His fingers are insured for two million dollars. They’ve played Rachmaninoff at Carnegie Hall, Chopin at the Vienna Musikverein, and Liszt for three sitting presidents. They’ve never played a man.
Andrei Vassiliev hasn’t hit a wrong note in public since he was nineteen. His life is structured to the measure — practice from six to noon, concerts three nights a week, every emotion contained within the score. But the score doesn’t account for the cellist in Berlin whose forearms made him miss an entrance for the first time in his career. Or the stage manager in Sydney whose hand on his shoulder sent electricity through the tuxedo.
Then a conductor who noticed Andrei watching the wrong section during rehearsal gives him an address. And Andrei makes an appointment at The Back Room.
An exclusive private club. No names. No cameras. No score to follow. His guide is Noel — a former jazz pianist, improvisational, loose, a man who has never played the same thing twice. Noel understands musicians. He knows that Andrei’s discipline isn’t strength — it’s a cage. Tonight, Noel is going to play him like an instrument he’s never heard. No sheet music. No way to practice in advance.
Thirty years of perfect notes. One night of freeform.
What unfolds is a dark, sensory encounter that strips away every measure of control — the tuxedo, the tempo, the rigid discipline that kept Andrei’s left hand from ever playing what it wanted. By the time he drives home with the radio off, his fingers resting on the wheel instead of drumming, the silence is enough. The composition was never meant for a piano.
RE/STRUNG is a scorching institutional MM romance featuring a straight-to-gay awakening, sensual seduction, and the night a disciplined man finally improvised. Book 9 in The Back Room series. Standalone.
For readers of slow-burn institutional MM, seduction, sensory awakening, and being overwhelmed by what you’ve been missing.
Content Note: This book contains explicit MM scenes in an institutional setting, a one-night guided awakening with maximum heat, and a straight-to-gay first-time encounter between a concert pianist and a guide who plays by no rules.
Heat Level: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 (Scorching)
