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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780505526304
ISBN number: 0505526301
Label: Leisure
Manufacturer: Leisure
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 354
Printing Date: January 31, 2006
Publishing house: Leisure
Sale Popularity Level: 55464
Studio: Leisure
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Elena Baxter can work miracles with her hands. She can coax bones to knit, flesh to heal. She can mend the mind. She has been doing such work for almost all of her twenty-eight years. That is why she will be taken.
The media called it a rampage of terror, the recent murders. But fighting crime is why Artur Loginov joined Dirk & Steele. The international detective agency specializes in the impossible, and their creed is simple: Help those in need, no matter how difficult, and no matter what, keep the secret safe. For the agency helps its employees, too; people like Artur -- the gifted, the tormented. Dirk & Steele gave the Russian emigre purpose, protection, community...and refuge from his past, for who can trust a man who can start a fire with his mind, or shape-shift, or read others' thoughts as easily as drawing breath? For his similar talent, Artur will be taken.
Into the darkness Elena and Artur will be drawn, into the clutches of evil. Cornered, isolated, caged, they will fight for their very souls. But salvation awaits. it exists in a form least expected: a dream of a face, a brush of a mind, the hint of a kiss, and finally, at long last, a SHADOW TOUCH.
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I had to force myself to finish this book and with Tiger Eye I couldn't put it down. This one kind of left me flat. Not sure why. I just really couldn't feel for any of the characters. I very seldom have to force myself to finish a book. I hope the subsequent one in the series gets back the excitement that Tiger Eye had.
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I thought I would give this a go when I saw it because she has written an X-Men novel. Some definite similarities, so she is pretty clearly a fan.
At the start, two people with superhuman mental abilities are kidnapped and subjected to nasty testing and imprisonment.
When they finally escape they discover a couple of shapeshifters held there, and the woman discovers the man has connections to an agency called Dirk and Steele that knows about this.
Mind controllers and killers are after them, and they have to escape through Russia and try and work out what is actually going on.
She discovers there are others, people who can disappear, electrokinetics, and all sorts of abilities at Dirk and Steele.
A pretty decent adventure, and light on the romance side of things, despite the cover.
Superfans shouldn't mind this one, and it is part of a series.
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The writing is good, but the plot wore me out about halfway through the book. I feel bad about not liking it better; it just wasn't my teacup.
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This dark, action packed, paranormal romance adventure can be summed up in one word: M O R E
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Artur, one of Dirk & Steele's investigators, is kidnapped from his home and taken to a secret location to be studied like a lab rat. His captors belong to a shadowy criminal organization, named the Consortium, headed by a powerful psychic named Beatrix.
The Consortium is collecting people with special psychic abilities to study, to recruit and to control. But they have special interest in Artur. He holds a secret that no one else knows, one that the Consortium will do what's necessary to get out of him.
Artur soon discovers others with similar special abilities and even shape shifters in the secret location he's being held. During his stay, he crosses paths with a beautiful woman who is also a captive. Elena has a powerful ability to heal people. Like Artur, the Consortium has a special interest in her. When Artur and Elena meet in the hallway, she heals his wounds and inadvertently establishes an unbreakable psychic link with him that helps join their psychic strengths as they fight their captors.
Artur and Elena eventually escape their captors with the help of a mysterious character who refuses to reveal who or what he is. It's not long after their escape that they discover Beatrix's evil plans. She is greedy for power and her plan is to use mind control to unite the mafia organizations in each country under her control.
With the help of other Dirk & Steele investigators, Artur and Elena try to thwart Beatrix's plans, but their attempts go awry when Artur is captured once again and the Consortium uses him as bait to lure Elena back into their clutches.
This was an exciting read; full of adventure and romance. I couldn't put it down. If, however, I had to compare it to another Dirk & Steele book, like The Tiger Eye, I'd say that it pales a bit in comparison. Despite that, I highly recommend it.
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