Rena Mills plans to turn an abandoned abbey into a haunted bed-and-breakfast to prove she can be successful without her ex-fiancé. What she finds inside is Synn MacAllistair, the distinguished, self-proclaimed Ghost Keeper. Her dreams soon fill with sexual cravings for him. But are they dreams?Synn, born in 1828, is determined to free the souls of the resident spirits, blaming himself for … for bringing the Red Death that killed them. When Rena steps into the old Pleasure Palace, he’s sure he can take her through the after-midnight Pleasure Rooms and stoke her passion to complete the Masque so the souls can cross over. Her innocent fire makes him crave more, but it’s far too late for him.
As Rena begins her erotic journey, her heart becomes more involved with every sensual caress until she discovers by completing the Masque she would lose her ghosts. Synn’s betrayal wars with her compassion for her ghostly friends. Torn, she must make a choice between her financial security and freeing seventy-three trapped souls. Either way, she could lose her Synn.
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The story was thrilling and flowed rapidly with so many facets and characters. Time just stopped in the “abbey” all those years ago. So many ghosts stuck here from the red death and a good bit of evil.
Synn was neither alive or a ghost and it was up to him to enable their crossing. Rena, very much alive, was his perfect mate and the one who could help him. Nothing worth having is ever easy and this will keep your emotions changing as fast as you can turn the pages.
A super HOT read of consent and boundaries, but along the way, realization that love, along with trust, really can conquer. A very enlightening and Happy ending for Synn and Rena.
MASQUE by Lexi Post is an erotic romance between Rena Mills, who plans to turn an abandoned abbey into a haunted Bed-and-breakfast, and Synn MacAllistar, a distinguished self-proclaimed Ghost Keeper. Born in 1828, Synn is determined to free the souls of the resident spirits that died from the Red Death, and each night, he introduces Rena to an evening of erotic pleasure. Along the way, Rena finds herself falling in love with a ghost. The sexual contents in MASQUE are consensual with boundaries, and the storyline is filled with mystery, ghosts, including a sinister one lurking in the darkness. Lexi Post has taken Edgar Allen Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death” and turned it into a spectacular. modern day romance. Whoo! What a hot, sensual ghost story!
Will admit I bought this book for the cover! Enjoyed this authors other stories, but when I saw she based this on Edgar Allen Poe’s short story “The Masque of the Red Death”, I had to read it! How can someone take a creepy Poe story and turn it into an erotic romance? Well, dear reader, Lexi Post NAILED IT!
Enter, if you dare, a haunted abbey filled with 73 doomed souls. But this is not just any abbey…this is a pleasure palace, where each room is devoted to various erotic fantasies just waiting to be fulfilled.
Rena Mills has been spurned by her fiancé and vows to show him she can be successful without his help. She purchases an abandoned abbey with a history of being haunted in hopes of turning it into a profitable bed and breakfast. Synn McCalister has been cursed to be the Ghost Keeper of the abbey. When he sees Rena, he seizes the chance to free the souls trapped within if he can get her to agree to complete the Masque…she must obtain pleasure in each of the rooms. Is Rena the one that will complete this erotic journey and free them, or will Synn and his companions be trapped for eternity within the walls of the abbey.
I dare you to read this and discover which room of the Masque offers you the most pleasure.
I did not want this story to end and read several passages over and over! Highly recommend!