Promising start, disappointing finish

Well to pick up where I left off, I finished Love's Portrait (Historical Erotic Romance) by Monica Burns.  In the end, the author tried to get the reader to see how a bondage situation can go from degrading to enjoyable  with the right person in the right situation.  It didn't work for me.  I just found it hard to believe that a woman who'd been as victimized as this character was supposed to be would put herself in that situation, regardless of the man.  That is not to say, that a woman who's been victimized in the past can't learn to let go and learn to love and enjoy again but those types of scars are not easily overcome and so the situation wasn't a believable one for me.