Blurb:
The battlefields rob
innocent young Pru of her beloved twin, her Scottish admirer and her future.
One day she is a young lady enjoying a ball; all too soon after she is
wandering through the carnage seeking two bodies among the multitude. But she
is not alone. A great dog howls a dirge, and a half-crazed Frenchman watches
Pru with hungry fascination. In the aftermath, Pru returns to a home that is no
longer hers, and then moves on to a deserted house. With Knight, the dog whom
she has adopted, she tries to overcome her nightmares but again she is not
alone.
This sounds as if the
story is one of unrelenting misery, but nothing could be further from the
truth. Once Pru is over the initial shock and horror, she is a resourceful
young woman and she really needs to be. What with the protective Knight, an
amorous ghost, assorted demons, vampires and the eponymous angel to deal with,
the arrival of a flesh-and-blood Scot is just one more thing. And then there's
the Frenchman in Pru's c-- (shhh, that's a spoiler!) Parts of this story made
me laugh out loud. It is exquisitely funny in places, and oh-so-sad in others.
It never fails to hold my interest. Linda Hays-Gibbs's mind-world is an
enchanted and enchanting place. (So, what's the genre? Um... sensual Gothic
romance horror comedy Regency will do for starters...)
Excerpt:
My Angel My Light, as Darkness Falls
When
she had danced at the ball, life had been so wonderfully simple. It
had been the best day of her life. Little did she know that her
life, as she knew it, would be forever changed in but a moment of time.
She
searched, for him through the carnage, and it seemed like, forever but she
finally found what she had to find. Later, she realized she found a
lot more than she could have ever imagined. The terror by night was
what she had come to realize felt normal, that is, as normal as terror could be
to anyone. What she most wondered was had she at last found her love
too? He came for her in the darkness and comforted her in her
terrors and she needed him. There was another though. One
she had not counted on through the darkness but he seemed to be the light at
the end of her long night.
He
thirsted for her beauty, her body, her love, but he also thirsted for more, her
blood. Was he strong enough to resist? He did not know
that there was someone who had come to take her from him but he would fight. He
would fight with all he had but was that what she really needed? Was he
what he wanted her to have?
At the
ball he had met her and fallen in love but now he was dead at the hands of a
traitor but his twin brother would find out, avenge him and he would protect
his angel, his light in the darkness as he did now.
Napoleon
and his war had ruined his family and splintered other’s lives but God’s love
and an angel of pure love would lead him to passion, love and to a new life.
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