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

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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.

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"Provocative." -- O Magazine on The Red

"Deliciously deviant... Akin to Anne Rice's 'Beauty' series." -- Library Journal (Starred Review) on The Red

"A delightful, wicked fairytale." -- Smart Bitches, Trashy Books on The Red

"This is erotica done right." -- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on The Pearl

"...beautifully blends high art and absorbing prose with the sensual rendezvous of famed pairs in Greek legend... An otherworldly, titillating endeavor." -- Library Journal (Starred Review) on The Rose

"Will entrance readers..." -- BookPage on The Rose

"[A] best romance of the month." -- Goodreads on The Red

"Smart and intriguing." -- NPR on The Red

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"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

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"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.

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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.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B071D8HGPM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ 8th Circle Press (July 11, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 11, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1864 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 226 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1537217763

Best Sellers Rank: #6,805 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #13 in Paranormal Erotica (Kindle Store)
- #13 in Paranormal Erotica (Books)
- #18 in BDSM Erotica (Books)

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Tiffany Reisz is the USA Today-bestselling author of the Romance Writers of America RITA®-winning Original Sinners series from Harlequin's Mira Books.

Born in Owensboro, Kentucky, Tiffany graduated from Centre College with a B.A. in English. She began her writing career while a student at Wilmore, Kentucky's Asbury Theological Seminary. After leaving seminary to focus on her fiction, she wrote THE SIREN, which has sold more than half a million copies worldwide.

Tiffany also writes mainstream women's suspense fiction, including THE BOURBON THIEF (winner of the RT Book Reviews Seal of Excellence Award) and the RITA®-nominated THE NIGHT MARK.

Her erotic fantasy THE RED—self-published under the banner 8th Circle Press—was named an NPR Best Book of the Year and a Goodreads Best Romance of the Month. It also received a coveted starred review from Library Journal.

Tiffany lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband, author Andrew Shaffer, and two cats. The cats are not writers.

www.tiffanyreisz.com

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Lindsey

Go into this book blind!! You won’t regret it!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2023

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This book confused me so much! LOL I went into this book blind and I’m glad I did cause I did not see the ending coming!
At the beginning it seemed pretty straight forward, Mona agrees to let Malcom do whatever he wants to her for one year and he pays her to keep her mothers art studio open.
As the year progresses the scenarios get more and more… interesting I guess is the right word. I don’t want to say too much without giving too many spoilers cause if you go in blind, it’ll be a good twist!
I definitely looked up after finishing it with a big “what just happened?!” 😂
All in all, I enjoyed it! Just an FYI, there’s not a ton of plot, but a lot of other things!

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Calliefornia_Reads

Don't overthink it and look up the art

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 1, 2023

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I just...don't even know what I read. It was AMAZING and so so unique. I went into this story totally blind based on Bookstagram and was not disappointed at all. Go into this story with an open mind and let TIffany Reisz turn your world upside down.

The whole time I was reading, I kept trying to figure out who (or what) exactly Malcolm is....is he a god, a demon, an angel? The reveal at the end surprised the heck out of me, so I won't spoil it for anyone, but I absolutely did not see it coming. Do yourself a favor and google image search the artwork the author uses to inspire the different scenes in this book, trust me it helps.

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Mesmerizing and cataclysmic *spoiler alert*

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 1, 2019

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There may be spoilers in here so watch out.

I totally stumbled upon this book by accident. I play a lot of those choose your own story books and ran across this one. It's been on my watchlist for a while and I waited until I was done reading others before I got to this one. And oh my God was I surprised! The choose your own Story is literally a smaller condensed version of this book. But you get to pick the reactions. I had so much fun with it! I was really hoping that there was a series of actual books that went with this after I played it. And how do I read the author's flip in the beginning (which I never read by the way because they're usually super boring and dumb) I would have realized that it was based on actual book. I never replay the books on chapters ever. But this one was so good I was going to restart the book. And when I did I read the author's bio. I realized that this great little game was actually a book and I was thrilled beyond belief! The only thing that I'm sad about was that 90% of the book was in the game and I previously read it all. So I went should the Kindle app store instead of replaying the book on the game and purchased the book. and I was not disappointed even though I basically read the whole book in the game. there were still a few things and details that weren't in the game that were in the book that were important that were great in filling all the little details and gaps. I could read this book over and over again and I'm not usually like that. It was that good! I really wish there was a whole series to keep going. I would really like to know what happens with Mona after all of this. Malcolm was such a strong character but he deserves to have his own book before all of this takes place. A mini one even to go through his life through his eyes and feelings. Or even a counter book of this one on his thoughts and feelings through this whole book.

This book is literally every smut readers dream! Especially if you're into kinky stuff. The things that would make even a whore in church sweat even more. The things that you almost feel like you'll be struck down by a blaze of lightning bolt from heaven just by reading it. You feel like a sinner just for casting your eyes and reading the lines in here. They are erotic, shocking, overwhelming the senses... Cataclysmic rapture. Every woman's deepest darkest fantasies. The things that not even your dreams can make.

On a different note, I actually learned stuff from this book too. Hard to believe I know! But the author really did her research and knows her stuff. At first I didn't realize that all of the paintings and artists were actually real. Once I actually bought the book and read it I realized that every painting artist was actually real. That is a lot of dedication and research just to make this book happen. You won't be disappointed when you actually go look them up. They're actually quite lovely. I've never been an art fan before but this is kind of changed my view of Art. Especially a portraits and paintings of things that might be obscure.

This is most definitely the longest review of a book that I've ever left. I hope the author reads all of these.

Mona and Malcolm's relationship is something to be envied. I think that deep down he really does love this new Mona. And the things that he does to avenge his deathbed wish is amazing. The story between them is fascinating and rapturous. The things that people are willing to do for money and then for love are insane. I love the fact that he did all of this to ready her for his grandson Spencer. And that he knew he needed to do all of this not only for himself but for her knowing that she needed it. And for Spencer and for their family to keep their lineage going. I really hope that there is a book about her and Spencer. I would kill to read it especially if Malcolm makes random appearances. That would be something!

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Dorothy

Malcolm in the Middle

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2017

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Mona owns an art gallery that she inherited from her mother, who died the previous year after a long illness that tapped out their savings. Now the gallery's finances are bleak. On her deathbed, the mother croaks out, "Save The Red," which refers to the gallery. Why would a parent do that to a child? Saddle her with an obligation beyond the grave? In her grief, Mona works to try to keep things afloat, selling their apartment and taking out loans, but she comes to the decision to close down The Red and try to pay off her enormous debt. Somehow the creditors are not nipping at her heels when she delays the closing; either the urgency she felt was misplaced or the added stress was inconvenient to the plot, whatever. There's not a lot of world-building in this short book. Mona is not much of a gallery go-getter, or any kind of a go-getter, but because she feels [irrationally] compelled to do right by her mother's dying wish, she decides to sell her body to earn the money to break out of her fix. In the process of these monthly encounters, in which British Malcolm calls her my darling whore, Mona grows more connected to her mysterious sex patron and less connected to her former existence as a college-educated business owner with friends. In her isolation, she transfers all her daily thoughts to the one person/figure in her life who does not love her or want her to love him, and who puts her through a series of challenges she feels obligated and obsessed to fulfill. If this sounds like a downward mental health spiral, it is.

Here are some details I do not care for: the gallery is cluttered and seems to be unclean. The bed in the back has old worn flannel sheets, and then is upgraded to new white sheets that have never been washed. That's gross, new sheets are treated with formaldehyde so the rats in the warehouse won't chew them. Wash your new sheets and new clothes, first. Mona wears old clothes of her mother's, from the back of her closet, for her dates with Malcolm. Won't she smell like her mom or her mom's perfume? Are the clothes clean? I'm not a neurotic person (I know I sound like one) but I am not down with dreary old fox hunt paintings, dusty 30 year old red velvet fainting couches, or a gallery cat TouTou that sleeps everywhere. I don't want to read about group nymph sex with one man, who has been cleaned with a bowl of warm water and a wash rag before he turns to Mona. I want soap, fresh paint, no cat hair or cat smell, a little less free-love whore mentality vibe, a lot more hygiene and a big dose self-knowledge. So this was not the book for me.

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acidfire189

Just magnificent

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 18, 2023

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I enjoyed this book so much. I loved it. The detail and scene where just magical
I was transported into them instantly..I m planning on to look up the paintings online
to see them for myself.
I cried like a baby when I found out about Malcolm but it changed after the ended and I smile...
Thank you for this book. This eye opener into art pieces I never knew.
A new reader

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2023

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I was completely sucked in from the beginning. Couldn't put it down. Read the whole book in two days. Now on to book 2...

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Maggie May

A bit icky

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 18, 2022

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Well I liked the story line but I thought the sex scenes were written in too much of a matter of fact way to be erotic and I found some of them to be quite 'icky'. Without exception all the characters in this book have rather questionable morals, but it's advertised as provocative so hey ho whatever floats your boat.

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Another Avid Reader

Debauched but not debased

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 12, 2019

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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.

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TErotic Dreams

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 27, 2017

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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.

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EMM

A bit too surreal

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 12, 2017

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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.

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Blister

Bitterly disappointed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 8, 2020

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With the apparently race reviews by papers, I thought this was going to be well written. A review on the cover reads "provocative" . The only thing I was provoked to do was to bin this load of rubbish. I admit that I couldn't read more than a third of the book before I looked for a decent book. The author failed to give any substance to the characters. The story is unbelievable on many levels and the supposedly sexual scenes left me yawning.

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