Prologue
There are a couple of questions I’ve been pondering lately. What is the price of true love? Is it honesty, loyalty, or head-banging sex? What is the cost of success? Is it how much money you make or how much respect you earn? For me, Bentley Laroyce Dean, I found the answers at one of the most lavish parties I’ve ever attended.
I peddle the beautiful life and there is no better place to do that than the city of Miami. So that’s where I’ve been the last three years and that’s where I’ve discovered the answers to my questions. now before you get the wrong idea, I own a modeling agency that I was trying to make bigger than any of those in New York and Los Angeles. And this party was going to help my agency, but then I met him in that beautiful mansion. That’s when he walked into my life and everything changed.
Like most nights in Miami, it was beautiful. A perfect night for a party and even though I had a few reservations about the event, it was simply just too much money to turn down. This was the one engagement that would send my agency, Picture Perfect, soaring into the stars of Miami.
But sometimes it rains in South Florida and it is surrounded by shark-infested oceans. From the moment I stepped out of my car and handed the valet my keys, bad karma covered me tighter than the expensive suit I’d purchased for the party. The sharks it seems had come inland that night and ended up on Star Island.
It’s when seemingly simple decisions sometimes have a way of snowballing into huge catastrophes. When life becomes like a bad dream, unfolding slowly.
On that night I learned some clues to my questions, but it’s not where the daily chronicles of my life begin.
From: IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE by E. Lynn Harris, Copyright © 2010 by the author and reprinted by permission of St. Martin’s Press, LLC.
E. Lynn Harris’s literary legacy lives on with what was to be the start of an exciting new series in the celebrated author’s last novel, completed just before his untimely death last summer.
Miami-based Bentley L. Dean is the successful owner of the top modeling agency Picture Perfect, in South Beach. He’s got everything he could ever want: money and power; a gorgeous fiancée, Kim; and any man he wants.…
Bentley’s come out to his parents, been disowned by his homophobic father and realized he must break it off with Kim. But she doesn’t let go easily, and Bentley soon finds himself embroiled in a blackmail scheme. Now strapped for cash, he reluctantly agrees to supply “eye candy” in the form of his youngest, sexiest male models to a VIP function at the Prosperity Gentleman’s Club. Hosted by closeted celebrity Seth Sinclair, the party turns out to be a lavish orgy of older men savoring all the sexual delights Bentley’s models have to offer; and one of the young men Bentley’s been mentoring, Jah, winds up caught in Seth’s clutches. Seth is very handsome, very wealthy—and very married, and Bentley fears he may be dangerous as well. But can he save Jah from making what could be a fatal mistake?
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: St. Martins Press, LLC ( June 22, 2010 )
Item #: 12-797372
ISBN: 9780312541910
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 x 0.685 inches
Product Weight: 12.0 ounces
I thought this book was good but a little predictable. I had to read it to pay homage to Mr. E. Lynnn Harris. He was a brilliant writer who was not afraid to show different kinds of love. All ELH fans should read this one. R.I.P. Mr. Harris!
Reviewer: Vanessa C
This book was an easy read for me. I couldn't put it down, but then... IT DROPPED ME!!! The ending was very disappointing. I hate books/movies that are great while you are on the ride then flops at that end.
Reviewer: Ladytee
I read this book in two days and I was so disappointed with it. The ending was very weak.
Reviewer: Veleta
had a hard time finishing the book did not like the way it ended.
Reviewer: Lovely28
This was a good book. I enjoyed it and didnot want to put it down. Sure, the ending leaves you wanting more and wondering where things would go next, but unfortunately we have to use our own imaginations on this. It was still a good book and I would recommend it to others. RIP E. Lynn. We miss you dearly.
Reviewer: Jan