یک دارایی بسیار شخصی (کوارتت گانی‌مد، جلد اول)

Overview: Darrah Glass is a writer and generally inquisitive person who likes her fantasies to be as historically accurate as possible. She loves research, sex scenes, and researching sex scenes. She’s married and happily childless, does yoga, never cleans her house, likes shoes and toenail polish, and is vain about her hair. As far as her priorities are concerned, she’d rather write than do just about anything else, and she drives a 15-year-old car but carries really nice purses. In the heat of August 1900, Henry Blackwellrich, handsome, and painfully shyanticipates the purchase of his companion slave, that most personal of properties, with equal parts excitement and dread. There are limits to what a gentleman might do with his slave and still remain a gentleman, and what Henry craves goes far beyond whats allowed. Martin, a slave from House Ganymede, is the most beautiful young man Henrys ever seen, and hes ready and willing to do as Henry commands, but Henrys afraid to ask him for what he really needs. A master neednt care what a slave thinks or how he feels, but Henry cant help wanting Martin to like him anyway. If Henry could be certain Martin wanted the same things he does, he might be bold enough to reveal his secrets. Unfolding against a backdrop of progress, privilege and turn-of-the-century amusements, the four installments of the Ganymede Quartet present an erotic coming-of-age fantasy of Gilded Age New York in which young men from the richest families form intense bonds with the slaves who serve them.