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John is a CIA agent caught by his enemies in a far away country and being tortured. He wants to die, but a woman keeps coming in his dreams and forcing him to live by tormenting him into trying to touch her. He believes that she’s a real person somewhere, and if he ever escapes his prison alive, he’s got a new mission, find her and make her pay.
Catherine knows she is playing with fire when she projects herself into John’s cell and sexually torments him, but he must stay alive for both their sakes. The only way to give him that will to survive is to torment him with her body and mind. She does what she must, but in the end she knows that if he survives he will find her and make her pay.
John and Catherine are fated to meet, because in a past life they had met and lost each other. There are two stories in this novel, one of the current couple’s agony and the other of Hawk and Euphremia in early America. One is an Indian, and the other a Puritan woman who had been captured by him. In the present, John and Catherine are reliving the past, and don’t know if they will be able to change the current time to prevent the tragedy from playing out again.
The story premise is that this couple had been together before, and they are not sure if they will repeat the past when they were ripped apart. Unfortunately, it seems that the two stories running side by side proved to be more of a distraction than entertainment. Some of the dialog was a little simplistic and annoying, and I had a hard time finishing the book. Euphremia, Catherine’s counterpart in the past, was truly annoying at first, and it made her hard to like. Hawk wasn’t very likeable either, and in the end I found myself wishing that it was only a story about Catherine and John, who were both very likeable, unusual people in their own right. For that part of the story, I really enjoyed, and it’s what kept me going.
Reviewed by Julie Bryan
for The Road to Romance
May 31, 2006 6
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