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Could a strange glowing crystal hold the secrets of a generation?
Was she a ghost sent to drive him mad? Teague Harris wondered when the woman he knew as Kirsten appeared without warning. Shea McKenzie insisted she knew nothing of his vanished fiancée, yet she couldn't explain why she'd been drawn to this town—nor deny Teague's anguished plea for her help. But when she began remembering things she couldn't know, Shea feared what her masquerade had unleashed. Was Teague her destiny . . . or her destroyer?
Darkly sensual and deeply emotional, Catherine Mulvany's tale of passion, mystery, and murder teaches us that love can be stronger than death—and desire more powerful still. Bound by a longing she barely understood, she'd agreed to a perilous charade that could cost her everything, but did she dare risk her heart on a man with so many secrets?
Was she a ghost sent to drive him mad? Teague Harris wondered when the woman he knew as Kirsten appeared without warning. Shea McKenzie insisted she knew nothing of his vanished fiancée, yet she couldn't explain why she'd been drawn to this town—nor deny Teague's anguished plea for her help. But when she began remembering things she couldn't know, Shea feared what her masquerade had unleashed. Was Teague her destiny . . . or her destroyer?
Darkly sensual and deeply emotional, Catherine Mulvany's tale of passion, mystery, and murder teaches us that love can be stronger than death—and desire more powerful still. Bound by a longing she barely understood, she'd agreed to a perilous charade that could cost her everything, but did she dare risk her heart on a man with so many secrets?
240 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1998
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Catherine Mulvany
15 books17 followersCatherine Mulvany’s life is a fairy tale. Okay, a fractured fairy tale. At age eleven she fell hopelessly in love with a little town in eastern Oregon. With a population under fifty—counting the cats and dogs—the town didn’t even qualify as one-horse, but the place had character. Character and an abundance of arkayesses.
Never heard of an arkayess? Neither had Catherine. But on the first day of her visit, she became intimately acquainted with one particularly gruesome member of this species—also known as the road-killed snake. Arkayess. RKS. Road-killed snake. Get it?
She did. The hard way.
Catherine was walking along a side street, minding her own business, when the orneriest boy in town came riding down the road on his bike, swinging a dead snake like a lariat. “You’d better run, kid,” he yelled. “I’m gonna wrap this arkayess around your leg!”
She ran.
He followed. (Are you getting that whole fairy tale connection? Knight on a white charger equals boy on a bike?)
When he got close enough, he took aim, then let that snake fly. It cartwheeled through the air with deadly accuracy to coil itself around her bare leg.
The boy was almost as shocked as Catherine; he hadn’t expected to hit his target. So to make it up to her, he proposed...and it only took him nine years to do it. She accepted, of course, and they’ve lived happily ever after in their very own castle.
All right. So it’s really a three-bedroom ranch house, but it has an irrigation ditch out back, and that’s practically a moat, right?
Never heard of an arkayess? Neither had Catherine. But on the first day of her visit, she became intimately acquainted with one particularly gruesome member of this species—also known as the road-killed snake. Arkayess. RKS. Road-killed snake. Get it?
She did. The hard way.
Catherine was walking along a side street, minding her own business, when the orneriest boy in town came riding down the road on his bike, swinging a dead snake like a lariat. “You’d better run, kid,” he yelled. “I’m gonna wrap this arkayess around your leg!”
She ran.
He followed. (Are you getting that whole fairy tale connection? Knight on a white charger equals boy on a bike?)
When he got close enough, he took aim, then let that snake fly. It cartwheeled through the air with deadly accuracy to coil itself around her bare leg.
The boy was almost as shocked as Catherine; he hadn’t expected to hit his target. So to make it up to her, he proposed...and it only took him nine years to do it. She accepted, of course, and they’ve lived happily ever after in their very own castle.
All right. So it’s really a three-bedroom ranch house, but it has an irrigation ditch out back, and that’s practically a moat, right?
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October 20, 2018Several years ago, a heiress disappeared. Our heroine, Shea, is a dead ringer for her. Teague, who used to be the heiress's fiancé, is convinced she was murdered. He asks Shea to impersonate her in an effort to draw out her murderer (and make her dying dad happy). Shea is all "hell, no", until she sees a photo of the sick dad, and realises he looks exactly like her supposedly dead birth father.
This one just felt off to me. The tone was wrong. It all felt awfully casual, way too cheery when we're talking about murder and duping a dying father. Plus, I found Shea's motivation for going along unconvincing. Mulvany tries to justify her agreement to this plan, but it feels flimsy. There is no reason why she couldn't just ask this man questions directly once she's got access to him, instead of purposely putting herself in what is obviously quite a dangerous position. I also felt wrong of Teague to ask this much of a stranger. Finally, the book felt pretty dated in the way the heiress's character was assassinated in order to make Teague look better.
Bah.
MY GRADE: A DNF.
This one just felt off to me. The tone was wrong. It all felt awfully casual, way too cheery when we're talking about murder and duping a dying father. Plus, I found Shea's motivation for going along unconvincing. Mulvany tries to justify her agreement to this plan, but it feels flimsy. There is no reason why she couldn't just ask this man questions directly once she's got access to him, instead of purposely putting herself in what is obviously quite a dangerous position. I also felt wrong of Teague to ask this much of a stranger. Finally, the book felt pretty dated in the way the heiress's character was assassinated in order to make Teague look better.
Bah.
MY GRADE: A DNF.
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