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Tess Montgomery has a big
problem believing that the
oh-so-sexy contractor that she’s fallen for is a five-hundred-year-old
wizard. After all, magic doesn’t exist
outside of television and fairy tales.
Right? Still, that’s
just the
beginning of her problems. Soon, she’s
dealing with prejudiced wizards, witches who hate the wizards and other
things
that are best left in fantasy novels. Still,
this is her new life… now she needs to figure out how to handle it.
Jaxon Richards wasn’t
supposed to take a mate from among the
mortals wizards guarded, but from the witches of his own kind. The Wizard Council indulged his need to be
amongst mortals, but there was no way he’d be allowed to get away with
claiming
Tess as his mate, even if she possessed his heart from the moment that
he laid
eyes on her.
Instant
attraction and instant desire, that’s what marks Tess and Jaxon’s story. Even with all the obstacles in their way,
that attraction keeps bringing them together.
Those conflicts--of culture, of personality—turn a
simple tale into a
complex novel with tons of intrigue, a villainess that you love to hate
and an
ending that you’d never truly expect.
Tess and Jaxon’s relationship is hot and intense, if
not highly sexual,
keeps the plot rolling along. The
secondary characters, especially Jaxon’s brothers, are lively and well
rounded. I look forward to the next book,
as Ms. Carrington left us with several questions unanswered.
Reviewed
by Meribeth McCombs for The Road to Romance
June 14, 2004
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