It’s
been two years since Kacy escaped the serial rapist who held her captive and
tormented her, but she can’t seem to move past it. Still crippled by fear,
she keeps to herself, staying home and only allowing a select few people
into her life.
Then a handsome stranger moves in next door and Kacy begins to feel alive
again, with a woman’s dreams and desires. Not only does Gulliver Knight
stir her buried sexuality, but he touches her heart with his relentless
understanding for her.
But since Gulliver entered her life, strange things have begun happening.
Either Kacy really is losing her mind finally, or her kidnapper is back and
determined to make her his – forever.
There is not a book
written by Brenda Williamson yet that I have not adored. I have read her
paranormals, her historicals, her fantasy pieces and her mythological tales,
but I think this is the first contemporary piece I have seen from her yet.
It was good. VERY good. Truly, I do not think there is anything this woman
can’t write. No matter the genre, though, one common element exists –
Williamson’s stories never fail to touch you, and they will stay with you
for some time after you finish them.
Kacy absolutely tore my heart out. A broken woman since her ordeal years
earlier, she fears not only for her safety, but for her very sanity as she
seems to imagine things that aren’t there and overacts to the simplest of
actions. With Gulliver, however, she finally finds a person she can relax
with, someone she can even trust – something very unusual for her since the
attack, especially with a man. Her concerns that she will drive him away
with her paranoia and other issues is as palpable as her fear that her
kidnapper continues to stalk her.
Gulliver is just the perfect hero. Although we soon learn he has an
ulterior motive for entering Kacy’s life, the motivations behind his
deception are admirable, and we find it easy to forgive him.
I can’t forget to tell you about the suspense – this book is full of it!
For a mystery buff like me that enjoys trying to figure out the ‘whodunit’
before the end of the story and usually does, the author managed to keep me
guessing for the most part. My prime suspect was not the villain of the
piece, although my secondary suspect was. The way the rapist’s identity was
divulged and the aftermath that resulted finished this suspenseful romance
off very nicely.
A Desperate Longing is a must-read for all of Brenda
Williamson’s fans, and for any fan of Romantic Suspense. This book kept me
on the edge of my seat well into the wee hours of the morning when I finally
finished it.
Reviewed by Jennifer
