by Charlotte Stein
New job, new boss, and he’s cold, strict, but terribly attractive. Does Molly Parker stay or does she go? Because beneath Cyrian’s chilly front, there may be a heat that’ll burn her up. Giving in was vicious bliss. The live-in position is an opportunity for Molly to earn and escape a problematic...
"Beauty and the Beast" meets Matilda meets "Secretary." (And supposedly "Sherlock" and "Jane Eyre" are in there too, though I didn't notice.) I loved the first half of this vaguely gothic story, as a desperate young woman talks her way into a job with a supercilious hermit who turns out to have a ...
This book had me flushed and gasping. This book made me dizzy with gorgeous prose. This book, at one point, had me sobbing in recognition and sympathy -- knees tucked against chest, book on knees, hand over mouth, tears pouring down my face. It's a weird book that knows it's weird -- it's a literate...
Sweet Agony is another of Charlotte Stein's awkward, neurotic-voiced stories of halting romance and sexuality. It starts with Molly, a young woman who's in desperate need of a job, climbing a fence to deliver an application to Cyrian, an enigmatic, persnickety, peculiar future-employer. (*cough, ver...
The first part of this was kind of slow. The last part was SO DIRTY.
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