ENTICED – Kathleen Dante

Berkley Heat

ISBN: 10: 0-425-21491-5

ISBN: 13: 978-0425214916

March 2007

Erotic Paranormal Romance

Dillon Gavin is tired, his job in black ops in just not as satisfying as it used to be.  Maybe it is because his old partner Lantis is now out of it and the camaraderie that they used to share whilst on jobs is just not there anymore.  Maybe it’s because he sees that Lantis has a new focus, Kiera, Dillon’s childhood friend.  Not that he wants out of black Ops, no way.  And he is not ready for a commitment as yet.  So when Dillon is forced to take a month’s long R&R he decides what better way to spend it, than visiting with his best friend Lantis and finding some female companionship.  When he is invited to accompany Lantis and Kiera to the art showing for his favorite psyprint artist Jordan Kane, he jumps at the chance.  Some of Jordan Kane’s psyprints hang on his walls, he sees in them a sense of hope and a depth of feeling that in his world is too often missing.  When Dillon meets Jordan and shakes her hand he realizes that she may be the one thing that he can not live without.

Jordan Kane’s artwork has made her very successful and much sought after. She is also blind, though very few people are aware of this. Jordan is clairvoyant with a minor gift of psychometry, which allows her hide her blindness, but to still see what her eyes are not able to.  Her gift of psychometry also enables her to see into the past when she touches something.   Both her gifts and her blindness ensures that she is a solitary person, so when Dillon enters the art gallery she is immediately intrigued.  When Jordan shakes Dillon’s hand she is automatically assaulted with images from his past missions. Her attraction to Dillon is instantaneous, but Jordan is not ready to reveal her secret gifts yet. But when Jordan encounters a pair of gloves that were used in a murder, and with a killer on the loose Jordan realizes that Dillon may be the answer she is looking for, not only in regards to getting the killer, but for her personally.

ENTICED is a very well written, captivating suspense novel.  The characters of Jordan and Dillon are very well developed with the reader almost believing that they are real, and that this situation is happening to someone that they know.  ENTICED has everything that I look for in a story.  The characters are complex, the romance and sex is hot…hot…hot and the suspense keeps me turning the pages quickly wanting to get to the end to find out what happens, but also not wanting the story to end.  I love that though this book is a follow up to ENTANGLED, it can be read as a stand alone.  I am very impressed with the way that Kathleen included the main characters from ENTANGLED without letting them completely take over the story.  The only little thing that I would have liked would have been a bit more closure on the killer.  I would have liked to know the reasoning behind the killings, but other than that, I loved it and can not wait for the next one.

Vanessa Costa