This story is chock-full of romance, and non-stop surprises. I feel as if I just went on a somewhat shady tour of Eastern Europe, from small village to nightclubbing. And met some colorful local characters. Would love to see the movie!
Smoke and Mirrors (Book 1 of The Gifted Series)
by Marie Treanor
4.7 stars - 3 reviews
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Here's the set-up:
Deceit and desire, and a treasure beyond price...
When struggling
Scottish writer Nell Black accepts a one-off job with the police,
translating for an arson suspect from the isolated ex-Soviet republic of
Zavrekestan, she stumbles into a terrifying world of organized crime
and paranormal abilities that turns her whole belief system upside down.
Faced with an incomparable thief, hit men who spontaneously
combust, gangsters, drug dealers, British Intelligence and a fiery
goddess, Nell no longer knows who to trust. The man who saves her life
is a criminal to whom deceit is second nature. He has more smoke screens
and more plans in motion than anyone else can keep track of. He is,
moreover, probably insane. Even his fellow gangsters are afraid of him.
So why is he the one man Nell wants to touch her?
Rodion Kosar is
in trouble. His convoluted plans all lead to one goal - the retrieval
of his treasure - and to achieve that, he needs Nell to believe he isn't
the bad guy. He has many reasons beyond his own desires to make love to
her. Especially when a plan goes wrong and he has to play dead before
someone really kills him - either the police, the menacing Russian crime
lord known as the Bear, or the powerful Guardian of the Gifted whom
he's defied once too often. Nell's burgeoning gift of second sight could
be his best route to the treasure, and yet keeping her with him spells
danger. For Nell has her own agenda, her own mission, and she could just
as easily cause his final downfall.
One Reviewer Notes:
I loved this book, the story and the characters. It's an amazing read, stories within stories and so action packed that I didn't put it down until I finished reading. Smoke and Mirrors is extremely well written, scenes, characters and places are so well described that it doesn't take too much imagination to find yourself immersed in the intrigue. The romance is beautifully written and you can't help but fall in love yourself.
Jorge Campos
About the Author
Marie Treanor lives in Scotland with her eccentric husband and three much-too-smart children. Having grown bored with city life, she resides these days in a picturesque village by the sea where she is lucky enough to enjoy herself avoiding housework and writing sensual stories of paranormal romance and fantasy. Marie has published more than twenty ebooks with small presses, (Samhain Publishing, Ellora’s Cave, Changeling Press and The Wild Rose Press), including a former Kindle bestseller, Killing Joe. Blood on Silk: an Awakened by Blood novel, was her New York debut with NAL.
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