Title: The Lust Ranch (A Vivid Girl's Book) Author: Sunrise Adamns Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Publish Date: 2006 Pages: 309 Genres:: Fiction,Reviewer: SexHerald Staff

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Sunrise Adams is an accomplished porn actress/real estate mogul in her early 20s, who also happen to own a sexual pleasure resort. The Lust Ranch is an autobiographical account of her many supernatural experiences there with a certain randy, lesbian ghost.

Not long after taking over the ranch from her aunt, Sunrise begins to dream about and then receive erotic visitations from a lonely female specter with yellow ribbons woven into her hair. But forget chain rattling – this ghost has other things on her mind, and is insistent on pleasuring Sunrise in the most intimate of ways.

Both thrilled and disturbed by the otherworldly ecstasies she experiences during these visits, Sunrise turns to one of the ranch hands for help, and subsequently discovers a diary in the attic. The diary appears to have once belonged to a very passionate, sad, and isolated woman, who turns out to be one of Sunrise's ancestors. The woman grew up on the ranch with Sunrise's father, back when he ran the place as a horse-breeding farm. The journal details how the woman was pushed into a marriage of convenience to a man she did not love, when she was, in fact, hopelessly in love with another married female worker on the farm.

After a brief and ecstatic affair, the woman's lover ended the relationship. Heartbroken, Sunrise's relative drowned herself.

We are to infer that the diary of course belongs to the horny spirit who has taken an especially strong shine to Sunrise. It appears Sunrise bears a striking resemblance to the woman who once spurned her.

Adams shows her chops as a writer with her ability to lend great tenderness and psychological insight to some rather hardcore sex scenes. The book has a persistent and powerful theme running throughout: Love can outlive death, but so can loneliness. There really is a depth and dimension to The Lust Ranch that one might not immediately perceive, especially given the near-naked photographs of the comely author serving as front, back, and inside covers. And certainly the premise of a sexually aggressive lesbian ghost may initially cause some readers to giggle. But they'll soon realize this story is about much more, and that there is an emotional core to the book that cannot be denied. This is one ghost story that has soul.