"Beyond Shame" by Kit Rocha

This dystopian novel is set on Earth after solar storms destroy society.  Noelle Cunningham has been exiled from Eden, the only city where "good" and "righteous" people live.  As a woman, her life there was severely restricted with very little free will.  After being caught with a young man, she is kicked out of Eden with nothing but what she's wearing and ends up in the Sectors, where the "outlaws" live.  Jasper McCray, a cage fighter and bootlegger, takes her to Sector Four where Dallas O'Kane rules.  Tattoos, sex, violence, and alcohol are part of life and, as it turns out, love.  Noelle and Jasper are drawn to each other, but both know little about making relationships work.  Plus, she's the daughter of a councilman, who may want her back or want her dead for selfish and political reasons.

I went out of my comfort zone to read this on the recommendation of a book blogger whose reviews I generally like.  (It's not someone from our blog.)  The author built an interesting world that wasn't overly detailed with minutiae, which is what usually keeps me from reading more dystopian and science fiction stories.  However, I did not like the relationships between the men and women.  Although the women in Sector Four have free will, and the author created a very dominant and assertive female character in Lex, the men still called the shots and dominated the women in certain scenes.  That's just not my cup of tea.  354 pages (Kindle edition).