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Sa Rah wakes up in a strange place only remembering her name. The only other thing she knows is that she’s been attacked, as evident by the bruises on her neck. She’s befriended by Rachel and tries to make a life as a dancer, but there is always that hint of knowing her past just out of reach. She is plagued by dreams of a shadow man. Though her dreams are erotic, just like her memory, her shadow man is always out of reach.
Tristan Zax, half human, half Diharian, a race of humanoids that are bred assassins, has finally found the missing princess. Sa Rah is his mate, and now that he’s found her, he won’t be letting her go. Tristan’s simple rescue mission is soon complicated when he realizes that Sa Rah doesn’t know who he is or who she is, and that she is still in danger.
Tristan realizes that the only way to save Sa Rah is to take her back in time to his home on Dihara, the same home world to the assassin tracking Sa Rah. The more Sa Rah is with Tristan, the more she begins to remember, and not all of her memories are pleasant. Instinctively she trusts him, but will her trust be unfounded when he finally reveals his true self to her?
WHATEVER TOMORROW BRINGS is one of three stories connected but each written as a single title. There were, however, references to the other stories that would have made more of an impact if I’d read the others. The fantasy genre is one of my favorites, but unfortunately there wasn’t much about this book, other than the fantastical, that kept my attention. Sa Rah is the typical “I want him – I hate him” heroine and her swinging from one extreme to the other was tiresome. Tristan too is pretty much all alpha male and not much else. Neither learn to communicate with each other or develop a relationship based on anything other than lust that suddenly turns into love. The villain of the story and his counterpart, Rachel are also given point of views. I’m assuming this will
evolve into their own story somehow, but their point of views tend to break up the forward motion of Sa Rah and Tristan’s story. I can see elements of a wonderful story line, filled with many books and other worlds and if the characters are brought out of the stereo-type of the romance genre and I could give them another chance.
Reviewed by Tina Burns
for The Road to Romance
June 15, 2005
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