Moonrise

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Summary: A dark tale that will pull you in.....
Review: Annie Sutherland wants answers. After discovering her father's body at the bottom of the stairs with a broken neck, she is horrified to discover that he has been murdered. Until he was gone, she didn't realize that her father molded her into exactly what he wanted his only daughter to be, docile, elegant, and ladylike. He even went so far as to hand pick and train a husband for her. Even after realizing how much she was manipulated, Annie wants to find who killed the man she had loved forever. So she goes to the only person that she thinks she can trust, the man that her father loved like a son.

James McKinley is doing all that he can to keep himself alive. When Annie turns up on his doorstep in Mexico, he tells himself that it would be easier on both of them if he would just kill her. He can't do it though. He watched her grow from a child of seven to a woman of twenty seven, and he is unable to take her life in the many lethal ways he knows how. This infuriates him. He felt he lost his soul so long ago, and that this blond haired angel can make him feel anything again fills him with a rage that he embraces.

James and Annie travel the globe to uncover the conspiracy around Win Sutherland's murder. When the murderer was uncovered I was so shocked that I didn't comprehend for about a half a page! The only thing that I think could have been better was the ending. I am curious to see how Stuart would depict her darker characters taking a stab at a normal life, with a normal relationship.

Above all, this was a great book. If you try this and like it, also try Nightfall by Anne Stuart!

Rating:
Summary: A dark tale that will pull you in.....
Review: Annie Sutherland wants answers. After discovering her father's body at the bottom of the stairs with a broken neck, she is horrified to discover that he has been murdered. Until he was gone, she didn't realize that her father molded her into exactly what he wanted his only daughter to be, docile, elegant, and ladylike. He even went so far as to hand pick and train a husband for her. Even after realizing how much she was manipulated, Annie wants to find who killed the man she had loved forever. So she goes to the only person that she thinks she can trust, the man that her father loved like a son.

James McKinley is doing all that he can to keep himself alive. When Annie turns up on his doorstep in Mexico, he tells himself that it would be easier on both of them if he would just kill her. He can't do it though. He watched her grow from a child of seven to a woman of twenty seven, and he is unable to take her life in the many lethal ways he knows how. This infuriates him. He felt he lost his soul so long ago, and that this blond haired angel can make him feel anything again fills him with a rage that he embraces.

James and Annie travel the globe to uncover the conspiracy around Win Sutherland's murder. When the murderer was uncovered I was so shocked that I didn't comprehend for about a half a page! The only thing that I think could have been better was the ending. I am curious to see how Stuart would depict her darker characters taking a stab at a normal life, with a normal relationship.

Above all, this was a great book. If you try this and like it, also try Nightfall by Anne Stuart!

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Summary: An Absolutely Masterpiece!
Review: Of all the books historical and contemporary I really love and Keep, this is MY FAVOURITE! I have it in a well used paperback, but was delighted to find it in hardback.

WOW!! Anne Stuart is always SUPER but this one is absolutely a knockout!!!

Annie Sutherland is fast finding out her life was built on nothing but lies. Her father had been murdered. The former head of the CIA hit squad (though she does not know this), left her instructions,that she should seek out his former 'pet' James Mc Kinley...and man she thought she knew, and once even may have been falling in love with.

Only nothing is as it seems, and nothing was as it seemed. James is holding up on an island, looks like a man haunted by demons. Gone is the conservative bureaucrat she adored, leaving her facing a tortured fugitive - but one that is armed and extremely dangerous. Suddenly, the Texas accent is an Irish brogue, hinting he hold secrets that could mean her life.

Annie and James are thrown together on a cross-country trek, which eventually leads to Ireland and back again to the US, all on the quest to solve the murder of her father . Is James a cherish lover or the man assigned to kill her?

Stuart crafted a knock out of a book that should not be missed.

WISE Readers and Writers Book of the Month January 2000 and Book of the Year 2000

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Summary: Stuart is AMAZING
Review: OH MY WORD! This book is so dark and deadly, you get this itchy claustrophobic feeling like it sort of crawls under your skin and makes it too tight! No one pushes my buttons the way Stuart does and this book - well, I cannot understand why it's not being reprinted! Is Signet books NUTS????

I will never forget James....pant pant!

Rating:
Summary: Stuart is AMAZING
Review: OH MY WORD! This book is so dark and deadly, you get this itchy claustrophobic feeling like it sort of crawls under your skin and makes it too tight! No one pushes my buttons the way Stuart does and this book - well, I cannot understand why it's not being reprinted! Is Signet books NUTS????

I will never forget James....pant pant!

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Summary: my least favorite of this authors------
Review: plain and simple this book just did not "ring my bell".it was just dark and unappealling to me.i found myself skipping through to the end just so i knew how it ended then i put it away.
instead of reading this i would suggest"ritual sins" or an anthology of some of her shorter stories "looking for trouble",the latter being a trifle more light hearted with some humor involved.

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Summary: my least favorite of this authors------
Review: plain and simple this book just did not "ring my bell".it was just dark and unappealling to me.i found myself skipping through to the end just so i knew how it ended then i put it away.
instead of reading this i would suggest"ritual sins" or an anthology of some of her shorter stories "looking for trouble",the latter being a trifle more light hearted with some humor involved.