The Beautiful Ashes
Jeanine Frost
Harlequin HQN, Sep 29 2015, $7.99
ISBN: 9780373779529
In heavy rain in Bennington, Vermont, Ivy, following her late
parents’ trail that ended here in their accidental deaths, continues the search
for her missing sister Jasmine and her sibling’s boyfriend Tommy. She stops at an antique store where the
proprietor Mrs. Paulson denies having seen the couple in the photo that Ivy
shows her. Just as Ivy envisions her
latest weird hallucination of Jasmine, Mrs. Paulson hits her in the head with a
picture frame. Ivy escapes.
Back at her motel room, a stranger waiting for her warns Ivy she
is going to have a bad night; not that her week has been good when Police
Detective Kroger disrupts their discussion.
Instead of arresting the intruder, Kroger assaults him before attacking
Ivy. The trespasser Adrian rescues
Ivy.
The first Broken Destiny urban fantasy starts with the pedal to
the metal and never slows down as Adrian escorts the beleaguered, brave and
obstinate heroine into a world she never imagined existed while her sisterly
quest expands exponentially. Although
Adrian’s “support” or lack of needs much more explanation as we wonder about
his allegiance; Jeanine Frost’s opening act grips her fans from the fast-paced
start to the climatic confrontation.
Harriet Klausner
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