Review: Magical
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 25, 2013
What an amazing and original book, breathtaking and heartbreaking at the same time. Soul Searchers is full of mystery and romance, a sensual and passionate story full of secrets, lies and deception. All this being achieved without using explicit and gratuitous scenes or language, just the skill of the authors words.Modern day Nevada and Rio’s story is blended amazingly well with Tajan and Maggies story, along with the Native traditions, spirituality and life as it was in their era. With Tajan and Maggie’s love story, set in a time of racial hatred, unacceptance and murder they are true soulmates, destined to find one another although one is white and the other an Indian. I loved every word, paragraph and chapter.Set in modern day Nevada there are stories from past generations of 3 sisters that robbed banks back in the 1800’s, and one last attempt led to a hefty amount of gold and silver being buried in the mountains between Carson and Virginia City to never be recovered due to unexpected circumstances.Maggie one of the sisters is shot in the robbery and found by a gorgeous Washoe Indian. Enthralled by her Tajan carries her back to the Washoe people to be healed by his father the tribal shaman. What begins as an infatuation between Tajan and Maggie becomes so much more when faced with the thought of being separated, they are lovingly joined as one. Living a married life full of laughter, passion and happiness, a forced separation leads to a happy reunion with a surprise and deathRio, the main female character is a feisty firecracker with lots of attitude. A con artist by trade she learns about the buried treasure and in order to get her hands on it with the help of Turner Atkins the ruthless “brains” behind the scheme she claims to be the daughter of one of the sisters great, great granddaughter, easily achievable as she looks exactly like MaggieFinding all is not what she expected, events may not go as planed. Instantly she is attracted to a painting of Tajan. Unable to get him out of her mind, knowing it was more than his handsomeness, it was his eyes speaking to her, drawing her in, making her feel she knew him.Yearning for a loving family Rio never had, the Tajan’s provide all that and more, especially the warrior. Wherever Rio travels within the town a sense of eeriness, a feeling of familiarity follows, as do visions of Tajan and feelings of heartache.Expect a surprise ending, a little rushed as I could have read so much more about this book, hence the 4  instead of 5 stars. Recommended in a heartbeat. Wanting to read the second instalment but negative reviews have me thinking. Loving the whole Tajan/Maggie/Rio triangle I wont be able to resist!