He is a talented artist who runs his own gallery and takes commissions by appointment only. August Ashley, a socially awkward man who has his own quirks and idiosyncrasies, he suffers from severe anxiety and mostly keeps to himself. Stone takes a tumble while jogging in the park and he meets the man who will forever change his life in a way that he thought he would never want. I loved the idea and the concept of this, the fallen angels, the sins and who and what they are all about, I hope each sin, I mean a person, gets their own story. He bounces back to start a new life, gets an education and earns a PHD, then comes up with a plan to put life into an abandoned cathedral and turn it into a brothel featuring the seven deadly sins. Stone’s childhood and life had not been the easiest when he finally breaks away, has a decent two-year run with his new life before it all comes crashing down around him. The story features the founder and creator of “The Carnal Tower”, and we are not talking about Dante Alighieri here, no, just Stone Brice. Sure, I was expecting “Shades of Lust” to be all about pleasure and pleasuring, but it was so much more. Lindsey wows me with another amazing book and not only know do they how to captivate my attention the entire book, but they know how to tug on my heartstrings the entire time, too. Great Story & Narration🎧 Riveting & Emotional!Į.M. Each book in the series can stand on their own, and all contain no cheating, and a happily ever after. It features a bi-awakening, high heat, low angst, and the human embodiment of a seven deadly sin whose sole purpose is to make sure his client never forgets their week at The Carnal Tower. Shades of Lust is the first book in a new series.

Stone has every plan to strip August down to his very soul, but the longer the week goes on, the more Stone comes to realize that August might very well be his undoing. Not when it means he’ll be able to have August exactly the way he wants him-even if it’s just for a week.

Stone is well aware he can’t mix business and pleasure, but when August comes to him with a proposal for a trade-seven paintings for seven nights with Lust-he can’t say no. But there’s something about the quiet stranger in the park that Stone wants to take apart, and that feeling only gets worse the more Stone gets to know him. Stone is a man who is rarely taken by surprise, so when he meets the artist, August Ashley, he doesn’t expect to trip and fall at his feet-literally. A former acrobat, Stone’s life was changed dramatically after an accident, and now he runs The Carnal Tower, a place where people can go to have their deepest and sometimes darkest fantasies realized. On a small path leading to nowhere sits a looming cathedral, once-abandoned, now hosting the most dangerous of pleasures.Īnd Stone Brice is the most dangerous of all: Lust. 'The path to paradise begins in hell.” (Dante Alighieri)

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