Tears

Pious half-Gypsun Phillip d'Auvery is tortured by sorrow. His soul is pledged to the Immaculate, but Phillip's life has a darker aspect, that drives him to the scourging lash of the Padrenne of Saint Sommes Cathedral year after year upon Pentriant, the Second Day of Oblenite. For Phillip's curse is bliss, a bliss that can only be found when pain smites his flesh until his tears are shed. A desired curse, it alienates him from others, until Phillip is pushed from his life and into the arms of a man who understands pain and power, the stern Baronne Oruthane d'Iver. As Phillip's love for Oruthane grows, the two are exposed, and danger begins to follow their every step. But there is no greater danger than what lies smoldering in Phillip's heart, a pain that binds him deep and threatens everything dear to him. ABOUT THE SERIES - Three Days of Oblenite (3 novels) The City of Julis in the Onvittaine is rife with superstition, piety, and the devious nature of the mystic. Three lives collide, swept up in the torturous undercurrents of three desperate curses, from which there is no escape. Desire, lust, power, obsession, addiction, fervor, desperation, and death flow in the darkness of Julis and in the seedy Gypsun Quarter at the edge of the Saints Commons. And not even the blessings of Saint Sommes herself can save those who become lost in the mystery, depravity, darkness, and permission of the Quarter. They can only save themselves. The three books take place in a fictional, dark version of Paris in the late-Victorian era, and feature three characters cursed with the gifts of a miracle-working saint who died five hundred years prior. The first novel, Breath, is about a young woman cursed to celibacy because her breath when she kisses draws the vitality of any living thing, all except one night a year. The second novel, Tears, is about a young man cursed to feel bliss when he suffers physical pain from the lash, and the religious conflict he feels about his curse as he finds himself in a new M-M relationship with the man who brings him release. The third novel, Blood, is about a brilliant surgeon cursed with blood that heals. His life falls apart as he descends into the desperate underworld of Julis, gradually becoming addicted to using his blood to work miracles among the whores and the diseased.