LINDA LAEL MILLER

|| Tonight And Always || Daring Moves || My Outlaw || Knights ||
Time Without End || Just Kate ||

Last review(s) added 12/27/97

Rated: 4.0
Copyright: 1996
Reviewed: 12/26/97 by Isolde Wehr

This is the fourth vampire story by Linda Lael Miller.

Kristina Holbrook looks like a human, lives like a human, but she is a very special being. Her mother is the queen of the vampires and her father was a mortal when she was conceived. She has magical powers but she doesn't need to drink blood like a vampire. All that she wants is to be a mortal because since she turned 30 she stopped growing old.

One day she meets Max Kilcarrah, a widower with two little daughters. The youngest is immediately convinced that she is a witch because in her Halloween costume Kristina looks like one. And Max is bewitched by her.

Since the death of his wife he hasn't been fascinated by women anymore.

Kristina knows that she brings Max in danger when she meets him again, but she can't control her feelings. Both start an affair. And now the problems start. Kristina's relatives try to tell her that she should not fall in love with a mortal again. Once she had made a big mistake and her family wants to save her from harm.

When the lives of Max's children are in danger Kristina recognizes that her magic isn't the same anymore. She is looking desperately for a way out. Is there no luck for these two lonely persons?

An enjoyable vampire story. For all fans, here are the books in the right sequence:

Book One - Forever and the Night
Book Two - For all Eternity
Book Three - Time without End
Book Four - Tonight and Always

Rated 5.0
ISBN# 1-55166-098-9
Copyright 1990
Cost $5.50

Reviewed 8/11/97 by Anne-Marie

Amanda Scott already fell in love with the wrong man once. Would fate be right by placing Jordon Richards, investment consultant extraordinare, in her path? The chemistry was there right from the start, but did she have too much left over emotional baggage from her past love, James Brockman? She didn't know he was married until Mrs. Brockman showed up in Amanda's office one day claiming she stole her husband!

This relationship left Mandy bankrupt, emotionally. Could Jordon be sincere? He told her he was a widower with two daughters. She loved him.

Jordon loved Amanda. But did she lie to him about James? Was she still in love with him?

This was a fast-read. It was sensuous at the beginning to the end. I really enjoyed the interaction between the two characters.

Rated 5.0
Copyright 1997
Reviewed 7/27/97 by Anne-Marie

What a warm, sexy, and positively delightful story!!

It begins back in 1974 when Keighly Barrow is seven years old. She is at her grandmother's house in Redemption, Nevada. Keighly loves this grand old house and most of all she loves the old ballroom. In the ballroom she finds a mirror. As Keighly looks into the mirror, she encounters the image of a small boy, about her age, in a saloon. She finds out his name is Darby Elder.

Twenty years later, Keighly's grandmother has died. Her parents, who had divorced, were both dead also. Keighly was alone. Oh, she had Julian, her fiancé' but she was not in love with him. They were together for five years and Keighly was still haunted by the image of the little boy she saw in her grandmothers mirror.

Keighly goes back to Redemption to close out her grandmother's affairs. Her grandmother has left her the house and she wants to spend some time there before selling it. She is drawn again to the mirror and faces a handsome cowboy. It's Darby Elder, the boy she saw in this mirror 20 years earlier.

The story is tender and sweet and also sad because Keighly has read articles that reveal the destiny of Darby, he will be shot and killed.

This was a wonderful time-travel romance. It has a happy ending and some interesting twists in the story. It's a definite must-read!

Rated 3.5
Copyright 1996
Reviewed 7/20/97 by Isolde Wehr

Dane St. Gregory, fifth baron of Kenbrock, returns from the battlefield and with him comes his bride, Mariette de Troyes. What would his real wife say? He is already married to Gloriana, a woman he doesn't know because he has been away from home for ten years. They were children when they were married by proxy.

Gloriana is shocked. She has waited all these years for her husband to come back and now he wants to send her off to a convent while he annuls their marriage. Simply because he thinks himself in love with another woman.

Gloriana was born in the 20th century. When she was a child she stepped through a time gate into the 13th century and started a new life there. Dane finds out how wonderful his wife is and doesn't want to annul their marriage. At the same time, Gloriana is whisked back to her own time.

Gloriana tries to come back to her love, Dane, and her family, with the help of a doctor who has found her after the time travel, because in the 13th century she has found love and acknowledgment.

The difficulty she has to overcome and the travel from one time to the next is a little incredible. Everything happens too fast. The story obtains the well known sentence: Love is stronger than a distance over centuries and at the end the love wins.

Since my first vampire book "Forever and the Night" by Linda Lael Miller, I am a great fan of these kind of books. The second story in the series is "For all Eternity." "Time Without End" is the third and the last is "Tonight and Always".

Valerian is over 600 years old and he is a vampire. He is incredibly good looking, breathtakingly seductive, and dangerously irresistible. He became a vampire because he was unable to forget his great love, Lady Brenna.

Over hundreds of years they have sometimes been together. His lady was always another person with another name, but still had the same face. Now, they meet again.

Daisy, a young police officer, comes to see the great magician: Valerian. Valerian knows that he has found his lady once again. He also knows that after a while, the mysterious ruby ring will appear and his love will die like every other time.

However, this time everything is different. Valerian finds out who his enemy is and together with Daisy they start to fight for their love.

Sometimes you read Valerians story from his eyes and then other times it is out of the eyes of Daisy. The scene changes from past to present. In an incredible speed you fly through the history.

I loved the first books in the series and I can't wait to get the last. For those who like unusual, mysterious, and exciting stories, this is the right book.

For more information about Linda Lael Miller, go to: http://www.booktalk.com/llmiller/

While she is walking the few blocks to her apartment she sees two men at an ATM machine. One is dressed in a tuxedo and the other is wielding a switchblade. Kate doesn't think twice and she winds up the brass evening bag she has and belts the would-be-robber in the face causing him to fall. When she looks into the eyes of the guy in the tuxedo she finds them to belong to her dead sister Abbey's husband Sean.

Sean thanks her and brings her home. Kate has always loved Sean. He gives her some pleasure and when she begs for him to take her he won't. He tells her he will give pleasure to her but not take it away. It seems Sean is only visiting the US on business. He resides in Sidney Australia with his young son, Kate's nephew.

Kate's Dad attempted to kidnap this boy long ago, according to Sean, but Kate doesn't want to believe it. Sean invites her to come see her nephew. Before long, Kate packs up and flies to Australia. There the two make love and want each other. They confess love for one another.

In the back of Kate's mind she hears her father and mother telling her that Sean is to blame for her sister's death. Kate needs to trust her instincts and what her heart is telling her. It kept me turning pages. The love scenes were wonderful.