DARK DESIRE

Author: Christine Feehan ISBN: 0843956534 (Re-release)1/2006 PARANORMAL Publisher: DORCHESTER

The stranger silently summons her from across the seas, whispering of eternal torment, of endless hunger…of dark, dangerous desires. And somehow, American surgeon Shea O’Halloran can feel his anguish, sense his haunting aloneness. Drawn to the far Carpathian mountains, she finds a ravaged, raging man, a being like no other. And she trembles. For in his burning eyes she recognizes the beloved stranger who has already become part of her. But is she to be his healer…or his prey?

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

DARK DESIRE is an absolutely phenomenal book. Being only my second Christine Feehan book, I am astounded by the amount of creativity and imagination that went into it. DARK DESIRE is sensual, passionate and perfect in every way.

Jacques is beautiful and tormented. He is strong and yet weak, angry and sad. He is so many conflicting emotions that I couldn't help but get carried away in the essence of his story until I truly did not want it to end. Jacques is by far the most tortured hero that I have ever read about. He is buried alive for seven long, agonizing years. The only thing that keeps him from going completely insane is a stranger who lives in a far away land—a woman whose mind he inhabits during his seven long years of punishment at the hands of brutal killers. Jacques believes Shea to be one of the people behind his torment, his life of abject misery and utter pain. When he calls to her, she ignores his cries at first, thinking that he is just part of a nightmare that she has been having for years.

It is always the same man haunting her dreams, the same man in her head—this man whose pain she can feel as though it were her own. Eventually, without even realizing why, Shea is drawn to the Carpathian Mountains to try to find a cure for a rare blood disease that she believes she has contracted from her father. Shea is one of those selfless heroines that you just know can make or break a book. Without thought, from the first moment that she sets eyes on Jacques, even when he is practically insane and she is terrified of him, she is willing to give her life for him, just to save him. She is the other half to Jacques' whole, and even if she doesn't know it at first, Jacques does, and he is not letting her go.

DARK DESIRE is the most passionate, well-written book that I have had the privilege to read in quite some time. This book is by no means a light read, but the pages seem nevertheless to fly by with the ability to make me lose all thoughts of time and place and just enjoy a fantastic book.

Kristal Gorman