This one is a DIK from us.

Son Of The Morning is an interesting story to think about. It’s certainly unlike anything I’m used to reading by Linda Howard, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. There are so many elements to this book, it’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what type of story it really is. I wouldn’t call it a romance in the purest sense, because the hero and heroine don’t even meet face-to-face until page 281. But, if I were to think of it as a romance, I would have to say it has two heroes. I’m not even sure it’s a time-travel, because that element doesn’t appear until late in the story either, and when it does, it’s approached with such plausible logic that it seems more a how-to-do-it rather than a can-it-be-done.

And, although labeled a contemporary, the historical information is so fascinating, I almost forgot about the hero, the heroine, and the plot. I was far more interested in concentrating on the history of the Knights Templar, the Church and various possible interpretations of the words or “actions” of God, and medieval politics, not to mention rampant intrigue and bitter betrayal.

The central character to this melodrama is meek, bookish, very happily married Grace St. John, an expert in translating antiquated languages. Grace arrives home one evening just in time to witness the shocking, out-of-the-blue murder of her husband and brother. The murderer is Parrish Sawyer, head of the antiquities Foundation for which Grace works. Although she escapes, Parrish makes certain it is Grace who is blamed for the murders, so Grace becomes a woman-on-the-run. In a matter of seconds, Grace’s life is altered violently, and permanently, and she knows there’s no going back. The earth has shifted on its axis; nothing that ever was will ever be again….

 

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Our reviewer said this book is the epitome of a guilty pleasure.

I’ll definitely be filing Deadly Heat under “guilty pleasure.” It features a cock-sure hero, steamy sex scenes galore, and a hero and heroine who can barely sit in a room together for five seconds without tearing each other’s clothes off. I’m not sure any of it was believable, but it was certainly fun.

Firefighter Lora Spade meets FBI agent Kenton Lake as she is pulling him out of a burning building – and he’s trying to rush back in. His informer is in there, and he has valuable secrets about an arsonist who is terrorizing Charlottesville, Virginia. Sadly, the informer is already dead, and the only other man rescued from the building is a vagrant drug addict. Kenton is in town because – indirectly at least – Lora asked him to be. Lora is convinced that the fires are being set by one person, even though the perpetrator takes the unusual step of using different accelerants. She goes over the head of the local arson investigator and calls the FBI’s special Serial Services Division (many of whom feature in past and future books of this series).

Although Lora and Kent are irritated with each other when they first meet, their sexual chemistry is immediate. They start acting on it almost immediately too, and pretty much everyone knows. For one thing, they are being followed for their own protection. But Lora also angrily announces their relationship to everyone when she feels betrayed. Also, they practically maul each other every time they turn around, so that raises a few eyebrows.

Basically the book centers around their search for the arsonist, who seems to have a weird obsession with Lora. This keeps them pretty busy, because there’s a new fire almost every day. Lora’s boyfriend was killed only about six months ago by the same arsonist, so there is some baggage that goes with that. But mostly the plot involves fires and sex. Both of which are – pardon the pun, but I just can’t help myself – hot.

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This one, says our reviewer, is fabulous.

Fabulous books are hard to find, books that make you wish to spend more time with the characters and who make you long to find more stories that can do that. The Librarian Spy is just such a book.

It is April of 1943. War encompasses the world and Washington D.C. is a city of frantic energy, with all its denizens caught up in the battle to defeat Hitler – with the exception of Ava Harper who works in the sedate Rare Book Room at the Library of Congress. She loves her job and can’t ever imagine leaving it, but then she receives an unusual offer from the OSS: A chance to make a significant difference in the war by using her fluency in German and French in Lisbon. She will be microfilming periodicals that land in that metropolis from all over Europe, as well as checking the bookstores for any information regarding the Axis forces that can be obtained from volumes sold by the myriad of refugees that pour into the city on a daily basis. In spite of her fear of flying, she boards a plane within a week, determined to do her part to bring American soldiers home – especially her beloved brother.

Meanwhile in Lyon, a woman frantically searches for her husband. Hélène Bélanger’s fight with her beloved Joseph had been laden with vitriol, a by-product of the stress induced by the occupation of France. Hélène wants to join the resistance and fight for freedom; Joseph, a pacifist due to his experiences in WWI, wants her to stay calm and carry on. When he fails to come home that first night after their argument, she assumes he stayed at his friend Etienne’s apartment to give them both time to let their anger cool. But the longer Joseph is gone the more Hélène worries. Then a strange woman shows up at her doorstep, looking for a man named Pierre. Her arrival sets a chain of events in motion which lead to Hélène becoming Elaine Rousseau, a freedom fighter who mans a printing press for the members of the Resistance.

These two women are hundreds of miles apart, occupying two very different worlds. But when Ava begins to acquire copies of Combat, the paper Elaine publishes, they connect through coded messages, united in their desire to bring an end to the fighting and save as many lives as they can.

 

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