Modern woman and advertising executive, Dana Perrin is a strong woman with a good career in the corporate world. She wheels and deals with best of the most influential men in her field. However, one night while on her way to the airport, fate intervened in the form of a bolt of lightning and the next Dana knew she found herself toss back in time!

Could the flashes of fog, cobblestone streets, and an old English mansion could be the result of a bump on the head? She thought it was… until she meets a sinister old butler who talks about carriages, calling cards, and chaperons.

To her realization, Dane found herself trapped within the pages of her favorite historical romance novel where she meets the handsome hero in sensual flesh… and blood! Continue reading ‘Tender Lightning by Audrey Godwin’

FEEL MY HEART by Barbara Harrison is a Romantic Suspense with paranormal elements.  Set in Wyoming in a small town, where  historically there has been a land and history feud between the Montgomery’s and the Dancer’s.  Jessie Montgomery, the town’s librarian and Alex “Spirit” Dancer, are bound together by heart but fear  togetherness from history.

Jessie and Spirit realize their ability to feel each others heart and a path exists to each others heart and when open, they can know what each is feeling. 

With the historical feud, Spirit’s father has also taken a crusade against the town of Montgomery and the Montgomery’s.  With Jessie and Spirit’s growing feelings of love between them, they hide their love for one another from their families and the town in fear.  They were meant to be together but it didn’t mean they could be together. 

When a woman is missing for time, the Sheriff becomes disappointed in Spirit being able to find her and questions his ability to find others as he did with Jessie years ago.  When Jessie goes missing, this time through kidnapping, can Spirit’s heart find her again?  Can the families pull together to help them find one another again? 
FEEL MY HEART by Barbara Harrison was an outstanding story filled with an enrichment of history of the Dancer’s and Montgomery’s land settlement feud which will have the reader fully feeling and understanding the feelings between the two families.

The strength of Spirit and Jessie’s love is beautifully loving and sensual.  With two individuals  deeply feeling each others heart in love and  need, this author Barbara Harrison, gives the reader an emotional ride of empathy for them both and a quest for them to be together.  The reader will be moved in emotion throughout the story and from beginning to end, hearts will be racing to see everyone come together again.  Every brother of both families deserve to have their love and hopefully their story told by Barbara Harrison.  Very highly recommended read and one author to look forward.
 

David Bradley has become a work-a-holic and in the process has alienated himself from the woman he loves.  But, he’s working hard to give Mary the things she deserves, and besides, its been so long since he’s touched her, no way would she want to make love to him now.  Too much water has passed under the bridge.

Mary Bradley loves her husband but he’s so distant.  Ever since he started his company, he’s been attached to his computer as if it were the woman he loved and not her.  Life with her vibrator is getting boring, but what’s a healthy woman to do?

Enter Santa and Mrs. Clause.  They are both on a mission to set these two lovers back on the right course.  If only they could get David and Mary to say those three little, all important words…”I love you.”

Christmas Magic was a little reminder to all of us to count our blessings and not let the gift of love slip through our fingers.  Marianne La Croix hit an emotional jackpot with this contemporary cross between A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life.

Caitlyn has left America after the end of a disasterous relationship.  Armed with faith and good-will, she takes a position at a book store located within Hogarth castle.  Working as a clerk, she meets Adrian, the castle’s ghost.

One evening as they work recording the store’s inventory, she hears his tale of how he was cursed to live in the castle eternally as a ghost.  The next day, she uncovers an important book, one that has the reversal for the enchantment Adrian has been living under.

Sara Freeze’s glimpse into the life of an honorable, imprisoned ghost is a tiny nugget of delight.  She allows the reader to see how two “people” can desire one another, build a friendship, and understand the sacrifices required should they find a way to be together.  This story was a charming pairing of contemporary and Regency genres that should bring a smile to your lips.

Chloe Bridges is delayed in Okinawa due to a terrorist attack in Japan.  When inspectors search her luggage they find several vials and sound the alert, detaining Chloe as a potential terrorist.  No matter how hard she tries, the fear as well as the language barrier keep her captors from understanding the vials contain vital stem cells for research she is going to do in Tokyo.

Staff Sgt Zack Niermeyer, USMC, enters Chloe’s interrogation room.  He’s all business and discipline, not prone to the temptations a sulty southern accent can create.  Once Chloe’s identity and purpose for traveling to Japan are cleared up, he decides to be implusive and capitalize on the chemistry the two of them are experiencing with one another.

This might be a satisfying ending, but Ms. Merlin doesn’t stop.  She develops a relationship between Chloe and Zack that is hot, hot, hot.  Zack takes a week of leave and the two of them plan to shuttle back and forth between Japan and Okinawa.  On one such trip, Zack is seriously injured, condemned to a life on a respirator.   Only an experimental stem cell transplate will give him any hope of normalcy.  But as is so often the case of fiction, things don’t quite go the way our hero and heroine plan.

Continue reading ‘Super Hero by Diane Merlin’

Sam Reed is a cult intervention specialist doing his job when he sneaks into the nomadic Star Mother cult’s camp in search of Jake and Kelly Bancroft. He and his coyote helper, Cody, have successfully handled many such situations though he has a more personal aversion and drive regarding this particular group. After all, his mother had joined them bringing him with her since he had only been a child. He left on his own at age 16 instead of going through the right of passage that had been planned. By then he was fully conscious that the bizarre beliefs were delusions and that the cruelty and mind control could not be excused.

A carefully worded letter from Jake to his sister spoke of suicide. Though they are from a dysfunctional family that was headed by an abusive parent, the sibling bond of love was strong. Kelly arrived at the site determined to save her brother by removing him from the group and taking him home with her. Her attempt was cut short when she was virtually kidnapped out of the trailer in which she had been waiting to meet with her brother. The handsome man insisted he was saving her.

The married co-leaders of the cult, Valya and Von, and their followers have been awaiting Anston’s comet which will signal the presence of the starship that they believe to be coming to bring them back to their home planet, Atria. But only their Essence will be able to travel in this way so all of them will have to be free of their bodies when the time comes—and it is coming soon.

Brainwashing, threat of mass suicide, cult leaders drunk on power, attempted rescue, and in the midst of it all, a very real romance.

This is a very well-crafted read. It has been quite some time since I came across such engaging characters, such an unusual and exciting storyline, and such clean writing. The pacing flows nicely without any dragging areas and the details bring the whole situation to life before our eyes. Even the secondary characters and villains are portrayed in a wonderfully multi-faceted way.

The suspense is exquisitely developed but the love story between the wonderful hero and heroine absolutely shines. Both Sam and Kelly have personal issues to work through and the way that they manage to do it while also helping each other really underlines the partnership between them. There are twists and turns to this tale that will keep you on your toes, but are plausible enough that they fit perfectly into all of the action.

Readers will definitely want to make time to settle in for the duration of Desert Guardian.