Summary:
Cunning. Sex. Pure nerve.
Only this potent threesome can raise him to his rightful place as ruler of
Manhattan's kink kingdom.
Bouncing from bed to bed on
the Upper East Side—handsomely paid in both bills and blackmail fodder—Kingsley
Edge is brilliant, beautiful and utterly debauched. No carnal act or chemical
compound can relieve his self-destructive apathy—only Søren, the one person he
loves without limit or regret. A man he can never have, but in whose hands
Kingsley is reborn to attain even greater heights of sin. He plans to open the
ultimate BDSM club: a dungeon playground for New York's A-list that'll change
the scene forever.
The club becomes Kingsley's obsession—and he's enlisted some tough-as-nails
help. His new assistant Sam is smart, secretive and totally immune to seduction
(by men, at least). She and Kingsley make a wicked team. Still, their
combined—and considerable—expertise in domination can't subdue the man who
would kill their dream. The enigmatic Reverend Fuller won't rest until King's
dream is destroyed. It's one man's sacred mission against another's….
Bio:
Tiffany Reisz is the author of
the internationally bestselling and award-winning Original Sinners series for
Mira Books (Harlequin/Mills & Boon). Tiffany's books inhabit a sexy
shadowy world where romance, erotica and literature meet and do immoral and
possibly illegal things to each other. She describes her genre as
"literary friction," a term she stole from her main character, who
gets in trouble almost as often as the author herself.
She lives in Portland,
Oregon. If she couldn't write, she would die.
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Excerpt 1:
“How much trouble am I in for getting out of the car without
permission?” Kingsley asked.
“None,” Søren said, and Kingsley was wildly disappointed.
“Let’s go. We can make it back to school by tonight.”
Kingsley followed him back to the car. The driver opened the
door for them. When they were alone again, Kingsley said, “Or…”
“Or what?” Søren demanded.
“Or we could find a hotel and fuck in a real bed for once.”
“We’re not on a date. And here I was wondering where the
real Kingsley had gone.”
“What do you mean?” he asked as the driver opened the car
door for them. He slipped inside and Søren followed. They were on the road
again before Søren answered.
“When you were with Claire—I wasn’t sure you were the same
Kingsley I know and barely tolerate.”
“Why? Because I like kids?”
“You were good with her.”
“Kids are fun,” he said. What else was there to say?
“I never considered you would like children.”
“Well…I do. So what?”
“Nothing,” Søren said, laughing to himself. “Nothing at
all.”
“I know you see me as some kind of pervert,” Kingsley said.
“But believe or not, I am a human being. Yes, I like kids. I might want kids
someday. I don’t have much of a family anymore. If I want a family I’ll have to
make my own. Sometimes I have thoughts that don’t have anything to do with sex.
I’m not just your toy, you know. I have feelings and—”
His impassioned “I have feelings” speech ended abruptly when
Søren grabbed him hard by the back of the hair and brought his mouth down in a
brutal kiss. Kingsley almost pulled away so he could finish his tirade before
realizing he wanted the kiss so much more than the fight.
Kingsley returned the kiss with equal and greater passion.
Søren yanked Kingsley’s jacket off him and threw it on the floorboard. Kingsley
pulled his own shirt off and rolled on to his back on the bench seat. He’d
remember the sensation of leather on his bare back all his life.
“Have you ever had sex in the back of a Rolls Royce?”
Kingsley asked, trying not to rip Søren’s shirt in his rush to unbutton it. He needed
Søren’s skin on his skin right now.
“No,” Søren said. “But ask me that question again in an
hour.”
Before Kingsley could respond to that, Søren grabbed his
wrists, pinned them over Kingsley’s head and kissed him again—deeper, slower,
but no less punitive. Kingsley groaned, and Søren slapped a hand over his
mouth.
“Quiet,” Søren said into Kingsley’s ear. “We aren’t alone,
and I’ll gag you until you choke if I have to. Understand?”
Kingsley nodded against Søren’s hand. A curtain and
partition separated them from the driver. He couldn’t see them, but if they
were loud enough, he could hear them. He’d disobeyed Søren’s orders to stay in
the car, he’d yelled at him and talked back. He was going to get it this time.
Good.
Søren kissed him again. Kingsley kept his sounds of pleasure
to a minimum even when Søren reached between their bodies, unzipped Kingsley’s
pants, and stroked him hard. Every muscle in Kingsley’s stomach tightened. He
sucked in his breath sharply from the shock of pleasure. It took every bit of
self-control not to moan audibly.
“You like this?” Søren asked.
“God, yes, so much,” Kingsley said, lifting his hips against
Søren’s hand. He spoke in French and English. He was about to lose control of
more than his language skills if Søren didn’t stop touching him like that.
“I think you like it too much.” Søren rose up on his knees
and looked down at Kingsley.
“I don’t. I really don’t. I like it exactly as much as you
want me to.”
“You’re pathetic when you’re turned on.”
“I am so pathetic right now.”
~Q&A~
-Do you have a favorite
book or author you like to recommend? Do you have a comfort read?
I have a set of books I regularly recommend to people. Want to read
amazing literature? Read my favorite novel of all time All the King’s Men by Kentucky author Robert Penn Warren. Want to
read the most moving love story I’ve ever read? Read The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox. My comfort reads are Sherlock
Holmes short stories and Agatha Christie’s Poirot novels.
-What is your guilty
pleasure?
I’d need to feel guilt to have a guilty pleasure. Buying office supplies
I don’t need is probably the closest I get to a guilty pleasure. I buy them and
think about all the people out there who don’t have awesome office supplies
like I do and I feel bad for them.
-Favorite Meal?
Coffee and an ice cream sandwich is my version of a “Power Lunch.” The
combination of tastes is glorious.
-If you weren’t a writer,
what would you be?
My non-writer dream job is train engineer (what? I like trains). My
realistic non-writer job would be working in a bookstore. That’s what I was
doing when I started my writing career.
-If you could time travel,
what time period would you visit?
I would have to pick Palestine in the time of Jesus Christ. I have so
many questions to ask him!
-What made you write Søren
and Nora?
Zach Easton did. He came first. Once I had my stuffy Type A British
editor nursing a broken heart in need of mending, I conceived of a Wild Child
American woman to be his perfect foil and drive him nuts until he gets his head
on straight. But I wanted Nora to be able to relate to Zach who was going
through a separation from his wife so I had to have Nora separated from someone
who was like a spouse to her as well and that’s where Søren came from—he was Nora’s
ex-something who she’d never gotten over and knew she never would. Creating the
happy endings for Zach, Nora, and Søren in the series has been the most fun
I’ve ever had writing.
-What gives you inspiration
when writing your characters?
Everything. Biographies I’ve read, people I’ve known and loved, people
I’ve known and hated. Søren was based on God the Father which is why he’s so
scary and so loving. The Old Testament depicts God as being both sadistic and
compassionate and that makes for a wonderfully rich character. He’s a joy to
write because he’s got these two seemingly diametrically opposed personality
traits but in reality they’re just him being him.
-Did you get any response
from the Catholic Church when you published your books?
Nah. The Catholic Church has better things to do than worry about me. I
have lots of Catholic fans. Catholics are good at making fun of themselves. I
should know. I am one.
-What has been the most
exciting has happened in your latest writing endeavor?
The best part of writing is when I get it. There’s always a Eureka!
moment about two or three drafts into a book when I realize exactly what I have
to do to make the book work. It’s like solving a puzzle or figuring out a math
formula or striking oil. Just the best feeling.
-Who is/are your favorite
book characters?
Other people’s books:
Xas the angel from The Vintner’s
Luck.
Sarah from The Instance of the
Fingerpost by Iain Pears (I have never loved a female character in a book
like I loved Sarah)
Lord Crane in The Magpie Lord by
K.J. Charles
Characters in my books:
Mick will always be my Angel
Sheridan’s my favorite minor character because she’s just so sexy and
yet looks so innocent
Grace (sigh…I loved writing her)
Merrick in Seize the Night – I
based him on Mercutio from Romeo & Juliet and like Mercutio, he stole the
show
-What’s your favorite quote
from THE KING?
Upon seeing sixteen-year-old Nora do bodily harm to an obnoxious teenage
boy, Kingsley gets slightly aroused and says to himself, “You little sociopath,
fuck me until I forget I’m French.”
-What will be your next
read?
I odn’t know! So many great books to choose from. Since it’s almost
Christmas I’ll probably read Jesus: A Pilgrimage
by Jesuit priest James Martin. I adore Father Martin’s books on his
spiritual journey.
- What was it like to write
an entire novel from Kingsley's POV?
Fun! Kingsley is a joy to write. He feels everything deeply. Pain and
pleasure and longing. He could have been a cliché, the French Don Juan, but
more than anything he desperately wants to be a father. That tension between
his libertine tendencies and his desire
to have children make for some fun drama to write.
- Do you have a personal
favorite character in the series that you like to write more about than the
others?
Søren. I get so happy when I can put Søren in a scene. He just throws
everyone and everything in a tizzy when he shows up and he’s just standing
there in the center of the chaos being calm and stately and sadistic.
-Can you give us a concrete
overview of what's next in store for this series or are there other projects as
well that you're working on?
Yes! So…book seven in THE ORIGINAL SINNERS series is The Virgin. We already know that at a
point in Mistress Nora’s past, before she was Mistress Nora, she and Søren got
into the fight of fights, and she left him. She hid from him in her mother’s
convent because no men are allowed inside and she knew she’d be safe there.
While hiding out at the abbey, she meets a young beautiful novice who changes
her life. Meanwhile Kingsley runs off to Haiti to lick his wounds after a
personal crisis and meets Juliette. You get two erotic romances in The Virgin for the price of one! Nora
and her young nun. Kingsley and Juliette.
Oh, and you see King and Søren wearing kilts. So there is that.
- Is the BDSM club based on
a real club?
Yes! The old Playboy clubs used to give their members keys. And the
leather clubs (gay leather fetish clubs) had the flag and hanky system that’s
used at The 8th Circle.
- Was the vision of Søren
as Alexander Skarsgard came from him… or when you saw Alexander he just clicked
as the vision of Søren
Actually Søren looks nothing like Alexandar Skarsgard and I’d never ever
cast Alexander Skargard to play him in the movie. I wrote The Siren back in 2003/2004 and
Søren’s look was vaguely based on Jeremy Irons. If I were to cast Søren now,
I’d choose Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. Now HE does look like Søren.
Absolutely.
- Do you have a favorite
adult website & if yes… what is it
Nope. Not really.
-Kingsley’s time spent with
the French Foreign Legion has had a huge impact on the man he’s become. Will we
learn anymore about that time in his life?
I have no plans on writing about that time in his life in detail. I
prefer writing about my Sinners when they’re all together. They’re at their
best when the three of them—Nora, Søren, and Kingsley—are in close proximity to
each other.
-Was there a particular arc
for Original Sinners you had planned on that didn’t pan out? If there was, are
you willing to share any tidbits?
Well, I had early ideas that were discarded as the series progressed. I
thought about killing Kingsley in The
Mistress. I always knew I wanted to do a story where Nora was in real
danger and had to have someone who wanted to kill her so years ago I thought
I’d write about her running off to Ireland to hide from Søren and Wesley drama
and she’d get kidnapped by the IRA. I know. Terrible idea. But that desire to
put her in real danger led to the plot of The
Mistress.
-Which character (out of
any of your books) are you most surprised by your readers’ reaction? I love how
you reveal little bits and pieces of each character slowly.
Thank you! I was pleasantly surprised by
how much readers loved Michael and Griffin’s characters in The Angel. I get requests daily for more Mick and Griff stories. I
never dreamed a love affair between a 17 year-old boy recovering from a suicde
attempt and a 29 year-old ex-drug addict trust fund baby would resonate with
readers so much. But it did!
-What do you have in store
for your readers once this series is finished?
So many weird wonderful books! I hope anyway. The book I just finished
writing is called The Angels’ Share and
it’s a story of forbidden love, bourbon, and revenge set in Kentucky. Erotic
suspense!
-Are you a plotter or a
pantser? (when you writeJ )
Both. I plot but the book always surprises me so I often have to throw
out the outline and start over. Basically I just write and rewrite and rewrite
and rewrite until the book reveals its secrets to me.
-If you could change places
with one of your characters for a day- who would it be and what would you do?
I want to be Kingsley for a day so I could have sex with all the
beautiful perverts of Manhattan—men and women. We’d wear out the leather in the
Rolls Royce.
-You’ve talked about
wishing your books would be banned more. Do you think THE KING is the one to do
it?
I don’t really want my books to be banned. It’s quite a nightmare I hear
when they are. But if any book was going to do it, The King has a good shot. So much sex and violence and kink and
more sex…
-Was there one book in the
series that was harder to write than the others?
They were all nightmarishly hard to write and took twelve drafts, all of
them. But The Siren was probably the
hardest since I was starting from scratch. With the other books I at least had
some characters I already knew to work with. The Saint was probably the next hardest simply because I had to
throw out almost the entire first draft and start over. But that’s the book
business for ya.
