"A sensual and sensitive romantic suspense"
What do you get when you mix an heiress on the run for her
life and hiding amongst the underprivileged in Florida, and
talented high-fashion model's photographer from New York
determined to track down the woman who's been haunting his
dreams for three years? You get the premise for this
heartfelt and intriguing paranormal romance. Nicolina (Nikki) Madsen has lived among the wealthy and
privileged most of her life before she is seriously burned
trying to rescue her mother from a car bomb that takes her
mother's life in the resulting fire. Co-heir to millions
for which she suspects is enough of a motive for her inept
older brother to commit murder, Nikki strikes out on her
own, to the safety and anonymity of the streets to live
among the homeless. Hundreds of miles and several states away in New York,
Adrian Wilde is struck by lightning during a photo shoot on
the beach. Clinically dead when his heart stops for several
minutes, Adrien's soul drifts during the instant of the car
explosion and connects with Nikki's. From this point on, he
is driven to find (and ultimately rescue) the woman he will
come to dub "Madam Blue". Three years after the lightning strike and car explosion,
most of Adrian's waking, but more importantly sleeping,
moments are yet plagued by visions of "Madam Blue" and of
harm coming to the strange woman he knows so well, though
he has yet to met. He knows that their futures are in some
way linked. Despite a lifetime of skepticism, he seeks out the counsel
of a spiritualist aunt and is soon convinced that he must
find "Madam Blue" before something terrible can befall her. Adrian undertakes a mission that seems only doomed to
failure, breaking personal and professional ties --
specifically with his live-in lover, a beautiful fashion
model in New York -- and ventures to Florida in search of
his soul mate. But he soon realizes that keeping safe a
woman who looks at strangers, especially him, with a
jaundiced eye, and who doesn't want or believe she needs
protection, is no small task. None of this, however, stops
him from infiltrating Florida's homeless ranks as had
Nikki, and finally meeting and falling in love with the
vulnerable, but talented photographer in her own right. If
only love and desire could easily conquer all doubt and
suspicion. Once again Ms. Wainscott has succeeded in penning a sensual
and sensitive romantic suspense not to be missed by fans of
the genre. © Gracie
McKeever, Author
Reviewed by Gracie McKeever
Posted April 12, 2003
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