Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Sometimes Dreams do Come True Review: At nineteen Rachael Grant lost her fiancé somewhere in South America when he vanished with his plane. She moves to New York, has a successful career, but has to come home to Richmond, Virginia when her parents are killed in a plane crash. She see a stranger who looks like the fiancé she lost so long ago. Bad things start happening, someone wants to kill her, the stranger is always nearby. Finally they meet. He claims to have owed her father a fortune. Is he what he seems? Can the past come back to life? Can a dream long dead, come true?This five start romantic suspense novel left me wanting more. It's easy to see why Kay Hooper's fans love her so much, why she gets more with every book. Review Submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: Sometimes Dreams do Come True Review: At nineteen Rachael Grant lost her fiancé somewhere in South America when he vanished with his plane. She moves to New York, has a successful career, but has to come home to Richmond, Virginia when her parents are killed in a plane crash. She see a stranger who looks like the fiancé she lost so long ago. Bad things start happening, someone wants to kill her, the stranger is always nearby. Finally they meet. He claims to have owed her father a fortune. Is he what he seems? Can the past come back to life? Can a dream long dead, come true? This five start romantic suspense novel left me wanting more. It's easy to see why Kay Hooper's fans love her so much, why she gets more with every book. Review Submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
Rating: ![1 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-1-0.gif) Summary: I mean, Please.... Review: Come on, Hooper is not 'unique' in her story-telling. Everyone keeps saying she is a master storyteller, why? If anything she is unique in her ability to repeatedly churn out predictable, pseudo-gothic storylines. The characters are flat and the plot sounds vaguely familiar. The blurb on the back of the book is also misleading. This is worse than FINDING LAURA (if you can get any worse that is).
Rating: ![1 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-1-0.gif) Summary: Boring with a wimpy heroine Review: Don't know why I wasted my money. I'm not a fan of damsel in distress novels. The writing was so bad! My first and last Kay Hooper book.
Rating: ![5 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-5-0.gif) Summary: A haunting work of romantic suspense Review: He knew about her and deeply loved her from afar long before they met. When they finally do meet, he has to hide his knowledge of his secret for fear of hurting her. Rachel Grand is shocked to her very soul when she first encounters Adam Delafield because he looks like the identical twin of Tom Sheridan, the man she loved, who died ten years ago in a plane crash. There is an immediate chemistry between Rachel and Adam. However, before they can explore their feelings, attempts occur to kill Rachel, which they trace back to a loan her father made to an unknown person. Danger lurks from every direction and the only hope of survival for the pair rests in the ghostly figure of Thomas and the earthly help of Adam. Kay Hooper writes a special book in HAUNTING RACHEL that will elate fans of the writer. A secondary romance seems to have the making of a spin-off tale (hint! hint!). The supernatural element adds additional mood to this great gothic-like romantic suspense. However, what makes Ms. Hooper a constant best seller is her ability to provide stirring, sterling story lines that are always refreshingly unique. Harriet Klausner
Rating: ![3 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-3-0.gif) Summary: an ok, but not great book Review: I have read several of Kay Hooper's books, and enjoyed them very much. I was disappointed in this one however. The Rachel and Adam characters never fully engaged me. I found the secondary characters of Mercy and Nick more interesting. I thought the Adam/Tom resemblance was ridiculous, not to mention how the whole plot wraps up. I didn't care for the whole dead fiance aspect either. Rachel was dating a guy at 16 and he was 26?!?! Why would a 26 yr old want to date a 16 yr old??? The book did keep me reading however, and it was a relaxing way to spend some time. I'd recommend getting it from the library rather than buying it.
Rating: ![1 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-1-0.gif) Summary: Shallow, silly potboiler Review: I thought I was in for a good mystery, not a ridiculous romp through an incredible terrain of one-note characters, dense heroines, and panting sex scenes. And, a mysterious stranger who purports to have invented a big-money "gadget" as an electrical engineer. Good grief. I appreciate authors who take the time to research a story's contextual elements a bit more thoroughly than this. A disappointing introduction to a novelist's works I will not visit again.
Rating: ![4 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-4-0.gif) Summary: A beautiful, haunting tale! Review: I thought this was a wonderful read! It's a tale of sorrow, fear and hope woven together it such a manner that keeps the reader gripped to the story until the very end. With mysteries I can usually guess the ending - but not with this one! I missed it and was so glad I did! Really enjoyed the book!
Rating: ![3 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-3-0.gif) Summary: It worked for me... Review: I was ready to read a good book. As I looked at the stack of unreads, I chose Haunting Rachel, cautious because I couldn't get through Finding Laura. I enjoyed Haunting Rachel very much. I liked the twists and turns to make me doubt whether I figured out the storyline before I read the words. I didn't like the super natural stuff. It is not something that was easy for me to believe. The two of them having the same dreams. Not for me. I dream and boy I never get such messages. The flower there. The flower gone. Huh. BUT the author does a good job with the characters and hmmmm factors.
Rating: ![3 stars](http://www.reviewfocus.com/images/stars-3-0.gif) Summary: Within the first few pages you guess who did it!!!! Review: I will not repeat what is any many of the reviews. The "bad" guy in this one is so obvious that you guess who it is right off and think; no there will be all sorts of twists and turns. NOPE! He sticks out like a sore thumb. The author is terrible at conversations. They are so bad that you can finish the sentences like bad B movies. He is a line from the HERO "Jesus Christ on a Pony" Give me a break. The sad thing is that she creates likeable, interesting characters that you want to get to know. No originality to the story that was even slightly believable
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