HIS SINFUL OBSESSION (Claimed by the Cloth 5) by Kelsie Calloway-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date May 20, 2026

I was sentenced to community service at his church. He decided I was serving him instead. Fifty hours. That’s all I have to survive under the watch of Father Bolton Alvarado, a man I can’t stand. He’s calm where I’m chaos. Patient where I’m fury. And he looks at me like he sees straight through my anger to every wound underneath.

I hate the church. I hate what it took from me. And I especially hate how this priest makes me feel – seen, challenged, wanted.

“You’re not angry at God,” he says, backing me against the sanctuary wall. “You’re angry at yourself. For wanting something you think you can’t have.”

He’s wrong. He has to be. But when he kisses me like a man breaking every vow he’s ever made, I realize I don’t hate him at all. I’m terrified of how much I need him. And he’s done letting me run.

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REVIEW: HIS SINFUL OBSESSION is the fifth instalment in Kelsie Calloway’s contemporary, adult CLAIMED BY THE CLOTH forbidden romance novella series. This i thirty five year old Catholic priest Father Bolton Alvarado, and animal shelter worker / painter Taniya Quinn’s story line. HIS SINFUL OBSESSION can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Bolton and Taniya) HIS SINFUL OBSESSION focuses on the building romance and relationship between our story line couple. Twelve years earlier, Bolton Alvarado pledged his life to God in the wake of a personal failure at home but Bolton never expected to come face to face with his future in the guise of Taniya Quinn, a young woman struggling in the wake of her mother’s death, and a lack of faith in the church and God. Working her community service at Father Boston’s church, Taniya struggles with her attraction to Father Bolton, a man who is battling his attraction to our story line heroine but the heart wants something it should not have, and Father Bolton will profess his love for a young woman who shows her feelings with canvas and paints.

The world building focuses on the guilt and struggle of attraction; on the forbidden feelings and emotional fall-out for two people caught between despair and happiness, struggle and love.

The relationship between Bolton and Taniya is one of immediate attraction but Father Bolton will become both mentor and lover to a young woman who continues to struggle with her belief in a higher power in the wake of her mother’s death. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

the secondary and supporting characters are colorful and charismatic. We are introduced to Boston’s brother Mateo, and his husband Paul, as well as Sister Florence and Deacon Marcus Peters. I will add that the author continues to duplicate character names between instalments making for a little bit of confusion and cohesion.

HIS SINFUL OBSESSION is a fast paced, familiar story line of secrets and lies, obsession and guilt, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is engaging and entertaining; the characters are desperate and dynamic; the romance is forbidden yet seductive.

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Reviewed by Sandy