Book Title: The Chateau
Author: Tiffany Reisz
On-Sale Date: June 5, 2018 (Worldwide)
Genre: Erotica / Romantic Suspense
Page Count: 284 pages
Series: Original Sinners #9
Blurb:
As the Jack-of-All-Wicked-Trades for a secretive French military intelligence agency, 24-year-old Lieutenant Kingsley Boissonneault has done it all—spied, lied, and killed under orders. But his latest assignment is quite out of the ordinary. His commanding officer's nephew has disappeared inside a sex cult, and Kingsley has been tasked with bringing him home to safety.
The cult’s holy book is Story of O, the infamous French novel of extreme sado-masochism. Their château is a looking-glass world where women reign and men are their willing slaves. Or are they willing? It’s Kingsley’s mission to find out.
Once inside the château, however, Kingsley quickly falls under the erotic spell cast by the enigmatic Madame, a woman of wisdom, power, and beauty. She offers Kingsley the one thing he’s always wanted. But the price? Giving up forever the only person he’s ever loved.
The Chateau is a new standalone Original Sinners novel from international bestseller Tiffany Reisz, author of The Siren and The Lucky Ones.
Excerpt:
The dream always begins the same way. In the winter. In the woods.
Kingsley stands in snow surrounded by shadows. None of the shadows are his because he’s not really there. He leaves no footprints as he walks. He does not see his steaming breath as he breathes. He is a ghost in this white forest, but he is not the only ghost here.
Before him stands a door.
It’s an arched wooden door alone in the woods. It belongs to an old chapel, but there is no church here, no chapel, no house. Only a door. Kingsley can walk around the door, but nothing will happen. Nothing will happen at all until he steps through it. The iron latch is cold enough to bite his bare fingers, but he doesn’t feel this either. He lifts it and passes through the door, because that is where the boy in white waits for him.
The moon is full and high, and the snow is bright, and he can see the young man so clearly it’s almost as if it were daytime, almost as if it weren’t a dream at all.
The boy in the clearing is beautiful, his hair so blond it looks almost white. His hair is white and his clothes are white, not snow white but a purer white, a baptismal white.
Kingsley speaks a word—either the boy’s name or “sir.” When he wakes he can never remember what word he says.
The boy, luminous in his pure white clothing, stands next to a table made of rough stone and on the stone table is a chess board made of ice.
Even though it is a dream, and no one has spoken but him, Kingsley knows he is supposed to sit and stay and play the game. It’s the rules. If he doesn’t play, he’ll wake up, and the last thing he wants is to wake up now, to wake up ever.
He sits opposite the young man with the white-blond hair. The chess board is between them. Everything is between them.
Kingsley moves his pawn.
“You’re not really here,” Kingsley says to the boy with the snowy hair and the silver eyes. The boy’s beauty renders the dream a nightmare because Kingsley knows when morning comes, the boy will be gone and nowhere does such beauty exist among his waking hours. Not anymore.
“How do you know?” the boy asks, moving his king.
“You look eighteen,” Kingsley says, moving another pawn. “You’re twenty-five now. I’m twenty-four.”
The boy moves his king again. “In your memory I’m eighteen.”
“That isn’t how you play,” Kingsley says. “You can’t move the king like that.”
“It’s my game,” the boy in white says. “I move my king however I want. Don’t you remember? Don’t you remember the way I moved my King anywhere and everywhere I wanted him to go?”
Even in the snow and the cold, Kingsley grows warm.
“I remember.”
Kingsley moves his bishop.
The boy in white moves his king again.
“I don’t know how to win this game,” Kingsley says. “How can I win if I don’t know the rules?”
The boy in white narrows his silver eyes at him. “You’ve already won.”
“I have?”
“To play is to win, if you’re playing with me. Isn’t that true?” the boy asks with an arrogant smile in his eyes.
Kingsley knows this is true though it galls him to admit it. He doesn’t care who wins the game as long as the game between them goes on forever. He moves another pawn and the boy in white captures it.
To be the pawn captured in that boy’s hand…
“How do you keep finding me?” Kingsley asks.
“You came to me,” the boy says. “I’m always here.”
“I lost you,” Kingsley says. “Seven years ago. I lost you.”
“No,” the boy says, smiling for the first time. His face is like Michelangelo’s David, passive and powerful and carved from pale marble. His eyes are granite and if Kingsley had a chisel he knows he could chip away at the boy’s chest until he uncovered an iron and copper wire heart beating inside a steel ribcage.
“No?”
“You lost you,” the boy says. The smile is gone and it has begun to snow again. When it snows, Kingsley knows the dream is almost over. All he wants to do is stay asleep a little longer. All he wants to do is stay asleep forever.
“How do I find you again?” Kingsley asks. “Please, tell me before I wake.”
“You don’t find me,” the boy says. “I find you.”
“Find me then.”
“When it’s time.”
“When will it be time?”
The boy in white moves his hands over the board and Kingsley looks down. The ice king lays on the board broken in two pieces.
“When?” Kingsley asks. He is a child again, asking a thousand questions in the quest for a single answer. The snow is falling harder now, heavy as rain and hot as tears. “Tell me when, please…”
The boy leans across the board as if to kiss him, but instead of a kiss, Kingsley is given an answer.
“When you find you.”
Between the kiss and the answer, Kingsley would have picked the kiss.
My Review
What can I say? I loved this book! It was perfect! Tiffany did it again. And I'm not into BDSM. But I really love this series!
I loved young Kingsley, now I knew him more, his feelings, his relationship with pain and with Søren.
He tied you up to tell you he never wanted you to leave him. He bit you because you were the food to his soul. He struck you to mark you as his possession, as a valuable he would want returned to him if lost or stolen. That's why you miss it, Kingsley. That's why you miss the pain. Beacuse every time he hurt you, he was trying to tell you in the only way he could how much he loved you.
And now I can see how the idea of his kingdom came. Honestly Kingsley wasn't my favorite character in the series (I'm in TeamSoren 😉), I liked him, but now I became fond of him. 💓 He was funny, charming and so hot. I think I could fall in love with the 24 years old Kingsley.
Pretty words and handsome faces have been making the hearts and loins of girls come to life since the beginning of time.
I couldn't put this book down. The Chateau and Madame were both so mysterious, because of this the story was so interesting. There were BDSM scenes but these series, and these books are more then sex and sadomasochism. These stories have depth.
I loved the mind games in this book, and it was good to read about the past, about Kingsley's relationship with Søren. And the ending was perfect! I love the cover! 💓
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Goodreads: https://goo.gl/DSyF8j
Véleményem:
Mit is mondhatnék? Szerettem ezt a könyvet! Tiffany újra megcsinálta! Személy szerint nem vagyok híve a BDSM-nek de ezt a sorozatot nagyon szeretem!
Egyszerűen szerettem a fiatal Kingsleyt, most jobban megismerhettem az érzelmeit, a kapcsolatát a fájdalommal és Sørennel való kapcsolatát.
És most már látom, hogy Kingsley világának alapja honnan származik, honnan vette az ötletet hozzá. Őszintén megmondom, hogy Kingsley nem volt a kedvencem a sorozat eddigi részeiben (Inkább Soren csapatába tartozom 😉), kedveltem, de most szerettem meg igazán.💓
Ebben a könyvben King vicces, elbűvölő, csábító és nagyon szexi volt. Úgy érzem könnyen szerelembe tudnék esni a 24 éves Kingsleyvel.
Nem tudtam letenni a könyvet. A Kúria és a Madame nagyon rejtélyesek voltak, és emiatt a történet nagyon izgalmas, érdekes volt. Voltak benne BDSM jelenetek, de ez a sorozat, ezek a könyvek többről szólnak mint a szex és szadomazochizmus.
Imádtam az elmejátékokat a könyvben, és nagyon jó volt olvasni a múltról, Kingsley és Søren kapcsolatáról. És a befejezés pedig tökéletes volt! A borító pedig nagyon tetszik! 💓
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About Tiffany Reisz
Tiffany Reisz is the USA Today bestselling author of the Original Sinners series for Mira Books and Mills & Boon, including the RT Book Reviews Best Erotic Romance 2012 winner The Siren and the LAMBDA Literary Award-winning The King. Her novel The Saint won the Romance Writers of America RITA® for best Erotic Romance in 2015.
About 8th Circle Press
8th Circle Press is a Lexington, Kentucky-based publisher of literary friction. For more information, visit our website at www.8thCirclePress.com.
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