"Another great book from Stuart"
Anne Stuart perversely loves to create a male who is far
from a hero, and then provoke, tantalize and lure her
readers into for falling him. She must set around and make
lists of all the types of men in the world a woman would
swear she would never fall for, then with a wry grin, she
sets about to prove to us she can do just that very feat.
She has given us a hitman, a thief, a court jester, a cult
leader...well the list is endless - thankfully!. Just as I
think she has hit the bottom of the list, I find yet
another. This time, she does her Stuart magic and casts the
hero as the heroine's brother. Yeppers, she has her magic
hat out again! When Rachel Chandler was 12-years-old, her brother Emmett
was involved with a radical group of protesters. A bomb
accidentally blew up killing several people, along with
Emmett's girl friend. Emmett alone survived, just the quirk
of fate that he had been out getting pizzas at the time.
Emmett vanished, last seen in Hawaii, but for fifteen years
no one had heard from him. No one except Rachel Chandler.
Every year on her birthday she receives a package, post
marked from various places around the world. So, when word
comes from her uncle that Emmett is back in Hawaii at the
family home, even her fear of flying will not stop her from
being reunited with the brother she hadn't seen for fifteen
years. Only Emmett is not quite how she remembers him. She feared
Emmett might be given to gaining weight, but this man is
hard, lean. He carries scars from varies fights, attesting
to his being in foreign places where life is cheap. Emmett
is not happy when Rachel shows up on his doorstep. Neither
is her uncle. Rachel soon comes to fear Emmett is not
Emmett and this impostor and her uncle are playing a
charade in order to get at the vast fortune left in trust
for the real Emmett. Is a steamy
sexy,
shadowy
novel that Stuart
does so well,
showing whether in full novels or series romance, no one
can touch the resident genius of dark romantic tales.
Another Stuart keeper - but then aren't they all?
Reviewed by DeborahAnne MacGillivray
Posted September 19, 2004
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