Love Bites: Lord Of The Marsh
Anita VerkerkParanormal erotic romance
Available from New Concepts Publishing
April 2006
| Myra Parker’s modeling career was destroyed by a terrible car accident. She went to Holland to visit a friend and think about what to do with the rest of her life. The local newspaper reported another disappearance of a young woman in the nature reserve Naarderland Marsh. Everyone believed the Lord of the Marsh has claimed his next victim, the article said. In the waiting room of the train station, the man behind counter of the magazine stand gave her a free pamphlet about the Legend of The Lord of the Marsh. The beautiful Dutchman asked her not to leave on her train. She went into his bedroom behind the magazine stand and he made love to her on the beautifully draped king sized bed in the lavishly decorated room. After the best orgasm of her life, she suddenly found herself standing on the platform in the freezing rain. She wanted to go back in the waiting room, but it wasn’t there. The train she missed had crashed in the marsh. Her train had to stop because of the crash. She read the pamphlet about the Lord of the Marsh. For hundreds of years, the noble Count Gerard and his entire castle waited under the marsh for the return of his beautiful wife Myra. Myra and his baby son had been killed while he was away at war. He thought they’d been swallowed by the swamp, so he yelled for the swamp to swallow him. But his wife wasn’t there. So he waited for her to return. Now Gerard stood in the marsh outside her train window and beckoned Myra to come to him.
Lord of the Marsh is a wonderful story. The sex is hot, the plot original, and the characters are developed in unusual and interesting ways. There is no explanation of the disappearance of all those young women in the Marsh. If they weren’t lured there by Gerard, as everyone believed, then what were they doing way out there in the middle of nothing? Why would a young woman alone go there? It happened with some regularity. Gerard avoided answering Myra’s questions. Did he have something to hide? If the young women had been lured there by the Lord of the Marsh, where were they now? Did the same fate await Myra and her mother? Gerard had the power to make Myra trust him immediately. She went into the room behind the magazine stand and had sex with Gerard within five minutes of meeting him. It was way out of character for her. The legend in the pamphlet said Gerard’s wife was Myra and had a picture that looked just like Gerard and herself. Had Gerard used the same ploy with all of the young women who’d disappeared? Or was everything he told Myra the truth and the disappearances a coincidence? Not knowing if Gerard was responsible for the disappearances spoiled an otherwise wonderful story for me. If it doesn’t bother you that these questions will never have an answer and you like that it adds to the mystique of the legend, you’ll love this book. It is well written, the characters are well developed and it has some of the hottest sex scenes you could ever hope to encounter.
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Reviewer: Karen H. |
