BLURB:
Evelyss
Nontage is a housekeeper at the Talbert Estate who has been hired to keep
order. Her family is also relying on her to learn of the location of a
mysterious portal that allows those from the Fringe Line to pass into the human
world. For her and her loved ones, it’s a matter of life and death.
Brahm
Gushon is an occupant who has been with many of ladies in waiting. He’s tired
of them, too. He’s drawn to the solitary housekeeper who has her mind two
things. Her duty and her loyalty to the household. No one will break her
concentration. Not even him.
Evelyss
and Brahm must work through their frustrated feelings to send a deadly intruder
back to hell…assuming he doesn’t take both of them with him. It’ll take another
leap of faith in each other to overcome the second enemy they don’t see coming.
EXCERPT:
Evelyss hurried down the hall. That infuriating man was
supposed to bring the girl down. She wasn’t supposed to have to go up and get
her. But time was short and those who had already brought down their women were
headed into the darkness to patrol the path to the portal before finishing
their Sixth Night celebrations.
The entire town of Naya would be there, including just
pretty much everyone on staff. Nobody dared miss the rounds of alcohol and
fireworks in the street. Sixth Night only happened once a month during the
spring, summer, and fall seasons. Everyone worked so hard throughout the region
and needed a break, so Sixth Night was the answer to that. Whether you were
human or otherwise, old or young, it didn’t matter.
Evelyss wouldn’t be there. This was her night to work before
taking the next three days off.
Thankfully, the door was open. Evelyss wouldn’t have to
knock and interrupt something that would surely leave her red-faced and upset.
Just as she was about to enter the room, Brahm flew out,
tucking his shirt into his pants. He slammed into her so fast and hard that she
fell backward, with the full length of him on top of her.
Fury roared inside her. She opened her mouth, ready to light
into him, when she noticed something else below his waist. Though it wasn’t
standing erect at the moment, there was no missing the warm member that rested
against her crotch.
Evelyss gulped. “C-c-can you get off me, please?” Great. As if that was supposed to sound angry
at him for invading her personal space.
“Uh…”
My Review
Things I liked:
1.The book was well-written in an easy to follow style.
2.In a harsh environment love flourished anyway.
3.I've never read a book where the hero was a gargoyle so it was fun for me to read this book.
4.The heroine is focused on her goal and is willing to do what she can to achieve it.
Things I wasn't sure about:
1.At first I felt as if I'd been dropped into the middle of a story and didn't know what was going on.
My rating:
I think it was a good short story. If you like fantasy romance I think you'll like this story, but be aware it isn't a feel good, sunshiny story. All in all, I'd give it a 4.
Things I liked:
1.The book was well-written in an easy to follow style.
2.In a harsh environment love flourished anyway.
3.I've never read a book where the hero was a gargoyle so it was fun for me to read this book.
4.The heroine is focused on her goal and is willing to do what she can to achieve it.
Things I wasn't sure about:
1.At first I felt as if I'd been dropped into the middle of a story and didn't know what was going on.
My rating:
I think it was a good short story. If you like fantasy romance I think you'll like this story, but be aware it isn't a feel good, sunshiny story. All in all, I'd give it a 4.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Bestselling
author Marcia Colette didn’t discover her love for reading until her late teens
when she started reading John Saul and progressed to works by Bentley Little,
Stephen King and Laurell K. Hamilton. Her reading tastes convinced her to write
paranormals where curses cause people to shift into spiders, psychotic and
telekinetic mothers are locked away in attics, and murderous doppelgangers are
on a rampage. Let's not forget about the hunky werecheetah coalitions who live
throughout North Carolina. As long as she can make it believable, that's all
that matters.
Born and
raised in upstate New York, Marcia now lives in North Carolina with her mom and
beautiful daughter. They’re not raising zombies in the backyard. There aren’t
any hellhounds living in the den, only a rabbit and a cockatiel. So where she
gets her ideas is as much a mystery to her as anyone else.
The best
place to find her--when she's not stirring up trouble--is on her blog where she
loves connecting with readers.
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