Contemporary Romance Reviews
Ruth Wind once again had me on the edge of my seat with this contemporary romance/mystery about Ellie Conner who makes a career out of doing biographies on musicians. Blues singer Mabel Beauvais is the subject of her current book. The singer's disappearance 40 years earlier was as much a mystery as the identity of Ellie's father. When Ellie begins to look into Mabel's past she starts to dig up small clues about her own mother's visit to this small East Texas town of Pine Bend before she was born. Her mother had landed in this town after the hippie bus she was riding in broke down and she ended up staying for several months---only to leave again--pregnant and alone. So who was Ellie's father? Not wanting to create bad feeling or problems for any of the people who are helping her research Mabel's past, Ellie does not reveal her quest to find her father. After all---he might have been the husband or sweetheart of one of her new-found friends...
Blue Reynard is sinfully handsome and a big surprise to Ellie who expected him to be much older than his 30+ years. After becoming friendly via an Internet news group, Blue offers Ellie a place to stay in his guest cottage and offers his help with the Biography she is working on. Blue's own tortured past leaves him with more scars than he can count and Ellie soon realized that it would be suicide to get invoved with a man like him again. Why is she always attracted to men who will end up breaking her heart?
This book will keep you on your toes as the plot takes some unexpected twists and turns and Ellie soon finds out that she may have gotten much more than she bargained for... Although there is a good deal of mystery in this story there is also plenty of hot romance when Ellie and Blue finally stop fighting their mutual explosive attraction.
Ruth Wind's characters are always complex and the emotions intense. Don't expect anything but extremely satisifying reads from this author.
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