"A Fabulous New Twist on Time Travel Romance!"
Ms. Fobes has created a time travel concept that gives
a whole new meaning to the saying 'a picture is worth a
thousand words'... or do they mean years? Portrait of a
Man
is the second in her series, the first being Portrait of a
Bride, and I seriously hope not the last, especially with
how this book closes. There is nothing better than reading
a fabulous paranormal romance that keeps you thinking,
even after it has ended, of the possibilities and
the 'what ifs.' Rourke of Calandor is a man many hundreds of years in
the future, a future that has been plagued with the lack
of females being born. Those females that do exist have
been drawn through time. A portal has been created through
the artistry of portraits of real women from different
times. Unfortunately, the powerful upper class is claiming
those women pulled into the future or giving them to the
highest bidder. Rourke fights for the rights of all men and tries to
undo this establishment of inequality. It is just one such
battle that puts a demented bounty hunter hot on his trail
and determined to kill him. With the pressures becoming
greater and the enemy closing in he realizes the rebels
only have one choice. He must call upon his long set aside
ability to paint and create a portrait of the woman in his
dreams and open the portal to her time, many, many years
in the past when the plague was released. Alexis Conner was not your typical kid growing up. She
always enjoyed the darker side of life and wanted to
better understand it through her research. It is on one
such night that she and her crew from the university are
monitoring a haunted house in Philadelphia, long since
abandoned and full of dust, old furniture and paintings.
Determined to prove there is a supernatural world she
hunkers down for the night in one of the rooms. Everything
is status quo until she notices the painting of Abraham
Lincoln is starting to shift and change. Next thing
Alexis knows a dark figure steps through and kisses her
senseless, then disappears into the night. Tracy Fobes does a masterful job of weaving time,
reality and romance into an amazing novel. Alexis and
Rourke sizzle as they come together and the plot keeps you
on the edge of your seat wondering if they can evade the
bounty hunter who has also tracked them down. Although
this is the second book in this series, it can be read on
its own; however I would recommend starting with the first
book which does lead into this story. And although I
didn't, I still thoroughly enjoyed Portrait of a Man. And
rest assured I have her first book on order as this is one
series I am going to keep track of!
Reviewed by Mindy Lobaugh
Posted November 5, 2006
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