Genre: Contemporary, Erotic
LGBTQ+ Category: Gay
Reviewer: Tony
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About The Book
What if one night with a stranger unlocks everything you’ve been hiding?
Price of Desire is a bold, deeply sensual M/M escort romance exploring forbidden longing, emotional healing, and the cost of living a lie.
Luke Carter has built the perfect life—or so it seems. A successful CEO with a beautiful family and an enviable reputation, he hides a truth that’s been buried for decades. When he hires Evan Steele, a rugged, confident escort, it’s supposed to be one night of escape.
Instead, it becomes a turning point.
Evan sees the man behind the mask—aching for real connection, intimacy, and self-acceptance. Their chemistry is magnetic. Their encounter, unforgettable.
But passion has a price. And for Luke, it might mean losing the only life he’s ever known.
This stand-alone M/M romance delivers:
- A powerful escort/client connection that flips the script
- Closeted desire and midlife awakening
- An intense, emotional first-time experience
- Raw chemistry, tender domination, and emotional vulnerability
- A journey from performance to authenticity
For readers of high-heat LGBTQ+ romance who crave forbidden tension, character depth, and a slow-burning emotional payoff.
The Review
Price of Desire is about Luke Carter, a married man with a wife and children, and how a past encounter with his best friend at college seems to gain more meaning in his life as the years pass. Evan Steele may be the answer to his ‘problem.’
Evan is not that past best friend but an escort of sorts, and Luke makes an appointment to meet up with him. All very well if morally questionable. They meet and connect. That’s the story. Well, almost, as the connection involves a Dom / Sub encounter that goes well but doesn’t not seem to be in the cards when they next meet. But who knows – we may not have been given the whole picture.
So how did the Dom / Sub scenario transform into kisses and snuggles on weekend stays at hotels in a blink of an eye? Let’s be honest, even the Dom / Sub thing is not hinted at by the early friends with benefits shag. It is a bit too fairy tale, after responding to an advert for services offered for pay in an old gay mag found on a book shelf.
Like he would have gay mags stowed around his room with kids around? Just how old is it, as Luke only had one gay encounter twenty years ago and has been living the straight life? The whole thing is unlikely from start to finish. If he had found the mag left behind at work by a colleague, it could at least be recent enough to consider responding to the ad.
None of this is helped by a blurb talking about paths crossing, when they actually arrange their meetings well in advance. The author can write a good sentence, but not always to good / logical effect. I’m not expecting great literature but I would like more consistency and follow through, something even a short work can aim for.
The Reviewer
Tony is an Englishman living amongst the Welsh and the Other Folk in the mountains of Wales. He lives with his partner of thirty-six years, four dogs, two ponies, various birds, and his bees. He is a retired lecturer and a writer of no renown but that doesn’t stop him enjoying what he used to think of as ‘sensible’ fantasy and sf. He’s surprised to find that if the story is well written and has likeable characters undergoing the trails of life, i.e. falling in love, falling out of love, having a bit of nooky (but not all the time), fending off foes, aliens and monsters, etc., he’ll be happy as a sandperson who has just offloaded a wagon of sand at the going market price. As long as there’s a story, he’s in. He aims to write fair and honest reviews. If he finds he is not the target reader he’ll move on.
