Madam

Madam
Jenny Angell

Pleasure is her business. Sex is her currency… Another sexy story from Mischief Books.Climb under the covers and learn the sizzling secrets of life as a successful madam …Fresh out of college, Peach has the world at her feet. But after a series of dead-end jobs she's feeling the pressure. Until a stint as a brothel's receptionist changes her life for ever.Soon, Peach's own agency is the most successful in the city, and life is a whirl of exclusive parties and drug-fuelled orgies.Threesomes, S&M, role playing … no matter how depraved, Peach and her girls can fulfil all desires. But though business is booming, it's at a cost. Peach must protect these damaged, often desperate girls from violent clients as well as the cops.Then Peach meets the love of her life and falls pregnant. She craves a normal life, a family – but can she reconcile a life in suburbia with the demands of her trade …?And does she really want to?

JENNY ANGELL

Madam

Thanks as always to my husband, to my literary agents (Philip Spitzer, Lukas Ortiz, and Jane Judd), and to the wonderful editors at Avon/HarperCollins in London: Keshini Naidoo and Sammia Rafique. And thanks especially to Peach: this book is both for and about you, and all the fragile and lovely spirits we’ve known together.

This is a second-hand memoir, written about a person other than myself. Because of that, and because of the necessity of protecting people’s identities, particularly Peach, it can be viewed as true but not completely factual.

Most people in this book are composites. Most places have been changed. While I spent countless hours with Peach talking about this book, listening to her stories and thoughts and her feelings, I cannot guarantee the accuracy of anything that is written here that does not include me directly.

Readers are urged to take it as it is meant – as an example of living a life that many people could otherwise not imagine, and yet one that is familiar in enough ways to perhaps help people see that we are not so different from each other, after all.

For Peach, of course

CONTENTS

Prologue (#u2331d714-2740-58d8-a175-84d97bd2249e)

Rendezvous (#ub5a80fa9-9638-5bef-87dc-04f89ecb9ee6)

Working the Phones (#u4588d82e-aff2-5207-9fbc-b422fe56ac47)

The Making of a Madam (#u3e2bbea1-506e-55c5-a506-075c36bb05f7)

Losses (#u7bdbc88c-df82-5215-a807-f352eb9d45ce)

Leaving Mother Superior (#uc9584577-d4be-5e39-a664-beda88ddc4e0)

Night One Chez Peach (#u1b9350b6-013f-570e-82a6-8cda0f4c611f)

A Head for Numbers (#u1a947b33-a6a8-5dbf-be0b-66d99ef85826)

Jesse, Jesse, Jesse… (#u1b00a258-4fdc-5e0b-8758-53e2c0ab4c90)

Escort Business Etiquette (#litres_trial_promo)

The Belle of Boston (#litres_trial_promo)

Callgirl Salon (#litres_trial_promo)

Under… and Over… Jesse (#litres_trial_promo)

Private Yellow Pages (#litres_trial_promo)

The Client From Hell (#litres_trial_promo)

Let’s See… How Can I Prove I Did It? (#litres_trial_promo)

Catering by Any Other Name (#litres_trial_promo)

Business and Family (#litres_trial_promo)

Phoning It In (#litres_trial_promo)

Addiction (#litres_trial_promo)

Alla (#litres_trial_promo)

The Road to Happiness (#litres_trial_promo)

The Most Important Person (#litres_trial_promo)

Baby Makes Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Taking Charge (#litres_trial_promo)

A Romantic at Heart (#litres_trial_promo)

You’re Fired! (#litres_trial_promo)

Can’t Get Enough of Muffy (#litres_trial_promo)

Moving On (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Original Titles from Mischief (#litres_trial_promo)

Author's Note (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

By the Same Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

PROLOGUE (#u33f14c4f-9104-531b-aac0-8d6d4d795a7a)

For three years of my life, I worked as a callgirl. I worked for a woman-owned and woman-operated escort service, and that agency is what made those three years more than just an emergency financial stopgap. It became, instead, an interesting and empowering experience for me.

I wrote my story of those years in a memoir titled Callgirl. And because the madam I worked for figured so importantly in that story, I decided to share what one madam’s life is like. It’s Peach’s turn; this is her story.

RENDEZVOUS (#u33f14c4f-9104-531b-aac0-8d6d4d795a7a)