Publisher's Synopsis
A sexually charged, deeply moving tale revealing the shaded tastes in sexual practices that will absorb you, entertain you and stay in your thoughts for a very long time. An epic lustful and sensual story set amidst the turmoil and lawlessness of the mid-nineteenth century beginning at the outbreak of the devastating Irish potato famine, A Blighted Awakening is the story of Michael Flanagan, an innocent, naive Irish lad who manages to escape the perils of the potato famine after losing his mother and father to starvation and typhoid, along with millions of others, travels on a unloaded coal barge returning to Liverpool where the awakening to a new world starts. After having been beaten and robbed of the little he possesses, Michael is rescued by Leon, a black slave who bought his freedom and made his way to England. Leon is also a bare-knuckle fighter, having been forced to fight by his owner. He is now working as a bouncer at a high-class brothel. Leon persuades the owner of the brothel to take Michael on. At the brothel Michael is awakened into a world of brothels, BDSM and eroticism, the likes of which his strict naive religious upbringing could ever possibly have led him to imagine existed.
