The Mister
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4.1 • 30 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
From E L James, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fifty Shades of Grey, comes a deeply passionate, high-stakes romance that asks what happens when a powerful man is undone by the most unexpected love.
Maxim Trevelyan has lived a life of indulgence—wealthy, titled, and effortlessly charming. But when he inherits a legacy he never prepared for, he’s thrust into a world of duty and danger. Then he meets Alessia Demachi, a gifted young woman escaping a shadowed past. She’s vulnerable but fierce, and her silence speaks louder than any scream.
As desire turns into something raw and consuming, Maxim must confront not only his own privileged illusions, but the threat closing in on the woman who’s become his world.
Sweeping from London’s glittering elite to the wilds of Cornwall and the unforgiving Balkan mountains, The Mister is a contemporary romance where sensuality meets suspense and love becomes a fight for survival. Readers seeking emotional healing arcs, forbidden attraction, and soul-deep connection will find a powerful escape in this story of courage, redemption, and fate.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this uneven tale of love and passion, James (the Fifty Shades series) crafts the contemporary equivalent of a Regency romance: a privileged English rake seduces the hired help, whose innocence reforms his wicked ways. Maxim Trevelyan, the newly minted Earl of Trevethick following his older brother's untimely death, prefers to lose himself in meaningless flings and his musical pursuits. But when he meets his new house cleaner, Alessia Demachi, an undocumented Albanian immigrant on the run from human traffickers, Maxim is surprised to feel protective of her. As he shelters her at one of his family's estates, the two succumb to mutual attraction, falling headfirst into a relationship that proves to be a sexual awakening for the virginal Alessia. When her enemies finally track her down, Alessia and Maxim must rise to the challenge to secure a happy future. The story's plausibility is undermined by the unbalanced power dynamic between the protagonists, Alessia's portrayal as a chess and music prodigy who's oddly oblivious of modern society, Maxim's initial sulky unlikability, and the depiction of Albania as hopelessly behind the times. Readers will cheer the occasional moments when Alessia claims her own agency, but there's little else to recommend this middling erotic romance.
