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Mystique
Man of Mystery...
Desperate to learn the truth behind her sister's disappearance, Trish Devlin changed her name and went undercover at the exclusive Endless Sky Resort...the last place her sibling was seen alive. Once there, the mystery deepened as Trish found herself curious about - and highly drawn to - her private guide turned bodyguard, O'Neill. The enigmatic man insisted she had nothing to fear from the mountain hideaway, but strange sounds in the night and hazy apparitions convinced Trish otherwise. Now, as the passing days generated more questions than answers, Trish vowed to bring her sister home...and peel away the layers keeping her man of mystery just out of reach.
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published June 1, 2005
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About the author
Charlotte Douglas
85 books15 followersCHARLOTTE DOUGLAS has loved a good story since she learned to read at the age of three. After years of teaching that love of books to her students, she now enjoys creating stories of her own. Often her books are set in one of her three favorite places—Montana, where she and her husband spent their honeymoon; the mountains of North Carolina, where she has a summer home; or Florida, near the Gulf of Mexico on Florida’s west coast, where she’s lived most of her life.
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June 22, 2019
This was a great read. My only problem with this was the fact that no self respecting girl/woman is going to sleep with a man when their sister was nearly killed and they are in danger.
August 10, 2018
Good book / really like most of the Intrigues.
September 12, 2019
I really enjoyed this story.
June 24, 2015
Trish Devlin is a schoolteacher, quiet and unassuming. But when her sister Debra goes missing while she's staying at an exclusive resort in the mountains, Trish elects to go undercover as a rich socialite and stay at the same resort in the hopes that she can find her sister. Trish and Debra have a psychic bond, and Trish thinks that if Deb's still alive she may be able to sense her once she gets near. And by adopting a new name and persona, she's hoping that she can find out why her sister went missing - and who is responsible.
O'Neill, the resort manager, is kind, devastatingly attractive - and seems to be hiding something. Can Trish trust him to help her find her sister?
Honestly, I thought the whole undercover thing was a bit weak. Trish's justification was that if she went as herself, staff and guests at the resort would be less likely to be honest with her about anything they may know about Debra's disappearance. Maybe in certain circles this is true, but certainly not in any that I've travelled in. Frankly, I would have thought that pretending to be some stranger would make you less likely to be privy to information, not more.
That aside, this was a pretty good book. It sometimes felt a bit overreaching, what with the atmosphere, the initial suspense of what happened to Debra, the secondary suspense of WHO happened to Debra, the psychic bond between the sisters, the false identities, and the addition of ghosts. Although I liked the idea of the Cherokee ghost guiding Trish, and would like to see him in another book, I'm undecided about how well his inclusion worked here. With books of this length, too many dimensions can give a cluttered feeling to the plot, and there were times here when I felt like I was being overloaded with information.
However, that didn't prevent it from being a very good read. The pace was fairly unrelenting, and I really enjoyed reading a book that dealt with preternatural phenomena (the psychic bond, and even the ghosts) without making it the main theme. I find books that include the paranormal tend to overemphasise it, and it was refreshing to read a tale where it was - not taken for granted, exactly, but just one plot element of many, and not something that's relied on to carry the story (or the characters) through all the action.
The characters weren't as nuanced as I usually enjoy, but in an action-based book that's as short as this one, that's probably a good thing. I liked what I saw of them. O'Neill was sexy and mysterious, and Trish was awesome - loyal, courageous, smart and honourable.
As ever, I was disappointed by the lack of sex, but then I do like my smut. *laughs*
Not enough of an emotional punch for me to rate it 5 stars, but still a good read, and a very credible 4-star rating from me.
O'Neill, the resort manager, is kind, devastatingly attractive - and seems to be hiding something. Can Trish trust him to help her find her sister?
Honestly, I thought the whole undercover thing was a bit weak. Trish's justification was that if she went as herself, staff and guests at the resort would be less likely to be honest with her about anything they may know about Debra's disappearance. Maybe in certain circles this is true, but certainly not in any that I've travelled in. Frankly, I would have thought that pretending to be some stranger would make you less likely to be privy to information, not more.
That aside, this was a pretty good book. It sometimes felt a bit overreaching, what with the atmosphere, the initial suspense of what happened to Debra, the secondary suspense of WHO happened to Debra, the psychic bond between the sisters, the false identities, and the addition of ghosts. Although I liked the idea of the Cherokee ghost guiding Trish, and would like to see him in another book, I'm undecided about how well his inclusion worked here. With books of this length, too many dimensions can give a cluttered feeling to the plot, and there were times here when I felt like I was being overloaded with information.
However, that didn't prevent it from being a very good read. The pace was fairly unrelenting, and I really enjoyed reading a book that dealt with preternatural phenomena (the psychic bond, and even the ghosts) without making it the main theme. I find books that include the paranormal tend to overemphasise it, and it was refreshing to read a tale where it was - not taken for granted, exactly, but just one plot element of many, and not something that's relied on to carry the story (or the characters) through all the action.
The characters weren't as nuanced as I usually enjoy, but in an action-based book that's as short as this one, that's probably a good thing. I liked what I saw of them. O'Neill was sexy and mysterious, and Trish was awesome - loyal, courageous, smart and honourable.
As ever, I was disappointed by the lack of sex, but then I do like my smut. *laughs*
Not enough of an emotional punch for me to rate it 5 stars, but still a good read, and a very credible 4-star rating from me.
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