boyfriend as a love interest, sibling sharing dynamics (no incest), possessive behavior, marking, bruising, dissociation references, primal play (one scene), cock warming, self-worth struggles, touch starvation, recovery from emotional abuse, one scene involving drunk driving and a hit and run, and physical altercation.

Blurb –

I’ve spent eight months fighting my attraction to my boyfriend’s father, Boone, but when my boyfriend leaves me on the side of the road, all bets are off.

Especially when Boone rescues me, takes me back to the ranch, and shows me exactly what it means to fall apart.

And then he gives me a fantasy—two weeks with him and the three sons who live at the ranch.

A way to completely and utterly fall apart as they give me every filthy, tender thing I’ve been too starved to ask for.

Fourteen days of pure bliss.

We haven’t even truly started, and I don’t want it to end.

Rope Me Down is an 18+ MMMMM Romance with all the focus on Ash while his ex’s three brothers and their father take him apart like he’s a prize to be won. HEA

Blurb –

Ash Dunne belongs to us. He just doesn’t know it yet.

What I highlighted in red above is from the front of the book. It covers pretty much everything as far as triggers, though the drunk driving and hit and run weren’t on page, just mentioned.

I tend to shy away from polyamory books because usually there’s a lot of jealousy and silly misunderstandings before everybody gets their HEA. I’m glad I took a chance with this one because it’s not like that at all.

Ash has been left on the side of the road by his boyfriend Marcus during an argument. Instead of coming back after he calms down a little, Marcus goes to a party, leaving Ash in the middle of nowhere for several hours. He’s picked up later by Boone, Marcus’ father, but only because Marcus had called Boone for something totally unrelated.

Marcus never deserved that beautiful soul.

And I’m going to make him regret this night every fucking day.

Ash used to spend a lot of time at Boone’s ranch, spending time with him and Boone’s other sons, Ledger, Teague, and Cass. Something changed after a visit at Easter several months before when Ash stopped visiting without warning. What it boiled down to was that Ash was attracted to Boone and his sons, so he stayed away.

He was in a relationship with Marcus, but calling Marcus a jerk would be insulting all the other jerks in the world. He was a horrible person, a horrible boyfriend, and a horrible son. He had knocked Ash down in all ways imaginable, making him feel unloved and useless. My heart broke for Ash. He was so convinced that everything Marcus had drilled into him during their two-year relationship was true. He had a hard time pulling out of that when he was away from him.

I will say that he did break up with Marcus via text, and that nothing happened with the others before that. Some might still call it cheating. I call it good for Ash, and good riddance. 🙂

Boone has wanted Ash for a while. He obviously didn’t act on it because Ash was in a relationship with his son. Ledger, Teague, and Cass also wanted him, but they stayed away for the same reason. It was game over when Marcus left Ash on the side of the road for several hours.

Two years my son had him. Two years of lying under a man who must have treated sex like a chore and affection like currency, who never once got Ash anywhere close to this because getting someone here requires attention and patience and care, and Marcus has never possessed any of those things in his life.

The sexual stuff starts with Boone and moves on to the others when Boone explains to Ash how he and his sons share everything, including men. They’d done it a few times before in the past. He offers Ash two weeks at the ranch with him and the others, doing whatever Ash wants to do, including sex with all of them. Ash is eased into it because he’d been abused so badly by Marcus that he’s skittish. He’s also afraid of the dark, loud noises, and he jumps when somebody’s voice is raised.

Marcus really did a number on him.

There is a LOT of sex in this book, to the point where I was thinking Ouch! more than once for poor Ash. He never complained. If anything, he begged for it because he’d been so starved of touch for so long. It’s obvious that there’s more than just sex involved with all the guys. It’s emotional from the very beginning, before the sex even starts.

I loved Boone and all his sons – except for Marcus, who was a total bastard. Boone was the strong patriarch. Ledger was the quiet one who never missed anything. Teague was super touchy and had an excitement about pretty much everything. Cass wasn’t quite sure how to handle certain things, but he was careful with Ash, just as the others were.

Ash has zero self-esteem, and I admit that it was a little much at times, as was his going into subspace so often. It didn’t quite read right to me. There was always a lot of aftercare, but it just seemed a bit off a couple of times. I’m not an expert on subspace by any means, but I’ve read enough BDSM books to have this feel different.

I mentioned this having a lot of sex, but there’s also a big romance happening through it all, with Ash and Boone, and Ash with Ledger, Teague, and Cass. It was all separate, yet not. All the men were on the same page as far as wants and needs with Ash. There were no competitions, jealousy, or misunderstandings. They all knew what/who they wanted, and they were fine with the others wanting it too. They actually got turned on by it.

Of course, there was still Marcus who had to be dealt with. Let’s just say that he wasn’t just going to sit back and allow Ash to leave him. Marcus decided when their relationship ended, not Ash. His words, not mine.

I would burn this family to the ground before I let Marcus touch him again.

I’m really surprised at how much I enjoyed this. Once I started reading it, I didn’t want to put my Kindle down. That hasn’t happened for me with a book in a long time.

There was no confusion with any of the men, each of which had a pet name for Ash. Boone called him Dove, Teague called him Sunshine, Cass called him gorgeous, and Ledger called him trouble. It didn’t come across as silly or cheesy. It was just sweet. It’s serious erotica, sure, but it’s also a romance. It’s just not a conventional romance.

I will say that the title doesn’t really fit the book, in my opinion. Even so, I enjoyed the hell out of it. Definitely one of my favorites of 2026 so far.

My first by this author.

4.5 stars.