Book Review: The Chateau by Tiffany Reisz

As the Jack-of-All-Wicked-Trades for a secretive French military intelligence agency, 24-year-old Lieutenant Kingsley Boissonneault has done it all—spied, lied, and killed under orders. But his latest assignment is quite out of the ordinary. His commanding officer's nephew has disappeared inside a sex cult, and Kingsley has been tasked with bringing him home to safety. 

The cult’s holy book is Story of O, the infamous French novel of extreme sado-masochism. Their château is a looking-glass world where women reign and men are their willing slaves. Or are they willing? It’s Kingsley’s mission to find out.

Once inside the château, however, Kingsley quickly falls under the erotic spell cast by the enigmatic Madame, a woman of wisdom, power, and beauty. She offers Kingsley the one thing he’s always wanted. But the price? Giving up forever the only person he’s ever loved.

The story of the Chateau is Kingsley in his prime. He's 24 and working for the French military intelligence agency. It's seven years since he'd lost Soren and now spends every night with a different woman in his bed.  

The Chateau is ninth book in The Original Sinners series.  The story returns us to a time in between. 

"Through the looking glass where everything is backwards."

Kingsley is given an unusual assignment. He's to infiltrate a sex cult that worships the Story of O. It couldn't have come at a better time. Kingsley had been feeling lost and alone.  He could use some insight through the looking glass where men served women and a  sadistic Madame that could bring Kingsley to his knees.  

In the Chateau we discover the youthful Kingsley. When he still held hope for love and family. He was romantic flirt. In the Chateau he's given the opportunity to have it all except his one true love. The Chateau takes the best of eroticism and the beauty of hope to the next level. 5 Stars