Honeytrap Description
I ought to be writing a book description for The Threefold Tie... which naturally means that I’ve drafted a book description for Honeytrap instead.
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For Soviet agent Gennady Matskevich, his latest assignment is a dream come true: travel the United States searching for the would-be assassin of Nikita Khrushchev, with an American agent as his partner.
There’s only one catch. His abusive boss thinks that this assignment is a perfect chance for Gennady to honeytrap the American agent. Gennady feels no enthusiasm for the prospect of seducing his new American friend for blackmail purposes… but nonetheless, he can’t stop thinking about kissing him.
For FBI agent Daniel Hawthorne, the assignment is a chance at redemption. Still reeling from a disastrous romantic relationship with his previous FBI partner, which nearly got them both fired, Daniel is determined to prove his worth in this unusual assignment.
He’s also delighted to have a chance to get to know an agent from the mysterious Soviet Union. But soon, Daniel finds himself falling for Gennady. And sometimes it feels like Gennady wants him, too… But Daniel knows that an attempt to pursue this attraction might prove disastrous.
Despite the barriers between them, their connection only grows. Will it be strong enough to endure despite their countries’ enmity?
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Thoughts?
I’m concerned about the blurb clueing people in that this book is both darker and more explicit than my previous books: I don’t want someone buying Honeytrap thinking that it will be another Briarley and going “Oh my God, this books contains institutional homophobia and sexual harassment and internalized homophobia and an attempted sexual assault, and everyone is drinking and smoking all the time, and a minor character gets driven to suicide by a honeytrap, and also there are like five chapters of explicit sexual content, what even is this???”
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For Soviet agent Gennady Matskevich, his latest assignment is a dream come true: travel the United States searching for the would-be assassin of Nikita Khrushchev, with an American agent as his partner.
There’s only one catch. His abusive boss thinks that this assignment is a perfect chance for Gennady to honeytrap the American agent. Gennady feels no enthusiasm for the prospect of seducing his new American friend for blackmail purposes… but nonetheless, he can’t stop thinking about kissing him.
For FBI agent Daniel Hawthorne, the assignment is a chance at redemption. Still reeling from a disastrous romantic relationship with his previous FBI partner, which nearly got them both fired, Daniel is determined to prove his worth in this unusual assignment.
He’s also delighted to have a chance to get to know an agent from the mysterious Soviet Union. But soon, Daniel finds himself falling for Gennady. And sometimes it feels like Gennady wants him, too… But Daniel knows that an attempt to pursue this attraction might prove disastrous.
Despite the barriers between them, their connection only grows. Will it be strong enough to endure despite their countries’ enmity?
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Thoughts?
I’m concerned about the blurb clueing people in that this book is both darker and more explicit than my previous books: I don’t want someone buying Honeytrap thinking that it will be another Briarley and going “Oh my God, this books contains institutional homophobia and sexual harassment and internalized homophobia and an attempted sexual assault, and everyone is drinking and smoking all the time, and a minor character gets driven to suicide by a honeytrap, and also there are like five chapters of explicit sexual content, what even is this???”