Cold Fusion, by Harper Fox

Cold Fusion by Harper Fox

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Once upon a time, there was a prince who lived alone in a small village by the sea in Scotland. He was not well but he kept working on his great project. All his energy went into his work, as he knew his time was limited. And he knew, as h e was different and many thought him strange, that it was best he was alone.

Then, a traveler came his way. The traveler had made a terrible mistake and people had died and now, no one wanted him around. He was on the "run from whole life" (back cover).

Neither the traveler or the prince knew what to do with each other. To the traveler's great surprise, he fell in love with this odd man. Others learned of the prince's work--and decided he and his work was too dangerous--cold fusion, an energy source that would change the world. And put Big Oil otu of business.

The two men were soon on the run.

Cold Fusion is a fairy tale. It is a love story between two "wildly mismatched" men. On one hand, there is Vivian, who is "brilliant, but completely unworldly," and autistic, and dying. On the other, Mallory, a former environmental activist, whose work has "cost the lives of his colleagues," and the survivor of an abusive childhood, and a poet. "[Attraction] springs up between them like fire" (back cover). Will they survive those who stop Viv? Viv's disease? That they are so different? Is there a fairy tale ending?

Harper Fox fans, take note. I enjoyed this novel very much.



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