Beg for Me: Morally Gray, Book 3 by J.T. Geissinger

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It was supposed to be a fling. A beautiful mistake I’d make only once.
Fate had other plans for us.

Sophia
Carter McCord is everything I shouldn’t want. Fifteen years younger, he’s too cocky, too good-looking, and a playboy notorious for leaving broken hearts and wreckage in his wake.

To make matters worse, he’s my competition. As an executive at my company’s top rival, the young hotshot is strictly off limits both professionally and personally. I’ve got a career to protect and a teenage daughter to raise. The last thing I need is the kind of man who makes women beg.

But Carter isn’t interested in keeping it casual. The way he touches me, the way he needs me—it’s more than sex. It’s obsession.

Carter
I don’t care that she’s older. I don’t care that she’s a business rival. I don’t care what my family thinks or what people will say or that her ex wants to see me dead.

Sophia Bianco is everything I’ve ever wanted, and I’m gonna make her mine.

Even if she makes me beg for it.

Beg For Me

Too Hot, Too Hollow

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙💚💜
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Chemistry: 🧪🧪🧪
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: ☺️🤣🙁
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Duet Narration – Full Cast

🦸🏼‍♀️ Heroine Spotlight: Sophia

Sophia is a forty-four-year-old executive juggling motherhood and a demanding media career. Since her divorce—triggered by her ex-husband’s affair with a younger woman—she’s poured herself into raising her teenage daughter and building her professional life. When her ex drops the bomb that his new wife is pregnant, it’s a gut-punch moment that sets the emotional tone for Sophia’s arc: resilient, but quietly bruised.

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🦸🏻‍♂️ Hero Spotlight: Carter

Carter is the COO of a global media empire, born into wealth but not emotional warmth. His distant father left scars, while his mother remains his emotional anchor. Carter’s fixation on Sophia borders on obsessive—in fact, it’s revealed he orchestrated their early encounters with a little help from his brother Callum. It’s intense, a bit stalker-ish, but undeniably passionate.

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🔥 Plot Snapshot

Sophia’s convinced romance is behind her—until Carter, younger and impossibly attractive, makes it clear he’s very interested. She’s skeptical, self-conscious, and unsure how to respond to his attention. But Carter’s persistence wears down her defenses, and she decides to stop overthinking and lean into the fantasy. Cue the whirlwind of steamy dates, emotional baggage, and power dynamics that don’t always land.

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❤️‍🔥 What Worked

• Carter’s infatuation with Sophia is immediate and intense, and the fact that he engineered their meet-cute adds a layer of intrigue (and a dash of morally gray charm).
• Watching Sophia shut down her jealous ex-husband was deeply satisfying—finally, a heroine who doesn’t shrink in the face of petty drama.

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🤨 Room for More

• The intimate scenes leaned heavily into female dominance, which didn’t work for me. Carter’s submissiveness felt mismatched with his alpha setup, and the “good boy” dynamic clashed with the emotional tone I was hoping for.
• The age-gap trope is a tough sell. When the woman is older, it can feel empowering—but here, it veered into awkward territory, especially with Carter’s lack of life experience.
• Sophia’s sex dreams were oddly surreal and didn’t add much. I prefer grounded intimacy over imagined scenarios.
• Forty-four is not sixty. The menopause chatter among Sophia and her friends felt exaggerated and out of place.
• There were too many steamy scenes. Normally I don’t mind spice, but when the dynamic feels off, it becomes a chore. Even the non-intimate moments were drenched in sexual tension, and I nearly hit DNF.

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🎧 Narration Vibes

Told mostly from Sophia’s POV with a few chapters from Carter’s, the audiobook features a full cast in duet style. Connor Crais nails Carter’s voice—deep, sultry, and commanding, especially when he’s not voicing female characters. Tara Langella brings a confident, intelligent tone to Sophia, though her voice reminded me so strongly of Ellis Grey from Grey’s Anatomy that I couldn’t un-hear it. It was a distracting echo that pulled me out of the story.

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📝 Final Thoughts

I usually adore J.T. Geissinger’s audiobooks, but this one missed the mark for me. The age-gap, the reversed power dynamic in the bedroom, and the relentless focus on sex over emotional development made it hard to connect. If you’re into dominant heroines and steamy escapism, this might hit the spot. But for me, it was more frustrating than fun.

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