Lovely evocative writing. This is a leisurely read where the point is the journey, not the destination. This is just as well, because the ending was bizarrely out of place and read as if it had been lifted from another work entirely.The strength of this work entirely lies in the mood and setting ...
This story had lots of pain and angst but Harper Fox's writing style made it all so beautiful. Very poetic and almost lyrical; I must admit to not catching all the complex symbolism and imagery but I was still swept away by it.Matt is suffering and wallowing in his pain. He has self-destructive w...
Archeologists in love and a mystery. Fine cast of characters from uptight professors and department chairs, military, long-lost brothers, suicide, hippies, government shenanigans with lethal gasses. This book had it all. There's an unexplained suicide, a grieving lover, mental breakdowns, unexpec...
This book wasn't as good as I had anticipated. It was dark and gritty. Yes, there was an HEA, but it was just kind of depressing most of the novel.Cop Vincent Carr had a career on an upward trajectory until everything came crashing down at a Drug bust gone bad. Vince got shot in the back and the ...
3.5 stars, I think. If you read this one for the characters and the romance, it's well worth the time. The plot was interesting, but a little too overwhelming. Several times it felt...cluttered. Disjointed. Just...too much, and with far too neat a resolution to everything. I felt very disconnecte...
I find myself saying this often, but once again Fox grabs a hold of me and doesn’t let go. She mixes reality with the near fairytale – in this case, an actual fairytale set in fairly modern times.The voice she gives Gavin is intelligent, strong, fallible and unafraid to go for the one thing he kn...
It's going to be Police Constable Gideon Fraynes's first Christmas celebrating it with a new lover. As he accompanied Lee Tyack during one of his shows in Falmouth, they find themselves in one of Lee's client houses vanquishing some unwelcome presence. When all goes wrong, strange things started ...
Kitto is an interesting twist to Gideon and Lee’s story. This feels like the last installment of the series as the couple decided to get married but not without a fuss. Lee can somehow predict the future and it’s making him crazy adding it to the stress of planning a wedding which he couldn’t see...
Wave wash, wind in the seagrass. Here at Spindrift, it was the song of the silver flowers, whose remaining two blossoms masked an emptiness more colossal than if there’d been none left at all. I stumbled back up the path. The main block looked utterly abandoned. I couldn’t imagine life inside at ...
From the kitchen window, Gideon watched blue-black clouds massing over the hills, darkening the bracken and heather to a far-flung mantle of grey. If this kept up, dusk would be down by four, and the schoolkids could get a good, hysterical head of steam worked up before the night’s riots began. A...
Once a year, he motors down to an exclusive yacht club on the Cornish coast and takes the summer off from the trap that is his life. When his car breaks down, leaving him stranded on the beach, he’s transfixed by the sight of a surfer dancing on the waves. The man is summer made flesh. Freedom wr...
And although Fara monastery, uniquely among the north-shore holy lands, had its own formidable guard—warrior monks and proud Dane settlers who now called themselves Britons—the Viking raids still swept the coast. Fara had two treasures, now too precious to be risked at any cost. There was the bod...
Lee said fervently, as soon as the door was shut behind him, “is a pain in the arse.” “I couldn’t help noticing that myself. It’s a shame you don’t like him, though—he thinks the sun shines out of yours.” “That’s just where you’re wrong. He thinks I want the world to believe it does, but really I...
On either side, and above and below him too, John could hear the other tenants of the house going about their business, but the door was shut and he was alone. He was used to the music of the unceasing traffic outside; it had become a type of silence to him. Nothing like the peace that reigned in...