The Gift

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Summary: Charming Cross-Genre Romance
Review: Lindsay Ryan, a redhead who looks like "an older, Irish version of Shirley Temple," has no family to speak of and has been a loner for much of her life. It's not due to her looks-she's a nice-looking mid-thirties-aged gal. But she's hiding a secret, which has kept her from getting close to anyone. She has recently moved to a new town and hasn't been at her job for many months when she is confronted with a vision so compelling, so palpable, and so frightening that she is moved to warn the family of a child she keeps "seeing" victimized.

Police detective Rachel Todd is sent out to investigate a stalker case and meets Lindsay, the alleged stalker. The two take an immediate dislike to one another, especially when Rachel decides Lindsay is some sort of lunatic and has her jailed. Rachel has been alone for the last few years after losing the people most important to her, and she's not too good with the touchy-feely stuff. She's focused on the day-to-day of her gritty, demanding job.

Both women's lives are turned upside down when Lindsay's visions start coming true. Rachel has to decide whether to believe Lindsay-or not-and before a plot of murder, kidnapping, and abuse is exposed, Lindsay will have to draw on reserves of strength she didn't realize she had. Rachel, too, must learn to trust in this cross-genre action/romance about two hearts who have loved and lost, but with any luck at all may be found once again. Entertaining and recommended.-Lori L. Lake, author of lesbian fiction and freelance reviewer for Midwest Book Review, Golden Crown Literary Society's The Crown, The Independent Gay Writer, and Just About Write.