Le Château du Comte by Hélène Lavelle

Translated from the French by Valéry Soers.

In 2020, New Urge Editions published Hélène Lavelle‘s controversial erotic novel, The Rites of Ecstasy. Today, we are pleased to announce its sequel, Le Château du Comte – translated from the French by Valéry Soers.

Synopsis: Summoned back to the Domain, Gabrielle surrenders to the demands of the Vicomtesse, the Comte, and Lady Isabella. Much more than a sequel to The Rites of Ecstasy, this novel takes us beyond the introspective feminine dreaminess of La Maison to a more bracing, hallucinatory, wild and strange terrain of its own – the culmination and climax of ‘the Great Work’ on Gabrielle’s heart, soul, mind and body.

Le Château du Comte is a story of dramatic and erotic power – an immersion in another world – exploring the farther shores of female desire, love, hate and friendship, through extremes of pleasure and pain to the heights of the Sublime.

Product details:

Title: Le Château du Comte
Author: Hélène Lavelle
Translated from the French by Valéry Soers

ISBN: 979-8985999648

ASIN: ‎ B0B6792HVH

Publisher: ‎ New Urge / Black Scat Books

Publication date: July 11, 2022)

Language: ‎ English

Format: Paperback ‏

Pages: ‎ 316

Item Weight: ‎ 1.25 pounds

Dimensions: ‎ 6.14 x 0.79 x 9.21 inches

Book details (publisher): Le Château du Comte

Purchase link (US): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6792HVH

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Purchase link (France): https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0B6792HVH

Le Château du Comte is a sequel to The Rites of Ecstasy, details of which can be found here: The Rites of Ecstasy.

The Rites of Ecstasy by Hélène Lavelle

Translated from the French by Valéry Soers

In the tradition of Decadent literature, spiced with Gothic, this provocative novel takes the reader on a voyage through dream, reverie, fantasy, memory and imagination – recounting the raptures and the initiation tortures of a young woman, Gabrielle, by the Vicomtesse, the Comte and their entourage in The Domain.

Sexually explicit without being crude, The Rites of Ecstasy is the story of a woman whose libido and personality lead her to increasingly submissive behaviour – allowing herself to be sexually used, violently beaten, and physically mutilated, which ultimately leads her to discover who – and what – she really is. As Gabrielle’s submission deepens and becomes more extreme, the novel simultaneously deepens its thematic explorations of the relationship between surrender and freedom, the nature and the demands of love, and the transcendent aspects of sexual desire.

A sublime novel that explores love, subservience, cruelty and dominance. The Rites of Ecstasy is a deeply erotic literary work, and as such, Hélène Lavelle’s novel is seductive and dangerous.

This is a novel for connoisseurs of erotic literature, an adult book in every sense, an interesting and intelligent novel of ideas, expressed with eloquence, elegance and wit; beautifully written by Hélène Lavelle, and lucidly translated into sophisticated English by Valéry Soers.

“This modern classic deserves to be ranked alongside the great French erotic masterpieces, Story of O and The Image , and very few others. Not for the faint-hearted or the narrow-minded, this story of love, excess, degradation, cruelty, tenderness and beauty is for all women whose fantasies and desires embrace the intensely erotic.” — Dawn Avril Fitzroy

Title: The Rites of Ecstasy

Author: Hélène Lavelle

Translator: Valéry Soers

Publisher: New Urge Editions

ISBN-10: 1735615900

ISBN-13: 978-1735615905

Format: Paperback

Pages: 238

Language: English

Weight: 15.5 ounces (439.41 grams)

Dimensions: 6.14 x 0.6 x 9.21 inches (15.6 x 1.52 x 23.39 cm)

Purchase link (US): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1735615900

Purchase link (UK): https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1735615900

Purchase link (Aus): https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1735615900

Hélène Lavelle has also written Le Château du Comte, which is a sequel to The Rites of Ecstasy. Details of Le Château du Comte are available here: Le Château du Comte