The Mister

English aristocrat Maxim Trevethick inherits his brother's titles and estate. He keeps falling out with his sister-in-law Caroline, who was his lover and had chosen his brother, Kit, instead of him. He falls for his Albanian undocumented immigrant housemaid, Alessia Demachi. He finds out about her many talents and her past life. He takes her to his place in Cornwall when two unauthorised people came to his apartment searching for Alessia. He introduces Alessia to sexual pleasure and enjoys her company. At first she has no idea of Maxim's title but finds out and decides to run away. Maxim stops her and reveals his affections for her and they reconcile. Alessia reveals the truth about her abusive betrothed who kidnaps her when they are in England. Alarmed, Maxim confronts Caroline and goes after Alessia to Albania. Due to the absence of her documents and passport, she travels with her fiancée through another route. Maxim reaches her home and asks for her hand in marriage and Alessia enters soon after where she reveals the truth about her fiancée to her father and tries to get Maxim to be married to her. The novel ends with Alessia's father threatening Maxim to marry his daughter and them being together.

The Mister was panned by literary critics, with review aggregator Book Marks reporting three negative and one mixed reviews among 6 total.[4] The Guardian described it as "A coked-up lord bonks a trafficked Albanian immigrant as the Fifty Shades of Grey author swaps BDSM for dispiritingly creepy power games" and adding that "There is a complete dearth of emotional maturity that is genuinely unsettling."[5] Jezebel wrote "the narrative is so committed to sexualizing Aleissa’s vulnerability and powerlessness that the result is offensive."[6] The Atlantic said it was "hopelessly retrograde and dismally unentertaining."[3]

It featured on the podcast series 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, the podcast discusses literature that the two men "are probably going to hate.[7]

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