Blurb
Laurence Dalziel is worn down and washed up, and for him, the BDSM scene is all played out. Six years on from his last relationship, he’s pushing forty and tired of going through the motions of submission.
Then he meets Toby Finch. Nineteen years old. Fearless, fierce, and vulnerable. Everything Laurie can’t remember being.
Toby doesn’t know who he wants to be or what he wants to do. But he knows, with all the certainty of youth, that he wants Laurie. He wants him on his knees. He wants to make him hurt, he wants to make him beg, he wants to make him fall in love.
The problem is, while Laurie will surrender his body, he won’t surrender his heart. Because Toby is too young, too intense, too easy to hurt. And what they have—no matter how right it feels—can’t last. It can’t mean anything.
It can’t be real.
Alexis Hall was born in the early 1980s and still thinks the 21st century is the future. To this day, he feels cheated that he lived through a fin de siècle but inexplicably failed to drink a single glass of absinthe, dance with a single courtesan, or stay in a single garret.
He did the Oxbridge thing sometime in the 2000s and failed to learn anything of substance. He has had many jobs, including ice cream maker, fortune teller, lab technician, and professional gambler. He was fired from most of them.
He can neither cook nor sing, but he can handle a 17th century smallsword, punts from the proper end, and knows how to hotwire a car.
He lives in southeast England, with no cats and no children, and fully intends to keep it that way.
- Connect with Alexis:
- Website: quicunquevult.com
- Blog: quicunquevult.com/blog
- Twitter: @quicunquevult
- Goodreads: goodreads.com/alexishall
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this is on my wish list…sounds awesome!
thanks for the chance…added to my wish list!
These are some of the most real characters I’ve read, something Alexis excels at.
Yay more Alexis Hall can’t wait to read it.
Read the first chapter and look forward to reading more.
I finished it this morning and I loved everything about it 🙂
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Sounds good, added to my TBR list.
It’s on my wishlist already. It looks fantastic.
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I’m really looking forward to picking this up. Thanks for a chance in the giveaway.
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Congratulations on the new release! Looking forward to reading it! Thank you for the chance at the giveaway.
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I`m so looking forward to reading this one. It sounds awesome!
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Looking forward to reading.
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Love the cover!
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Sounds amazing.
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