The Lover

The Price of Pleasure Anne Aimes is a lonely spinster who has spent her entire life caring for ailing, elderly parents. She is not beautiful, but she is wealthy. With no one left to love and nothing left to lose, she hires Michel des Anges—a beautiful man she briefly glimpsed 18 years earlier during her disastrous coming out—to give her one month of passion, memories to warm a cold, barren future. Michel des Anges—Michael of the Angels—is a beautiful prostitute renown for his expertise at bringing women pleasure. But a killing fire destroyed his beauty five years earlier. Now whores cringe at his touch. Yet one woman still desires him ... He accepts her offer: one month of pleasure for ten thousand pounds. But the price of pleasure is not paid in sterling pounds; it is paid in blood and flesh. Because everyone Michael has ever loved has been murdered. By using Anne as bait, he will draw out the killer. She doesn’t deserve her fate. But neither had the ones before her ...