▪	RELEASED BY:		YAOI PRESS
		▪	AUTHOR / ART:		DANY & DANY
		▪	FORMAT:		JAPANESE / BW
		▪	PAGES:		144
		▪	RATING:		16+
		▪	RELEASE DATE:		07/13/2007
		▪	REVIEW DATE:		09/20/2007
		▪	REVIEWED BY:		SANDRA SCHOLES

David Andrews, a renowned Artist based in the centre of New York, lays down one night, bottle of liquor in hand contemplating his own troubled existence. He remembers how jumbled and passionless his artwork was before he met Adam, his muse who he asks to pose for his paintings.

Adam Vane has a dark past, of hustling, forbidden love and jealous clients, but he finds in David someone different he wants to get to know, Though David does not really feel he truly understands or knows Adam.

David remembers one night when he called on Adam for that first time, and he just had a run in with some nasty clients who looked like they would beat him up. He sees how vulnerable he is, and how careless he is of his own existence living from day to day as a male hustler in a dangerous world.

Once he meets him and talks with him he gets him to strip naked, and pose for him in his studio. Adam has seen his previous work before and wonders why he wants all the preparation for this new painting, when he thinks it is going to be just another abstract. After the careful way he applies sensual lipstick, chains around his wrists, and a pair of fluffy white wings to complete the look, David tells him it is going to be a portrait painting.

Adam feels he is just like his other clients, but when he investigates more about David's past, they are very much alike in many ways. David did not get to stardom by his own means, and rather used his own body just as Adam does. He is more surprised at him only wanting to paint him, not using his body as a hustler would do.

As they discuss his art career, and painting in general, Adam starts to get to know more about David, while he appreciates how honest a critic Adam is about his work, and finds out David does not really like his own creations, but people will pay a lot for it as he is well known around affluent art circles.

Forming the sketches for the preliminary piece, he sees how it forms well on paper, but once he applies paint to canvas, he realises he cannot really paint Adam as he wants to. He desires to look into his soul and see it in the painting. Frustrated, he throws down the brush, and upturns all the equipment he has been using, angry and unhappy at his work.

All David needs is to be able to see some life inside the beautiful male he paints, and he finds it so impossible. He so wants to give in to his desires, to take solace in giving Adam a piece of his heart, but does he?

This is a powerfully orchestrated tale of a painter and his muse and him finding more about him than he ever thought possible. The characters are well developed, and Adam is exceptionally beautiful and bears an angelic quality that fits the wings he wears in the painting. The eyes have a great angularity about them and the shading on the bodies is subtle and gives them a graceful look. David as a character goes through the troubles every artist has. Difficulty with the muse, doubts on his own work and what everyone else thinks of him and the quality of his art.

IN SUMMARY:
This first volume shows the agony and the ecstasy of an Artist finding the newfound passion in his art through his handsome, wanton muse. A story that has intensity, is graceful and turbulent, witty, and gives the reader an awareness of the art world as a whole.