Payment Due

by D.J. Manly

On the night of his high school prom, Ryder made a hasty promise, a promise he barely remembered until a beautiful and mysterious stranger comes to collect on it. Ace Belmont collects debts. He'd been enslaved to the task since he'd lost his soul years before. He is hoping each collection he makes is the last so that he can finally end it and atone for his sins. When Ryder sees Ace, all he knows is he wants to run his hands all over this masculine vision of beauty in front of his eyes. What he doesn't know is he's about to have the sex of his life with someone who looks like an angel but who might well be the devil himself. What starts out as a night rich with tantalizing anticipation will sweep Ryder away to sexual heights he's never known, but will wake him up to a horrible reality--a reality which torments him with sexual obsession and forces him to fight for his own soul--a reality which will take him closer to evil than most mortals will ever come. Payment is due ... and the price will be far higher than either of them could ever imagine.

Genres: M M Romance, Paranormal, Ebooks, Fantasy, Contemporary, LGBT

215 pages, ebook

First published September 14, 2008

About the author

I write not only for my own pleasure, but for the pleasure of my readers. I can’t remember a time in my life when I haven’t written and told stories. When I’m not writing, I’m dreaming about writing, doing something wild and adventurous, or trying to make the world a better and more open minded place to live in. I adore beautiful men, and I know I’m not alone in this! Eroticism between consenting adults, in all its many forms is the icing on the cake of life!

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classic tale of good vs evil, well sorta evil. Ryder makes a hasty soul pledge when his boyhood love is in a car crash. Ace is the debt collector who falls for him but he has a past the rears its nasty head. Check out how love can conquer all when given enough time.

[Carole-Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have a March 2008 edition from LooseID

[Elisa Rolle]

Ace is a soul collector: many years ago he made a vow in a desperate moment and he bargained his soul for something he thought important. But he was not condemned to eternal damnation, instead he was asked to become a soul collector, a man who claim the payment due from the men that like him, bargains their soul.

Ryder was young and in love. During a car accident he vowed to be willing to give everything, even his soul, for the life of his boyfriend. And his pray was listened to. But his "forever" love lasted only two years and then he married a woman and went away. Now Ryder is a young man with a wonderful life ahead of him, but he is asked to pay his debt, to fullfill a request with the hope to save his soul. Ace is the man who comes to claim the payment. And he does it seducing Ryder, turning him into a sex addicted for only a man, Ace.

Ryder has to learn all the seducing skills of Ace and then lure Steven, a wanna-to-be politician, idealist and naivee, an ingenue soul like very few in the world, someone fated to be a great man...

Payment Due is a carousel of sex. There are so many couple in it, and so many forever and betrayed lovers, you have problem to take counts. And everytime you think to understand how it will end, something happened that changes your perspective and turns the tables. I will bet you to anticipate how it will end...

As in many other novels I read by D.J. Manly, love and sex not always come together. Sex is something extremely needed, like a drugs. Probably if you make it with someone you also love it's the best you can achieve, but in any way sex is primordial and instinctual. D.J. Manly's men have no problem to openly ask and reach for what they want and need.

Payment Due is for sure an erotic novel, but it has also a very original plot and so reading it you achieve two target, to be enjoyable entertained and satisfied...

P.S. there is a minor character in the book named Elisa, like me. It's only the second time that I found my name, spelling exactly, in an English book...

http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/26...

[Chalice · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was okay. Somewhat original, definitely complicated, angst filled, and a little irritating. There were a few smexy scenes, but only a couple were squirm-worthy. I didn't care for the "flexible partnering" or the way the story was wrapped up. I did like the MCs but both had their negative points, too.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great story about good versus evil. But I have to be honest my favourite character in this was Mallory...D J please give him his own story.

[Lidia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this story because it is exciting, complex and not obvious even in the final