Gabriella Bradley

Added September 8, 2004

Christmas Child

Tarot: the Lovers

Author: Gabriella Bradley
Publisher: eXtasy Books
Available At: www.extasybooks.com
Publishing Date: August 2004
Genre: Romance: Contemporary
Format: Ebook download in PDF/HTML/LIT
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 1-55410-183-2
Reviewer: Cyndi Witkus

The Lovers card represents love, sex and more. It symbolizes temptation and division, but it also means making choices, sometimes for the worse, if you're notfarsighted.

Susan Davies and Tracy are best friends. Tracy is getting ready to turn nineteen and has invited Susan to her party. Susan's parents are very strict and much older than many of the parents. At the party, she ends up dancing with Scott, the guy Susan has had a crush on for the longest time. In the clothes that Tracy loans her, she feels like she's a princess and that's what he calls her, my Princess. She's running late from the party when she gets raped by a man whom she doesn't know. She ends up leaving her license and identification behind. She tries to forget what's happened but it's not easy. She and Scott begin seeing each other.

Graduation comes and Susan's parents ease their restrictions a bit. She goes shopping in Vancouver and is very sick. It comes back that the rape has indeed made her pregnant. Her father kicks her out and she ends up telling them the truth as well as to Scott. She runs away and makes over her life, planning on giving the baby up for adoption.

Michael James Stuart is haunted by the night that he got too drunk and did something he shouldn't have. His wife had come home and announced she was leaving him. She wanted to be a specialist's wife, but she didn't love him. He felt remorse for what happened and had Susan followed. He found out that she moved to a small place in Vancouver. That she was pregnant. Then she disappeared. No one knew where she was.

When Susan's found by the detective along with his soon to be ex-wife, Michael begins making plans on what needs to be done. He plans on asking Susan for the baby when he's born and having his ex sign the certificate. He ends up moving his doctor schedule a bit so he can take a month or so off so he can take care of things. More importantly, he moves in next door to Susan and does what he can to help take care of her and give her some good things to eat.

On Christmas Day, Susan goes into labour. What happens next is a true Christmas miracle. She is giving birth too quickly and Michael comes and helps her out with some Demerol and she is relaxing as she gives birth to a boy and a little girl. However, things go a bit topsy turvy when he takes the twins as she sleeps and leaves her a note saying the baby died. When she wakes up, at first she thinks it's a dream before she realizes it truly happened.

Susan knows that her baby didn't die. He was too active, but what can she do? How can she start finding her child? Susan's search brings her home then forward to a small area that had been hinted to by her landlord who had rented the room next to hers. She gets a chance at a babysitting job for two very young twin children.

Will the truth come out? How will she deal with things when their dad comes home from Europe? What will happen between Michael and Susan? Will his soon to be ex-wife interfere?

Gabrielle Bradley has created an amazing story, one that does happen in real life, but has given a satisfying conclusion that most never find. The story takes you along the ride and though as a reader, you want the best for Susan and the babies. You also feel for Michael. He'd done wrong and tried to do everything in his power to make up for that mistake in his life. This is a well crafted story of pain, longing, and forgiveness. The Lovers card can bring pain and it can bring pleasure, oft times both. This is truly a great addition to the Tarot stories and one that will touch your heart.

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Added May 21, 2003

Stardust, Starlust

Author: Gabriella Bradley
Publisher: eXtasy Books
Available At: www.extasybooks.com
Publishing Date: February 2003
Genre: Erotica: Science Fiction/Fantasy/Anthology
Format: Ebook download in PDF/HTML/LIT
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 1-894942-26-4
Reviewer: Lisa Lambrecht

Stardust, Starlust consists of a collection of short Science-Fiction erotic stories that are filled with the wonders of new worlds and sizzling sex scenes and love that spans the space of time.

Flower Dance

A young apprentice, who was taught how to pleasure a man and whose body was conditioned accordingly, was about to go through an initiation to become a priestess in the Temple of Love. Thoughts of escape enter her mind as she goes to the ceremony. Her prayer is answered when a giant bird swoops her up and delivers her to an unknown place so that she may start her life anew.

Moondust

Narida thinks "this is it" when a runaway astroid collides with her space transport pod; thinking for sure that she was about to die. When she wakes up on an unknown moonlit beach naked and alone, she believes herself to be in Heaven or caught somewhere in-between. For in this peaceful place she finds herself in, there is a soft glow from the twin mauve moons above, the softest of sands underfoot, a purple tranquil sea close by that calms her, and a deep masculine voice beckoning her to him.

Time Warp

Jan is about to embark on a long over due two week vacation, when her space shuttle gets caught in a vortex and is hurtled thousands of years into the future, where she meets a very handsome Merman. Will Jan be able to get back to her time? Or must she now make a life here in the future with the sexy Merman under the sea?

Incunabula

Earth and its people were slowly dying and Cassandra and her crew were their last hope. They were being sent out on one last mission in hopes of finding another planet the people of Earth could settle on. Shortly after they took off though, their spacecraft ran into trouble and broke down. For the last thirteen years they were left drifting in space with no way of going back home. Their hopes were diminishing as well as their food and air supply until suddenly they started hurtling through space towards an unknown planet. Was this it for them then? To die in a fiery crash upon an unknown planet? Or will their prayers and pleas be somehow answered by an unforeseeable force?

The Starlet Star

Sharin was stunned when she opened an envelope and found that a long lost uncle from England had died and left her his vast estate and his legacy. Having nothing to loose, she calls the lawyers who had sent her the letter, and found herself on a plane headed for England the next day. Once there, she finds that in order for her to receive her inheritance, she must live the rest of her life in England, accept the Legacy and all it entails and produce an heir. Produce an heir? She doesn't even have a boyfriend or any kinds of prospects in that department. She is given a starlet key and finds that it opens a whole new life for her, if only she accepts it.

The anthology, Stardust, Starlust by Gabriella Bradley is a wonderful set of stories that takes your imagination across the universe and shows you that love can be found amongst the stars. This is a book that should not be missed. For those of you who like Science Fiction stories filled with moresexmoresex, then Stardust, Starlust is for you.

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