[Black Lily 01] • Gabrielle's Awakening

"Unexpectedly widowed, Gabrielle, a sexually inexperienced

author/historian, turns for emotional support to her late husband's closest

friend, a courtly cosmopolite who radiates masculine appeal. When Michael

reveals that he desires a slave willing to exist solely for his pleasure, his

shocking invitation resonates on some gut level within the woman married for

fourteen years to a man afflicted by periodic bouts of impotence. Trained by

Michael to submit and obey, Gabrielle grows to crave both the pain and the

pleasure he uses to lift her to astonishing heights of ecstasy.