The Volan Curse

by Jane Toombs

A howling in the night...

From the moment she arrived at Halfmoon House, Neita Metsula knew something was very wrong at the Victorian mansion high above the storm-tossed California coast. But was the evil she sensed outside, where shadowy creatures howled at the moon, or inside, where the strange, tormented man she had come here to care for called to her soul?

Despite his growing need for her, Fenn Volan could scarcely tell this woman that he was struggling against something far worse than the partial amnesia that imprisoned him. How could she understand his fear that his clouded memory was the mark of the terrible curse that stalked his family--a curse that could cost the life of anyone he touched?

Genres: Romance

248 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published June 1, 1994

About the author

Jane was born in California, raised in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, has returned "home" to live in the beautiful Upper Peninsula on the shore of Lake Superior--with the Viking from her past. Jane has five children, two stepchildren, seven grandchildren, a calico cat named Kinko and two computers.

She's the author of over seventy published books, both in paper and electronic. These include the various romance genres--gothic, suspense, contemporary, historical, Regency and paranormal--as well as other genres such as mystery, fantasy and horror. Jane has used pseudonyms--Ellen Jamison, Diana Stuart, Olivia Sumner--but is now writing under her own name except for her Zebra/Pinnacle romances for which she uses Jane Anderson.

Reviews

[Christina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Theo waved his hand at a the shelves of books."My esoteric reference library. Half the volumes there had to do with shapeshifters, including werewolves. Many of the books are in other languages and some are manuscripts so ancient their handwritten. Werewolf lore comes from all areas of the world where wolves exist or once existed. There's a word for werewolf in the language of every one of those countries the Greeks called them vrykolakas, the Romans for verisipellis, the north countries vargulf, the French loup-garou, the Spanish lobombre, and so on. As for the Celts--- the the Good St. Patrick didn't just rid Ireland of snakes but also turn the Welsh King, vereticus, into a wolf for his sins.
Today we're so scientifically oriented, so modern and thought that no one believes in werewolves. You, for example, are still trying to deny there can possibly be such a creature as a shapeshifter. "

[Robin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Neita Metsula is hired as a live-in nurse to care for Fenn Volan, a man who now suffers from amnesia along with various injuries after a fall from the cliffs. Moving into his family home, a Victorian mansion on the California coast, Neita hears a ghostly howl that sounds like a wolf. Fenn says the howling is calling to him and he knows that whatever happened the night he was injured has something to do with the wolves.

This story was so slow and boring, I ended up skimming over half of the book. It wasn't hard to figure out who was a werewolf and who wasn't. My rating: 1.5 Stars.