"fantastic romantic fantasy"

In 1815 England, Lady Rebecca flees from her martinet father, but suffers an accident when her coach overturns on an isolated moor. Count Klaus Lindegran arrives to rescue Rebecca, who is stunned to see what looks like a glowing light surrounding her savior.

Klaus is a half human from another realm Fossegrim where he must return soon but first he must mate with a woman. He pledges to keep her safe from her father's nefarious plans for her and she feels secure on his estate. As they fall in love, he wonders what to do as he must return to his people who depend on him as THE WATERLORD, but doubts that his beloved could survive on mythical Fossegrim. However, before he can decide what is best for his people and his beloved, a traitor has other plans for the demise of both of them.

Dawn Thompson shows the depth of her skills as she provides readers with a fantastic romantic fantasy inside a regency setting. The star-crossed lovers make the tale hum as their forbidden desire for one another could jeopardize his people or his beloved. Fans will believe that Fossegrim exists as Ms. Thompson makes her two realms seem real. THE WATERLORD is a terrific mythos thriller.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted April 25, 2006

Summary

Lady Rebecca's life changed forever in the blink of an eye. One moment she was fleeing her father across a storm- swept Bodmin Moor, in the next, her carriage overturned on a steep gorge. But she did not die. Somehow, she was pulled clear. There was an eerie luminosity about her savior, a fluid silver aura like the lightning filling the night sky. And while his voice was deep, mellow— comforting, like the music of the waterfall he haunted, it, too, held a hint of the Otherworldly. Who was this strange savior, this displaced foreign nobleman? Everything about the Count was an enigma. Becca had heard myths of the Fossegrim: creatures that traveled between the astral and the physical planes through waterfalls, driven to find ecstasy with human women then vanish forever. From their world, humans never returned. This man, Becca was willing to follow.