It's only when she returns home and reads the national newspaper she discovers her lucky escape.

She readily submits to his demands, finding sexual fulfilment through his aggressive and controlling personality. Jane takes her husband's beloved car for an emergency repair and meets up with a man who reminds her of her past. But there is something strange about Freya: something she's hiding about her past. Thinking back to the time in Marseilles when, after a successful drugs deal, he attempts to trick his young companion only to discover later he is the one who has been well and truly duped.įreya is biding her time in Amsterdam, unsure of what to do next, when she is seduced by Ana, a German actress she meets in a café. Pierre is amazed when an Algerian girl and her elderly blind companion arrive at the restaurant. Accustomed to paying audiences only, she vents her anger by hurling a plant pot at the onlooker. One afternoon, while rehearsing her striptease in front of the mirror, Emily discovers she has an unwelcome spectator. But will she react in the way Chiara hopes? Her plan of seduction works and Lucia can no longer deny the truth. Determined to take the lead, by the end of the evening she proves that she can take a dominant role.įrustrated with her life in Venice, Chiara attempts to show her girlfriend, Lucia, just what her cheating husband is capable of. What are the characters' true motives? Are their feelings genuine or are they just playing games? It soon becomes clear that nothing is as it seems.Ĭordelia, tired of playing the passive role, picks up a man at a bar in Berlin, takes him back to his hotel room and seduces him.

This book takes the reader on an atmospheric journey from Berlin to Venice, Marseilles and Amsterdam cleverly interweaving themes of seduction and deception. The first seven chapters from Amatore's Restaurant.

Amatore's Restaurant by James Sillwood