Review: Great storyline !!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 20, 2013
REVIEW:  PROTECTOR is a short novella in Nancy Northcott's The Protector's series focusing on a magical group of protectors and guardians known as the Mage. The Mage are a gifted species of people who source their power from the elements but their enemies-the ghouls-suck the life force and power from the mage to survive.  In PROTECTOR the ghouls, with the help of mage power, have developed a weapon that connects with the mage and in doing so, will slowly deplete their victim until nothing is left.In PROTECTOR firefighter Edie Lang and pilot Josh Campbell battle forest fires as well as each other in a struggle with life and death.  Returning from a recent fire, both will find themselves weakened and unable to remember certain aspects of their latest job.  It is only when they begin to piece together their memories do they uncover a possible cause to their shared illness and loss of power.Josh and Edie have a past-one that is mired in miscommunication and Josh's reluctance to accept Edie as a woman capable of fighting fires.  His worry and need to protect carries onto the job when he is unable to separate the woman that he loves from the fire fighter entering dangerous territory.  As well as battling the unknown cause of their loss of power, Josh and Edie battle each other in a test of wills.PROTECTOR is a welcome storyline that leads into Nancy's next instalment in The Protector series.  Dr.Stefan Harper is the resident Mage physician who has been unable to extinguish the memories of the woman he had given up years before, and in Protector, there is a build up to his story.  Protector is a fast paced, interesting storyline about two strong willed and capable heroes, who have issues of control when it involves the other.  When it looks likes neither is willing to compromise, one must step forward and relinquish his need to protect above all else.see all of my reviews at :thereadingcafe(dot)com