Red Fire
July 12, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
Deidre KnightEternity is Ajax Petrakos’s prison. Centuries later after Ajax and his Spartan brothers made a bargain to become immortal, Ajax is struggling to keep himself disciplined. He only has one true source of strength and that is that he will one day find is other half Shay Angel.
When Ajax finally finds his soul mate he realizes he is not the first to find her. Ajax enemy finds her first and that begins the story of a bond that can’t be broken.
Shay is the youngest of a demon-hunting family and wonders if her angel hero is a angel or a demon. As the story goes on Ajax continues to have to rescue Shay until the tables are turned and it is up to Shay to rescue her angel in disguise.
As Ajax and shay rush to solve the mysterious prophesy, a prophesy that will lead to Ajax’s death if they don’t succeed, they begin to fall deeper into love and Shay soon realizes that she can not live without her Ajax.
Deidre kept me turning the pages and I got to the point where I could not put the book down because I had to know what happened next. There is adventure, passion and mystery in the book and that is just the type of books I love to read. The best part is that this is the first book in the series A God of Midnight Novel.
Book two Red Kiss Came out June 2009
The Manning Grooms
July 6, 2009 by · Leave a Comment
Bride on the Loose
Jason Manning love living the bachelor life, he loves sports, loves not having to pick up after himself. Then one of his tenents daughters decides her mom needs some companionship, so she decides she is going to get her Mom Charlotte and Jason to fall in love.
Jason refuses to have anything to do with this whole game that Charlotte’s daughter is playing, but soons finds himself wanting to spend more time with Charlotte. Jasons feelings grow deeper but he is not sure he is ready to take the next step. Will Jason land his bride on the loose?
I love this story. I love how Jason is in love one minute and the next minute is pretending he does not want anything to do with Charlotte. Debbie captures the true nature of a man falling in love and a single mom not wanting to get involved.
Same Time Next Year
At one time James Wilkens was about to marry a Manning Sister. But with his broken engagement in his past he decides to spend New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas. While wondering around Las Vegas he meets Summer Lawton. She is broken hearted and to make things even worse she has been betrayed. James makes her a promise that she will be over it within a year and to make sure that he is serious he also tells her he will meet her back there same time next year.
During that year they being to contact and comminucate with each other more and more and by the time they meet again on New Year’s Eve the following year they are having more then a date. They are getting married.
This is a wonderful story about love at first sight and how a friendship can blossom into so much more. I love how Debbie shows the reader that a relationship can be so much more if there is a friendship first.
Woman in Red
July 30, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Woman in Red
by Eileen Goudge
In Woman in Red, Alice Kessler, whose young son is killed by a drunken man in a hit and run accident struggles with overwhelming feelings and gives in to them and attempts to kill the driver, Owen, who took her son’s life. Alice knew Owen was drunk that night.
Try as she might lost a civil suit against Owen not because he wasn’t guilty but because he was a very rich and influential man in the community. Her attempt to kill her son’s killer failed. Owen would remain alive in a wheelchair while Alice served nine long years in prison for her crime.
After serving her time, Alice returns to town to try to reestablish a connection to the son she left behind, Jeremy, who is now sixteen. Colin McGinty, a recoverying alcoholic, and Alice’s new love interest, has his own set of problems. He too returns to town after his grandfather’s death.
Owen is now the town mayor, a crooked one who blackmails others to do his bidding. The past entwines with the telling of a love story between Alice’s grandmother, Eleanor and Colin’s grandfather, William. William, a famous painter painted the Woman in Red (Eleanor) and killed a man (Owen’s grandfather) as he attempted to rape Eleanor. Back in the present, add in Jeremy’s being falsely accused of rape, an ex-huband, Alice opening a restaurant, the discovery of a fifty year old skeleton, an you have quite a book. Both the past and the present story lines are well told and things in the present answer any unanswered questions left behind in the past.
I finally had to put it down at 2:30 in the morning. I’m reading another book by this very same author and she might well end up on my “favorite author’s list.” One thing I might point out is there are quite a f ew typos in the book. Some caused me to pause and re-read in order to determine how it should have read. It’s not often as an avid reader that I find many typos.
Anne is a work at home mom and grandmother with a passion for books and reading. Anytime, anywhere, any topic – Anne is always ready for reading.
