The Raven Room
by Ana Medeiros
Anything
you can imagine. Everything you crave. For the members of The Raven Room, it’s
every fantasy fulfilled. But for some, that desire is a matter of life and
death.
Drawn by needs he cannot control, Julian ventures to The Raven Room, a secret and exclusive sex club in the underbelly of Chicago. It goes beyond sex. It goes beyond kink. The Raven Room is the only place where Julian finds release from the dangerous urges that threaten to destroy the successful life he’s worked so hard to build.
When the police link the Raven Room to the death of a young woman, it threatens to expose a number of powerful people—people who would kill to stay anonymous...
Meredith’s body can’t get enough of Julian. He has opened her sexual horizons to tempting new possibilities. But out of bed she’s an aspiring journalist, and The Raven Room is the story she’s been looking for. By writing an exposé on the club and its elite clientele, she plans to launch her career.
As Meredith embarks on a sexual journey into the forbidden world that Julian inhabits, questions emerge, and dark appetites threaten to swallow her whole. How much can she trust the man who has laid bare her erotic nature and how much will she sacrifice in order to protect him?
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And now for an Excerpt:
He still thought of them.
Julian woke up
that morning covered in a thin layer of sweat,
feeling like he
couldn’t breathe. He forced himself to inhale and
sat on the bed
with his head hanging forward between his tense
shoulders. He
kept his eyes closed, afraid to open them. Maybe he
was still in the
house. The fast pounding of his heart against his
chest was making
his whole body throb. It hurt. He ran his fingers
through his hair
and rested his damp forehead on his arm.
Julian opened his
eyes. Unwrapping the covers from around
his lower body,
he got up and made his way to the window at the
opposite end of the
dark room. He drew the heavy, grey curtains and
the dull, early
winter morning light surrounded him. He squinted
and the feeling
of the hardwood floor against his bare feet brought
him unexpected
comfort. He had always liked the cold.
It was another
snowy day in Chicago. Through the floor–to ceiling
bedroom windows
on his eighty-fifth floor condo on North
Wabash Avenue, he
had full view of the eastern side of the city.
Though it was
early, the streets below were already hectic with
traffic and
pedestrians, all trying to move as fast as they could. To
Julian they
looked like scattered, lost toys. Sometimes he would
concentrate,
trying to hear the faint buzz of city noise, but that far
up it was
impossible. There was only silence. He felt detached from
all the life
unfolding at his feet, but he never got tired of watching
it. The view was
magnificent. It didn’t matter how often or for how
long he stared at
it. The city skyline was a sight that never failed to
move him.
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About the Author:
Born in the Azores islands,
Portugal, Ana Medeiros has a background in Photography, Sociology and
Psychology. For the last seven years she
has worked in the magazine industry. She currently lives in Toronto, Canada,
with her boyfriend and two cats. The Raven Room, book one of a trilogy, is
Ana’s first novel and is published by Diversion Books.
Twitter:
@AnaMAuthor
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