Elizabeth Stewart Reviews

Added January 19, 2006

My Darling Clementine

novella in Hearts of Steel

Author: Elizabeth Stewart
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Available At: www.ellorascave.com
Publishing Date: Available Now
Genre: Romance: Erotic/Futuristic/Science Fiction
Format: Ebook download in PDF/HTML/LIT
Price: $7.99
ISBN: 1-84360-709-3
Author Email/Website: www.thenovelsbylizstewart.com/
Reviewer: Lisa Lambrecht
Rating: 7 Gargoyles

Three of today's most gifted erotic romance authors band together to give readers unique and tantalizing tales of bots and the pleasure they give their lucky owners in Hearts of Steel.

Everyone comes to O'Shea's Discount Bot Shoppe for the best and most unique bots. There is a bot waiting especially for you.

A recluse, Nathaniel needed someone to help around the house and to keep him company. He buys a bot named Clementine and soon learns she is not like any other bot. Not a mere machine, she is something more. Something almost alive. Trouble appears when a man partnered with Clementine's designers wants her for himself. Will Nathaniel be able to keep Clementine from harm?

Sweet and suspenseful, My Darling Clementine is all about two souls finding what they need in each other. Elizabeth Stewart writes with emotion and brings great passion to this novella.

Hearts of Steel is spectacular!

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Added March 6, 2005

The Academy

Author: Elizabeth Stewart
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Available At: www.ellorascave.com
Publishing Date: Available Now
Genre: Romance: Erotic/Futuristic/Bondage
Format: Ebook download in PDF/HTML/LIT
Price: $6.49
ISBN: 1-84360-422-1
Author Email/Website: www.thenovelsbylizstewart.com/
Reviewer: Jeanine Berry
Rating: 8.5 Gargoyles

Daria Evans is an up and coming executive with Unitech. As a New Projects Analyst, she's proposed a mining project that should make her company millions, and if she can deliver the signed contract, she'll be promoted to vice president. Even more importantly, that signed contract is her ticket to marrying the man of her dreams, her boss at Unitech. Her fiancé is from a wealthy and more-than-slightly snobbish family, but landing this deal will earn promotions for both of them and finally prove she's good enough to marry him.

However, before she can start planning the wedding, she has to travel to the planet Utan and get the hereditary ruler of that world, the Sildor, to sign the agreement letting Unitech mine on Utan.

When Daria arrives on Utan, she finds a sexually liberated society. The planet is suffering through an ice age and the people have retreated to an underground civilization. Because of a shortage of females, the women of Utan take more than one mate, an idea Daria finds repulsive. It doesn't help when she discovers that the Sildor has a hundred husbands in her harem.

Before she signs away the mineral rights on her planet, the Sildor wants to get to know Daria better so she invites her to live in her palace. Daria is assigned a personal attendant named Stron, a tall, well-built man who's more than willing to cater to her every whim.

As the Sildor gets to know Daria, she realizes that Daria is ashamed of her background as an orphan, and has made succeeding with this project the basis of her self-worth. This makes the Sildor doubt if she can trust Daria to do what is best for Utan, and so the ruler proposes one final test: Daria must enter the Academy, a very exclusive school in the Sildor's palace that teaches submission and dominance. The Sildor believes Daria needs to learn and understand Utan's values before they can trust each other. If Daria can prove she understands trust by becoming a submissive and then a dom, the Sildor will sign the contract.

Daria is horrified by the very idea and even more horrified when her fiancé wants her to go along with it-he wants his promotion more than he wants Daria to himself. Afraid of losing him, and all that she has worked for, Daria finally agrees to enter the Academy, certain that she is about to suffer a fate worse than death. But the Academy will hold more than one surprise for Daria.

Within the walls of the Academy, Daria faces a challenge-to let go of her past and her preconceptions and find acceptance and trust. In the depths of the Academy, she's forced to face her deepest desires and fears. Can domination and submission teach her to accept and trust herself? While there, she will explore her sexuality in ways she's never dreamed of, and learn lessons about life, death and love.

The Academy is great read, full of fabulous characters. You'll be cheering for Daria to learn her "lessons" and like her, you'll be drawn into an ever-closer relationship with her instructor at the Academy. But this book is also jam packed with other characters who make who add fun and humor to the storyline. The Sildor of Utan is a charming and willful tyrant who is kept in line (barely) by one of her one-hundred husbands, Albre. They share a touching love story with unfolds throughout the book. There's also Analet, Daria's alien friend, a six-foot-tall ambassador to Utan with blue skin and a fondness for kinky sex. And of course, Stron, the perfect manservant-and more. Daria goes to Utan to find wealth and success but ends up getting far more than she bargained for. The Academy is an entertaining exploration of what it means to keep an open mind.

The Academy is rated NC-17 by Ellora's Cave for its erotic sex, which includes bondage, dominance and submission.

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