'DARK, DANGeROUS, AND ABSOLUTeLY ADDICTING.' - Christina Dodd on <i>Tempted</i> <i></i><BR><BR> Orpheus - To most he's an enigma, a devil-may-care rogue who does whatever he pleases whenever he wants. Now this loose cannon is part of the eternal Guardians - elite warriors assigned to protect the human realm - whether he likes it or not. <BR><BR>Orpheus has just one goal: to rescue his brother from the Underworld. He's not expecting a woman to get in the way. especially not a Siren as gorgeous as Skyla. He has no idea she's an assassin sent by Zeus to seduce, entrap, and ultimately destroy him.<BR><BR>Yet Skyla herself might have the most to lose. There's a reason Orpheus feels so familiar to her, a reason her body seems to crave him. Perhaps he's not the man everyone thinks... The truth could reveal a deadly secret as old as the eternal Guardians themselves.<BR><BR>Praise for elisabeth Naughton:<BR><BR>'The sensuality of Sherrilyn Kenyon and the intensity of Patricia Briggs.' - <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Angie Fox<BR><BR>'elisabeth Naughton combines dynamic dialogue and sizzling romance with a wicked cool world. Do not miss this series.' - <i>New York Times</i>bestselling author Larissa Ione
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"Filled with sizzling romance, heartbreaking drama, and a cast of multifaceted characters, this powerful and unusual retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice story is Naughton's best book yet." ---Publishers Weekly Starred Review
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A former junior high science teacher, elisabeth Naughton traded in her red pen and test-tube set for a laptop and research books. She now writes sexy romantic adventure and paranormal novels full-time from her home in western Oregon, where she lives with her husband and three children. Her work has been nominated for numerous awards, including the prestigious RITA Awards of Romance Writers of America, the Australian Romance Reader Awards, the Golden Leaf, and the Golden Heart. When not writing, elisabeth can be found running, hanging out at the ball park, or dreaming up new and exciting adventures. Visit her at www.elisabethnaughton.com to learn more about her and her books.
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By Grouchbucket
Format:Kindle Edition
I really liked Orpheus in the other books, was looking forward to his story. He was good, and Skyla was a strong match. But I had expected more "something" from him. The story progressed well though didn't seem to have the impact on me the others had. Perhaps there was just more to the overall series plot that that needed to happen. regardless still a good book and I am looking forward to the next in the series. Gryphon's story.
By S. Schairer
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
ENRAPTURED by Elisabeth Naughton
ENRAPTURED is the 4th instalment in Elisabeth Naughton’s Eternal Guardians series. The Eternal Guardians series follows the lives and loves of 7 warriors descended from the god’s of Olympus, whom fate has decreed as the Eternal Guardians on earth. But this time a warrior is haunted by guilt over the destruction of his brother’s soul and memories of a past, he has somehow forgotten.
Orpheus, son of Perseus, is part daemon, part witch and part Argolean. Searching for the Orb of Kronos-the source of ultimate power-so that he may be able to bargain with the Lord of the Underworld Hades for his brother Gryphon’s soul, Orpheus finally believes he has tracked down the key to the missing Orb. But ‘goth girl’ Maelea has continued to evade capture for close to 3000 years, and refuses to be pulled into the game between Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. With the ability to detect power shifts, Maelea-the bastard child of Zeus and Persephone-knows where Orpheus can find the Orb that will aid in the release of his brother’s trapped soul.
Skyla is Athena’s number one Siren, and has been commissioned to track down the deamon known as Orpheus. But something about the daemon is very familiar and calls to her heart and soul. And it is only when she reaches into her past does she realize that she has been deceived by those who claim to be family and friends. Tailing Orpheus on his hunt for the Orb of Kronos, is becoming more complicated, when she finds herself falling for the man, the warrior and the daemon, who was once part of her past, but is now becoming part of her present and beyond.
Hoping Maelea will lead him to the Orb, or at the very least another element, Orpheus recognizes there is more to the waif-like creature than her ability to sense power shifts. There is an unsettling calm that masks a power that has yet to be unleashed. But when an avalanche engulfs the train taking the trio back through Greece, and nearly takes the life of both the waif and Skyla, Orpheus is stunned when his mind cannot comprehend, that his heart has become one with the Siren sent to take him back to hell. And the flashes of memories, from a lifetime ago, push closer to the surface, out of the abyss, where they were meant to stay.
A new breed of daemon hybrid has surfaced-one which no longer bears the hideous façade, but continues to present the face of a human. Atalanta is awaiting judgment in Tartarus (purgatory), when the news about Gryphon excites her senses. Hoping to harness the strength and knowledge of the warrior, Atalanta makes him a deal he should have refused. Humiliation and shame will engulf the once proud man, and his brother Orpheus, may not be able to bring him back from the abyss.
The Orb of Kronos is in the possession of the warlock Apophis, but without the four elements that will garner the Orb with the ultimate power, Apophis amasses a coven of witches, hoping to draw those who will lead him to the individual who knows where to find the elements. But inhabiting the physical body of a fallen warrior Apophis soon loses his battle in the war for control and the Orb of Kronos.
Betrayal and heartbreak resurface for Orpheus, when the past comes crashing down around. Not only does he suffer the guilt for his brother’s lost and tortured soul, but knowing the only person he loved more than his brother, is the one person who will destroy the heart and soul of a man whose demonic nature, was tamed by love.
As Orpheus attempts the rescue of his brother Gryphon, he is too late to save the life of another close to his heart. And it is only when Skyla listens to her heart and hears the message of the Fates, does she realize, that the man she once knew, in a life long ago, is not the same man, she has grown to love in the life she wanted in return.
Enraptured is a complicated storyline. The history of hatred between 3 brothers-Zeus, Hades and Poseidon, and the mythology behind the many stories of vengeance and the struggle for power, floods the mind with tales only the gods could have dreamed. But Elisabeth Naughton has fused the myth of the gods within a novel that will keep you reading and wanting more. Enraptured tells the story of a warrior so filled with guilt, that his only goal, is to set right, the wrong, he fears may have destroyed his brother’s soul.
And it is within the pages that a small waif-life creature seems to draw the essences of a lost soul slowly back into the light and perhaps onto the pages of another Eternal Warrior. Book 5-ENSLAVED will be released in November of 2012.
see all of my reviews at : thereadingcafe.com
ENRAPTURED is the 4th instalment in Elisabeth Naughton’s Eternal Guardians series. The Eternal Guardians series follows the lives and loves of 7 warriors descended from the god’s of Olympus, whom fate has decreed as the Eternal Guardians on earth. But this time a warrior is haunted by guilt over the destruction of his brother’s soul and memories of a past, he has somehow forgotten.
Orpheus, son of Perseus, is part daemon, part witch and part Argolean. Searching for the Orb of Kronos-the source of ultimate power-so that he may be able to bargain with the Lord of the Underworld Hades for his brother Gryphon’s soul, Orpheus finally believes he has tracked down the key to the missing Orb. But ‘goth girl’ Maelea has continued to evade capture for close to 3000 years, and refuses to be pulled into the game between Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. With the ability to detect power shifts, Maelea-the bastard child of Zeus and Persephone-knows where Orpheus can find the Orb that will aid in the release of his brother’s trapped soul.
Skyla is Athena’s number one Siren, and has been commissioned to track down the deamon known as Orpheus. But something about the daemon is very familiar and calls to her heart and soul. And it is only when she reaches into her past does she realize that she has been deceived by those who claim to be family and friends. Tailing Orpheus on his hunt for the Orb of Kronos, is becoming more complicated, when she finds herself falling for the man, the warrior and the daemon, who was once part of her past, but is now becoming part of her present and beyond.
Hoping Maelea will lead him to the Orb, or at the very least another element, Orpheus recognizes there is more to the waif-like creature than her ability to sense power shifts. There is an unsettling calm that masks a power that has yet to be unleashed. But when an avalanche engulfs the train taking the trio back through Greece, and nearly takes the life of both the waif and Skyla, Orpheus is stunned when his mind cannot comprehend, that his heart has become one with the Siren sent to take him back to hell. And the flashes of memories, from a lifetime ago, push closer to the surface, out of the abyss, where they were meant to stay.
A new breed of daemon hybrid has surfaced-one which no longer bears the hideous façade, but continues to present the face of a human. Atalanta is awaiting judgment in Tartarus (purgatory), when the news about Gryphon excites her senses. Hoping to harness the strength and knowledge of the warrior, Atalanta makes him a deal he should have refused. Humiliation and shame will engulf the once proud man, and his brother Orpheus, may not be able to bring him back from the abyss.
The Orb of Kronos is in the possession of the warlock Apophis, but without the four elements that will garner the Orb with the ultimate power, Apophis amasses a coven of witches, hoping to draw those who will lead him to the individual who knows where to find the elements. But inhabiting the physical body of a fallen warrior Apophis soon loses his battle in the war for control and the Orb of Kronos.
Betrayal and heartbreak resurface for Orpheus, when the past comes crashing down around. Not only does he suffer the guilt for his brother’s lost and tortured soul, but knowing the only person he loved more than his brother, is the one person who will destroy the heart and soul of a man whose demonic nature, was tamed by love.
As Orpheus attempts the rescue of his brother Gryphon, he is too late to save the life of another close to his heart. And it is only when Skyla listens to her heart and hears the message of the Fates, does she realize, that the man she once knew, in a life long ago, is not the same man, she has grown to love in the life she wanted in return.
Enraptured is a complicated storyline. The history of hatred between 3 brothers-Zeus, Hades and Poseidon, and the mythology behind the many stories of vengeance and the struggle for power, floods the mind with tales only the gods could have dreamed. But Elisabeth Naughton has fused the myth of the gods within a novel that will keep you reading and wanting more. Enraptured tells the story of a warrior so filled with guilt, that his only goal, is to set right, the wrong, he fears may have destroyed his brother’s soul.
And it is within the pages that a small waif-life creature seems to draw the essences of a lost soul slowly back into the light and perhaps onto the pages of another Eternal Warrior. Book 5-ENSLAVED will be released in November of 2012.
see all of my reviews at : thereadingcafe.com
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
liked, but not as well as the others (spoilers)
April 15 2012
By rn
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
Orpheus was my favorite of the characters so far & I had been looking forward to his book, but I feel like the author took him away from me.
He went from being the unpredictable bad boy who you know who will come through when the chips are down (because that's just what happens in romance novels-that's why we like them...) to your average generic good guy hero by the end of the book. Not nearly as interesting.
The little bit of unpredictability (not to mentiontion the glowing green eyes) is what made him Orpheus. Now those are gone.
It would have been much more interesting to watch how the others deal with the daemon in thier midst over time as well & now they don't have to. They found out, then problem solved before most of them really had to come to grips with it.
I'm all for wrapping things up nice and tidy, and for happily ever afters; I don't read this stuff to get bummed out or to live in the real world after all, but lets not have it be too easy or generic please. We got something pretty good with the first three, I hope we aren't going to go downhill and have the rest be just rote generic romance novel-I can get than anywhere. I would like to continue to look forward to the rest of them as much as looked forward to the next 3 after I found "Marked."
He went from being the unpredictable bad boy who you know who will come through when the chips are down (because that's just what happens in romance novels-that's why we like them...) to your average generic good guy hero by the end of the book. Not nearly as interesting.
The little bit of unpredictability (not to mentiontion the glowing green eyes) is what made him Orpheus. Now those are gone.
It would have been much more interesting to watch how the others deal with the daemon in thier midst over time as well & now they don't have to. They found out, then problem solved before most of them really had to come to grips with it.
I'm all for wrapping things up nice and tidy, and for happily ever afters; I don't read this stuff to get bummed out or to live in the real world after all, but lets not have it be too easy or generic please. We got something pretty good with the first three, I hope we aren't going to go downhill and have the rest be just rote generic romance novel-I can get than anywhere. I would like to continue to look forward to the rest of them as much as looked forward to the next 3 after I found "Marked."
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Enraptured
Aug 10 2012
By M. Whitmore
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
I haven't read the previous three books in the Eternal Guardians series and was worried that I would have a hard time following the characters and plot in Enraptured. Thankfully, Naughton does a great job of providing background information without slowing down the plot. There were some characters from the previous books that were integral in the overall plot in Enraptured. I wanted to know more about them and their background. I guess that means I will have to go back and read books 1-3, huh?
When I started reading Enraptured, it took me awhile to get into the story. I couldn't connect with Orpheus and Skyla in the beginning. As the book progressed, I found myself warming up to Orpheus but still not liking Skyla. Both Orpheus and Skyla come from a shared past that only Skyla remembers. As a Siren, she is tasked with doing a job and that job is destroy Orpheus. Orpheus feels like he knows Skyla but realizes it's impossible. He knows that the Siren is out to destroy him but he won't let her deter him from his mission of saving his brother.
Orpheus and Skyla have great chemistry and are both strong and determined. The sexual attraction is obvious and explosive. It kind of shocked me that they had sex so soon and then we hate to wait awhile before they hooked up again. There's a lot sexual innuendo and taunting between the two that made for some smoking hot dialog that threatened to singe my Kindle.
For me, Enraptured didn't start getting really good until the last 40 - 45%. The action picked up and the overall plot became more emotional and I was truly and utterly hooked. Both Orpheus and Skyla have to face and deal with their past. Orpheus has to come to terms with what happened to his brother, Gryphon. I swear there were some scenes with Gryphon that had me on the verge of tears. I did not expect that.
Even though I had problems with the beginning, I enjoyed reading Enraptured and I now want to read the previous three books. I loved the Greek mythology and the politics. The characters were interesting and I especially now want to read the stories of the heroes and heroines of the first three books. Also, I can't wait to read Gryphon's book and about his journey. I have a feeling it is going to be heartbreaking.
The Eternal Guardian series will definitely be added to my must buy list.
When I started reading Enraptured, it took me awhile to get into the story. I couldn't connect with Orpheus and Skyla in the beginning. As the book progressed, I found myself warming up to Orpheus but still not liking Skyla. Both Orpheus and Skyla come from a shared past that only Skyla remembers. As a Siren, she is tasked with doing a job and that job is destroy Orpheus. Orpheus feels like he knows Skyla but realizes it's impossible. He knows that the Siren is out to destroy him but he won't let her deter him from his mission of saving his brother.
Orpheus and Skyla have great chemistry and are both strong and determined. The sexual attraction is obvious and explosive. It kind of shocked me that they had sex so soon and then we hate to wait awhile before they hooked up again. There's a lot sexual innuendo and taunting between the two that made for some smoking hot dialog that threatened to singe my Kindle.
For me, Enraptured didn't start getting really good until the last 40 - 45%. The action picked up and the overall plot became more emotional and I was truly and utterly hooked. Both Orpheus and Skyla have to face and deal with their past. Orpheus has to come to terms with what happened to his brother, Gryphon. I swear there were some scenes with Gryphon that had me on the verge of tears. I did not expect that.
Even though I had problems with the beginning, I enjoyed reading Enraptured and I now want to read the previous three books. I loved the Greek mythology and the politics. The characters were interesting and I especially now want to read the stories of the heroes and heroines of the first three books. Also, I can't wait to read Gryphon's book and about his journey. I have a feeling it is going to be heartbreaking.
The Eternal Guardian series will definitely be added to my must buy list.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great series
May 13 2012
By Joy
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I am an avid reader of PNR books. I read at least 3 books a week and always looking for great books and writers. Naughton was an excellent surprise. I love this series. The first book got me hooked and I found myself devouring the first 4 books in no time. I loved the 4th book. It's about the love between brothers and trust within the warriors. The relationship between Orpheus and Skyla was heart felt. The heart breaks and doubts the hero and heroine went through was soul searing.
I cannot wait for the next book in the series. And like any other series I truly love, I will await the next books. If you like this type of books, I also highly recommend Tessa Dawn's blood series.
I cannot wait for the next book in the series. And like any other series I truly love, I will await the next books. If you like this type of books, I also highly recommend Tessa Dawn's blood series.
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