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    The Trap

    By Claire Davis and Al Stewart

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    New job – sexy boss – fate – Art...

    When Sal attends an open exam for an apprentice artist to work alongside the infamous Matthew Picard, the last thing he expects is to be the winner. But then his role is revealed and nothing is ever the same again. As he toils day and night on the unique sculpture, strange sensations begin to affect both him and the watching master artist.

    Matthew Picard thought he was through with men and love. What he wanted was for Sal to help him create one final monstrous masterpiece – The Trap.

    But as he observes his young apprentice, his focus shifts, and so do the very walls of the gallery.

    Is it the beauty of art, or something more magical at work?

    As the sculpture is created, a power is unlocked.

    Can love save them, or will they be trapped forever?

    * * *

    A story from Love Unlocked - a collection of seven short stories and novellas - unique LGBTQ romances inspired by the Love Lock Bridge

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBeaten Track Publishing
    Release dateFeb 14, 2016
    ISBN9781786450234
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    The Trap
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    Claire Davis

    Claire Davis is the author of Season of the Snake and Winter Range, which won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best Novel. Her stories have appeared in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Ploughshares, been read on National Public Radio's Selected Shorts program, and been selected for the Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Price anthologies. She lives in Lewiston, Idaho.

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