Picking up where Gabriel’s Redemption left off, Gabriel’s Promise follows Professor Gabriel Emerson and his wife, Julia, during their first year of parenthood to their newborn daughter, Clare. While on paternity leave from his teaching position at Boston University, Gabriel receives an unexpected invitation for a prestigious guest lectureship in Scotland. It’s a dream come true, but he decides to hide the invitation from Julia, worried about the strain his absence may place on his wife, who has already sacrificed an entire semester of graduate studies to maternity leave.
But Julia has secrets of her own. After complications related to her emergency caesarean section force her to further delay her studies at Harvard, Julia develops strange symptoms she can’t explain. As her condition continues to worsen, she realizes that she’ll have to tell Gabriel before he leaves the country, even though she knows it will jeopardize his ambitions and professional reputation, which still hasn’t quite recovered from the scandal caused by their relationship at the University of Toronto. But when Julia and Clare are threatened by an ominous force connected to Gabriel’s past, Julia discovers exactly how far Gabriel is willing to go to keep his promises to her.
Please tell me you’ve read the other books in Gabriel’s Inferno Series!?!?
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.
Professor Gabriel Emerson has embarked on a passionate, yet clandestine affair with his former student, Julia Mitchell. Sequestered on a romantic holiday in Italy, he tutors her in the sensual delights of the body and the raptures of sex. But when they return, their happiness is threatened by conspiring students, academic politics, and a jealous ex-lover. When Gabriel is confronted by the university administration, will he succumb to Dante’s fate? Or will he fight to keep Julia, his Beatrice, forever? In Gabriel’s Rapture, the brilliant sequel to the wildly successful debut novel, Gabriel’s Inferno, Sylvain Reynard weaves an exquisite love story that will touch the reader’s mind, body, and soul, forever.
Professor Gabriel Emerson has left his position at the University of Toronto to embark on a new life with his beloved Julianne. Together, he’s confident that they can face any challenge. And he’s eager to become a father.
But Julianne’s graduate program threatens Gabriel’s plans, as the pressures of being a student become all consuming. When she is given the honor of presenting an academic lecture at Oxford, Gabriel is forced to confront her about the subject of her presentation – research that conflicts with his own. And in Oxford, several individuals from their past appear, including an old nemesis intent on humiliating Julia and exposing one of Gabriel’s darkest secrets.
In an effort to confront his remaining demons, Gabriel begins a quest to discover more about his biological parents, beginning a chain of events that has startling repercussions for himself, Julianne, and his hope of having a family.
Aaaaand Gabriel’s note has officially killed me!
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To my darling Julianne,
You’re asleep against my shoulder. Your hair is spilling onto my shoulder. Your warm breath is floating over my neck.
You look peaceful. You look beautiful. Our rest is frequently interrupted these days, so I don’t dare move, for fear of waking you.
You look comfortable and relaxed, trusting me to watch over you while you sleep. To protect you. To warm you. To hold you close.
This is love. A peaceful sleep in the arms of one’s beloved.
There was a time when you didn’t trust me. We have a history, you and I, which spans many years.
And here we are. My beloved Beatrice, my wife, sleeps against my shoulder in the bed we share in the house we own together.
I pray we will have a long, healthy, happy life together – we and our children. I pray I will one day sit in a seminar you are teaching and raise my hand to challenge you, knowing full well you will best me when you reply.
I will never be worthy of you, but I promise always to love and protect you, to honor and cherish you.
Your devoted and wide awake husband,
Gabriel.
I’m interested in the way literature can help us explore aspects of the human condition – particularly suffering, sex, love, faith, and redemption. My favourite stories are those in which a character takes a journey, either a physical journey to a new and exciting place, or a personal journey in which he or she learns something about himself/herself.
I’m also interested in how aesthetic elements such as art, architecture, and music can be used to tell a story or to illuminate the traits of a particular character. In my writing, I combine all of these elements with the themes of redemption, forgiveness, and the transformative power of goodness.
I try to use my platform as an author to raise awareness about the following charities: Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation, WorldVision, Alex’s Lemonade Stand, and Covenant House. For more information, see my Twitter account or my website.
Gabriel could be my Valentine’s day date!
Gabriel’s letters are always so sweet. Perfect timing for Valentine’s Day.
x
Darianne
I love this series I cant wait to read the new one an i cant wait for the movie
Oh my God! Sylvain Reynard is The Best! I Love his books and The Gabriel’s series is so wonderful… I loved all the books and I’m anxious for the next.
Loving these love notes
Love this series!
*sigh* Gabriel….. I cannot wait to read Gabriel’s Promise!!!
Gabriel’s love letters are incredibly romantic!
I love Gabriel’s love note.
I love the way he knows how smart she is and how he pushes her to greatness. I can’t wait to read!
Oh my God I didnt ebven know there was another book coming out now I do I’m super excited!!
I so want to read these books but I can’t find them.😢😞