Death Legacy by Jacqueline Seewald

January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Death Legacy by Jacqueline Seewald
Publisher: Gale Cengage Learning
Genre: Action/Adventure, Contemporary, Suspense/Mystery
Length: Full Length (298 pgs)
Heat Level: spicy
Rating: 4 stars
Reviewed by Aloe

This fast-paced mystery/thriller features Michelle Hallam who heads a unique consulting firm she inherited from her deceased uncle, a former intelligence agent. Called to the French Riviera for business under mysterious circumstances, Michelle meets Dr. Daniel Reiner, a handsome young psychiatrist. They have a strong physical attraction but Michelle remains wary of being involved with him. Daniel’s friendly, warm personality and urban wit stands in contrast to Michelle’s outward facade of cool cynicism. In New York, Michelle reconnects with Dr. Reiner when she sends him a referral, her client, Nora Parker, who has asked Michelle to look into the suspicious disappearance and possible death of her husband. The complex case involves both Michelle and Daniel in espionage, international intrigue, and murder, placing their lives in jeopardy. The novel combines elements of suspense, mystery, and romance.

Michelle Hallam is an Englishwoman with secrets. She has taken over her Uncle’s consulting firm after his death. The new man in her life has no idea just how dangerous she is…

This author immediately throws her main female character into action in the first few pages and keeps you glued to the story from there on out. Michelle has odd talents; an exceptional talent for self-defense, an intelligence that her Uncle has expanded by sharing knowledge, and a talent for making enemies.

The story begins on the French Riviera where she meets Dr. Daniel Reiner, her love interest. This increased bonding can help both partners to feel more relaxed and increase their feelings of desire for one another. brand viagra overnight The medication allows lowest cost cialis the blood vessels to repair the erectile dysfunction”. Investigations performed by the way levitra on line have established an association flanked by accutane utilization and liver injure. canadian pharmacy levitra The driving school managers are searching for new challenges as well in order to keep their offer updated. She has no time for him, no time for love, and wants him to go away. Every time she turns around, he’s there again. He’s even following her around the countryside. He is a bit handy in her investigation, but she doesn’t need him. Or does she?

Intrigue, espionage, murder and more litter the trail that this author wends her characters down. Michelle is trying to find out if a woman’s husband really died or if it was a hoax and he’s still alive. The fact that he had a life his wife didn’t know about doesn’t help her task.

Ms. Seewald writes a busy story with lots of twist and turns. I enjoyed the pace of the story as well as the bantering between the two main characters. This story will draw you in and keep your attention to the end. The author knows how to make her words dance across the page.

If you’re looking for an exciting mystery/thriller, this book will work fine for you. Why not grab a copy and walk through the fog of mystery with Michelle?

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Where She Belongs by Cindy Procter-King

December 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Where She Belongs by Cindy Procter-King
Publisher: Gale – Cenege – Five Star
Genre: Contemporary
Length: Full Length (240 pages)
Heat Level: Sensual
Rating: 4 books
Reviewed by Camellia

She never wants to go home again.

For Jess Morgan, Destiny Falls holds too many painful memories. Nine years ago, a logging accident near the remote timber town killed her dad and her high school sweetheart. Despite Jess’s broken heart, her mother immediately sought comfort with another man. That choice tore Jess apart and drove her to seek a life far away. But now fate steps in, and family obligations force her return home. Before long, she’s convinced that persuading her mom to live with her in Toronto will repair their bond and Jess’s own sense of belonging. However, she doesn’t count on a long-ago friend re-entering her life and challenging those same convictions.

Rugged forester Adam Wright believes in family, roots, and not running from heartache. Now, all he wants is to help Jess break down the walls of the lonely sanctuary she’s built for herself and heal her past hurts. But it’s not until she rejects his proposal that Adam realizes his dogged persistence has pushed her even further away—not at all what he intended. Has he lost his chance? Or can he convince Jess that where she truly belongs is with him…forever?

Stuck in a quagmire of heartbreaking experiences in her teens, Jess Morgan’s ability to move on emotionally is stalled even though she functions at top speed in her upscale merchandizing career in Toronto. When she must return to Destiny Falls where she experienced these life-changing hurts, she is swamped with misgivings. Her veneer of big city sophistication gets chipped away little by little. Whether she feels like she has come “home” or not, the people of Destiny Falls believe she has and draw her into the web of small community living. This kind of physiologic dysfunction can be cured with the right medicine? Yes, you are right as it order cheap levitra the original source can turn out to be harmful for your health. If you have obtained spam emails tadalafil tablets prices or cheap software, then you’ve seen this in action. The zipper lock closures keep moisture outside and bad odors and freshness viagra on line inside. The occurrence of the impotence is being noted so widely that every 6 men out of 10 males suffer online cialis bought this from the condition.

Adam Wright, whom Jess had a crush on when she was fourteen and he was seventeen, is Jess’s best friend Molly’s cousin and comes to pick Jess up at the airport while Molly stays with Jess’s mother Nora, whose second husband has died.

Adam is comfortable in his own skin. He put his roots down deep in Destiny Falls and has that sense of belonging he needs. He is just as tenacious, steadfast, and persistent as his cousin Molly. He works to make Destiny Falls a better and more prosperous place to live He works hard in his business to obtain contracts that generate jobs and good wages for the local people. However, his attitude that others should like and be happy with what he is happy with has cost him dearly. Crysta and his unborn child are lost to him because of this attitude and now it colors his view of Jess whom he feels abandoned her mother and her hometown. He doesn’t know the circumstances and is too quick to judge.

Nora, Jess’s mother, is not blameless in Jess’s feeling she doesn’t really belong in Destiny Falls or anywhere else for that matter. Caught up in her own needs and loves over the years, Nora lost her connection with her only child. She feels she has no right to make demands on Jess even though grief and regrets have sapped her vitality. Some of her choices have driven Jess away, yet she longs for absolution.

As Jess inches her way toward a decision about where she belongs and about her willingness to risk being hurt again, she tells herself that being alone keeps her safe from hurt. However, as she and Nora open up to each other and Adam eases his way into her life, thoughts, and heart, Jess fears breaking free of her cocoon of isolation and feels a sense of panic about flying out into a world where emotional dangers abound.

Cindy Procter-King weaves together the lives of her characters with a skill that creates a beautiful pattern of love with just enough darkness in the design to highlight the beauty of unconditional friendship, familial love that ebbs and flows but never disappears, and best of all, she weaves in the love of a man and woman who suffered bitter grief and loss but come out of that dark part of life to the glorious light of true love.

Where She Belongs is a gentle story that touches the heart.

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The Visionary by Pamela S. Thibodeaux

November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Visionary by Pamela S. Thibodeaux
Publisher: Five Star – imprint of Gale
Genre: Inspirational, Contemporary
Length: Full Length (272 pages)
Heat Level: Sweet
Rating: 3.5 books
Reviewed by Camellia

A Visionary is someone who sees into the future, Taylor Forrestier sees into the past but only as it pertains to her work. Hailed by her peers as “a visionary with an instinct for beauty and an eye for the unique” Taylor is undoubtedly a brilliant architect and gifted designer. But she and twin brother Trevor, share more than a successful business. The two share a childhood wrought with lies and deceit and the kind of abuse that’s disgustingly prevalent in today’s society. Can the love of God and the awesome healing power of His grace and mercy free the twins from their past and open their hearts to the good plan and the future He has for their lives?

Find out in…The Visionary ~ Where the awesome power of God’s love heals the most wounded of souls.

How to survive and thrive after horrific childhood abuse is a quest that drives both Taylor and Trevor Forrestier. They suffered physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally at the hands of a brutal father.

Even though she still has nightmares, Taylor, with the help of the compassionate, spiritual pastor Dan Hebert, is finding her way to a place where she can cope with the past. She knows deep down that she will never get to a true peace until her twin brother Trevor finds his way to get past the horrors that they suffered together. He carries a burden of guilt for not being able to protect Taylor from their cruel, out-of-control drunken father. He has a rage inside him even though the father is dead, and he still questions why God would let such things happen to children.

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Alex Broussard, a rich financial analyst; Pam, the super office manager and friend for Taylor and Trevor; Steve, the Forrestiers’ foreman; and even the insecure, disruptive Colleen along with Pastor Dan Heberty are all involved in Trevor and Taylor’s struggle to find their way to a redemptive love that can give them peace and allow them to move on to live fulfilling lives.

The Visionary has a touch of sermonizing at times as it gently but firmly nudges the reader along with Taylor and Trevor as they find their way to God who heals all wounds and grants strength to those who seek Him. This story gives the reader a heartwarming, fun, and captivating journey with the characters as they find romantic love that bubble with happiness. It also shows the reader how the characters struggle with “real-life’ issues like loyalty, forgiveness, grief, pain, anger, frustration, etc. as they strive to “Trust in the Lord and lean not unto thine own understanding”—a big order in real life just like it is in the story.

The Visionary is a thought-provoking novel that touches the spirit that abides beneath the sophistication and bravado veneer that is used for protective armor against “the slings and arrows” of a secular world that so often scoffs at the spiritual. Pamela Thibodeaux gives the reader interesting and unusual reading that affirms and reveals the power of LOVE on many levels.

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