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HOLIDAY OF LOVE Kayla Perrin BET/Arabesque October 2000 (4) Melanie Schuster |
Contemporary Romance |
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Just when I think that I can’t learn any more about Kwanzaa, another Arabesque writer proves me wrong! Kayla Perrin has not only given us a lovely holiday themed romance, but a chilling mystery wrapped in a sensual romance. Ms. Perrin was busy with this one! Collette Jenkins is a talented artist living in New York. Her world is turned upside down when she receives a posthumous letter from her dear grandmother. As if receiving a letter from a dearly departed loved one is not chilling enough, this one informs her that she is not the person she has always believed herself to be. As gently and lovingly as possible, Collette’s grandmother informed her that she was adopted. The people she had known as her parents were not her biological parents. Even though she had been technically alone since her parents died in a plane crash and her grandmother had passed away, now Colette felt completely adrift in the world. There was only one thing for her to do—go home to Florida and find the answers she had to have. Going home to Florida brought Collette back into Dexter Harris’ life. Dexter was her childhood sweetheart who had broken up with her when he went off to college, something he has regretted ever since. Dexter would like nothing more than to start over with Collette, but she is no shape emotionally to consider it. Until she finds out the truth about her family, she doesn’t even want to think about any possibility of started over with Dexter. Dexter agrees to give her space and time, and tries to help her find out the truth about her family while she discovers other truths…like the fact that she and Dexter belong together. But while they are finding their way back to each other with the spirit of Kwanzaa bringing them closer, someone is trying to make very sure that Collette stops asking questions about her birth mother. And they are willing to try anything to make that happen… HOLIDAY OF LOVE is also a holiday of tradition, suspense and mystery. Ms Perrin’s deft hand strikes nice balance with all of the elements of the story. So often in a suspenseful romance one side overwhelms the other, but this is not the case here. The prologue sets the stage for the intrigue that follows and the result is a richly satisfying and complex book that delivered over and over again. This is definitely a book for a cool fall evening; as rich and heady as apple brandy and as warming as a fire. A definite keeper for my holiday section! |
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11th November 2000 |
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