Shaking Off the Dust
Rhianna SamuelsParanormal erotic romance
Available from Samhain Publishing
ISBN: 1-59998-851-8
January 2008
| Things haven’t been going the way Hannah Campbell planned lately. The latest disaster starts when she attends the memorial service for the neurosurgeon that saved her life a couple of years ago and she is struck by lightning and inhales a bunch of the doctor’s ashes. Now she can see and feel his ghost and he wants her to get his best friend Takeshi Shimodo involved in trying to solve the mystery of the terrorist act that killed him. Takeshi is convinced that something extraordinary is happening with Hannah but he is also more than interested in any excuse to spend more time with her. Then the FBI becomes involved and they think Hannah and Takeshi know too much to not have been involved in the terrorist attack. How will Hannah and Takeshi deal with their incredible sexual chemistry, the ghost haunting Hannah, and prove to the FBI that they are innocent and not crazy?
This story is overflowing with suspense, incredibly sensual sex scenes, unusual ghostly activities, misunderstandings, and humor. Hannah is just an average caring emergency room nurse with an average life before all these things begin happening to her. I liked her spunky, smart-mouthed, attitude and her never give up personality. And to pair her with an extremely gorgeous and sensual Asian-American man who is calm, dedicated, has a surprising wit himself is just genius. The only thing I disliked about Hannah’s character was her tendency to put herself down and expect less for herself from others. Everyone else is telling her she is wonderful but she doesn’t believe it. Luckily Takeshi’s character is very patient with Hannah and he has plenty of ego! Tom, the ghost, on the other hand, starts off as a very annoying character but he grows some and matures through the story. The story is filled out with a number of other ghost, FBI agents, Spanish Police, and a number of bad guys to keep the main characters off balance and under fire. From the time the FBI enters the story until the crime that killed Tom is solved, circumstances keep cropping up that endanger Hannah, Takeshi, and anyone around them. I thoroughly enjoyed Shaking Off the Dust. If you want to be entertained, stressed, laugh, cry, or live vicariously through some of the most moving and sensual sex scenes, you will love this book.
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Reviewer: Steph B. |
