The Heir's Disgrace (Doormen of the Upper East Side #1)
August Jones
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
4.29
· Steam/Spice level: 5 of 5
Explicit and plentiful [?]
· 35 ratings · 440 pages · Published: 23 Apr 2024

I’m stuck in an uptown lobby while my dreams of making it as a model in New York hang by a single thread. Meanwhile, Olivier Arnaud lives his best life as a useless socialite, flaunting his wealth, his looks, and his privilege. His gaze taunts, and his nightly, condescending smirks burrow deep beneath my skin where I simmer with bitterness and hate.
The day he asks me to deliver his mail directly to his 12th floor penthouse, he makes it personal, and the thread snaps—violently. With my hand around his neck, I feel alive for the first time in months. Though my frustration may have found the outlet it craves, my body’s response causes everything I thought I knew about myself to shift.
Faced with vastly different but equally uncertain futures, our baser needs align, turning our increasingly heated encounters into a reckoning—both sexual and shockingly emotional. I know I have to stop. The last thing I can afford to lose in this heartless town is one more piece of myself to a man who already has everything.
Tagged as:
- secret relationship 9
- queer awakening 9
- hurt/comfort 8
- gay romance 7
- enemies to lovers 7
- cheating 7
- found family 6
- contemporary 6
- dual pov 6
- class difference 6
- queer romance 5
- angst 5
- anal sex 5
- rich hero 5
- bisexuality 4
- first person pov 3
- grumpy/cold hero 2
- possessive hero 1
- role switching 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- mental illness 5
- dubious consent 5
- queerphobia 3
- past child neglect 2
- third party abuse 2
- substance abuse 2
- past child abuse 1
- death / grief 1
- mental trauma 1
- geography
- new york state 4
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The 'Doormen of the Upper East Side' series
79 ratings 4.22 ·
contemporary · explicit-plentiful · m-m · queer · secret-relationship · hurt-comfort · new-york-state · dual-pov · anal sex · angst · first-person-pov · length-long · forbidden love · queer-awakening · possessive hero · death · age difference · found-family · bisexual · switch
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