Touching Midnight

Lombards #6

by Fiona Brand

EMBRACED BY TIME

Deep within her soul Lady Victoria Quinton Mallory knows she has a gift. Since childhood she has dreamed of a sacred, long-lost past, of ancient mysteries and buried passion that will reawaken with a vengeance. Growing up at the mission in Valle Del Sol, Peru, Quin has never quite understood her powerful connection to the place, a connection that now draws her to a badly wounded man left for dead by local rebels.

SEALED WITH AN ETERNAL KISS

Brought to the mission to recover, Jay Lomax is enchanted with Quin...a woman strangely familiar to him. And when he's hired to protect the ancient ruins of a recently excavated temple city, the voices of the lost world lure him and Quin back into an unfinished odyssey. Now the two lovers will discover the shattering secrets of a great legacy, and the danger and destiny that have bound them together for eternity...

Genres: Romance, Romantic Suspense, Paranormal, Historical, Suspense, Contemporary

243 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Fiona Brand has always wanted to write.

After working eight years for the New Zealand Forest Service as a clerk, she decided she could spend at least that much time trying to get a novel published.

Luckily it took five years, not eight, before Fiona wrote her first award-winning novel.

She has won the Australian Romantic Book of the Year award (category section) twice, one of her novels was listed by Romantic Times as one of their all-time top two hundred favorite romance books and she has been featured in Next and She magazines.

Fiona lives in a subtropical South Seas paradise called the Bay of Islands with her two sons.

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was an ok romance story, with a little bit of supernatural thrown in. I think she could have taken more advantage of the supernatural angle, but perhaps I read too many romances where they take TOO much advantage.

[Amy Calvert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really took me a while to get into. Lots of back and forth, but once it got good, it was good!

[Amy Freese · Rating 3 out of 5]

The main setting for this book is in Peru, near an archaeological dig. I was drawn into the ancient myth involved with this story. I could really see that old world coming to life! The present day theme of the tale was very intriguing, there were some good moments of intensity. The characters were believable and easy to relate with. It was a very original concept Fiona Brand put together. It was interesting to follow basically two tales set hundreds of years apart, yet also all at once. The only drawback I had was that it seemed to end to soon, I felt the story could have gone farther.

[Lesli · Rating 2 out of 5]

Paranormal romance. I've read better.

[Foggygirl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recently re read this book and it was still a fairly decent read after the interim of the years.

[Joanne Hill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a great story spanning time periods. A keeper.

[Cynthiaj · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the cotton candy of the genre. Purely fluff. That's OK though as that is why I read the genre.