引きよせられた糸

by Rebecca Flanders

Amanda risked everything to see Craig just one last time...

Brandy and orange juice. Hot chocolate and vanilla ice cream. Beer and fried seafood. Missing pieces of the past that were the puzzle of a woman named Laura Collins. Craig Brandon had been reliving the nightmare of that sunshine-filled Florida morning when Laura disappeared, hoping to locate her again. He had long since returned to his home in Washington state but had never given up his dreams about the woman he had loved.

Then on a ski vacation he met Amanda Donovan. Their attraction to each other was electrifying. And for some reason the pieces of the puzzle began to fall into place...

Paperback Shinsho

First published December 1, 1984

About the author

aka Donna Ball, Donna Carlisle, Donna Boyd
With Shannon Harper as Leigh Bristol, Taylor Brady

Donna A. Ball born in 1951 in Georgia, USA. Her ancestors were one of the first pioneer families of North Georgia, and her family still lives on the land they purchased from the Cherokee in 1782.

Her first book was published in 1982 as Donna Ball, since them she has written over a dozen works of commercial fiction under her name and under diferent pseudonyms: Rebecca Flanders, Donna Carlisle and Donna Boyd. She also signed novels with Shannon Harper as Leigh Bristol and Taylor Brady. And a novel with Linda Dano as Felicia Gallant. She is known for her work in women’s fiction and suspense, as well as supernatural fantasy and adventure. Her novels have been translated into well over a dozen languages and have been published in virtually every country in the world. She has appeared on Entertainment Tonight and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and has been featured in such publications as the Detroit Free Press, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, and even T.V. Guide. She is the holder of the Storytelling World award, 2001, the Georgia Author of the Year Award, 2000, Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards for consecutive years 1991-1996, the Georgia Romance Writer’s Maggie Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times, among others.

Donna lives in a restored turn-of-the-century barn in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northeast Georgia with her dogs, they have won numerous awards for agility, obedience, and canine musical freestyle. Her hobbies include oil painting, hiking and dog obedience training.

Reviews

[Naksed · Rating 3 out of 5]

A young woman unexpectedly forced into a Witness Protection Program changes her entire identity and her looks, almost coming to believe in her new persona and forgetting who she was and the people who mattered to her. But years later, when she unexpectedly bumps into a man from her past, she realizes that all those threads that kept her tethered to her memories have never been quite snapped off. It was an interesting story, very well-written, and very unique in my experience of tropey Harlequins. It kept me reading because I honestly didn’t predict where the author was going to go with this and how she would bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. Unfortunately for me, it was the ending that left me underwhelmed. I would have given a higher rating if the ending had not felt so rushed and off-putting. I especially didn’t enjoy the wrath of the hero when he thinks he has been “played” by her like Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo. The violence and terror he heaped on her may have been realistic but it left me terribly turned off from him, especially when he did not so much as apologize after finding out the truth and she left him off the hook based on her own feelings of guilt. I had the uncomfortable feeling that this was going to eventually end in a captive-captor, murder-suicide story. The guy’s obsessiveness and insane possessiveness may be some other reader’s cup of tea though :(

[Sue · Rating 1 out of 5]

Don't waste your time like I did. Found it never got to any point and the end well let's just still was lame.

[Monique · Rating 2 out of 5]

Star Rating: ★★½☆☆