Review: 4 stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 1, 2013
A pair of star crossed lovers reincarnated and reunited centuries after being torn asunder show that true love really does conquer all.Of the first three books in this series, this one has the most paranormal elements fully enmeshed within the main characters' story - it's the driving force between what is happening and it works far better. In the previous two, you have the romance story and also a haunting. In this one, the paranormal storyline drives the contemporary romance.Beatrice and Royce are married and in love in 1522 but are murdered by having their throats slit by a dark soul before they are able to consummate their love and setting up a curse which will come back to haunt them when they are reincarnated in the present day.Colin, owner of Lacybourne Manor, knows he is Royce reincarnated and knows he is waiting for his soul mate. He's a man of wealth and power, in fact he's obscenely rich, and has become jaded with grasping women who are just after the status and kudos of being with him. He's losing faith that he will ever find Beatrice reincarnated and has become distrustful, cold and hard-hearted. When he finally meets Sybil, Beatrice reincarnated, he just assumes he is being set up and treats her with extreme callousness.Beatrice is an American girl living in England (all the heroines of this series are) and she has absolutely no idea of her previous life other than that she has been dreaming of Colin all her life and their first meeting destroys her hopes and dreams. In fact, Colin treats her like a whore, she behaves like a whore (albeit for laudable reasons) and they are both deeply disappointed in each other - their collective dreams and hopes seemingly tainted forever.Colin is quite the gamma hero. There's quite a darkness to him here that we don't often see in a KA hero and it give me a bit of a thrill, I have to confess as my reading preferences often tend to veer towards the darker side!! Slowly, Sibyl will warm him up with her generous and faultless personality - in fact, she is a little too good to be true with her giving nature. Thankfully KA writes her a few faults - she's a right mardy arse first thing in the morning and has an incendiary temper!!So, as the story progresses, the reincarnation and paranormal elements become deeper with more and more people involved as we sail inexorably towards our fated conclusion - can the curse be broken?I did enjoy this one although I felt it started to lose credibility towards the end as it grew ever more fantastical but the whole reincarnated fated to be mated storyline is what the novel is all about and it pays to suspend your disbelief and just go with it. It's another great KA romance - she really knows how to write `em - and I will carry on with the series.4 star paranormal romance