"Mesmerizing, erotic thriller!"
MOONRISE has been my favorite book for ages. It just does
not get any better than that. Moonrise now shares that
title of favorite book with INTO THE FIRE. This is Stuart's
best work since MOONRISE, so Stuart fans queue up!! It is
a masterpiece: dark, moody, steamy and so sexy it will
knock your socks off. It is itchy, erotic thriller that
will have you on theedge of our seats, and definitely mot
for the faint of heart. Nate Kincaid was beloved his whole life. Doted on by his
uncle and aunt, they treated him more like a son, after
his parents died in a fire. Treated him more special than
the daughter they adopted. That hurt Jamie Kincaid, but
since she adored Nate, too, she almost viewed everyone
worshipping Nate as his due. So why would someone kill
Nate Kincaid? Someone had, in a most brutal fashion:
beaten him to death in a dirty garage on the edge of a
dying town in Wisconsin. Jamie's mother wants answers. Jamie wants answers, too.
And since the police take an apathetic view that is was
just another drug deal gone sour, she has come to
Wisconsin to find them, come to the one person who can
supply them...if only he will. Dillon Gaynor. Stuart is the resident genius of creating bad boys we
cannot resist. Dillon Gaynor is Stuart at her best. A
vividly drawn, dark, complex Alpha-Male hero, which means
he is not a hero at all. Dillon is likely responsible for
Nate's death, in the real sense, if not, then for leading
Nate into drug culture. For most of her life, Jamie had
watched Dillon at a safe distance. A pretty girl, more
smart than she should be, according to Nate, she valued
that distance from Dillon. Being smart, Jamie clung to
that safety, because deep inside she knew Dillon
fascinated her. As with big beautiful panthers, we hunger
to get close and touch them, stroke them, but the innate
sense of survival warns us they are apt to take off our
hand if we do. So smart girls keep their distance, though
we harbor that secret seed these bad boys could make us
forget everything mama taught us. But one night 12 years ago, Dillon did not keep his
distance. A night that forever ruined his life and
Jamie's. Echoes still haunt and shape them both. After a
lousy Thanksgiving and watching her mother decline as the
need for answers grows, Jamie sucks up her courage and
travels days to get to Wisconsin. Within miles of her
destination, her rickety car breaks down in the middle of
the night, so she is forced to walk the final leg of her
journey to confront Dillon. She fears him, is convinced
Dillon kept Nate supplied with the drugs that led to his
death. But she fears that wee tiny spot inside her more,
knowing that despite refusing to admit it, Dillon is her
obsession and can lure her to walk on the wild side. Now she faces him for the first time in over a decade,
Dillon who had been her secret teenage fantasy, only to
find the man is so much more. Ghosts haunt Jamie and
Dillon, ghost of their troubled past, maybe even the
ghost of Nate. As she tries to unriddle the mystery of
Nate's ugly death, she comes to understand someone is
trying to kill her. Could that someone be Dillon? Could
Nate's death have something to do with the horrible night
12 years ago? Could Dillon want revenge for spending a
year and a half in prison because of Nate and Jamie? No one creates this sort of bad to the bone, arrogant,
dark and brooding male as Stuart does. We have seen this
time and again. Without doubt she is the best and none can
touch her in this special Alpha-Male magic. Jamie and Dillon are unforgettable and will be for long
time to come.
Reviewed by DeborahAnne MacGillivray
Posted September 10, 2003
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