Lara
Saunders has been travelling to collect photographs and research for her
book on lighthouses at a breakneck pace, wearing herself thin. Having
secured a tour guide for her last stop to visit a lighthouse in Texas, she
isn’t prepared for her reaction to the sexy park ranger, Cody Warren. She’d
long given up on the idea of love or a relationship, having found that men
just couldn’t handle the fact that she sees and talks to ghosts.
But something about Cody is different. She feels inexplicably drawn to him,
and her ghosts react to him much more favorably than they have any man she
has ever met before. Almost as if they were trying to bring them
together…
Cody has secrets of his own, the kind that have left him just as lonely as
Lara. His need for her is strong, but can Lara handle the truth of what he
is?
I am
not really drawn to ‘ghost stories’. I don’t know why, it’s just not
something I’m really into. I don’t dislike them, they are just not usually
top of my list unless the plot looks very interesting or the author is one I
enjoy. DEL FANTASMA: TEXAS TEA meets both requirements. New
author Maura Anderson makes the writing craft look easy with her first
published story, and doubtless earned herself a following of her own fans
with this sexy little story.
While ghosts are in the story, they do not overwhelm it, they are a very
small part of the plot. The focus here is really on our couple, Cody and
Lara, and the secrets that they are each certain will prevent them from
being together long-term.
Lucky for us readers, they are both very wrong about that! Of course, as
with the ghosts and other paranormal supporting characters inhabiting this
town, we enjoy the omniscient view that reveals both of their secrets to us,
so we know at all times just how perfect this match is.
And if that didn’t tell us, then the sexual heat these two cook up together
surely would! But as hot as their love scenes are, what really captures the
readers’ heart is the caring Lara and Cody show each other outside of the
bedroom.
TEXAS TEA is a sensual delight sure to charm lovers of
paranormal romance and put Maura Anderson on readers’ list of authors to
watch!
Reviewed by Jennifer
