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Book Blurb

Can a pirate and a doctor find love on the seas?

Stephen is a doctor, a practical man who wishes his sister wouldn’t worry so about the pirates that plague their island home. So it’s ironic that Stephen himself is set upon by just those pirates, who carry him off to heal their wounded captain.

John is a pirate captain, master of his fate and used to getting what he wants. And he decides he wants Stephen, even when the good doctor wants nothing more than to run away from him.

Can the beast convince the doctor who the sailors call the butcher to stay with him?

Reader Advisory: This book contains scenes of BDSM, non-consensual sex and dubious consent during captivity.

Publisher's Note: This book was previously published by Torquere Press in 2006. It has been revised and re-edited for release with Pride Publishing.

 

Book Review

While pirates in real life are dangerous and scary, their fictional counterparts can be startlingly attractive. Whether it’s the excitement of playing with fire or the idea of giving in to “uncivilized” behavior I am not sure, but I have to admit that fictional pirates have some fascination for me. And the gorgeous specimen in this story, set somewhere in the eighteenth or maybe early nineteenth century, is no exception. To see him paired with a young, entirely innocent doctor who thinks of himself as a civilized man was not just fun but very hot.

Stephen is a doctor, a man of refined taste, professional and personal ambition, and he is convinced that rational thought and arguments, if not good manners, will win the day every time. When he finds himself taken prisoner by pirates, with the captain demanding his medical services, Stephen is outraged. But he is a doctor first, so he does as he is bidden, only to find out that the captain, or “beast” as Stephen calls him in his anger, has other plans. Stephen resists the man’s advances with everything in him, knowing that the feelings the pirate raises in him are illicit and sinful. And anyway, he is a prisoner and being held against his will!

John is a fiercely independent man. Not unrefined or incapable of civilized behavior, he prefers to be in charge of his own fate, beholden to none, and free as a bird. The doctor fascinates him, and he is determined to seduce “the butcher” into his bed. While there is a little force involved in the beginning, this quickly morphs into manipulation – not much better from Stephen’s point of view, but it does set the tone as something less brutal and violent than noncon. John’s goal is to convert Stephen to see things in a new light, to get rid of the silly moral views of the society of their time, and to listen to his body’s needs rather than his brain’s directives.
 
If you like stories with lots of physical activity that goes from somewhat forced kisses to full-out bedplay, if two men from different worlds discovering they are not so different after all sound interesting, and if you’re looking for a read that is closer to fantasy than reality, entertaining, and very hot, then you will probably like this novella.

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 97 pages/32351 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	22-May-2015
Price	$4.50 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.pride-publishing.com/book/the-butcher-and-the-beast