"I couldn't decide if the man in front of me was the handsomest ugly man I'd ever met – or the ugliest handsome one."
Beauty and the Beast retold on a Caribbean isle.
A tropical moon rises on the great house at Manon’s Hope. Upstairs a woman reads a darkly erotic tale to a listener in a locked room. There are many locked rooms and low voices in this mansion where the Gérard family has for two hundred years ruled a plantation empire built on slavery and rum.
Lured by an enticing job offer, struggling actress Manda Apple arrives on the remote island of St. Valens to find herself drawn to her employer, the urbane Griffin Gérard, despite his distant manner and ravaged face. But in Griffin’s alcoholic brother Colm, Manda encounters a tortured man who both repels and frightens her. And more frightening still – a kindred soul.
Manon’s Hope is a tale of a paradise haunted by cruelty and blood. Of family bonds torn and tested. Of the dark, dangerous waters beneath the Caribbean’s blue sheen. And the darker, more dangerous deeps of the human heart. It’s an unputdownable read unlike anything you’ve read before.
A novel of erotic suspense, Manon’s Hope, Part 1 is six chapters, 33,000 words.
"I couldn't decide if the man in front of me was the handsomest ugly man I'd ever met – or the ugliest handsome one."
Beauty and the Beast retold on a Caribbean isle.
A tropical moon rises on the great house at Manon’s Hope. Upstairs a woman reads a darkly erotic tale to a listener in a locked room. There are many locked rooms and low voices in this mansion where the Gérard family has for two hundred years ruled a plantation empire built on slavery and rum.
Lured by an enticing job offer, struggling actress Manda Apple arrives on the remote island of St. Valens to find herself drawn to her employer, the urbane Griffin Gérard, despite his distant manner and ravaged face. But in Griffin’s alcoholic brother Colm, Manda encounters a tortured man who both repels and frightens her. And more frightening still – a kindred soul.
Manon’s Hope is a tale of a paradise haunted by cruelty and blood. Of family bonds torn and tested. Of the dark, dangerous waters beneath the Caribbean’s blue sheen. And the darker, more dangerous deeps of the human heart. It’s an unputdownable read unlike anything you’ve read before.
A novel of erotic suspense, Manon’s Hope, Part 1 is six chapters, 33,000 words.