La vie d'Ash Harrington est hors de contrôle. À vingt-trois ans, il se retrouve soudainement à la tête d'une multinationale pesant plusieurs milliards de dollars, qu'il n'est absolument pas prêt à diriger. Son père est mourant. Sa mère s'est enfuie. Il a passé toute sa vie d'adulte à mener une existence dissolue, sans se soucier de sa vie ni de ses amours. Mais lorsqu'il se retrouve propulsé à un poste à responsabilités, avec le destin de l'entreprise sur les épaules, il sombre dans une spirale infernale. Et Brand Forsythe est le seul homme capable de le rattraper. Froid, distant, presque deux fois plus âgé qu'Ash, cet imposant valet britannique est impossible à cerner et ne ressemble à aucun serviteur qu'Ash ait jamais rencontré. Arrogant et autoritaire, Brand remet rapidement de l'ordre dans la vie d'Ash. Et le reprend en main. Et si, le jour, Ash doit faire preuve d'autorité, de leadership et de calme... seul avec Brand, il abandonne sa volonté et lâche prise sur le contrôle qu'il doit exercer. Ash ne comprend pas vraiment pourquoi il se sent si bien entre les mains compétentes et autoritaires de Brand Forsythe. Il sait seulement que, alors qu'il est confronté aux décisions les plus difficiles de sa vie... la seule chose qui peut le sauver est l'amour de son valet.
Author
Slender. Angry. (Part) Asian. Yeah, that about sums me up. Hi. I’m Cole. Xen. Whatever you want to call me; both are true, and both are lies. My pen names are multitudes, my nicknames legion. Tall, bi/queer, introverted author of a brown-ish persuasion made up of various flavors of Black, Asian, and Native American. I’m cuter than Hello Kitty, more bitter than the blackest coffee, and able to trip over cats in a single half-asleep lurch; I’m what happens when a Broody Antihero and a Manic Pixie Dream Boy fight to the death, and someone builds a person from the scraps left behind. Beardless, I look like the uke in every yaoi manga in existence; bearded or not, I sound like Barry White. About half my time is spent as a corporate writer, and the other half riding a train of WTFery that sometimes results in a finished book. Romance, erotica, sci-fi, horror, paranormal; LGBTQIA and cishet; diverse settings and diverse characters from a diverse author. Sometimes I shout about things on the internet. Usually intersectional feminism and marginalized voices, and whomever’s punching down in those directions today. Sometimes human sociology, the psychology of sex and gender, and my own gender non-conforming arse (he/him, by the way). Sometimes I get really mad at Stephen Hawking and nerd out all over the place about hairy black holes, and believe it or not, that’s not a terrible pun or even worse innuendo. That’s it. I’m a huge dork. My humor’s so dry it could empty oceans. I’m a native Southerner from the New Orleans area with zero Southern accent; I’m a mess of multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-lingual influences; I have two cats. I wake up at daft hours of the morning to go running. I crochet terrible, lumpy things that never really turn into anything. I’m older than you think I look. I’m much more shy than my fury makes me sound (signifying gods only know what, but probably nothing). Recently I decided, at 36, that I needed to restart my life and move cross-country, so I tossed 75% of my possessions in the trash and randomly trucked it to Seattle. I’m in love with books and music and technology, and they war with each other for dominance and sometimes come together in a beautiful confluence. Most of the physical books I own are strange, obscure, out of print, overseas imports, or any combination of the four. Most of the physical books I used to own were destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, and have been replaced with the infinite library on my Nook. My wallet has a dangerous attraction to anything with pages; it flirts and teases and gives its all, until there’s nothing left but emptiness and ruin. There will always be things you don’t know, and I won’t tell. But ask me late at night over live music in a seedy bar, and you might just get an honest answer. ...or you can poke me via: * Email: blackmagic@blackmagicblues.com * Twitter: @thisblackmagic * Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/xen.cole * Website & Blog: http://www.blackmagicblues.com * Tumblr: http://thisblackmagic.tumblr.com/ And there's my Xen Sanders SFF / Horror profile: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
