Male Model

This fast paced story will capture the reader from the first sentence and keep him in rapt attention throughout. This is one book I didn't want to put down, and in fact, I missed my gym visit in order to finish it. This is a MUST READ!...Lots of fun.

Face it, some guys will buy this book for the hot cover. But what's going on under the sheets--uh, I mean, between the covers of the book--is a fun, juicy romp. It's the story of Blake Jackson, who becomes a male model at the behest of Cameron Fuller, a Ralph Lauren-type. Cameron has more on his mind than advancing Blake's career. He wants to jump into his pants. Their torrid love affair is complicated by the fact that Cameron is in the closet and is married to money. His father-in-law's money, in fact, helped get him where he is. As things progress, they get more complicated, and the reader wonders what decisions Blake will make. Life as a male model is not all easy-breezy and easy money, as you'll find here. Blake has something to help him get by, though: the sex scenes crackle with white-hot electricity. This entertaining, fast-moving story will keep you enthralled...and wanting more.

Readers say that this is a perfect "beach read" which I completely understand: a real page-turner with charming, fascinating characters involved in their fast-paced lives and a horrible murder. But I don't live at the beach; it's winter in NYC and the book is still alot of fun. It's fast reading and 100% involving. It's light and easy and first-rate with believable characters who wear the perfect clothes, drive the best cars and live in beautifully designed homes. No, it isn't Tolstoy or Dickens, but when I picked it up, I didn't want to read Tolstoy or Dickens. I'm sure that a Hollywood producer has already bought the rights to make it into a movie. It would make a great mystery movie-of-the-week: one that would keep you guessing (and smiling) throughout.

When is Dave Benbow's next novel coming out? I just finished MALE MODEL and I am going through a major withdrawal. Benbow's DAYTIME DRAMA was great, and MALE MODEL was even better! Intelligently written, filled with romance, intrigue, and loads of sex, MALE MODEL makes the perfect travel companion. When spending so much time visiting with family this week, I was thankful I had my gay escape. Hey Dave, be Santa Claus and write another book ASAP to get me through the Christmas and New Year holidays?

Cameron "Cam" Fuller, strikingly handsome, high profile designer and C.E.O. for Cameron Fuller USA, a fashion dynasty on a par with Ralph Lauren, and Blake Jackson, an equally gorgeous hunk, and member of the artistic design team at Cam's Beverly Hills mega-store are the heroes of Dave Benbow's delicious new novel, MALE MODEL. Cam literally sees Blake in a window (of the mega-store) and has to have him. They meet, and the attraction is mutual and immediate. Unfortunately, there are two, not-so-little, problems to overcome; Suzette, a high maintainance shrew who just happens to be Cam's wife of twenty five years, and her devious, blue-blood father, Silas Cabbott, to whom Cam is financially indebted. Blake and Cam attempt to keep their relationship discreet. They are, after all, established, successful, career oriented men, not a couple of twenty-something bar twinks, but when Cam chooses Blake to be the spokes-model for `PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY,' his company's new men's fragrance, it doesn't take long for their secret to be discovered, and all hell breaks loose. As he did with his previous effort DAYTIME DRAMA, Benbow, serves up an incredibly tasty dish of a novel full of clever twists, exotic locals, and passionate romance. This is the realm of super-wealth and haute couture, where the beautiful people, and those who prey upon them, flock. Here, an opportunistic underling backstabbing his way to job security seems the norm, and blackmail is just another business option. Trust-worthy friends are few and far between and everyone has a hidden agenda, some more deadly than others. How can true love possibly survive in this glamorous but cutthroat environment? John Q (Queer) Public enjoys reading about this fast-lane, designer-living world, especially when the author knows what he's talking about. Benbow's expertise in high-end, fashion retail serves him extremely well in this novel. He delivers professionally developed, charismatic characters involved in a well thought out, beautifully detailed plot. The result is pure enjoyment from cover to cover. I read fiction to be entertained, and that's the bottom line. This tale of Cameron's and Blake's budding relationship, and the treachery that surrounds it, certainly satisfied that bottom line. MALE MODEL made me want to grin like the Cheshire cat when all went well for the heroes, and scream like a banshee when the dastardly villains screwed with their lives. This novel, made me want to laugh, it made me want to cry, but most of all it made me want to run squeeze my partner, and tell him how much I love him, and it's been way too long since a novel has had that effect on me. I wish every book I read left me feeling this way...so does my partner!