Blurb
Enigmatic and sexy, Professor Gabriel Emerson is a well respected Dante specialist by day, but by night he devotes himself to an uninhibited life of pleasure. He uses his notorious good looks and sophisticated charm to gratify his every whim, but is secretly tortured by his dark past and consumed by the profound belief that he is beyond all hope of redemption.When the sweet and innocent Julia Mitchell enrolls as his graduate student, his attraction and mysterious connection to her not only jeopardizes his career, but sends him on a journey in which his past and his present collide.
An intriguing and sinful exploration of seduction, forbidden love and redemption, "Gabriel's Inferno" is a captivating and wildly passionate tale of one man's escape from his own personal hell as he tries to earn the impossible...forgiveness and love.
My thought
It was classic, modern, wonderfully, beautifully written.
What I liked most about this book had little to do with the relationship between Gabriel and Julia. Gabriel and Julia are such a contrast--sin and innocence. Gabriel is a Dante expert and Julia is his student. They have to overcome their pasts and presents to find a futureAll of the literary references from Dante's Inferno to Biblical verses and the Renaissance art were very intriguing.
The things I learned, the emotions it evoked and the love that was between Gabriel and Julianne is something I've just never experienced in a novel and I'm left speechless, breathless and wanting more! One of those books that you cannot put down; because you want to see if the two lovers will ever truly find each other again.
GABRIEL’S INFERNO will leave you with mixed emotions, but eager to start the second book, GABRIEL’S RAPTURE, which I’m about to go do.
