Nocturne
Product Description (Amazon.com)
When Nicole Whitcomb's car runs off a Colorado mountain road during a blinding snowstorm, she is saved from death by a handsome, fascinating, and enigmatic stranger.
Snowbound with him for days in his beautiful home high in the Rockies, she finds herself powerfully attracted to him. But there are things about him that mystify her, filling her with apprehension.
Who is Michael Tyler? Why does he live alone in such a secluded spot and guard his private life so carefully? What secret--or secrets--is he hiding?
Nicole has secrets of her own and a past she is running from--but Michael understands her better than anyone she has ever known. Soon, she is falling as deeply in love with him as he is with her--a profoundly meaningful experience that is destined to change their lives forever.
As the sexual tension between them builds, however, the clues mount up. When Nicole learns her host's terrifying secret, there is nowhere for her to run but into the blizzard raging outside, and Michael may be the only one who can save her life.
Amazon Availability
- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Vanguard Press; Mass Market Edition edition (August 2, 2011)
- Kindle Edition: 410 KB
- Print Length: 288 pages
- Publisher: Vanguard Press; 1 edition (January 4, 2011)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Vanguard Press; 1 edition (January 4, 2011)
Picked up Hardcover at BEA; no expectation by publisher.
As I began this book I had to check in my records to see if I had read it before. I have read two or three books with very nearly the exact same beginning in this past year. And, it seemed to pull in a lot of themes from other vampire books like Twilight. While well written prose made this a compelling read, tired tropes pull it down below this writer's potential. Gorgeous girl has accident in a snowstorm, mysterious man rescues her. He turns out to be a ridiculously wealthy supe, and so on.
There are a few switch-ups that deny our expectations in what could have been an entirely predictable read. The romantic scenes are well done, and the ending totally took me by surprise. The writer very obviously did a lot of research into several technical areas and periods in history.
This was more of a romance novel with a paranormal element than a paranormal romance. You'll need a box of tissues.
http://www.nocturnebook.com/excerpt.php
This was more of a romance novel with a paranormal element than a paranormal romance. You'll need a box of tissues.
http://www.nocturnebook.com/excerpt.php
Enjoy this video of the theme song, My Love Is Like A Red Red Rose
