Review: There is Love Out There for Everyone
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2014
Who knows when the "right" one comes along or what their initial purpose for being in your life could be? Haven has opened an extravagant spa for visitors to St. Augustine, FL. The pampering begins at the front door and continues until check out time. Alone since the death of her philandering husband, Haven has shied away from relationships. That all changes when a widowed pro golfer/ playboy comes on the scene. Pace is interested in only two things, the property next door, to open his own retreat & spa for golfers and keeping his love life easy, fast and free, no strings attached. But who can fight with the fates or with chemistry? Will their damaged pasts and their planned futures as rivals in a dog-eat-dog service industry stand between them? The raw sex is fast, furious and often, but that final admission of their feelings for each other seems to be held back. Will these two learn there is more to life than success and without love and someone to share it with everything else is half empty? Are they emotionally ready to let down their shields, cast off their guilt, and learn to be open and honest? And what of their business rivalry that is in the works?Essence by Mackenzie Lucas is a steamy, and sometimes raw look at the sexual desires of two damaged people substituting the physical for the emotional. Each has their own demons, deserved or not, but the most damaged is Pace, whose past is far more tragic and runs far deeper than Haven's. Sometimes you just find a favorite character that makes the story for you, I would call him my newest book boyfriend, but he's only five or six years old, with the wisdom of a sage. If not for the supporting cast, whose quirkiness and sweet honesty brighten each page just perfectly, so much would have been lost, a brilliant move on the author's part to poke some square pegs into the round holes at the perfect moments!