✍ Scribed by Heidi Cullinan
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To seal their bond, they must break the ties that bind.
Painfully introverted and rendered nearly mute by a heavy stammer, Lord George Albert Westin rarely ventures any farther than the club or his beloved gardens. When he hears rumors of an exotic new orchid sighted at a local hobbyist’s house, though, he girds himself with opiates and determination to attend a house party, hoping to sneak a peek.
He finds the orchid, yes…but he finds something else even more rare and exquisite: Michael Vallant. Professional sodomite.
Michael climbed out of an adolescent hell as a courtesan’s bastard to become successful and independent-minded, seeing men on his own terms, protected by a powerful friend. He is master of his own world—until Wes. Not only because, for once, the sex is for pleasure and not for profit. They are joined by tendrils of a shameful, unspoken history. The closer his shy, poppy-addicted lover lures him to the light of love, the harder his past works to drag him back into the dark.
There’s only one way out of this tangle. Help Wes face the fears that cripple him—right after Michael finds the courage to reveal the devastating truth that binds them.
Warning: Contains wounded heroes, bibliophilic tendencies, orchid obsessions, a right bastard of a marquis, and gay men who get happily-ever-afters.
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—Dear Author on Dance With Me(B+)
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“This book is so adamantly, obviously superior to 90% of the gay romantic fiction being published that I feel like assigning it a comparative rank seems juvenile. At this level of craft, can the five stars be in question?...when you have a gifted, warm, generous writer who consistently pushes into new terrain with grace and affection, the question is not if you will enjoy the book but why.”
—Reviews by Jessewave on Dance With Me
Lord George rarely ventures outside his beloved gardens. Until he girds himself with opiates and determination to attend a house party to sneak a peek at an exotic new orchid. He finds the orchid, yes…but he also finds Michael Vallant. Professional sodomite.
A courtesan’s bastard, Michael became master of his world—until Wes. Not only because the sex is for pleasure and not for profit. They share a shameful, unspoken past. The only way out of the tangle is to heal George of his crippling fears—and confess the devastating truth that binds them.
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