Review: Fun, Hot and Entertaining
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 26, 2013
4.5 StarsIn Blaze of Winter by Elisabeth Barrett, Avery Newbridge is worn out from her job as a social worker in Boston. She needs to reassess her life and her job before she can return to work, so being asked by her family to help manage the Star Harbor Inn while her aunt recovers from her chemotherapy treatment could not have happened at a better time for her. Unfortunately, her time alone to think will come to an end when an unexpected guest checks-in and plans to stay there till the end of January. This is great for the business, but it brings an end to her solitude and thinking time to be replaced by the distraction of a sexy man.Theo Grayson is a famous author with a long list of fans and his publisher awaiting his next novel. Unfortunately, he has writers block, so in search of his new novel he has taken the advise of his brother and returned home to Star Harbor after living many years in San Francisco hoping to find inspiration for his next book there. But living on his eldest brother's boat with two of his brothers is not exactly the most ideal or comfortable. So taking the advise of his eldest he is moving in to the inn for the remaining time he will be in Star Harbor.What neither Theo or Avery expected is the instant attraction they felt towards each other as soon as they met and which Avery does not want to act on. So she will do everything she can to be the perfect hostess but keep her distance at all times. Quite unsuccessfully I might add for Theo has other ideas in mind, and seducing Avery and getting to know her better is a top priority for him. But as he stays at the inn by himself he starts hearing odd sounds and that just arouses his curiosity. And to make matters even more complicated, on his trip out to do research, he finds strange track on the snow coming from the ocean and at night he sees odd lights.Something is happening beneath the inn, but Avery, her sister and her aunt have been ignoring the sounds thinking it was just the old place settling or a maybe even a ghost as they would find things moved in the morning. Now with the help of Theo they will find out the truth behind all those sounds, but danger lurks beneath and Avery will become the target and it will be up to Theo to save her before she gets killed.Avery will find the support and advise she needs to decide what to do with her life. But first she will have to decide if she will give Theo a chance or judge him like the rest of Star Harbor for the troublemakers him and his brothers were when they were young.If you want a fun, hot and entertaining read with a little mystery and suspense, don't miss Blaze of Winter by Elisabeth Barrett.