A Passionate Spirit

A Passionate Spirit, a paranormal thriller, written by S C Skillman, tells the story of Zoe who, at 35, looks like she has it all.

She is young, attractive, is married to a priest who is less than conventional and together they have a beautiful baby daughter and they move to what should be a delightful new home in the idyllic Cotswold hills.

So, given that set of circumstances, what on earth could possibly go wrong?

Well... there's the dreams, you see? The recurring nightmare dream in which Zoe dreams of a young woman who is fleeing, fleeing for her life.

Zoe is disturbed by these dreams and she also has a darkening sense of foreboding. For somehow, Zoe knows that the life of her precious baby is at risk. As is her own life.

At which point, things become more sinister, as two totally unexpected guests arrive at their home. James and Natasha.

But there's nothing wrong with James and Natasha, surely?

However, Zoe's friend Alice wouldn't agree. For some reason she cannot quite trust the new couple. Even more so, Natasha.

But only Zoe agrees with Alice. Everyone else seems to trust them.

Natasha soon sets to work proving her abilities as a very talented healer. A very talented healer, indeed. In fact some say her healings are nothing short of miraculous and that Natasha is a miracle worker.

But the sense of dis-ease and foreboding will not leave Zoe.

But Zoe knows that she must challenge Natasha. But can she be prepared for the forces that she is suddenly confronted with? The sheer, stark terror that she will face?

Will she and her stalwart, true friend Alice be able to prevail against the malevolent forces that are suddenly directed toward them?

If you like your thrillers with more than a touch of the paranormal, then this is the ideal book for you. It is published by Matador and costs £8.99 in paperback and is available from the That's Books book shop which you will find to the right hand side of this book review.

Every Shade of Blue

Every Shade of Blue is a new novel by Linzi Drew-Honey.

It tells the story of what happens when Suzanne Perry-Jackson is cruelly dumped by her husband of two decades when he trades her in for a much younger woman.

Suzanne's life as she knew it, an easeful, comfortable, relatively simplistic world, is suddenly smashed to bits.

Within a couple of months of the break-up, Suzanne meets Angelo Azzurro. He is a stranger with the ability to capture her heart.

He senses that she is hurting and vulnerable and he lures her into a world of a sadomasochistic sex.

She decides that this event, a liberating, though painful, encounter will be a one off event. A moment of lunacy.

She later meets with the man of her dreams, a stunningly handsome orthopaedic surgeon,  Sebastian Black.

But Angelo is not a man to be thwarted. He is dangerous and is not used to people saying "no" to him.

So he kidnaps her and keeps her entrapped.

When Suzanne vanishes, Sebastian is frantic. He is fully aware that Angelo is behind the disappearance of his beloved Suzanne.

Will he find her? Can he save her from Angelo?

This novel is published by Troubadour in paperback at £8.99.

It will be available through the That's Books and Entertainment online bookshop, just to the right-hand side of this book review.

(EDITOR: This is a very raunchy book, so not for the faint of heart. In fact one description of it is: "Every Shade of Blue makes 50 Shades of Grey read like a brochure for a chandlery shop!")

The Price of Love by Deanna Maclaren

The Price of Love by Deanna Maclaren takes the reader straight into the global heart of Romance, Paris.

Helen, the protagonist of The Price of Love is living in London.

She seems to be trapped in a dead-end job, with no hope of doing very much, to be honest.

But that is where her story really, truly begins.

For her new found French lover, Jean-Paul, encourages her to leave London and her career (such as it is!) to go to Paris to spend Christmas there.

But then, from Jean-Paul's perspective, things start to go awry.

He is infuriated when Helen decides to take up a job as a cleaner and perhaps understandably enraged when she begins to have an affair with an attractive bad boy, Alexis.

Via the contacts of Alexis, Helen become au fait with the swinging scene of Paris and also the sister of Alexis, a so-called wild child, Malveen.

Then to add to the chaos (or le chaos as the French would put it) Jean-Paul dies without any real warning.

Marc, the adult son of Jean-Paul, does his best to offer his comfort to Helen.

Then, Malveen's marriage instantly takes a turn for the worst and Malveen is locked in a dungeon by her husband.

Malveen, not surprisingly, takes this marital decision by her husband rather badly (what with that and the horribly messy business with the nourriture pour chien) and manages to orchestrate her own escape from her espousal entrapment.

Unfortunately after she is able to effect her escape she  murders the employer of Helen. (As if Helen's life is not already complicated enough!)

Marc becomes beside himself and Helen takes the sensible step of fleeing Paris (indeed, fleeing France its entirety) and returning to the relative sanity and safety of life with her family in Southwold, Suffolk.

But Marc is made of sterner stuff and he tracks her down to England. And if you want to know how it all plays out, the book will cost you £9.99, from Matador.

You will be enchanted by the witty, breathless writing style of Deanna Maclaren. This is her tenth book.

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