Lightning Strikes Twice
Katelyn HughesContemporary romance
Available from Triskelion Publishing
November 2006
| The party was going strong when dark thunderclouds appeared in the night sky giving the revelers a chance to dash inside. Yet Isabella McNeil rejoiced and turned her face toward the sky and was rewarded with the first drops on her face. She had loved storms and thunder since she was a child. Quite the opposite of other children. Luke looked at her strangely but went to stand next to her and got just as soaked as she was and they started laughing. Luke and Isabella were best friends since he had come to live in Indian Prairie, Oaklahoma when he was ten. Luke's mom had remarried when his parents divorced and had moved them from the east coast. He never minded that he had to sleep on a mattress on the floor. His stepdad had borrowed his college fund but never bothered to repay it saying that a bed was a waste of time on a growing boy. He'd never realized that his stepdad had gotten every electronic device to be had yet he still could not fathom that Luke needed a bed! Some where along the way, at eighteen, Luke accepted that he had fallen in love with his best friend. Yet as he made his way to her parents' home in his junker of a truck he rehearsed what he needed to tell her and hoped that she would forgive him and understand that he could not keep his promise if they were to be together and leave this place.
Isabella McNeil sat on her bed a cried, it was enough that every one in her class was leaving her but she did not care as long as she had Luke. Why had it been that witch Allisen to tell that Luke had enlisted in the army and he was leaving the day after graduation? They had talked about everything and nothing during their days together so why not tell her, his best friend? Graduation came and it was bittersweet she was happy yet sad, Luke was leaving tomorrow and she could not stop her tears. Isabella waited with Luke at the bus depot with his parents and friends and watched him say goodbye to all of them before he took her in his arms and gave her a passionate kiss before all watching. Luke stepped upon the step and turned to smile at her then faded into the bus. Jack, Isabella's twin brother, wanted her to go to a party later that night and she went, but the music was too loud and the cigarette smoke choked her so bad that she told her friends that she needed some air and pushed her way outside. Isabella was so caught up looking at the stars and taking lungsful of fresh air that she did not hear Allisen's brother Deacon come up behind her. Isabella knew Deacon had finished college and came back to help his slimeball father in his political run for the senate. They were both slimeballs as far as she was concerned, yet when he offered her a drink she hesitantly accepted after a couple of sips Isabella felt woosy and vaguely remembered a two headed Deacon above her as she faded into darkness. The next morning Isabella awoke in her room smelling of sex. Katelyn Hughes is a name worth remembering with this great book, and although it was not loaded with spicy sex it was not missed in the least! The book started out as if was written for teens but I stuck with it and I am glad I did, as it was terribly romantic from a ten year old love that never died to the hurt and betrayal and abusive marriage to intrigue that left me holding my breathe, a recommend read!
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Reviewer: Linda B. |
