Sometimes you have to risk everything, to follow your heart…Noble Pleasures, Book 1In a world where gentlemen openly court and marry fellow noblemen, the threat ofscandal still lurks behind every velvet drape for kings and princes. Such has been the fate forKing Arend Tollemach, forced to sacrifice his heart on the altar of regal duty.Now that his wife is dead and his royal obligations are at an end, he’s ready to take anunthinkable risk. King Arend seeks a concubine from Temple Sapphor, a secretive, gatedworld where he will finally shed his virginity—as least as it pertains to making love to a man.Julian never thought he’d spend ten years on the temple shelf, passed over again andagain. Just when he despairs of ever finding placement in a nobleman’s bed, Arend walksinto the temple. A lonely eyed, beautiful king who could easily steal his heart.Arend discovers he has no problem opening his bed to the exquisite concubine. Theproblem lies in finding the key to his long-shuttered heart.Warning: Contains a beautiful, virgin king desperate to bed another man, a concubinewho fantasizes about being claimed and revered by a strong monarch, and a sea of scandalset against a sensual, palatial backdrop.