"A well written romance with precise details and humorous scenes"
This is a slightly older Harlequin Temptation and a friend
recommended it to me. The book had a slow beginning but I
was truly hooked by the second chapter. Hope went to visit her estranged father in a foreign
country and is taken hostage. She is extremely fortunate to
survive the ordeal with her life. Once back home in the US,
she tries immediately to go back to work and passes out
from being malnourished in her captivity. Her boss demands
she take off for several months and she goes to the coast
to recuperate in her cottage, a place that she had always
felt a special closeness to even in childhood. As a
photojournalist, she takes pictures whenever the urge
compels her and she finds some odd white splashes across
her first set of pictures taken of an eggplant shaped rock
that resides near the water's edge. On closer inspection,
she realizes the splashes are ghosts and not film defects
as she had assumed, so she goes back out to the rock to
investigate. She slips and hits her head, knocking her out
and when she regains consciousness, a handsome French
soldier is at her side calling her Faith. Armand thinks
she is his beloved fiancée. Hope knows this is not true and
realizes this soldier is the dead man in the picture. She
explains to him that he is a ghost and agrees to help him
but circumstances are made more complicated as he is
restricted to the perimeter surrounding the rock by an
invisible wall. This is a well-written book with precise details and
humorous scenes. The romance was beautiful and there is a
HEA of course, but I did find the ending a disappointment
as it was very abrupt with no dialogue and I felt it needed
a bit more closure but overall it was a very good book. Elizabeth Benway / November, 1999
Copyright © 1999
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted April 14, 2003
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