Today’s HOT NEW RELEASE is from another smokin’ Evernight Publishing author, Kastil Eavenshade.
Not only do we have the pleasure of a tasty snippet from Talbot’s Ploy but the lovely Kastil is giving away a copy to a random commenter!
BLURB:
Talbot Sauvageot has kept his wicked lifestyle underground for several years, going from one lover to the next. Decedent rake to females by day, passionate lover for his latest male companion at night. When he is forced to flee Paris or face the guillotine, Talbot realizes none of the men he has bedded over the past years burns at his soul like his dear friend Maxime LaRue.
Forced into seclusion in the forest of Bois de Lunor, he receives an invitation from Maxime for their yearly gathering at his estate in Varanguebec. One that Talbot has avoided the past few years. Refusing to submit to a life without love, Talbot schemes to discover if his childhood friend shares the same taste in pleasure as he.
Will Maxime submit to Talbot’s ploy or cast his friend in the shadow of death?
EXCERPT (warning: explicit, adult eyes only):
The foyer of his estate, dark at such a late hour, had comforted Maxime. In the shadows, none of his servants would witness the heated redness of his cheeks that drunkenness could not explain. He’d sent Talbot to the guest room on the other side of the large castle with a few bottles of wine to soak down his misery. For this night, Maxime decided no amount of drink would wipe the vision of Talbot sucking on his cock.
Halfway into his bedchamber, he had peeled his clothes off one piece at a time. His sights zeroed in on the large bed he planned to sprawl across as soon as he reached it. A note outside the door would belay his chambermaid from waking him before the sun stretched to its highest point. By then, he hoped Talbot would have shuffled off to his own home over the shame of the act. More than likely, his friend would stay the weekend for a bit of tomfoolery when Landis and Delron arrived.
Maxime had crawled under the sheets. Sleep, however, ran somewhere in the night and eluded his grasping hands. He rolled to his side to gaze at the filtering moonlight peeking through his closed curtains. Ever so slowly his eyes closed as he steadied his breathing to lure himself into a dream state. The grinding of stone on stone snapped him awake. The uneven footfalls neared the bed and his coverlet shifted. A warm body pressed against his back. A seeking hand smoothed over his skin and the strong smell of wine hit his nose.
Talbot had snuck into his room through the hidden passageways.
“What are you doing, Talbot?”
His friend did not answer with anything remotely resembling a language. Instead, his strong grip seized Maxime’s member and jerked it to attention. Maxime panicked. Out in the woods—far from his estate—such indulgences went unnoticed. Should he give into Talbot’s depravity in the confines of his castle, let alone his bedchamber, he would lose all his assets and be cast out by his father straight to the razor edge of the guillotine.
“I cannot do this, Talbot. It is wrong,” he whispered. “The laws.”
“Your cock and my hand say differently, my friend. Your servants are busy about their own lust. Why deny our own? Tell me to stop, Maxime, and I will.”
“Again I say you are drunk.”
“Immensely so and you quite enjoy my touch on your cock. Shall I taste you again or shall you submit to more?” Talbot shifted on the bed, towering over Maxime. “Unlike our tryst with Monsieur Beaumont’s daughters, no one is going to ruin our enjoyment.”
Maxime wondered if the taste of wine on his friend’s lips was a ploy for him to gamble in the games of their past. Was Talbot’s love of women but a ruse? Had he lured his best friend into a night of shame to prove he could or was his friend showing that his tastes were ones best left in dark crevices?
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