Review: Romantic suspense at its best!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
I read this in one sitting, as my Mother’s Day treat to myself. This is romantic suspense at its best!Charisse is a young queen who has just lost her much older husband. Khalid is the brooding playboy, youngest son of the king of a neighboring country. Charisse’s husband’s dying wish is that she marry Khalid, for the stability of their country.What I liked best about the romance was that the main things keeping these two from letting each other in were their own insecurities and issues from the past. There were a few misconceptions and misunderstandings at the beginning, but in most romance novels those keep happening throughout the book until I want to shake the couple and bang their heads together.Instead, Ms. MacKenzie switches to the much more realistic issues that tend to keep real-life couples from living happily ever after.I also particularly liked Ms. MacKenzie’s world of made-up countries that were such a realistic blend of old cultures and traditions with modern technology and global connections.Regarding the suspense aspect, there were enough twists and turns and heart-pounding scenes to keep this mystery reader/writer intrigued. There are hints at the end of more stories to come about these characters. I can’t wait!Kassandra Lamb, author of the Kate Huntington mysteries