Into the Shadow
Christina DoddParanormal romance
Available from Signet
ISBN: 978-0-451-22451-4
July 2008
| Karen Sonnet is in the Himalayas on an impossible mission. She is a project manager for her father’s adventure hotel chain and he has decided that his customers would like to climb a cursed mountain. Unfortunately for him the site is difficult, equipment and fuel difficult to find, her assistant is a nightmare and the workers are spooked by the curse. The skirmishes between the Chinese and the local warlord only add to the fun. The one bright spot is the secret lover who visits at night. Warlord is a man cursed by Satan to shift into the form of a panther. He has been a mercenary since running away at the age of seventeen and is brutal and merciless, but not with Karen.
This book hooked me on the first page. The brutal bleak setting is the last place that I would want to go on vacation. Karen seems to feel the same way, but she is constantly trying to get her father’s approval, an impossible task. Her second in command is truly useless and self-serving; seems like her father gives her very little and expects excellence in return. I enjoyed her first meeting with Warlord who is truly a bad boy and sexy as all get out. He does however have no clue how to handle Karen; holding her against her will is not the way to her heart. He learns the hard way, but he does learn. When they meet up again, he is a different man. While the love scenes are excellent in this book, the real strength is the action. Warlord and Karen are being pursued by the Varinskys, distant cousins with the same curse. The difference is they do not want the curse to end, the money is too good. They are extremely evil and their leader is one of the most brutal that I have come across. The climactic fight scene is particularly brutal and vividly written. This is the third in the series and I am going right out to get the other two.
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Reviewer: Maura Frankman |
