Erika promised her dying grandmother she would retrieve all of her paintings scattered around the country. Now was her chance to purchase the last of those paintings. She was confident that she would be the only one interested in the painting up for bid at the auction of a deceased estate. How wrong can a girl be?

Ryan will do whatever it takes to get Erika back in his bed, and the painting is his answer. When he out bids her for her grandmother's painting, he has proposition- spend forty-eight hours with him and the painting is hers.

A Bid for Love is the story about learning to trust again, and Michelle Houston gives this to us in spades. Erika had placed trust in Ryan once before, and he walk away shattering her dreams. Now he is back and to fulfill a promise she made to her grandmother, she must trust him again at least for forty-eight hours.

Ms. Houston writes a romance story with BDSM and does it with style. The sex scenes are hot, and the chemistry between Erika and Ryan burns through each page. While Ryan seems hard and ruthless at the start, you soon realize there is much more to this sexy hero.

This is a great short read and one that will leave you breathless.

Reviewed by: Sandie