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 - AWESOME - Highly RecommendedTen years earlier, Eleanor "Nell" Anslowe, a beautiful wealthy heiress was once betrothed to a Duke's heir. That was before the `accident' which left her lame and haunted by nightmares of hideous brutality - always the same perpetrator who remained in shadows, but different victims. Firmly off the shelf at twenty-nine she agreed to accompany her father to London for the season where she is looked at as the answer to the nefarious Lord Tynedale's way out of debt. Rebuffing his advances, Tynedale later kidnapped her with the intention of rape and forcing her to wed, but due to a storm along the way, Nell escaped and found shelter in a nearby hut. Fate stepped in when on that same stormy night, Julian, the Earl of Wyndham was racing to prevent his step-sister from eloping to Gretna Greene. Thrown by his horse he also found shelter in the same hut as Nell and when Nell's father and brother discovered them Julian - who had vowed never to re-marry - did the honorable thing and offered marriage. Their marriage would blossom into a sensual and powerful love that would last forever....or until they could discover the identity of Nell's `shadow man' before he destroyed them both. *** I was completely swept away from the very first pages of this tremendous Regency Romance mystery and read it in one sitting. The author combined all the elements I look for in a romance with two ideal lead characters truly meant for one another; after the requisite initial problems of conflict over their hasty marriage. Julian is kind, honorable, considerate, and in lust with Nell until he finally realizes he's fallen in love with his wife. While Nell's initial qualms over being married without love to a complete stranger are worked out in a reasonable amount of time, she has also fallen in love with her husband, but feels that his heart is bound to his deceased wife. At first I was wondering why the author opened up the book with Nell's nightmares and then as the romance progressed the author simultaneously directed the intrigue towards the horror that Nell's nightmares were based in fact! As Nell's nightmares which Julian was trying to soothe away became more and more real, an event happened to make her realize that her initial nightmare of a man being killed was not a nightmare at all but a real event. At this point, Nell realized she was actually looking through the eyes of the madman. The author then built up the suspense with the introduction of legitimate and illegitimate cousins, uncles, and by-blows from Julian's rakish grandfather and uncle, giving the reader a wide range of possibilities as to what face belonged to the "shadow-man" from Nell's dreams, especially when the features of all the relations were so similar to one another. Thrilling with an edge-of -the seat climax, the author kept up the suspense right up to the spine chilling ending. This was my very first book by the esteemed historical romance author Shirlee Busbee but it surely will not be the last. In short it was a fast and beautifully paced romance with a huge dollop of suspense and mystery that will keep the reader enthralled from beginning to end! What a treat! Marilyn Rondeau, RIO - Reviewers International Organization for www.paranormalromance.org Rating:  - Not as good as I rememer her past novelsThis book took me two weeks to finish since I kept getting bored reading it so would put it down for later. I did like the main characters and feel like the secondary ones will have stories of their own, but I just couldn't get into the story. The ending was predictable, and wrapped up in such a quick fashion that it seemed as if even the author was bored with it and wanted to end the book asap! Sorry, can't recommend if it takes me that long to get thru a book when there are so many out there to get to! Rating: - Wow! Wonderful romance and suspense. Great read.This book was everything and more. Great storyline, characters and kept your attention with the suspense and romance. Due to an accident, nineteen year old, engaged to a future Duke, Nell Anslow has lost everything in her future. Engagement called off and cripled from a fall from a cliff, Nell,still a great heiress,but cripled, has come to the attention of a desolute rake, gambler and fortune hunter ten years later. He kidnaps her, but things go wrong and by coincident,she meets Julian, Earl of Wyndham,and is caught in compromising position by her family searching for her. Julian, proposing marriage, does not expect to fall in love and not wanting to marry again marries Nell, who also does not want to love someone who does not love her, but they have no choice but to marry and settle into a convenient marriage. Nell has been plagued by horrible nightmares since her accident and they have gotten worse. She dreams of young women being brutally slashed and killed, but can't quite make out the identity of the murderer. She can describe a dungeon in detail, but not the location where the murders take place. Julian learns of the nightmares and the plot thickens when the fortune hunter takes up residence with one of Julian's cousins. There's been uneasy truce between cousins and this adds to the tensions. Strange mutilations start to occur on the estate, Busbee builds her story from there and you will not want to put it down. The book was very good and well worth the read. Rating: - The lady still has itOh boy did this take me back, when the story where what we wanted to read. No villans, chases, plots just good old romance, I have missed this. Rating: - terrific psychological Regency romantic suspense Following the accident, Eleanor "Nell" Anslowe is haunted by nightmares of torture and murder in a dungeon with a shadowy figure nearby. Almost thirty, but sill on the shelf, she flees a libertine after her wealth and inadvertently meets an earl Julian Weston, who is chasing after his inane stepsister. Neither has plans to marry, but caught together, they do and surprisingly fall in love. In 1804, the bliss ends when the nightmares return with one frightening change; the shadowy man seems to be staring at her. She tells Julian about her bad dreams and he believes that what she sees is real and that a vicious serial killer knows Nell is coming closer to identifying him; making her the next target by they both assume someone they know and probably trust with their lives. This is a terrific psychological Regency romantic suspense that grips the audience from the first nightmare to the last dream. The story line is fast-paced as Nell and Julian use their love for one another to help them face an unknown killer haunting her sleep. Shirlee Busbee provides a great tale that will have cross genre appeal to historical mystery and Regency romance readers. Harriet Klausner page 2 of 2
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