Gabriel's Woman
by Robin Schone

LET THE GAMES BEGIN...

Penniless and desperate to escape the London streets where a mysterious man stalks her, Victoria Childers auctions off her virginity at the infamous House of Gabriel, a tavern where every carnal pleasure can be satisfied. But Gabriel, the untouchable proprietor who purchases her, doesn’t want her innocense. Too late Victoria discovers she is a pawn, sent to Gabriel by the man who had raped him fourteen years earlier. A man Gabriel will do anything...sacrifice anyone...to kill. Or will he? Irresistibly drawn to the beautiful, dangerous proprietor who has walled himself away from human touch, Victoria vows to free Gabriel. Their passion plunges them into a masterminded game of death and desire where their only hope for survival is each other...

Originally published August 2001 in trade paperback by Kensington.

Other Books by Robin Schone

A Man and a Woman

Awaken, My Love

A Lady's Pleasure

Cry For Passion

Private Places

Scandalous Lovers

Fascinated

The Lover

Captivated

The Lady's Tutor

Robin Schone's Bio

My life has been ruled by...DINOSAURS, ROMANCE & SEX.

You are no doubt asking yourself what do dinosaurs have to do with romance and or (gasp) sex?

No, I am not into bestiality.

It's really quite simple. You see, when I was six years old, my mother took me to a double matinee. One movie was about dinosaurs (which I loved) and the other was a sappy romance (or so I thought at the time) which she loved.

Well, it took a few years, but I finally decided there is something to that man-woman stuff. I read my first romance novel at the age of twelve (These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer), and I read my first erotic novel when I was fifteen (The Way of a Maid by Mario Clement). Now I write ... Erotic romance books.

Where does my love of dinosaurs fit into all this?

Archeology (or paleontology, for you etymologists out there).

Which in turn led me to explore ancient cultures.

Think India and Tantra, the Indian Cult of Ecstasy.

Or in modern history, think Arabia and The Perfumed Garden of Cheikh Nefzaoui, an Arabic treatise on erotic love.

I love reading about sexual practices in faraway times and places, then passing on to you, my readers, tidbits of historical erotica.