Unfurl

Alchemy, Book 1

By: Elodie Hart

Narrated by: Kylie Stewart, Will M. Watt

Belle

When you've been told your whole life that something is sinful, you have two options. Avoid it like the plague, like it has the power to destroy all that is good and pure. Or become as fixated upon it as Eve was upon that apple.

I'm sick of the push-pull of terror and temptation. It's tearing me apart. I just want a bite of the apple. More than a bite. I want to devour it. Have its juices spill from my lips.

And by apple, I, of course, mean sex.

Rafe

My new neighbor is the kind of beautiful that could bring a man to his knees. But she's twenty-two. Fourteen years younger than me. That's too young.

I've vowed to stay away—until she comes to me for help.

It seems she has something to dispose of: her chastity. And it seems I have something she wants: the club I run for discerning adults. More specifically, the program we've created for women just like Belle. A program that will transform her from innocent to damned. Unfurl the parts of her she's denied until now.

It seems I may not be the only one falling to my knees after all.

God help us both.

Unfurl is a steamy age-gap contemporary romance. It's a standalone with an HEA.

Intended for mature listeners.

©2023 Elodie Hart (P)2023 Podium Audio

Not bad. Not good. Lost potential.

This book had so much potential that it’s frustrating! I don’t know if it’s poor editing, lazy writing, or a good story idea lost to an author who’s not “there” yet.
3/5🌶️ …it’s consistent and frequent but rife with internal monologues ruining the “moment.”
The story cheapens itself with insta-love. While not a true cliffhanger… the story ends with incomplete storylines leading to book 2.
The narration is done almost entirely by the Kylie S. She’s fine BUT why even bother with a male narrator if he’s not going to actually narrate his role?

A benediction!

I love a book that seems to be taking me in one direction, and I end up on a whole different path. Although this book has some slightly heavy themes, at its heart this is a book about love. Oh, and overthrowing the pious patriarchy.
Belina Scott is a young innocent in every sense of the word. Highly educated, yes, but naïve in the ways of the world. Brought up in a fervently Catholic household ruled by her sacrosanct father, Belle never really questions anything other than what’s been spoon-fed to her. Until she meets her family’s upstairs neighbor, Rafe Charlton. He’s dark, dangerous, and oh, so sexy. Rafe makes Belle quiver with an unnamed need, and when she finds out he runs a high-class club for patron’s baser desires, with a special program for women like her, she’s all in.
This book is highly erotic, highly blasphemous, and deeply moving. Rafe is absolutely the perfect romance hero. He’s worshipful of Belle as he does dirty, dirty things to her. So hot. And Belle is the heroine we all love. Strong, smart, and willing to take a huge leap into the unknown to grasp happiness. Their love story seems improbable, but under Elodie Hart’s brilliant talent, it becomes the most beautiful story ever. I loved every word. This book is both intelligent and sexy, I recommend it 110%!
I finished the audiobook and it was even more powerful, if possible! Will M. Watt and Kylie Stewart give beautiful performances as Rafe and Belle!

💋Holy 🔥🔥🔥

Uumm…no words. The spice is off the charts…Loved the story too…who doesn’t love a virgin romance with a dominant age gap? Whew..

Holy hot

All I’m going to say is, your inner catholic girl frustrations are definitely released in this audiobook with a side of one hot neighbor!!

Ok...

Ok... you know how you get some spicy books and they're ridiculous and plotless and ott?? THIS IS NOT THAT! This was one of the best recs I've gotten in a long time. Also, the narrators were great, the MMC voice 😍 It's fun and i really enjoyed it! Off to start book 2...