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The first in Ms. Leigh’s new series DRAGON PRIME tells the story of an alien warrior seeking his reincarnated soulmate on Earth. He’s fought many battles in a war that could tip the balance forever between two vastly different worlds, but his greatest battle is coming and it’s intensely personal.
Alyx is the Dragon Prime, an elite warrior and powerful psychic, whose skills are needed in an intergalactic war that are slowly killing one planet and beginning to affect Earth. Centuries before, he’d shared his soul with the woman he loved only to lose her in battle. Now, she’s been reborn and he’s determined to not lose her again.
Power human psychic, Lynn Carstairs, is more determined to protect the woman her team is assigned to then finding love or lust with a powerful alien. She certainly doesn’t believe in reincarnation or soulmates. The distraction, as lovely as it is, that Alyx presents is both unwelcome and unwanted. If only, Lynn could convince her heart of what her mind has determined, but the heart always has a way of winning.
Lora Leigh does a wonderful job of presenting the story of lovers torn apart by time only to come together again. While Alyx remembers their time together, Lynn only dreams it, thus setting up a delightful conflict between earth woman and near-immortal alien. The descriptions are lush and dramatic, deeply evocative; however, as wonderfully written a story as DRAGON PRIME is, it suffers from being connected to Ms. Leigh’s Legacies series, in that some concepts are mentioned and discussed as if the reader has full knowledge of them. Coming into the story thinking that it was an independent novel, I was occasionally lost as to what was going on and thrown out of the story to try and figure out exactly what was being said. It is my recommendation that anyone planning to read this novel have at least read the Legacies series.
Reviewed by MeriBeth McCombs
for The Road to Romance
March 3, 2004
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