The Cross and the Black 1
A Paranormal Tale of Renaissance France
Fiction & Literature, Horror, LGBT, Gay, Science Fiction & Fantasy
| Author: | Luwa Wande | ISBN: | 1230000016023 |
| Publisher: | Crazyfish Olefish Press | Publication: | August 16, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Luwa Wande |
| ISBN: | 1230000016023 |
| Publisher: | Crazyfish Olefish Press |
| Publication: | August 16, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Brash and beautiful Claude Severin lives easy. By day light servant duties occupy him; by night he moonlights as a gay prostitute. Certainly, a few gambling debts annoy him, and he sometimes wishes his big and brooding master, Serge, would stop frowning and kiss him instead. But life is good enough, that is until Serge announces he's fed up with Claude's sinful ways. Suddenly, Claude is faced with homelessness, and the sickening prospect of Serge never owning up to his real feelings.
Meanwhile, a stranger, the tall and pale-faced Guy Sewell, hounds Claude about a mysterious debt. As far as Claude is concerned, this debt is a bit of poppycock. Guy would hear none of that of course, but he is willing to compromise on the nature of payment. If Claude is careful enough, 'payment' might just be the solution to all his problems, and all for a mysterious price.
Amid the squalor and the excitement, the sacred and the profane of Renaissance France, The Cross and the Black serves up a jocular tale of bumshoving, blasphemy, and bumptious fellows. Episode one of a four-part serial novel. This first installment is about 16,000 words, about 50 pages of reading.
Brash and beautiful Claude Severin lives easy. By day light servant duties occupy him; by night he moonlights as a gay prostitute. Certainly, a few gambling debts annoy him, and he sometimes wishes his big and brooding master, Serge, would stop frowning and kiss him instead. But life is good enough, that is until Serge announces he's fed up with Claude's sinful ways. Suddenly, Claude is faced with homelessness, and the sickening prospect of Serge never owning up to his real feelings.
Meanwhile, a stranger, the tall and pale-faced Guy Sewell, hounds Claude about a mysterious debt. As far as Claude is concerned, this debt is a bit of poppycock. Guy would hear none of that of course, but he is willing to compromise on the nature of payment. If Claude is careful enough, 'payment' might just be the solution to all his problems, and all for a mysterious price.
Amid the squalor and the excitement, the sacred and the profane of Renaissance France, The Cross and the Black serves up a jocular tale of bumshoving, blasphemy, and bumptious fellows. Episode one of a four-part serial novel. This first installment is about 16,000 words, about 50 pages of reading.
