Boone wants to get ahead in life. Regain the money and power his father lost. To do that in St Loren means joining the Gentleman’s Society, a social club whose members help each other out. Sometimes the help isn’t strictly legal. It isn’t easy to get in, and as part of the final initiation, prospective members must perform an act that will give the club blackmail material against them to ensure their loyalty. Boone is given a choice: murder someone or have sex with a blood relation. Boone decides to seduce his twin brother ‘Diah’. The two may be identical twins, but their personalities are very different. Boone is an extrovert wanting to make a name for himself, while Diah is an introvert with a life in academia. Boone knows Diah wouldn’t approve of him joining the Gentleman’s Society, so he decides not to tell Diah about his plans. What Diah doesn’t know can’t hurt him, can it?
In the world of incest erotica, twins seem to be the pinnacle of everyone’s dirtiest fantasies. Like many identical twins, Boone and Diah have always been close, but Boone has never felt sexually attracted to his brother. Until the idea is put into his head by the society. Naturally, once the line is crossed, both men find they have feelings that are too strong to resist. The big dramatic turn in the story is no surprise at all. You’ll probably see it coming as soon as Boone decides to seduce Diah.
Boone comes off as very much the lovable rogue archetype. He’s the kind of guy who sometimes does the wrong thing even if it's for the right reasons, but it’s hard to stay mad at him. However, it may be a surprise, even to Boone, but he does prove to have a conscience. Unfortunately, once lost, trust is something hard to rebuild.
Diah, short for Obadiah, takes a little longer to get to know. In the end, he may not be as different from Boone as his brother might think. There’s definitely a steel to Diah that Boone is unaware of. Diah is still the nice guy at then end, with a stronger moral compass than his brother. He just isn’t the pushover people take him for.
“The Family Bond” is available from Smashwords.
