The Pleasure Merchant

The Pleasure Merchant

â€œForgive me, but Iâ€™m having some difficulty ascertaining exactly where magnetic north lies on your moral compass.â€

London, 177â€”:

Apprentice wig-maker Tom Dawneâ€™s dream is to complete his training, marry his masterâ€™s daughter, and set up a shop of his own. Unfortunately for him, when one of his greatest creations is used to play a cruel prank on a powerful gentleman, Tom is dismissedâ€”and forced by fear of poverty and the need to clear his name to serve the very man whom he suspects set him up.

Tom quickly realizes he has bitten off more than he can chewâ€¦ though as it turns out, itâ€™s not actually more than he desires. As Tom becomes less of a servant and more of a surrogate son, his ambitions change, and so do his pleasures, until itâ€™s no longer easy for Tom to tell if heâ€™s pulling the stringsâ€¦ or trapped in a bizarre web of someone elseâ€™s making. Matters become no clearer when Tom meets the mysterious professional libertines who seem to lurk at the center of all his troubles: a man willing to procure anything for anyone, so long as it gives them pleasure, and his obscure assistant, whose past has been irretrievably lost.

Some might even say it was stolenâ€¦

From British Fantasy and Wonderland Book Award nominee Molly Tanzer (Vermilion; A Pretty Mouth) comes a novel of despair and desire: The Pleasure Merchant; or, The Modern Pygmalion, equal parts psychological thriller and sensual parlor drama.

Country	USA
Author	Molly Tanzer
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781621051947
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Lazy Fascist Press
Manufacturer	Lazy Fascist Press
NumberOfPages	430
PublicationDate	2015-11-17
Publisher	Lazy Fascist Press
ReleaseDate	2015-11-17
Studio	Lazy Fascist Press

The Pleasure Merchant

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