Parallel
Series by Deidre
Knight
Parallel
Heat
Second Parallel installment raises the heat
and reader's delight
As the second book in
the Parallel or Midnight Warrior Series, Parallel
Heat takes all the elements
that endeared readers to the first
book and
added more suspense and more romance. As a cross between romance and
science fiction, this paranormal romance will delight an audience
beyond either separate genre.
Thea Haven, cousin
to the exiled king Jared Bennett, has been
devastated by his choice of queen in the human Kelsey Wells. After all,
since she was a young child, she was raised to take her role as Jared's
wife. When Thea encounters Marco McKinley who challenges her earlier
presumed destiny. Both feel an attraction they can barely control. As a
Madjin, a sworn protector of the royal family, Marco feels duty
requires him to uphold his sworn oaths and loyalty, especially when in
a past and parallel universe, he betrayed all. Can he change the past
and protect the Refarian race and the planet Earth they protect?
Unfortunately, the humans at Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming cannot
tell the difference between the Refarians and the Antousians. To them,
an alien is an alien. In trying to remedy one past betrayal, have
deeper complications been initiated and how will this parallel world
affect the fate of Earth which stands on the brink of destruction?
Whereas the first
Midnight Warrior novel Parallel Attraction
focused on the romance between Jared and Kelsey, Parallel Heat steps up
the level of suspense and action without sacrificing the complex
romance between Thea and Marco. Readers will find the continuing
relationship between Jared and Kelsey integrated into the main thread
instead of shoved off to the side or as only minor details as in so
many other trilogies or series. When I read the first book, I wondered
how any other book could possibly surpass the intensity and beauty of
the first --- this book matches the first and also adds more suspense
through the developing ominous betrayal on the horizon!
The plot is
intricate and yet it is the complexity that delights
the reader. The possibility of parallel times and universes provokes
the imagination, especially in Deidre Knight's presentation of the
concept. The primary characters are seen through a variety of
perspectives. The stories of the secondary characters are developed
with depth and heighten the ever-increasing suspense. The romance has
elements of tragedy looming on the edges, but as romance discovered in
the midst of a great war, it has an immediacy and depth that caused me
to gasp at its beauty and danger.
If you loved the
first book, Parallel
Attraction and are
considering the purchase of this book, I would recommend buying this
and Parallel
Seduction at the
same time. The ending of the second book
is so riveting that you won't want to wait for delivery of the third in
the series.
Buy Parallel Heat here
Merrimon
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