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Something
needed to change. For eight years,
Jannia Wise had been living in hell.
Eight years since she was brutally beaten and raped
by Gandes. One year since his death, by
her own hands,
but even time wasn’t helping heal her fears or dispel the nightmares. She couldn’t fight them alone any
longer. There was only one person that
she wanted to help in her quest to take back all that Gandes had ripped
away
from her, Emarr Dengas.
Emarr
Dengas, a sensual green skinned Lidaru empath, has known Jannia was his
destiny
from the first moment he saw her and she tried to kill him. Sure, it was unintentional, but even that
near death experience hadn’t deterred him from carrying a torch for her
all
these years. When Jannia comes to him
with a proposition, that he have sex with her to see if it will help
with her
fear of human contact, his body reacts with elation.
His mind, however, knows it will take more
than a roll in a spaceship to heal Jannia’s wounds.
He only hopes he can convince her that she is
his destiny in the process.
Jannia gets
more than she bargained for when she asks Emarr to be her lover. What starts out as a request for a “one-time
sex therapy” session with Emarr, turns into a slow, loving assault on
the walls
Jannia built up against those around her.
Add in a highly empathic, precocious little girl,
slave traders, and an
old enemy and Jannia and Emarr have their hands full.
Will Jannia let go of her fears and accept
that, not only is she Emarr’s destiny but that he is hers as well? Will they bring down the slave ring that
threatened to destroy Emarr’s home world or will their risky plan
destroy their
new found love?
WALLS OF
ICE is the second book in Norma McPhee’s Forces of Nurture Series
but
can also be read as a stand-alone book, as I experienced.
Ms. McPhee’s books have continuous characters
but each book focus’ on one couple at a time.
The story of Jannia and Emarr is virtually complete
by the end of the
book with just enough left to whet your appetite for the next
installment. Ms. McPhee takes a unique
approach to tackling
the difficult subject of rape recovery by giving the story a science
fiction base. Emmar’s empathic abilities
and sensitivity,
along with Jannia’s dark sense of humor and hard-ass attitude bring
realness to
this fantastic science fiction romance.
My favorite line is when Jannia called Emarr out
about his cowardice in
a situation… “I can, because I have a special knife that can cut
through
bullshit.” This shows Jannia’s grit, humor, and determination and makes
her one
of my favorite heroines yet. Once you
read WALLS OF ICE, you’ll see why.
Reviewed for The Road to
Romance by
Tina Burns
May 11, 2004
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