Every starlet wants master painter Kenon Alavi to do her portrait...and more. But Kenon prefers firm to soft and sates his desires with the boyfriends of the women he paints, enjoying the diversity of many lovers but shunning any attachments. Wallace Harte's English degree isn't helping him and working at a bar is the closest he's gotten to being the Second Coming of Faulkner. Something's gotta give soon, or he'll be out on the street. Kenon zeroes in on the bartender at an art exhibition, intending to add him to his long list of conquests, but Wally bolts, initiating a heated game of cat and mouse. Kenon delights in the game until he discovers what Wally is writing. Feeling betrayed, Kenon swears off all entanglements until he reads Wally's story and discovers true love is sometimes between the pages and not the sheets. Inside Scoop: This book contains hot, sexy scenes of M/M interaction of an artistic nature. Who knew having your portrait painted could be so hot?