"Two escapees from a fate worse than death find love in the Gates of Hell"

Over two hundred years in the future, freedom is a scarce commodity for citizens of the misnamed Utopia. Powerful Rulers dictate every step of a person's life. Those who are free from genetic mutations are potential breeders, with all others sterilized and lobotomized into perfect drones. Aurora d'Alessandro has escaped being "altered" so far, but her luck has just run out. Two weeks remaining of her femininity and individuality, she decides to take a risk and go to the bondage resort called Gates of Hell to experience sex with a real man, not a sexbot. Then she'll report in for alterations as ordered.

Planet Obsidion, the Gates of Hell. How aptly named. Brad Gilbreath defied his Ruler relatives and thus was about to be castrated and sent to work in the mines as punishment. During his escape, his spacecraft makes an emergency landing at the far edge of the galaxy. There, he's taken prisoner and chosen to be trained as a Master by the resort's owner, Mistress Mara. Defiance will lead to the very fate Brad was trying to escape. What will he do?

When Aurora is assigned to be the submissive of Master B, she finds him incredibly erotic. Aurora is shocked to learn that Master B is Brad, her former boss. What is he doing here? Brad is looking for a breeder to help populate the small planet he's purchased. When he finds out that Aurora is a potential breeder, he knows he's found his woman. He doesn't expect to care for his mate, but he does. Will Aurora risk the wrath of the Rulers and run away with Brad? What plans does Mistress Mara have to prevent this from happening?

The relationship between a dominant and submissive is foreign to me, yet I see that both Brad and Aurora are happy with their arrangement. Very much sexually compatible, they learn the emotion of love that has been forgotten in their well-ordered world. Thought control has squashed most emotions, including those of passion. With GATES OF HELL, Ms. Jacobs has ventured into the futuristic genre with a bang. Fans of bondage scenes will definitely want to add this novel to their library.

Sensuality: Rated E-rotic by the publisher. Explicit sex, bondage, flogging, anal sex, public sex; sexually explicit scenes: 10.

Reviewed by Denise Powers
Courtesy Sensual Romance Reviews
Posted November 28, 2003

Summary

Your status has been changed from potential breeder to drone. You are hereby ordered to present yourself at Clinic Alpha on October 1, 2225, at 0700 hours for the necessary alterations.

Until the email arrived, Aurora had been one of the lucky few, one of those who might become first a breeder, then a consort to one of the ruling Elite. Now she's got just fourteen days to experience sex with a real man, and she's headed for the Gates of Hell Resort—the ultimate in pleasure and pain.

Within the Gates of Hell, the master of her dreams awaits her...

Sexual Content: E-rotic. Genre: Futuristic.