A Scandal in Blue Velvet

A Regency M/M Romance

By: Allyn Imbrie

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Two men were seen in the rain.

What no one saw was the kiss.

When Viscount Julian Fairchild follows Sebastian Vane into a narrow London alley, the argument between them has already been simmering for weeks—too many glances held too long, too many touches that linger where they should not. The kiss that finally breaks their restraint is brief, reckless, and impossible to take back.

Moments later, they are discovered:

Two gentlemen in matching blue velvet coats, breathless, disordered, one of them bleeding.

London decides what it has witnessed—a violent quarrel, a misdeal at cards, a scandal fit for repetition. Julian and Sebastian accept the lie because they must. But the desire that sparked the encounter does not fade. It sharpens.

And every time they meet—in clubs, drawing rooms, and lamplit corridors—the risk becomes unbearable.

Includes mature romantic content, a forbidden same-sex relationship, and scenes of heightened desire portrayed with historical restraint and emotional intensity.

A Scandal in Blue Velvet is a slow-burn Regency M/M romance where desire becomes dangerous the moment it is touched.

Julian Fairchild is a viscount’s heir, trained to command himself as carefully as he commands a room. Sebastian Vane is his father’s protégé—brilliant, ambitious, and far too visible in a world that punishes men who rise without protection. Their attraction begins quietly: a shared table, a hand lingering too long on a sleeve, an awareness that grows sharper with every polite encounter.

The breaking point comes in the rain.

Behind a gentleman’s club, words turn into something else. One kiss—unmistakable, unrepeatable—undoes weeks of restraint. When they are seen moments later, flushed and disordered in their identical blue velvet coats, London invents a safer explanation: a quarrel over cards, a hot temper, a bruised pride.

The lie protects them.

It also binds them together.

Forced into a public rivalry to preserve reputations and political ambition, Julian and Sebastian must perform hostility even as desire deepens into something more consuming. Their exchanges become sharper. Their proximity more frequent. Each meeting threatens exposure—not only of what they want, but of how much.

In a world where reputation is survival, intimacy becomes an act of defiance.

And love, if claimed at all, must be chosen against everything that stands to destroy it.

This novel features:

• A charged, forbidden first kiss

• Public rivalry masking private desire

• Class difference and patronage tension

• Gentleman’s clubs, scandal sheets, and watchful society

• Slow-burn intimacy that escalates through restraint

• Emotional and sensual payoff rooted in consequence

A Scandal in Blue Velvet is a high-heat romance of longing sharpened by danger—where the most intimate act is not the kiss itself, but the choice to risk everything for it.