Breach of Trust

by Melinda Rucker Haynes

In this long-anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed novel, The Eternal Trust, Jonathan Spencer has no memory of being a psychic spy until past life hypnotherapist Rian Farsante helps him remember too much. He wants to trust her, but has good reasons to listen to his instincts. Rian knows the one thing Spence doesn't - his past. She's been hired to bring him back into the fold of psychic spies and assassins, and must accomplish her mission - even if it breaks her heart. Together, they discover their bond throughout eternity to each other and to an ancient sword that bestows vast power upon the owner. Thrust into a battle for life and love, Rian and Spence must overcome their separate and shared pasts if they are going to overcome the breach of trust between them.Melinda Rucker Haynes, M.Ed., is a certified hypnotherapist and neuro-linguistic programming practitioner with a hypnotherapy practice specializing in Personal Time Travel(c) past life regression therapy. She consults internationally as a performance enhancement coach and is the creator of Story Compass(c) personal development strategies. She and her husband enjoy working and traveling between the United States and Europe. At present, she's hard at work researching the next novel in her ongoing story that began with The Eternal Trust and is continued here.

283 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1999

About the author

Before becoming a multiple award-winning, best-selling fiction author, Melinda Rucker Haynes worked as an adult education research project director and published nonfiction. She jokes she learned to write fiction as a grant writer who moonlighted as a corporate trainer of fascinating people working at an area in the Nevada desert that didn’t exist. After gypsying around the world, living in four foreign countries—most recently Washington D.C.—Melinda continues to search out enchanted stories beyond her imaginary magical story pool in ghost towns, massive cities, vast night skies, and mysterious ancient sites throughout the world. Her interests and hobbies include magical story pool fishing and encouraging her citrus trees, fairy gardens, and fellow magical thinking enthusiasts. Melinda also enjoys frequent fantasy flying, past lives exploration and opus magnum experimentation.

Her young adult paranormal novels, Ghostly Acts and The Haunting of Josh Weston (Escondido Magic Series) are multiple award winners as is her paranormal romance thriller, The Eternal Trust, the first book of the Soul Searchers Series for The Wild Rose Press. Melinda is currently working on her new and already award-winning YA paranormal, The Boyfriend App, and Josh Weston’s second adventure in the Escondido Magic Series, coming in 2019. The second Soul Searchers book, Breach of Trust is also 2019 release. A menopausal vampire has been doing hot laps in Melinda’s magical story pool and her tale, BITTEN: Confessions of a Menopausal Vampire is coming soon.

Reviews

[Jennifer]

Horrible mess

What a hodgepodge mess. At least 10 stories all mixed together, no editing, no resolutions, unlikable heroine... I have no idea why I read to the end. I guess I was hoping for something to make it all tie together. I was sorely disappointed.

[Catherine Stein]

DNF. Racist, ableist, and fat-shaming jokes aren't funny, they're offensive.

[Peggy Jaeger]

So the idea of a menopausal women ( which I am!) meeting up with an old flame ( which I would never do!) and then getting turned into the walking undead due to an amorous miscalculation was a premise I just couldn't pass up reading.
And I'm glad I didn't!
Witty - sometimes snarky - dialogue ( which I love), and chock filled with a caravan of quirky characters from vampires, warewolves, and even a few villainous humans, BITTEN makes a huge statement about the way women of a certain age are treated in this world - alive and undead, and does so subtly, you can't help but go "Hmm..." and scratch your head in thought.
I've never read anything by Rucker Haynes before so when I saw the title and the read the blurb, I knew I had to give it a read.
Good job and lots of fun.