Book Description
Three romantic stories from the dark side of love...
ANNE STUART
HELEN R. MYERS
HEATHER GRAHAM POZZESSERE
From the back cover:
THE MONSTER IN THE CLOSET by Anne Stuart
It was Sebastian Brand's job to terrify people, and he did it very well - but only on the screen. Or so Emma Milsom hoped. Because someone was stalking her, someone who wanted her dead, and it was her heart's deepest desire to cast dangerously appealing Sebastian in the role of savior - and spend forever in his arms.
SEAWITCH by Helen R. Myers
Psychic, siren... or witch? The townsfolk of Cliff Point, Maine, spoke in whispers about Roanna Douglas, the beautiful, mysterious woman who haunted the local seashore. Some people said she'd killed her husband. But that didn't stop Hunter Thorne from loving her... as though his very life depended on it.
WILDE IMAGININGS by Heather Graham Pozzessere
Rising out of the murky English moors, Fairfaven Castle housed dark secrets... and handsome, brooding Brian Wilde. But even as Brian's touch filled lovely Alyssa Evans with fire, his enigmatic manner chilled her with fear. Could she discover the castle's secrets before it was too late?
Besides being a Heather Graham fan, I'm also an Anne Stuart fan so I was glad to see this included in the anthology. I absolutely loved it! Both Sebastian and Emma were great and while it was easy to figure out who was behind everything, for lack of suspects, the reason was fresh and interesting. The whole atmosphere of this story, along with the romance, made this my favorite of the book.
10/10
Seawitch by Helen R. Myers
While this had a good plot, I felt there was something off. There were two big problems for me: (1) too much was going on for the length of a short story, some things needed to be taken out and (2), Hunter. I just could not like him, he was a bully and he didn't seem much better than Roanne's husband.
4/10
Wilde Imaginings by Heather Graham Pozzessere
I thought this was a fairly interesting story. Both Alyssa and Brian were interesting characters, but for some reason the story fell a bit flat. They seemed to fall in love awfully fast, and I know that happens in short stories and usually it doesn't bother me, but for some reason it did in this story. It must be because of how it's written. I think some of it is because they're related, however distant it might be. Maybe if they hadn't, even though the author says a couple times that they could be more related to a stranger on the street than to each other, I would have felt easier about it, especially in the epilogue when Alyssa sees the portrait and all is revealed to the reader. Something about it just turns me off the story. I'm not going to go into a whole anthropological study into how and why, but that's the main thing that bugged me.
7/10
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