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Summary: A bit much at times --
Review: As a child, Jeannie Alverson garnered fame and fortune as a 'healer'; now, as an adult, her skills have been developed as an 'empath'--sharing not just the feelings and emotions of a person with whom she could bond, but also their pain. Because of her weakened physical condition--a holdover from the accident that killed her mother and step-father--she was cherished by her new foster parents, a doctor and his wife in Biloxi, Mississippi.After seven years of peace for Jeannie, Sam Dundee, a DEA agent on a stake-out is ambushed, shot, and thrown overboard. The tides carry him to Le Bijou Bleu, Jeannie's island hideaway, where she is resting before returning to Biloxi and the school where she works with 'special' children. Grievously injured, it is only because of Jeannie that Sam survives. Knowing he had been set-up, he left the DEA and started his own security service. The Reverend Maynard Reeves, an egomaniac masquerading as a real Bible-thumper, tries to coerce Jeannie into joining 'forces' with him; when she refuses, he embarks on a modern-day 'witch-hunt' to bring her down. It is this threat that brings Sam back into Jeannie's life, as her bodyguard. With the cunning of true malevolence, Reeves seems to know her activities almost before Jeannie does, endangering all she holds dear. Unwillingly thrown together for security purposes, Jeannie and Sam soon realize they would rather be together than apart, but where is safety? Not even the island refuge is safe as a hurricane nearly accomplishes all that the reverend cannot. This could be a story from this morning's newspaper; violence has become so pervasive in our society. GUARDING JEANNIE is the second volume of a trilogy sub-titled "The Protectors." Sam is the kind of bigger-than-life hero that doesn't come along just every day, but it would have been a more enjoyable and believable story had the heroine been less selfish and stubborn, and a good bit more sensible.
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