A Story of Love

Soul of the Vampire

By Patricia Lucas White

A Story of Love

By Beverly Ruuth

Review By Lisa Lacroix

Good

Orphaned and on her own all of her life, Margot Patterson is looking for Mr. Perfect. Little does she realize that she will find him in another dimension. Margot finds herself in the year 1907, living the life of Faith Lausanne, who is married to, and deeply in love with her husband, Thomas Lausanne. Finally, Margot is experiencing what it is like to be truly in love. But all is not perfect. After three miscarriages, Faith is pregnant once again and in danger of losing, not only the baby, but her own life as well.

Lost in a time she knows nothing about, Margot must somehow save this young couple from suffering another devastating loss. Can she be strong enough to change their fate? Can she leave all of the modern conveniences of her own life behind? And finally, will she be able to return to her own life in the end?

Readers will enjoy the rich detail of Ruuth's descriptions of life in 1907. One cannot help but be touched by this simple love story that inspires faith in the strength of the human spirit.

Circles Of Displacement

By Darrell Bain

Author of In the Shadow of Death
Book One of the Shadow Trilogy

A passing alien starship sends a shower of time displacement spheres sleeting through Earth, sending everything they touch into a far past. Plucked from their comfortable, humdrum lives, or in

some cases less than desirable predicaments, men and women face survival not only against prowling beasts, but something far more ruthless and dangerous -- their own kind.

Wanda, an army captain, fleeing sexual harassment from her superior, suddenly finds that the highway has disappeared in front of her and she is surrounded by an ancient forest. McMasters, a mediocre physics professor, searching for relief from his uneventful academic existence, finds more than he bargained for which finally challenges his considerable capacities. Burley, a hardened convict with a burning hate for all men, especially black men, together with a prison full of convicts, is hurled into a past where he is free to wreck his revenge on his fellow humans.

In his story, Darrell Bain paints an all too-real and frightening possibility. Beneath our thin veneer of civilization, the savage within all of us lurks, awaiting an opportunity to be unleashed. Yet

the blood of thousands of years of struggle for reason and law overcomes blind lust, wanton destruction and the urge to kill. Bain shows the reader that clearly in the face of adversity modern norms mean nothing, and otherwise unprepossessing personalities emerge to take charge and shape events.

This is a good book to curl up with on a rainy weekend and escape into. The reader will become involved with the individual stories of the characters.

Dreams of Darkness: 
Book 1 of The Everdark War

By Elizabeth Burton

Review by Susan McDonough Sanchez
Science fiction and fantasy author

VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Rob Steigir is having a most unique year. Even though the senator's son is enrolled at liberal Havenwood College, a place where alternative medicine students reside among those majoring in prelaw, nothing could have prepared him for his new roommate. Adam Al-Aziz seemed peculiar from the onset. After all, what red-blooded college student isn't interested in beer drinking, picking up women and sleeping?

Adam quickly becomes interested in one the first people he meets upon his arrival to campus, a young woman named Correen. Instead of drinking and partying, Adam spends his time painting and seems in some ways the antithesis of Rob.

It soon becomes clear that Adam is no mere college student. Instead, he is a leader from another place, sent to protect the earth from the apocalypse. Circumstances quickly reach a point where Rob and Correen must help Adam to try and save the world. Both students have their own hang-ups about themselves and their lives, but they must set these aside in order to secure a future for the earth, for all of humanity.

Guardian of the Continuum was a most interesting novel. I loved the way life at Havenwood was painted. The story was entertaining, with liberal dashes of humor to cut the tension and fully held my interest throughout. While I would have liked to have seen a longer time of adjustment for Adam upon his arrival at Havenwood, this was an all together entertaining novel.

Soul of the Vampire

By Minda Samiels

Review by Tracy Eastgate
Tracy's Book Reviews

Very Good