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BOOK BLURB:
Sweet-natured Etienne LeFevre must give up his birthright and flee into the snow-covered forest to save himself from the murderous greed of his brutish elder brothers. When Etienne ends up alone and hungry, with a ramshackle cottage his only shelter and a feral cat his only friend, he believes himself doomed to a sad, cold death.

But out of the shadows of the night arrives a visitor who brings comfort. He presents himself as a servant, but the man called “Jacques” spends the long hours instructing Etienne in the cruel delights of a disciplined passion.

Jacques is gone with the morning light, but Etienne thinks he knows the stranger’s secret. Will Etienne tame the beast that lurks within his lover? Or will he find himself a victim of the bitter rage that rules Jacques’ heart?

Based on the classic French fairy tale, “Puss In Boots,” this story explores what happens when the servant becomes the master, and the master lives to serve...

BOOK REVIEW:
Do you like fairy tales? And do you love strangely erotic stories that involve harsh masters and sweet virgins? If you do, then Year of the Cat is your story. Based on a fairy tale, but most definitely not for children, Selah March beguiles the reader with an unusual tale of love. Or is it perhaps a tale of unusual love ...

In this complex story, sweet virgin Etienne runs away from his home upon the death of his father to escape his evil elder brothers, who have planned his demise. He takes shelter in a hut far into the forest ~ and he's too innocent to even know how to light his own fire. His only companion is a thin, raggedy, strange-eyed cat. He lies down, fully expecting to freeze to death. To his surprise, in the night a man named Jacques appears, builds the fire and brings him food ~ for a price. Etienne knows nothing of passion, but Jacques takes him anyway, calling him "innocence Debauched". The next morning Jacques is gone, but the cat is back.

Etienne may be guileless and untutored, but he is not a fool. The man, the cat...he makes the connection. And even though Jacques seems harsh, brutal and dominating, Etienne is not altogether unwilling. Who is the master and who is the servant?

Year of the Cat is the tale of Etienne and Jacques, their adventures, and is, in the end, a tale of love and redemption. Full of densely woven images, Selah March does not disappoint.

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