Gemma and Lucas is the first book in the Dark Elysium paranormal romance series. Lucas Strong is the handsome billionaire CEO trying to acquire a large media company. Gemma Stone is an attorney working for the media company. Initially the two clash, but Gemma finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Lucas. The more she looks into Lucas, and his company, the more mysterious he seems. But as she spends more time with him, she finds herself falling for him. But Lucas is not who, or what he seems, and danger will soon follow.
I am afraid I had a very hard time reading this book. I found the lack of a good copy-editor very distracting. There were many typos, misused words, strange sentence construction, and inconsistencies. Also, very little happened in the book. The two characters met, had a couple of encounters and one date (a great deal of angst and soul-searching) and then there was a violent confrontation with the main villain in the book. The book ended abruptly, and seemed like the beginning of a longer work, rather than the first instalment of a series. There was some explanation of the paranormal elements and of Lucas’s background but I found it confusing and it was difficult to suspend my disbelief.

Hopefully the book will undergo some editing before it is published. ( )