Review: A family curse plus one hot witch and one sexy empath
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 18, 2011
Graelen Scott is one of four brothers - two sets of twins -all four are witches born under a family curse which forces them to live apart from each other.  Rena Gallagher is staff historian at the Museum of Art History in San Diego specializing in tarot history.  Rena has been commissioned to study an ancient deck of tarot cards, during her research she discovers a connection to Grae's family and goes to his house to question him about it.  From the moment Grae and Rena meet sparks fly, literally, and they soon discover their attraction to each other is something neither of them can deny.  Grae discovers Rena is in possession of a deck of tarot cards that has disappeared from his family's vault and is distrustful of her explanation as to why she has sought him out.  Despite Grae's misgivings he agrees to help Rena and their search for the truth behind the tarot cards leads them into a journey of dark danger and sensual delight.From the very first paragraph of this novella you know you are in for a hot ride.  Grae is obviously a very strong witch with strong desires and a bit over bearing.  You should hate him for these traits but you just can't help being attracted to him.  Rena is a bit mousy at times and at other times she is strong as steal, she is intelligent and, oh by the way, a strong empath.  You can't help but feel sorry for her having to feel all of Grae's emotions and want to tell her to just run away.  There are a few secondary characters introduced, Grae's brother Cash and eventually Rena's mysterious client.  We don't get much background on anyone in the story but do find out Cash has anger issues and he's not very likeable.This is a short novella, easily read in a couple of hours and with enough of a story line to keep you interested through the whole thing.  I have to admit I would have liked a little more background on the family curse and a little more depth of the characters, but it is a short novella and I understand that there just wasn't enough time to give the reader more.  This is semi-erotica but there is a story here, not just one sex scene after another one.  The sex scenes are slightly explicit but not so much so that they overshadow the story.  If you enjoy a good steamy story with a little bit of a mystery, you will enjoy this novella.