The Chateau by Tiffany Reisz My rating: 4 of 5 stars
It’s Kingsley but not as you know him!
Let me explain. Yes, this is Kingsley Edge and it’s part of his overall story but this time as a 24-year-old when he’s still working for the French military. Sent on a mission to infiltrate a sex cult based in “The Chateau”, he is to find his Captain’s nephew who has been taken by the cult leader. With the prospect of joining a sex cult, Kingsley jumps at the chance of this undercover mission.
Don’t be misled by where the story is heading. This is a serious Kingsley, well almost anyway, who hasn’t yet developed his bravado or his quintessentially Kingsley ways but he is still a man looking for something and not knowing what after leaving Soren and his ministrations.
The Chateau and the story is loosely based around the infamous Story of O and frequently references this book throughout. The Chateau, the story, is possibly more sexually driven in a theoretical sense than the author’s other works which are led more by the characters than explicit scenes, to a certain degree. This story, once Kingsley enters The Chateau becomes dark and mysterious as he seeks to complete his mission but in doing so, he finds himself looking through a looking glass at his life, his beliefs, his wants and his wishes.
Headed by “Madame”, The Chateau is what it seems, until it isn’t. Rich in the historical tapestry of dominance and submission, the building screams sexual liberation and yet everything must be earned. No-one person belongs to another, bodies are shared, even babies have multiple guardians without knowledge of parentage, well on the father’s side anyway.
As expected Kingsley finds himself submitting to what he loves but this time he is dominated by women and not Soren. At first, you wonder where the story is heading, and what will happen to Kingsley but like all good fairy tales, the reality is a myth. Kingsley soon starts to become part of the twisted games that Madame plays on his body and mind and yet yearns for more… more punishment, more revelations, and even more games. As any true masochist would attest to, in order to become whole you first have to be broken, and Kingsley soon appreciates that for himself.
This story, although a standalone and semi-separated from the Sinner’s series, doesn’t have the same feel as the other books. Gone is most of the humour and light-hearted banter and in its place is something altogether deeper. The scenes in The Chateau certainly titillate, but they are also dark with an underlying tone of macabre. Whilst I enjoyed the story, I missed the warmth of the other Sinner’s books and also Kingsley’s banter. That said, this was definitely a suspenseful story with twists and turns throughout which provide readers with shock and awe towards the end of the book. You may even be left with questions upon finishing the story and you could be left with thoughts which will frequent your mind crying out to be answered, so be warned!
Personally, whilst this book can be read without having read the other Sinner’s stories, I feel that the story may become a little lost in translation until you can relate to the author’s style of writing and character development in her works in this area to date. The theme and the Story of O references will most certainly draw readers in but please, pleasure yourself by experiencing everything that Kingsley has to offer and enjoy more of him before or after The Chateau and become a true Sinner.
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BLURB
As the Jack-of-All-Wicked-Trades for a secretive French military intelligence agency, 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.
This is an exclusive excerpt from The Chateau: An Erotic Thriller, on sale this June from 8th Circle Press…
In the novel Story of O, the woman, O, is taken to a château, and the minute she’s inside the house, four men take turns ravishing her. Kingsley wondered if such a thing was about to happen to him now as he waited on his knees in the hotel room. Would he be grabbed, stripped, violated, raped? Myriad lurid scenarios ran through his mind. But it seemed the mysterious stranger had other ideas. He heard the door lock. He heard a woman’s prim footsteps, first on the hardwood floor and then on the rug. Then he sensed her standing directly behind him. He inhaled deeply and smelled lavender water, the kind his mother used to wear.
“Don’t speak,” the woman said. It was the voice from the phone, who’d ordered him to wait at the hotel. “Only speak when I ask you a direct question. I’ll speak in French. You answer in English. If someone is eavesdropping it’ll make it a little harder on them. Do you understand?”
Comprenez-vous?
“Yes,” Kingsley said, en anglais. He wondered how she knew he knew English. Had his American accent been that convincing?
“I’m going to touch you,” she said. “If you have an objection to that, then I don’t know why you’re here.”
Again, Kingsley did not speak. He had absolutely no objection to being touched. Not by her, anyway.
He waited, eyes closed, and felt a soft touch on his head, a stroke of fingers through his hair.
“You lied to me,” she said.
Kingsley tensed, but didn’t speak. He knew better than to say anything to that sort of accusation.
“You told me you were handsome. You aren’t,” she said. “You’re exquisite.”
Kingsley almost said something to that. Something like, “Will that be a problem?” But she’d only made a statement. Until she asked a question, he wasn’t allowed to speak.
“If I were a painter, you’d be my muse,” she said. “You belong in oils on canvas.”
Not being allowed to say “thank you” to a compliment of that magnitude was mild torture.
She stroked his hair again. His eyes were open, but he couldn’t see her as she stood beyond the farthest edge of his peripheral vision. That explained partly why the curtains had to be closed. Otherwise he could have seen her reflection in the window.
She touched his forehead and now Kingsley felt the silk of gloves against his skin. Her touch was gentle, soothing, and the second he relaxed into it, she put a knife to his throat.
Kingsley froze.
“I don’t want to kill you,” she said.
That made two of them.
“Very good,” she said. “Even with a knife at your throat you hold your tongue. Someone’s trained you very well.”
Kingsley still did not speak. He knew he could overpower her if he needed to, but would she make a fatal stab first? Better to wait it out, behave, play along.
“Someone sent you to me. Who was it and what did he tell you?” she asked. “If you tell me even one lie I will slit your throat. And yes, I will know if you lie.”
She’d asked him one direct question. Therefore he was allowed to speak.
“I’m employed by an intelligence agency without a name,” he said. “French military. Officially unofficial. Leon isn’t my friend. He’s my commanding officer’s nephew. They think you’re holding him against his will. They asked me to get him out. If he wants out.”
“Leon is your commanding officer’s nephew,” she repeated, sounding amused. “So that’s the game, is it?”
“I don’t care about the boy,” he said. Kingsley wasn’t sure what she meant by “the game.” He hoped he lived long enough to find out.
“Then why did you come here?”
“My own reasons.”
“You wish to serve, do you?”
Kingsley whispered, “Yes.”
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.
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