Gentleman's Agreement

By Celia McKinley

GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT: FACELESS STRANGERS #5

A collection of erotica stories focusing on anonymous encounters, whether it's an unseen pervert in a crowd or a shadowy stranger in a bedroom.

A heated debate over the nature of morality leads to an unusual wager between the chivalrous Lord Gregory and his cynical friend Alastair Blake. Reluctantly crossing the shadowy threshold of Victorian London's underworld, Arthur Gregory finds his steadfast beliefs about virtue and vice upended by a beautiful, uncanny woman who seeks to challenge and fulfill his deepest desires...

Includes a sneak preview of "Lost in the Crowd."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Celia McKinley
• Release date: Jun 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005995362

Celia McKinley

Celia McKinley is an evocative writer of erotica and romantic fiction centered around themes of forceful seductions, sexual awakenings, and dark supernatural desire. Explicit but never crude, taboo but never degrading, her stories of sensual abandon and surrender strive to celebrate the irresistible allure of the forbidden and the beauty of sexual fantasy.

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Gentleman’s Agreement

Faceless Strangers #5

Copyright 2021 Celia McKinley

Published by Celia McKinley at Smashwords

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All depicted characters are 18 years or older. This book contains explicit, taboo sex scenes that some readers may find offensive.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Test of Virtue

Chapter 2: The Half-World

Chapter 3: A Subtle Web

Chapter 4: Negotiations

Chapter 5: Warmth and Darkness

Chapter 6: La Belle Dame

Chapter 7: Without Reward

Epilogue

Teaser Chapter

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Chapter 1: A Test of Virtue

"Lord Gregory has raised me alone, Emma retorted, one frail hand clutching the gazebo railing. He sees personally to my every need, my every want, my most frivolous wish with no thought of himself. He gives me everything, knowing that I can give nothing in return."

My lady, Alastair replied, that’s only to be expected. You are, after all, his ward.

She glanced back and forth between her guardian, a proud and solemn marquis every bit as tall and dark and handsome as she was slight and pale and lovely, and Alastair Blake, a goateed and fashionably attired merchant who might have been charming enough if he didn’t smile with such wicked relish. The young woman shivered and glanced back across the park.

A burden, she muttered, that does him little good. He has no children of his own, and, quite apart from the family line, I cannot even offer him the solace of godchildren.

You might still marry, Alastair answered.

It’s a poor sort of wife, Mister Blake, who won’t live long enough to bear a child.

Emma lifted her gaze past the smooth glassy waters of the Serpentine, the