Phantom Lover…
He’d waited for this
day – this woman – for forever it seemed. Harry Ballantine had been a prisoner
of Fernhaven forest and now he found the key to his salvation in Jenna Dante.
But would she surrender to him before she left the hidden hamlet?
Or Figment Of Her
Imagination?
With an angry ex on
her tail and rain pouring, the last thing Jenna Dante needed was car trouble
and a cranky child. Her only option was to seek refuge in the desolate hotel on
the hill in Fernhaven. But the restored walls seemed to hold more than
memories. For Jenna they vibrated with life and an all-male seduction she could
only see and feel I her mind. But when danger came to call, she would need
flesh-and-blood protection – and maybe something more lethal…like transcending
love.
When I originally picked up this story I thought it was
going to be a cheesy romance novella that wouldn’t really satisfy my craving
for a short story. Boy was I wrong. I’m glad I was too. This story is about
Jenna fleeing her ex husband after she rescued her child and unknowingly took
his duffel bag full of $500,000. The ex husband was the right hand man for the
boss of a crime syndicate in Seattle, WA. He was using the 500k to leave the
business and disappear. But he was a cruel man and was taking his daughter
(kidnapping) when he left the country. Jenna re-kidnapped her daughter and
fled. She ended up on some backwoods road two hours east of Seattle at
Fernhaven. From there the story goes into how to find her, people finding out
real identities of other people, helicopters rides gone wrong, lots of murder,
and Jenna randomly falling into lust with a ghost at Fernhaven.
This was a good story. It may have been short, 250 pages
paperback, but the content was so condensed that it took a lot longer to read
than some other longer paged books I have read recently.
It’s part of the ‘Intrigue’ series by Harlequin. Number 876
October if I’m reading the cover correctly. I haven’t read much Harlequin in
the last few years but I am fascinated by greatness of this book. The last time
I read Harlequin the covers were in white and red. This cover, and the few I
got at the flea market, is purple with pictures on the bottom half. Perhaps I
will invest more into these short stories.
When Twilight Comes is really a horrible title for
this book. I could understand it for a vampire novel or something that had to
do with the twilight but this book really has nothing to do with that. It
should have been named something like ‘Fernhaven’s Refuge.’ I know that
Harlequin needs catchy titles for their books but this one is so far off the
mark that it feels like they just drew a name from a hat.
Aside from the miswritten title, this book was good to read.
I am ready and willing to rate it 3.5 stars.
Publisher: Harlequin Intrigue
ISBN: 0-373-22876-7
Price: $4.99 (cover)
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