Title: Hunter's Dawn: Laying the Ghosts
Author: Meg Leigh
Publisher: Torquere Press
Publisher URL: http://www.torquerepress.com/
ISBN: 978-1-60370-709-1
Genre: Contemporary M/M Paranormal Romance
Rating: 4 Nymphs
Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Mystical Nymph
Despite being raised by a mother who believes in tarot card readings, crystals, sprits and things that go bump in the night, Jack Stephens is a skeptic. In fact, he lectures in Parapsychology at a local community college, and spends his spare time de-bunking claims of paranormal activity by using scientific techniques. It’s during one such case that Jack meets local psychic, Casey Lambeth. Jack thinks Casey is a con man out to fleece an elderly woman, and Casey thinks Jack is an arrogant, close-minded, opinionated jerk.
When these two men of differing backgrounds, attitudes and opinions work together to help an woman whose house is being haunted by the ghost of an angry young woman, the sparks between them fly. It’s only when the case gets more dangerous that both men must learn to trust and depend on each other. If they don’t, neither man will survive their encounter with a ghost who is far stronger than anyone expects.
Hunter’s Dawn: Laying the Ghosts is the first book by Meg Leigh that I’ve had the opportunity to read and it won’t be my last. This contemporary M/M/ romance is well-written, with an intriguing and complicated plot that grabbed my attention from the very beginning.
Jack and Casey start as such adversaries that there were times when I wondered if they could ever work together, much less develop their association into something more. Jack is so hide-bound in his way of thinking that he was nearly blind to the possibility of anything existing that he can’t see or touch, and Casey is just the opposite. These disparities in attitude makes the tension, sexual and otherwise, between the two men grow and grow, until they finally give in to their mutual attraction, making for tender, yet blistering hot sex. That’s one thing I enjoyed about this book. Ms. Leigh didn’t allow the men to jump into bed immediately. She gave them a chance to develop a relationship before they took the step of becoming physical, and when they did…watch out for the sparks.
The secondary characters are very important in this story, and Ms. Leigh does a wonderful job making them come alive, which is saying something, considering that two of them are ghosts. Ms. Leigh displays her talent in her vivid expression of the fury and pain experienced by the young ghost. The author did an equally nice job in the creation of Casey mother, Alyssa. She might be acting as her son’s spirit guide, but Alyssa’s definitely more mother than spirit in her loving, protective attitude toward Casey.
It wasn’t until I’d already read Laying the Ghosts when it came to my attention that there were other stories written before this one, making this release in actuality, a prequel. I look forward to reading more about these two complicated men again in the future.
Author: Meg Leigh
Publisher: Torquere Press
Publisher URL: http://www.torquerepress.com/
ISBN: 978-1-60370-709-1
Genre: Contemporary M/M Paranormal Romance
Rating: 4 Nymphs
Literary Nymphs Reviewer: Mystical Nymph
Despite being raised by a mother who believes in tarot card readings, crystals, sprits and things that go bump in the night, Jack Stephens is a skeptic. In fact, he lectures in Parapsychology at a local community college, and spends his spare time de-bunking claims of paranormal activity by using scientific techniques. It’s during one such case that Jack meets local psychic, Casey Lambeth. Jack thinks Casey is a con man out to fleece an elderly woman, and Casey thinks Jack is an arrogant, close-minded, opinionated jerk.
When these two men of differing backgrounds, attitudes and opinions work together to help an woman whose house is being haunted by the ghost of an angry young woman, the sparks between them fly. It’s only when the case gets more dangerous that both men must learn to trust and depend on each other. If they don’t, neither man will survive their encounter with a ghost who is far stronger than anyone expects.
Hunter’s Dawn: Laying the Ghosts is the first book by Meg Leigh that I’ve had the opportunity to read and it won’t be my last. This contemporary M/M/ romance is well-written, with an intriguing and complicated plot that grabbed my attention from the very beginning.
Jack and Casey start as such adversaries that there were times when I wondered if they could ever work together, much less develop their association into something more. Jack is so hide-bound in his way of thinking that he was nearly blind to the possibility of anything existing that he can’t see or touch, and Casey is just the opposite. These disparities in attitude makes the tension, sexual and otherwise, between the two men grow and grow, until they finally give in to their mutual attraction, making for tender, yet blistering hot sex. That’s one thing I enjoyed about this book. Ms. Leigh didn’t allow the men to jump into bed immediately. She gave them a chance to develop a relationship before they took the step of becoming physical, and when they did…watch out for the sparks.
The secondary characters are very important in this story, and Ms. Leigh does a wonderful job making them come alive, which is saying something, considering that two of them are ghosts. Ms. Leigh displays her talent in her vivid expression of the fury and pain experienced by the young ghost. The author did an equally nice job in the creation of Casey mother, Alyssa. She might be acting as her son’s spirit guide, but Alyssa’s definitely more mother than spirit in her loving, protective attitude toward Casey.
It wasn’t until I’d already read Laying the Ghosts when it came to my attention that there were other stories written before this one, making this release in actuality, a prequel. I look forward to reading more about these two complicated men again in the future.
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