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BOOK BLURB:
The son of the Alarian king and an unknown human woman, Gabriel is forced to live more than half of his life buried in a monastery, under the iron fist ~ and lascivious hands ~ of its superintendent, Lothar. However, things can always get worse. On his 19th birthday Gabriel finds out that he is to be mated to his worst enemy. In despair, he decides to take his own life, but a chance encounter changes the course of his life, uniting him with Lucien, a demon prince.

What follows is a tale of impossible love, a journey from despair to rapture, threatened and cursed by secrets of the past and by pain buried but not forgotten. Not only does Lucien have to fight death to save his young lover, but he has to rebel against his parents as well. In a world of prejudice and hatred, can one impossible love survive?

BOOK REVIEW:
First let me warn you. Do not start this book before you go to bed! I learned this the hard way as I was constantly saying one more page, just after this chapter, until I had to force myself to put it down. Needless to say I ended up with very little sleep. I have never read anything by this author, but if this is anything like her other stories I can't wait to read more.

Enrapture is set in another world where magic, demons, and other beings are common place. Rather than democracies, countries are ruled by royalty, many of whom have their own agendas. Unfortunately for Gabriel, as the bastard son of the Alarian King, he is forced to endure much pain and humiliation due to the agendas of others. It isn't until he meets Lucien that Gabriel starts to see that there is something more to life than what he has known.

The author has done such an excellent job building these characters that you can almost feel Gabriel's pain as he is once again beaten or Lucien's grief over the injuries his brother received long ago. The world in which the story takes place is just as interesting as the characters. After a plague has ravaged the planet, each race suffered a different consequence, whether it was fleeing the planet or losing all their females. As a result alliances are needed to survive; however, not everything is what it seems.

While there is a happy for now ending there are many unanswered questions that are sure to be taken care of in the next book. Now we just have to patiently wait and hope we will see what happens soon.

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