

Close Protection was published for free, one chapter at a time, on sites like LiveJournal and Fiction Press. In the autumn of 2011, as she began her first semester of graduate school, Cordelia also began writing her first original novel. Wanting her original work to be judged separately from her fanworks, she created the new pseudonym “Cordelia Kingsbridge” and started from scratch. After many wonderful years as a fanfiction writer, she felt the urge to transition to original fiction. She never even considered writing until college, when, as a long-time member of the Harry Potter fandom, she decided to try her hand at writing her own fanfiction. These interests led her to a BA in Anthropology and Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2010, an MSW from the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work in 2013 - and, ultimately, to the joy of writing fiction. Bookmark.Cordelia Kingsbridge has always been fascinated by the complexities of human motivation, behavior, and thought. I do suggest that you read the author’s welcome post before you get too attached to the fic to ensure that you do not find yourself reading something that you should not. I was satisfied with the story itself, but I hated to leave these characters behind. This story consumed me for a couple of days, and I was sad when it was over.

The back-stories are insane enough to be believable and just sad enough to break your heart. This story really has it all, the characters are well written, and you get to know them over time instead of everything about them being dumped on you all at once. Not that that is the end all of this work, but I had to get that out there. This is a brilliantly written piece of work with something in it that you very rarely see written well: a bottom who is Dominant and a top who is submissive. Jacob Ryder is the man charged with protecting him from his family’s many enemies – but who will protect Ryder from Luca?

Genre: Drama, Suspense, Romance, (mild) D/sĪfter three consecutive expulsions for sexual misconduct, Luca D’Amato has no choice but to return to America.
