Review: A Creamy Layer Cake
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2013
"Maeve Lovejoy ran across the courtyard to the sanctuary, hoping her book had not made her late. Her love of reading under the old oak was always getting her into trouble."From this emotive opening - the young girl, the old oak, the book, the sense of urgency, we are drawn into Natalie Gibson's paranormal romance set amongst a coven of witches in the Texas bible belt at a time that is unspecified and can best be described as magical. Maeve is a talented `matchmaker', her role esteemed within the confines of her sect, but runs into problems when she meets Aaron - a man she believes she can love and will love her, a man with whom she feels comfortable revealing her skills and her secrets.When a spate of murder breaks out among Maeve's formerly happy matches, her days of tranquility are over and the reader is taken into a labyrinth of plot twists that had me turning the pages long after I should have turned the light out and slept. Aaron disappears, the Abbess of the Order, Nathalie (with an h) is forced along the path of impossible choices and Maeve Lovejoy must find Aaron if calm is ever to return.Ishtar Bound is the first of six books in the Sinnis Series, a layer cake of urban fantasy and the paranormal with a generous topping of the creamy erotic. Read the first and you will be back at Amazon downloading the series