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Model Miles McMillan, who is also an artist like the character, was my muse for Garrick in The Portrait and Black Dog. Here's a snippet from The Portrait: The artist was wearing buckled boots, soft black leather trousers and a loose, black shirt that was laced at the neck. Over that, he’d buttoned a thigh-length waistcoat in the deepest green that had the effect of making his pale eyes stand out even more than usual. Subtle makeup highlighted his cheekbones and soft kohl was

Another back list bite now... Black Dog is the sequel to The Portrait and is another BDSM short story that draws on black dog myths from folklore. The black dog is essentially a nocturnal apparition, often said to be associated with the Devil or a Hellhound. Its appearance was regarded as a portent of death. It is generally supposed to be larger than a normal dog, and often has large, glowing eyes. Black dogs are almost universally regarded as malevolent, and a few (such as t