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Winter Storm
Willow Daniels has a heart of gold and is willing to help anyone who needs it. When she helps Ethan McCormick one snowy night, she may have made the biggest mistake of her life. Trapped by a winter storm in a tiny North Yorkshire village, Willow is forced to re-evaluate everything she believes in and wonders if anyone is truly who they seem. Fate may have brought her to Ethan, but as danger closes in, she must draw on strengths she never knew she possessed in order to protect the man she has grown to love. Protection--not only against Ethan's worst enemy but also against himself.
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228 pages, Paperback
Published November 17, 2021
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January 1, 2022
Two worlds crash into each other and are held together by nature. This isn't the start of a Nat Geo flick but a description of this intense romantic suspense. Willow is an innocent in what is a terrible world outside her village. Ethan is a strident force for good in that terrible world.
Their coming together and subsequent time together is the zeitgeist of the tale. The world of Willow is brilliantly described. The reader feels like they are in a small village in Yorkshire. The suspense is one to capture the imagination of the reader. The action scenes are intense.
That the reader is left with a bit of a wonder as to why everything happened is a flaw. That Willow is left defined as an oddball is also a severe flaw.
Recommended to fans of British mysteries/suspense. Recommended to fans of books about undercover police work. Recommended for fans of that hard to define romantic mystery/suspense.
Disclaimer: I received a copy from the author in the hopes I'd review it.
My Rating: 4.5 stars
Reviewed by: Mr. N
This review first appeared: https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/po...
Their coming together and subsequent time together is the zeitgeist of the tale. The world of Willow is brilliantly described. The reader feels like they are in a small village in Yorkshire. The suspense is one to capture the imagination of the reader. The action scenes are intense.
That the reader is left with a bit of a wonder as to why everything happened is a flaw. That Willow is left defined as an oddball is also a severe flaw.
Recommended to fans of British mysteries/suspense. Recommended to fans of books about undercover police work. Recommended for fans of that hard to define romantic mystery/suspense.
Disclaimer: I received a copy from the author in the hopes I'd review it.
My Rating: 4.5 stars
Reviewed by: Mr. N
This review first appeared: https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/po...
February 6, 2022
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Suspense, scene movement, three-dimensional characters, adversity, and an intelligent, hunky mystery guy with a gun - what’s not to like? Four and a half stars for this fantastic romantic suspense, "Winter Storm"!
Read full review in the 2022 February issue of InD'tale Magazine.
Suspense, scene movement, three-dimensional characters, adversity, and an intelligent, hunky mystery guy with a gun - what’s not to like? Four and a half stars for this fantastic romantic suspense, "Winter Storm"!
Read full review in the 2022 February issue of InD'tale Magazine.
January 19, 2022
The intense beginning reeled me in, and the continuous action and suspense kept me hooked.
Willow Daniels lives a quiet, happy life and she never once considered that her generous, open heart can get her in serious trouble. When Ethan McCormick forced himself into her life, she had to re-evaluate everything she knew about people. Stuck together in Willow’s house during a heavy snow storm, she shows him the better side of humanity.
My first thought was, jeez, how stupid can a woman be. But then we see that Willow is a nurturer and it’s natural for her to take care of everyone around her, even a man who is potentially dangerous. I have no idea what I would’ve done in her shoes.
The tension builds up really well, as well as the growing attraction between Willow and Ethan. I guessed at the identity of Ethan’s adversary, but I was never 100% sure. There was an incident between Willow and her friend, Sam, who she had dated a few times in the past, that didn’t make a lot of sense to me. It came out of the blue, it didn’t really add anything to the story, and it was very childish. Willow stayed true to her character throughout the story.
I was pleasantly surprised by this book and I can recommend it if you like romantic suspense. It’s not steamy at all, the focus is more on Ethan’s attempts to keep Willow safe, but the romance between them is well done.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
January 4, 2022
After getting lost, Willow pulls into a parking lot to get her bearings and a man jumps in her car and tells her to drive. She refuses, but the gun he’s aiming at her changes things. Long story short, she takes him home with her and they get snowed in. Is he truly a good guy as he claims, she wonders. Ethan wonders if she’s truly as trusting as she appears. Both have lots to learn about each other and the snow gives them some time to do just that. But is someone really after Ethan? If so, who and how can Willow help save him yet again?
This was listed under mysteries but it’s more a romance, which isn’t my style. Though it was a quick read and I actually enjoyed the story and setting.
This was listed under mysteries but it’s more a romance, which isn’t my style. Though it was a quick read and I actually enjoyed the story and setting.
November 18, 2021
Our Review: Set in a small Yorkshire village, Winter Storm is the story of a gentle, trusting woman who willingly tends to a wounded stranger because that’s her nature. Ethan McCormick is clearly on the run—but from whom he will not say. He cannot say—because it would put Willow, as well as himself, in greater danger. This is also a story of complete opposites. She is sweet, trusting, and kind to all. Ethan is rough, rugged and loathes Christmas and all it stands for. In the middle of a hard December storm, he’s trapped in a home that looks like something out of a Father Christmas catalogue. The culmination is an edge-of-your-seat chase through the twisting corridors, hidden nooks and crannies of a small rural school. An excellent work of sweet romance and brilliant danger.
Based on a scale of 1-5, Winter Storm deserves a 7.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews.
Based on a scale of 1-5, Winter Storm deserves a 7.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews.
January 3, 2022
Winter Storm is the story of two worlds meeting. Willow's world is good, sweet, kind and generous. Ethan's is dangerous and full of mistrust. A winter storm will force these two together in order to save each other as a traitor has them in his sights.
I received an ARC from NetGalley for an unbiased review.
I received an ARC from NetGalley for an unbiased review.
January 16, 2022
Willow is lost in a snowstorm. She pulls over to get her bearings. Suddenly the passenger door opens and a man with a gun gets in and says drive. Thus begins a page turning mystery that keeps you guessing right up to the last page. Really good story.
February 1, 2022
Winter Storm had promise but didn't deliver for me, I'm afraid. The characters were underdeveloped and the storyline frequently lacked clarity.
The story starts on a dark and stormy night, natch, where heroine Willow's poor sense of direction leads her into the middle of an attempted murder. A man with a gun jumps into her car and forces her to speed away as pursuers took shots at them. They get away and the strange man soon passes out from his injuries. Most normal people would find the authorities as quickly as possible, and they definitely wouldn't remain in the car with an armed stranger. Willow, however, senses that the strange man is what he claims to be: the good guy. She takes Ethan home to her cottage where they spend the next couple of days snowbound in her tiny village. Ethan explains that he's been an undercover cop but someone on the inside ratted him out. We never know exactly what he was undercover for.
The two are attracted to one another and share a few chaste kisses, but other than that, they don't seem to have a whole lot in common. Willow clearly has some kind of psychic gift, but frustratingly, it's never explicitly stated or explained. I have no problem with a little fantasy in my romance, but either commit fully to the trope or stay away from it. Offhand references to crystals and auras are otherwise unconvincing.
As for who ratted on Ethan from the inside, it's not the mystery that the author seems to think it is. We don't know nearly enough about Ethan, his coworkers, or the men he worked with when he was undercover for there to be any more than a single possibility. And when the rat is officially uncovered, the character proves to be more of a horror-movie psychopath than a criminal.
The story gets two stars because, in spite of the problems that I had with the plot and the characters, the story does move at a tidy clip. Willow is sweet in a too-good-to-be-true-but-is-true-anyway way, but she's also fairly intrepid. Ethan seems like a nice enough guy though we never learn much about him. As for an HEA, you get one, though it's not really clear how the differences that threatened to keep them apart will be resolved.
I received an ARC of this book from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for my honest opinion. Thanks!
The story starts on a dark and stormy night, natch, where heroine Willow's poor sense of direction leads her into the middle of an attempted murder. A man with a gun jumps into her car and forces her to speed away as pursuers took shots at them. They get away and the strange man soon passes out from his injuries. Most normal people would find the authorities as quickly as possible, and they definitely wouldn't remain in the car with an armed stranger. Willow, however, senses that the strange man is what he claims to be: the good guy. She takes Ethan home to her cottage where they spend the next couple of days snowbound in her tiny village. Ethan explains that he's been an undercover cop but someone on the inside ratted him out. We never know exactly what he was undercover for.
The two are attracted to one another and share a few chaste kisses, but other than that, they don't seem to have a whole lot in common. Willow clearly has some kind of psychic gift, but frustratingly, it's never explicitly stated or explained. I have no problem with a little fantasy in my romance, but either commit fully to the trope or stay away from it. Offhand references to crystals and auras are otherwise unconvincing.
As for who ratted on Ethan from the inside, it's not the mystery that the author seems to think it is. We don't know nearly enough about Ethan, his coworkers, or the men he worked with when he was undercover for there to be any more than a single possibility. And when the rat is officially uncovered, the character proves to be more of a horror-movie psychopath than a criminal.
The story gets two stars because, in spite of the problems that I had with the plot and the characters, the story does move at a tidy clip. Willow is sweet in a too-good-to-be-true-but-is-true-anyway way, but she's also fairly intrepid. Ethan seems like a nice enough guy though we never learn much about him. As for an HEA, you get one, though it's not really clear how the differences that threatened to keep them apart will be resolved.
I received an ARC of this book from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for my honest opinion. Thanks!
November 21, 2021
This is a sweet/clean romance with thrills. The author describes what she writes as "heart-warming." And there are heart-warming elements, with its Christmas setting in a small UK village and its heroine, Willow, a sweet, unselfish, intuitive person--she can sense "auras" in others. She takes Ethan, an attractive stranger who hijacks her car at gun point, into her home and gives first aid to his deep knife wound, sensing he is really a good guy. He stays with her a few days as he recovers and yes, they fall in love and influence each other psychologically. He's an undercover agent and there's a bad guy who threatens them in a chilling sequence in a school building. I felt Willow chewed her lip too many times and I wanted more a sense of their sexual tension and attraction. Also Ethan seemed to recover from that knife wound too easily if it was a deep as described (did it not affect any vital organs?) But the plot kept me interested. It could make a good movie.
June 19, 2022
I enjoyed this thrilling and mystery story with all of the characters. The two main characters were Willow Daniels and Ethan McCormick.
Willow Daniels like to help anyone that needs help. On a snow storm night after taking a friend to the train station she loses her way back home. While looking up the streets names on her phone a man gets into her car. She is quite surprised when gun shot start to happen. The only place to take the man is back home to the small village.
Ethan McCormick needs a ride fast. Because he running away from some group of bad guys. When he see a car just waiting there he jumps in and tells them to drive. He has secrets that he can tell her.
I had fun reading this story. It has action, suspense, secrets, and mystery. It was fun trying to find out who the mystery person was.
I received a complimentary copy via Netgalley. This is my honest unbiased opinions.
Willow Daniels like to help anyone that needs help. On a snow storm night after taking a friend to the train station she loses her way back home. While looking up the streets names on her phone a man gets into her car. She is quite surprised when gun shot start to happen. The only place to take the man is back home to the small village.
Ethan McCormick needs a ride fast. Because he running away from some group of bad guys. When he see a car just waiting there he jumps in and tells them to drive. He has secrets that he can tell her.
I had fun reading this story. It has action, suspense, secrets, and mystery. It was fun trying to find out who the mystery person was.
I received a complimentary copy via Netgalley. This is my honest unbiased opinions.
February 2, 2022
Willow is driving around lost and pulls her car over when a man with a gun jumps into her passenger seat and demands that she drive, insisting that he’s the good guy. The suspense and romance intensifies from there. This was a really good story. I thank Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.
December 12, 2021
Absolutely brilliant read, and perfect for just before Christmas. I loved it. Great characters that I really cared about and an exciting and very tense story. I was hooked from the first page.
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