Blue Moon Rising
Tara NinaParanormal romance
Available from The Wild Rose Press
ISBN: 1-60154-058-2
April 2007
| Rae ran away with a mistake of a man twelve years before. Finally after escaping his abuse she is home again with her grandfather, but her hometown is not the warm place that she remembers. Her best friend’s children have gone missing and the local law enforcement is doing very little to find the two small boys. Nick Anthropos has been sent by his clan to find an evil relative. He does not expect to find his Lykoian soul mate. Leonid wants to rule all the Lykoians and the next Blue Moon will be his perfect opportunity, if he can assemble all of the necessary elements, including Rae, before Nick finds him and his disappearing castle. Leonid, with the assistance of he vampire lover Annia, has been alive for centuries, but has been lying low since the massacre that included the deaths of Rae’s father and grandmother.
I really enjoyed this eerie werewolf tale. The setting in a rural southern community on the edge of an alligator infested swamp really enhances the atmosphere. Nick is a little bit out of his element. He is a teacher, not a hunter, but is the one chosen to hunt Leonid. Rae is feeling equally out of place. She has returned home to find that he grandfather has not forgiven her and suspects her of theft. There is an ominous atmosphere around the area and the missing boys are only the beginning, then there is the overwhelming attraction she feels for the stranger in town. That didn’t work out well for her the last time. The author builds the tension nicely while slowly providing the background information necessary to understand the story. The townspeople are for the most part not likeable, except for Ada and her husband Levi. Rae’s grandfather is hiding a great deal, as is Nick. I liked Rae the best. She is a strong character who overcomes a great deal only to find herself in a situation worse in other ways than the one she just left. The other characters, Maddie, Turner, and the servant Owen, are all a bit bizarre, and definitely more than they seem and they are all essential to the defeat of Leonid. Annia and Leonid are pure evil and the outcome is not definite until the very end and even that is left open for the future. This is a very exciting tale.
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Reviewer: Maura Frankman |
