Born with the ability to read emotions, Emma Coolidge leads a life of self-imposed seclusion. Until she is saved by Gideon Keel and Jesse Madding, who befriend her and introduce her to people who can help her create a normal life. Everything is great but for one small problem. Emma longs to be more than friends with Gideon and Jesse, and wants to be part of their darker games involving bondage and sadism, but believes her desire can be nothing but a private fantasy.<br><br>Gideon adores Jesse and wants nothing more than to give him everything he wants. When Gideon realizes Jesse wants Emma, as well, he decides to invite Emma into their games. But first Jesse and Gideon are forced to investigate a string of grave desecrations. They must unravel the mystery of who is stealing Black John's power, why, and how to reverse it before they can devote their time and energy to their mutual desire for a third in their bed.

Mosaic Moon

He didn’t like churches. And it wasn’t a vampire thing. There had been a time when he had flaunted that particular superstition, showing up for evening mass and terrorizing congregations with blood-soaked displays on the altar. Gideon didn’t like churches for other, much more personal reasons.


But now was not the time to be trapped in the quagmire of history. They weren’t going into the church anyway. He hoped.


Gideon parked on the street by the arched entrance, scanning the length of the chain-link fence encircling the property. The trees were larger than he remembered, blanketing out portions of the sky to obscure the stars from view, and the headstones came out closer to the road. It gave the feeling of breaking free of the graveyard, but it was an illusion. As he and Jesse got out of the Ferrari, all Gideon could hear was the soft rhythms of the earth.


“There aren’t any other cars around,” he observed. “Did our guy fly here?”


“Maybe we beat him,” Jesse suggested hopefully.


Chapter 54