Book Title: The Chateau
Page Count: 284 pages
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SYNOPSIS
As the Jack-of-All-Wicked Trades for a secretive French military intelligence agency, Kingsley Boissonneault has done it all—spied, lied, and killed under orders. But his latest assignment is quite out of the ordinary. His commanding officer's nephew has disappeared inside a sex cult, where women reign and men are their willing slaves. Or are they? It's Kingsley's job to find out.
The cult’s holy book is Story of O, the infamous French novel of extreme sado-masochism. Their château is a looking-glass world where women reign and men are their willing slaves. Or are they willing? It’s Kingsley’s mission to find out.
Once inside the château, however, Kingsley quickly falls under the erotic spell cast by the enigmatic Madame, a woman of wisdom, power, and beauty. She offers Kingsley the one thing he’s always wanted. But the price? Giving up forever the only person he’s ever loved.
"It's an erotic adventure," author Tiffany Reisz says of The Chateau. "[Imagine] James Bond with blow jobs, BDSM, and an angst-ridden, bisexual hero."
The Chateau is a standalone novel set in her multi-million copy selling Original Sinners universe. Although several fan-favorite characters make cameos or are eluded to, Reisz's new thriller is also the perfect jumping-on point for new readers.
Tiffany Reisz is the international bestselling author of the Original Sinners series for Mira Books and Mills & Boon, including the RT Book ReviewsBest Erotic Romance winner The Siren and the Romance Writers of America RITA®-winning The Saint. Her latest erotic romance, The Red: An Erotic Fantasy, was named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017 and a Goodreads Best Romance of the Month.
WELCOME TO THE CHATEAU:
AN INTERVIEW WITH TIFFANY REISZ
The cult at the center of The Chateau regards Story of O—the infamous French erotic novel—
as their “holy book.” When did you first read Story of O?
I was in my 20s. I’d heard about it but never read it. Then I read it while I was in seminary
considering joining a religious order. I never joined the religious order, but I’m not sure if that
was because of Story of O or not. We’ll leave that to my future biographers to decide.
Inside the cult’s château, women reign and men are their willing slaves. How did the idea for
such a community come about?
Wishful thinking?
The French spy Kingsley Boissonneault—who Original Sinners fans may know better as
Kingsley Edge—is 24 in this novel. What most surprised you about him at that age?
That Kingsley still has the teeniest, tiniest shard of innocence left in him even after all he’s been
through at that age. He’s still a bit of a romantic before life turned him into the incredibly jaded
(i.e. French) character we meet in later books. It’s fun that now, in the present day, when
Kingsley finally has the love and family he craves, he’s turning back into that more playful, less-
jaded person he is in The Chateau at age 24.
Madame is an interesting character. She’s described as “a woman of wisdom, power, and
beauty.” Tell me more about her.
There is a very famous French dominatrix (Catherine Robbe-Grillet) who is in her 80s or 90s
now and is still actively kinky. She’s an incredibly classy, elegant older woman with white hair
and I find her fascinating. I think my Madame is how I imagine Robbe-Grillet at a younger age.
The Vanity Fair profile of Catherine Robbe-Grillet begins with this line: “[She] makes Fifty
Shades of Grey look like a Disney movie.” Madame makes Mistress Nora look like a Disney
Princess.
“Through the looking glass” is a theme that comes up several times in The Chateau. What’s
the significance of the looking glass?
The Chateau isn’t simply a story about a previously unexplored time in Kingsley’s life (when he
was a spy in his 20s). It’s also an origin story of sorts about the kingdom Kingsley will later build
Advance Praise for The Chateau: An Erotic Thriller:
"Compulsive, erotic, suspenseful. A must read!" — A Woman and Her Books
"Five stars." — Reading Keeps Me Sane Blog
"I just can't get enough of Tiffany Reisz." — Caro, Collector of Book Boyfriends
"Kinky... [keeps] you on the edge till the end." — Sweet & Spicy Reviews
"Feminists are once again making a stand in the world and the timing seems quite perfect as this novel is an intriguing look into the world of a strong, sadistic and mysterious woman." — Kelsey's Korner Blog
"[Will] satisfy the insatiable needs of The Original Sinners fans." — Warhawke's Vault Book Blog
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About Tiffany Reisz
Tiffany Reisz is the USA Today bestselling author of the Original Sinners series for Mira Books and Mills & Boon, including the RT Book Reviews Best Erotic Romance 2012 winner The Siren and the LAMBDA Literary Award-winning The King. Her novel The Saint won the Romance Writers of America RITA® for best Erotic Romance in 2015.
About 8th Circle Press
8th Circle Press is a Lexington, Kentucky-based publisher of literary friction. For more information, visit our website at www.8thCirclePress.com.
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5 “God Bless America” Stars
What in the world did I just read? Tiffany Reisz sure does spin a web in her storytelling. One that you must read thoroughly or you miss little tidbits that change the whole story.
Sitting down and devouring this story, I figured out that Catherine was one person that you wouldn’t want on you bad side. She is a puzzle maker, cutting each piece to perfection, allowing each piece to fit together perfectly.
Kingsley is at the Chateau for work. He is going to locate a young man who has just up and left his family. He’s joined this ‘cult’ that no one has been able to crack and get into. Leave it up to the exceptionally trained Kingsley to get past Catherine’s test and into the Chateau.
Read this story carefully, work the pieces of the puzzle before trying to make the picture beautiful. There is a proper way that the pieces fit and once you’ve put them together, what a story the picture tells!!!
Absolutely loved The Chateau! Sometimes I find myself whispering this too…
”It’s all right… It was just a dream.
What in the world did I just read? Tiffany Reisz sure does spin a web in her storytelling. One that you must read thoroughly or you miss little tidbits that change the whole story.
Sitting down and devouring this story, I figured out that Catherine was one person that you wouldn’t want on you bad side. She is a puzzle maker, cutting each piece to perfection, allowing each piece to fit together perfectly.
Kingsley is at the Chateau for work. He is going to locate a young man who has just up and left his family. He’s joined this ‘cult’ that no one has been able to crack and get into. Leave it up to the exceptionally trained Kingsley to get past Catherine’s test and into the Chateau.
Read this story carefully, work the pieces of the puzzle before trying to make the picture beautiful. There is a proper way that the pieces fit and once you’ve put them together, what a story the picture tells!!!
Absolutely loved The Chateau! Sometimes I find myself whispering this too…
”It’s all right… It was just a dream.
Reading her books is akin to baptism, you just get dunked in her words like holy water and your hidden kinky guilty pleasures get absolved of all shame. I felt a Euphoria that was religious and supernatural.
I opened the page, met Kingsley and Madame, and ever since I've been having an out-of-body experience. It's an inexplicable phenomenon, becauseyou truely start believing in this mythical world and it's superhumans.
Kinsley Edge, who we met in the Original Sinners books is John Kingsley here.
His cover was “John Kingsley Edge,” a twenty-seven-year-old American mystery novelist— as yet unpublished, living out his Hemingway-in-Paris dreams.
Having served as a Legionnaire, now his missions are covert, lethal & dangerous. By day he's occupied and focused, it's the nights that haunts him. His lover invades his dreams and taunts him mercilessly. He of wounded pride and bruised ego, refuses to accept the shameless love.
“How do I find you again?” Kingsley asks.
“Please, tell me before I wake.”
“You don’t find me,” the boy says. “I find you.”
“Find me then.”
“When it’s time.”
“When will it be time?”
“When you find you.”
He is wandering like a spirit in limbo, seeking absolution and acceptance from his lover, Marcus Stearns.
A new mission takes him to the Secret Chateau, a Madame who he wants to go logger heads with and a deep seated desire to be a submissive. All this confusion makes him blind to the fact that he's way over his head in the game of chess played between Alice & Colonel Masson. Recovery mission soon becomes Rechérché mission. A search for his own closure, his own soul-sorting.
this place definitely seemed too good to be true.
Beautiful, intelligent, kinky women.
An elegant luxurious château.
Quiet. Serenity. Refinement. Fucking amazing food.
A sadist. An exquisite, vicious, delicious sadist… Oh, there had to be a catch.
I've become a HUGE fan of her style of writing. Her books should hang in a museum like art masterpieces, for all the world to admire. Andrew calls himself her manservant and I'm uniquely jealous of his standing at this moment now. She's a true Madame of BDSM writing, low key, confident in her talent, amidst the so called pseudo-intellectuals claiming authenticity.
“He tied you up to tell you he never wanted you to leave him.
He bit you because you were the food to his soul.
He struck you to mark you as his possession, as a valuable he would want returned to him if lost or stolen.
That’s why you miss it, Kingsley.
That’s why you miss the pain.
Because every time he hurt you, he was trying to tell you in the only way he could how much he loved you.”
And here I thought, the pain was all about breaking the body and spirit. It's more about restoration, wiping the slate clean and rebuilding of a submissive in a master's own image. Customising a human, sort of!!!! Thank you Tiffany!
I bet she laughs in her corner everyday, polishing her crown, with Søren by her side, a step behind and when she closes the heavy wooden doors to play with her characters and chronicle their wicked games, i get a weird feeling, that the corner seat in the playroom where Kingsley and Colette have their wedding night, is not just a figment of my imagination and one time, maybe Queen Reiss is/was an occupant?!!!!.
I swear my mind is playing tricks. Like I said, opening her book is like gazing in the crystal ball. You can't believe what your eyes read.
The Chateau is a central character. It's walls throbbing with playful intrigue, trap doors, secret chambers and trick games add to the allure & mystery. Free will is an illusion. You're a puppet as soon as you pick up the phone to seek admittance.
Of the characters, Madame is of course the most interesting, Polly and Colette are, dutiful servants or perverted playactors.....I've yet to decide. If they were genuine, they deserve accolades for their Oscar worthy performances. I mean the lip biting virgin act of Colette had me going soft on her.
Polly was right about one thing. Kingsley is adorable little boy, craving non sexual touch and care, just made me wanted to hug him tight. Hide him in my embrace.
“Bonne chance, Madame.” The sentiment was sincere. This is what he came here for, after all— to be free once and for all of the hold that boy in the forest had on him. Or die trying.
By this time I was really teary eyed. Enough already Marcus!!!
His extreme kinks give him a path to absolution at least, for that I'm eternally grateful.
I swam through this blazing story, red hot fiery lust filled river, I dunked, soaked, steamed and came out plenished. A fantastical journey, that ought to be mandatory guide to all the wannabe BDSM writers. A benchmark to measure up to. Now I have to go back to the start and read Søren & Nora
“Ah,One more regret for the butcher’s bill.”
5 "January Eyes" stars
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