

Without question this is one of the most passionate, vivid and heartfelt stories I’ve read this year. I didn’t just highlight a few sentences here and there I actually highlighted whole pages and had to ring Jenny and read them out to her as the beauty of this Author’s writing stole my heart. This story had so much emotion I think my heart hurt the whole way through.

As if happiness itself couldn’t exist without shadows to define it.’ ‘…moments too powerful to be contained by the human heart and therefore having a peculiar way of making the soul hurt, as if there was something to mourn in the midst of happiness. I had no idea where she would go but I LOVED where she went because Rough Canvas wowed me in every way possible. A book chosen for me by my book soul mate, Jenny. “Accepting what people are, what they can’t change and loving them with every part of yourself anyway. But he’s never been able to say no to his Master. There’s only one hitch-he asks Thomas to spend a week with him in the Berkshires. Then Marcus shows up and offers him a way to continue his art career and help his family. But why would the sophisticated Marcus need some farm kid from the South? Marcus taught him to embrace who he is, a sexual submissive who responds to the touch of only one Master. As difficult as it was to give up his lifelong dream, it’s nothing next to walking away from the man he loves. When his father dies, Thomas is forced to abandon a burgeoning art career in New York.
