Buying Options

Read for Free

OR

Print List Price:	$14.99
Kindle Price:	$4.99 Save $10.00 (67%)

Promotions apply when you purchase

Also buy Audible narration for $7.49

Deliver to your Kindle or other device

Enter a promotion code or Gift Card

Share <Embed>

The Red: An Erotic Fantasy (The Godwicks) by [Tiffany Reisz]

Audible Sample

Playing...

Paused

Follow the Author

Tiffany Reisz

The Red: An Erotic Fantasy (The Godwicks) Kindle Edition

by Tiffany Reisz (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

542 ratings

Book 1 of 3: The Godwicks

See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

Kindle

"Please retry"

$4.99

—

Audible Audiobook, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$0.00

Free with your Audible trial

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$21.99

—

Paperback

"Please retry"

$14.99

$8.92

Audio CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged

"Please retry"

$24.99

$21.24

Kindle
$0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 1 million more titles $4.99 to buy
Audiobook
$0.00

Free with your Audible trial
Hardcover
$21.99

6 New from $21.99
Paperback
$14.99

5 Used from $8.92 7 New from $14.99
Audio CD
$24.99

1 Used from $21.24 1 New from $24.99

Mona Lisa St. James made a deathbed promise that she would do anything to save her mother's art gallery. Unfortunately, not only is The Red painted red, but it's in the red.

Just as she realizes she has no choice but to sell it, a mysterious man comes in after closing time and makes her an offer: He will save The Red if she agrees to submit to him for the period of one year.

The man is handsome, English, and terribly tempting...but surely her mother didn't mean for Mona to sell herself to a stranger. Then again, she did promise to do anything to save The Red...

The Red is a standalone novel of erotic fantasy from Tiffany Reisz, international bestselling author of The Bourbon Thief and the Original Sinners series.

Length: 226 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Audible book: Audible book Switch back and forth between reading the Kindle book and listening to the Audible book with Whispersync for Voice. Add the Audible book for a reduced price of $7.49 when you buy the Kindle book. Available	Book 1 of 3 in The Godwicks
Age Level: 18 - 18

Books In This Series (3 Books)

Complete Series

The Godwicks

Kindle Edition

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

1
The Red: An Erotic Fantasy (The Godwicks)

(542)

Kindle Edition

$4.99
2
The Rose

(215)

Kindle Edition

$7.49
3
The Pearl (The Godwicks)

Kindle Edition

$5.99

Customers who bought this item also bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Tiffany Reisz

193

Kindle Edition
$2.49
Tiffany Reisz
Kindle Edition
$5.99
This title will be released on December 1, 2020.
Tiffany Reisz

169

Kindle Edition
$4.99
Tiffany Reisz

256

Kindle Edition
$7.99
Tiffany Reisz

234

Kindle Edition
$3.99
Tiffany Reisz

203

Kindle Edition
$5.99

Amazon Business : For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE Shipping. Register a free business account

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A delightful, wicked fairytale." -- Smart Bitches, Trashy Books
"Kinky, well-written, hot as hell." -- Little Red Reading Hood
"Smart and intriguing." -- NPR
"The Red is the epitome of smart smut... Gloriously kinky, clutch your pearls, next level filth and it is phenomenal. " -- Scandalicious Book Review
"Tiffany Reisz at her best." -- Collector of Book Boyfriends
"[A] best romance of the month." -- Goodreads
"An exploration, exploitation, and celebration of sex." -- Heroes & Heartbreakers
"A kinky modern-day fairy tale of lust and need and wonder... The Red kept me up all night." -- GraveTells Romance
"You can't quite believe what you're reading." -- Lil Maso
"Filthy." -- Blogger Vivien Olvasókuckója
"I tossed sleep aside to finish it in a night... This book is worth it." -- No Pithy Phrase
"No holds barred." -- Sarah Tandy, A Woman and Her Books
"A supernatural, erotic acid trip. Filthy, sexy, and beautiful." -- Tqwana Brown, 80 Books Blog
"Unlike anything I've ever read before." -- A Reader Who Reads Blog

From the Author

"For years readers have been asking me to write The Red, a novel mentioned in the Original Sinners series written by my erotica-writing dominatrix Nora Sutherlin. Well, readers, be careful what you wish for." -- Tiffany Reisz

From the Inside Flap

Exclusive Excerpt from The Red:

"Are there rules?" Mona asked of her mysterious suitor. "Expectations of me? Requests?"

Malcolm held up one finger, telling her to sit and wait. She sat. She waited. He walked to her bookshelf and perused the titles, the hand on his chin again like the first night. At last he seemed to find what he was looking for. He pulled a large white book from the shelf and leafed through the pages. Then he returned to her desk, bringing the book with him.

"That," he said, laying the book open on the desk and pointing at a photograph of a painting. "I would like you to wait for me thusly."

The painting in the photograph was one she knew well--Manet's Olympia, a portrait of a young girl, naked, lying on a bed with her head up and staring directly at the viewer. It was an infamous painting, Manet making mockery of the tired old Venus-reclining-on-her-bed trope. Olympia was a prostitute and a shameless one at that. When it was first displayed, the crowds found it so vulgar they wanted to tear it to shreds.

"So I'm to be your Olympia."

"For what I'm paying you, you'll be everything I want you to be."

She looked up at him, met his eyes. For the first time since they met, he touched her. He laid his hand on the side of her face, stroked the arch of her cheekbone with his thumb. Such a large warm hand. She truly believed she would regret making this agreement. But she didn't regret it now.

"You were meant to do this," he said softly. "You'll see."

"Why me?" she asked. "Millions of women in this country, millions in yours...why me?"

"Millions of paintings in this world. Only one Mona Lisa. Billions of women in this world. Only one you, Mona Lisa St. James."

Then he left her in the office, blushing and shivering and undeniably aroused. She'd just agreed to become a prostitute to save her gallery.

From the Back Cover

Never make a promise you don't intend to keep...
Mona Lisa St. James made a deathbed promise that she would do anything to save her mother's art gallery. Unfortunately, not only is The Red painted red, but it's in the red.

Just as she realizes she has no choice but to sell it, a mysterious man comes in after closing time and makes her an offer: He will save The Red if she agrees to submit to him for the period of one year.

The man is handsome, English, and terribly tempting...but surely her mother didn't mean for Mona to sell herself to a stranger. Then again, she did promise to do anything to save The Red...

About the Author

Tiffany Reisz graduated with a BA in English from Centre College and is making her parents and her professors proud by writing erotica under her real name. She is the author of the internationally bestselling and award-winning Original Sinners series.

Publication Date : July 11, 2017
File Size : 1876 KB
Word Wise : Enabled
Print Length : 226 pages
Publisher : 8th Circle Press (July 11, 2017)
Enhanced Typesetting : Enabled
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Simultaneous Device Usage : Unlimited
Language: : English
ASIN : B071D8HGPM
Lending : Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #12,203 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #21 in Paranormal Erotica (Kindle Store)
- #21 in Paranormal Erotica (Books)
- #30 in BDSM Erotica (Kindle Store)

Customer Reviews:
542 ratings

Customer reviews

5 star		70%
4 star		15%
3 star		9%
2 star		2%
1 star		3%

How are ratings calculated?

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

jeannie

Debased and debauched and oh so perfect

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2017

Verified Purchase

Fair warning, fair reader: "The Red" Tiffany Reisz's latest book is straight up erotica. That being said it is some of the most well written erotica currently published. Not only in the titillating, push your buttons, one handed read sense but in a literary, lyrical, creative sense. This book is going to make my best of list for 2017 guaranteed. It pushes all of my button. An exploration of deathbed promises and, maybe, even a little bit of grief, the story takes art and sex and debauchery creates some of the most inventive mesmerizing erotica I've come across in ages. Tiffany Reisz is the Mistress of the filthy and taboo. You don't need to know a lot about art to truly enjoy the way this book is set up, so don't let that scare you off.
Mona is a gallery owner saddled with the burden of a deathbed promise to her mother. The titular "Red" is the gallery her mother devoted her life to and that Mona grew up in. Since her mother's death, The Red has floundered financially and Mona is on the brink of losing her mother's beloved gallery. That is, until late one night Malcolm appears at closing time with an offer. That offer is an utterly debauched trip through the looking glass. Is it ghosts? Is it a fever dream? Or is all of this really happening?
Mona and the reader can never be sure. The deal consists of one night every month or so with Malcolm for a year. During that time he will have his way with Mona. And after every night Mona receives a valuable piece of artwork that helps her dig her way out of financial ruin. It's not a love story. Or is it? What starts out as a deal with the devil, perhaps, turns into Mona coming to terms with her own sexuality and falling in love, just a little bit, with mysterious Englishmen who showed up at her door one night.
Mr. Reisz structures Mona and Malcolm's story into several vignettes, very, very kinky vignettes, based on various artistic masterworks. It's brilliant and unlike anything I've read before. Sexuality has always inspired art but when Ms. Reisz turned the tables and uses art to inspire sexuality you're in for a wild, debased ride. It is hot and boundary pushing and absolutely filthy in spots. I can't possibly articulate all of the reasons I love this story and, if I tried, I would ruin the journey. I'll stick with the top four.
This story is courageous. Ms. Reisz threw caution to the wind and wrote from her heart - marketing be damned.
This story is the ultimate fantasy because it defies description. It has a spooky supernatural vibe, without being anything close to "paranormal romance". When you add in Mona's internal monologue, it becomes a beautiful psychological journey of a woman finding her true self - emotionally and sexually.
Ms. Reisz' turn of a phrase is so artful, I couldn't be sure whether Malcolm was a kinky stranger, a hallucination, fever dream or the devil himself. It's tough to keep a reader guessing and engaged the way "The Red" did.
The use of art as the inspiration and framework for each of Mona and Malcolm's encounters was provocative and inspiring. It gave depth and texture to the story and took it beyond the realm of gratuitous, raunchy erotica and made it so much more.
It's sexy and mysterious; nasty and hot. The Red is a kind of book that creeps into your dreams and, occasionally, your waking moments. I can guarantee you'll never walk through museum and look at the art on the wall the same way. If you're open-minded and love a great, sexy, thought-provoking read, pick this up immediately. An ARC was provide for an honest review

#TopReadof2017
#SendBourbonandBatteries

43 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

RoloPoloBookBlog

I feel like instead of a full-blown review

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2017

Verified Purchase

The Red by Tiffany Reisz
Source: ARC from author and purchase
My Rating: 5 ginormous stars
My Review:

Sometimes, I feel like instead of a full-blown review, I can just type “F*^$ you, Tiffany Reisz. Just, F*^$ you!” and everyone who reads her and knows her work well will simply laugh and know exactly how I feel about her latest book! Unfortunately, that may be awfully confusing to those who don’t know her work, so here comes a full-blown review.

When Mona’s mother was dying, Mona promised her she would do anything within her power to keep their art gallery, The Red open and operating. When the promise was made, Mona couldn’t imagine the crippling debt she would be in following her mother’s lengthy and expensive illness. With little to no revenue coming in and the bills relentlessly showing up, Mona lives in fear of disappointing her mother. It is at her weakest moment that Malcolm comes into her life with a proposal Mona’s still young and reckless enough to accept. For the period of one year, Malcolm will have access to her body for whatever purpose and position he so desires. In return, Malcolm will provide Mona with enough priceless art to keep her gallery not just open, but flourishing. Desperate and more than a little intrigued, Mona accepts.

The first few encounters with Malcolm are beyond anything Mona could have ever imagined. Each encounter is based on a famous painting and each sexual encounter is more inventive and satisfying than the last. In fact, there is more than one time when Mona assumes she dreamt or even hallucinated the events of her night with Malcolm and to an extent, that scares her. Worries aside, Mona wakes the morning after each encounter completely sated and with a new (at least to her!) work of art that is worth, at the very least, hundreds of thousands of dollars. To be sure, at the end of the year, The Red will not only be financially solvent, but so far in the black as to be secure for years to come. As the month’s pass, Mona’s financial security becomes less important to her than the eventual and certain loss of Malcolm. Though some of his scenarios scare and even anger her, there is no denying the hold Malcolm has over Mona and the fact he’s ruined her for all other men. More than anything else, it is this inevitable ending that scares and saddens Mona.

The Bottom Line: Holy sh*t!! Tiffany Reisz just wrote the book version of a mic drop and then sashayed out of the room leaving the rest of lying on the ground twitching!! As I said in the beginning, F*^$ you, Tiffany Reisz. Just, F*^$ you. Between the intensity of the read, the desire to know precisely who Malcolm is, and total lack of respect for my next day’s responsibilities, this book got finished in one shot at 5 a.m. I regret nothing! At its core, The Red is all about the art and the sex and I loved every single minute of this read. Only Tiffany Reisz can write a book that is roughly 85% sex and keep it fresh, exciting, dirty, and oh, so good! As always, the writing (even in ARC form!) is flawless and elegant and the ending is spot on awesome!!
P.S. *^$ you, Tiffany Reisz. Just, F*^$ you. 😊

P.P.S. Yeah, I ordered a signed copy of this one. It owes me 😊

24 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

LaFemme-Regina

The Erotic Adventures of Mona and Malcolm

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2017

Verified Purchase

I greatly enjoyed The Red. It reminded me of the Sleeping Beauty trilogy by Ann Rice. It is a fairy tale style telling of a Mona, who made a deathbed promise to her mother and had no way to keep it until Malcolm made her an intriguing offer. If she submitted to him for a year, he would save her mother's gallery.

Mona accepted, flattered and intrigued that someone would pay her a million dollars to have sex with her for a year. Her sexual appetite along with an increased kink factor grew rapacious under Malcolm's tutelage. His unique demands that they re-enact the erotic scenes in famous paintings was a great idea to tell the story. I had a hard time putting the book down only to return later. Forget about it.

20 people found this helpful

Helpful

Comment

Top reviews from other countries

Another Avid Reader

Debauched but not debased

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2019

Verified Purchase

It was a fascinating read, it was also erotic and quite a bit surreal. It was however very definitely worth reading, as you read you follow Mona Lisa St James on her journey with Malcolm. I don’t mind confessing that I couldn’t have done everything that she did but it was worth it in the end. I love the honesty of the whole situation, I agree entirely with the attitude about the job she takes on to earn the money to save the art gallery. Namely becoming a prostitute, society takes itself far too seriously and would look down on a woman for being a whore. It doesn’t take a genius to realise there wouldn’t be any whores if there weren’t any customers.

I read the book on my iPad which gave me the opportunity to look at images of each of the paintings that were discussed in the book, it brought a wider understanding of the whole book.
The only thing that surprised me was how long it took Mona to work out what was going on, but *shrug* that’s the way it was written. Tiffany Reisz, a romantic just like me...well mostly.

2 people found this helpful

Kindle Customer

TErotic Dreams

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 27, 2017

Verified Purchase

Mona Lisa St. James makes a deathbed promise to save her mother's art gallery 'The Red' no matter what the cost. But the gallery is heavily in debt. It will need hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep it open and let it flourish. Then one night Mona encounters an anonymous gentleman in the gallery and unbelievably he offers to save The Red, if only she agrees to submit to his every demands for a year. With no alternative, Mona accepts his indecent offer and participates in a series of erotic fantasies. Each fantasy is rewarded with a promised piece of art which can be authenticated and sold. But how will this story end? You will have to read yourself to find out.

2 people found this helpful

EMM

A bit too surreal

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2017

Verified Purchase

Oh gosh, where to start with this one! I absolutely love Tiffany Reisz, she's a brilliant author with a very vivid imagination. But I don't know whether I liked this or not. The overall story is a good plot and as always with this author lots of unexpected twists and turns. The writing itself is pure genius and creates a well crafted story which flows perfectly. However, some of the sex scenes even for this author (and Nora Sutherlin) were just a bit too much for me. Was there consent? I don't know. Usually with a story like this I would go back and re-read but I can't bring myself to do that - just yet. It really pains me to write this review as I love the author and would happily read a phone book written by her - but yeah, think I'll just put this one behind me now.

One person found this helpful

Hopeh

Promises but doesn’t deliver at all.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2019

Verified Purchase

From the reviews you would expect a well-crafted novel rather on the naughty side, but unfortunately you don’t get anything close to it. Flat characters, one of whom clearly doesn’t give a damn about anything other than himself and the other whom can’t decide where they want their morals to be...awful, boring, crass and crude dialogue which is as sexy as a wet fish and certainly as cringeworthy as one...questionable backstory...I just couldn’t get past a couple of chapters. The premise is very good but it needs a far better writer to carry it through. This is my first experience of this author and I’m sorry to say will be my last.

Liz F

Not what I was expecting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2017

Verified Purchase

The storyline was not at all what I was expecting. It is a well crafted, well researched and well written book, as I have come to expect from Tiffany Reisz. Ms Reisz writes the most intelligent erotica but this rather Gothic style fantasy just wasn't my style. I could appreciate the cleverness of it but I need characters I can believe in and empathise with. Had this been a straight business transaction between the main characters or pure fantasy I would probably have liked it better; as it is if fell between 2 genres and left me somewhat dissatisfied.

One person found this helpful