Meredith Griffin had found her way into the inner workings of the Temple of the Enlightenment with not trouble at all. As a matter of fact, it was like taking candy from a baby. After all, why lock your drawers and door when all the people on the other side were too numb to reality to care.
All but one. When Meredith had come to take her brother, Kevin, away from this eerie place full of brainwashed zombies, she hadn't counted on Mark Brasfield, nor had she counted on falling in love with him.
He was everything Meredith had ever wanted in a man. But she was about to discover the biggest deception of all, the cruelest of all lies, from the one man she had come to trust with her soul!
Donna A. Ball born in 1951 in Georgia, USA. Her ancestors were one of the first pioneer families of North Georgia, and her family still lives on the land they purchased from the Cherokee in 1782.
Her first book was published in 1982 as Donna Ball, since them she has written over a dozen works of commercial fiction under her name and under diferent pseudonyms: Rebecca Flanders, Donna Carlisle and Donna Boyd. She also signed novels with Shannon Harper as Leigh Bristol and Taylor Brady. And a novel with Linda Dano as Felicia Gallant. She is known for her work in women’s fiction and suspense, as well as supernatural fantasy and adventure. Her novels have been translated into well over a dozen languages and have been published in virtually every country in the world. She has appeared on Entertainment Tonight and Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, and has been featured in such publications as the Detroit Free Press, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, and even T.V. Guide. She is the holder of the Storytelling World award, 2001, the Georgia Author of the Year Award, 2000, Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards for consecutive years 1991-1996, the Georgia Romance Writer’s Maggie Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Romantic Times, among others.
Donna lives in a restored turn-of-the-century barn in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northeast Georgia with her dogs, they have won numerous awards for agility, obedience, and canine musical freestyle. Her hobbies include oil painting, hiking and dog obedience training.
Meredith Griffin travels to Stonington, Kansas (from Oregon) to look for her brother (Kevin), who is supposed to be living at a compound (the Temple of the Enlightenment). Meredith finds the town and the people strange. She eventually meets handsome Mark Brasfield who says he can accompany her to the Temple. Meredith is very suspicious when she arrives at the Temple and doesn’t really trust the people there. She also finds that she is falling for Mark. Will she ever see her brother again?
This was a very enjoyable and unusual storyline. Sometimes I wanted to get past the romance and get to the action at the Temple and find out what was happening with Kevin. Meredith was a very headstrong and feisty heroine. (No shrinking violet here.) Mark was a decent hero.