Smoke In Her Eyes
The Wanderer, #2
The Wanderer, #2
by Anna Belfrage
Publication Date: March 15th 2019
Timelight Press
eBook & Paperback; 352 Pages
Genre: Romance/Erotica/Paranormal
The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . SMOKE IN HER EYES (The Wanderer, #2) . . . Have you ever felt like you have lived a life that you can only vaguely remember bits of? Helle have and does recall some of that life or lives that have come before now. Now, she has the chance to live it again and thins time just maybe make thing turn out a little differently.
Helle was strong woman. She finds herself in a little pickle. She has not one but two men from her past. Both have unfinished business with her. One for good and the other not so much. Will things turn out differently for any of them or some of them? That is a question I will not tell you. Pick up this read. It not a fast ride. Its slow and steady with excellent scenery along the way.
I find myself saying again that the characters were rich, full, well-developed. The circumstance around these three characters was a story all unto itself. Carefully watching it all unfold was just the needed edge to make the story finds it's way deep in my heart. It was so much more going on than just a reincarnation of lives. I highly recommend that you read book one for a closer look at what brought these three back together.
BLURB
Six months ago, Helle Madsen would have described herself as normal. Now she no longer knows if that terms applies, not after her entire life has been turned upside down by the reappearance of not one, but two, men from her very, very distant past.
Helle Madsen never believed in mumbo-jumbo stuff like reincarnation—until she came face to face with Jason Morris, a man who purportedly had spent fifty lives looking for her. Coping with being reunited with the lover from her ancient past was one thing. Having Sam Woolf, her vindictive nemesis from that same ancient past join the party was a bit too much. Suddenly, Helle finds herself the reluctant heroine of a far-flung, time-transcending epic story, one in which pain and loss seem to play a very big part.
This time round, Jason and Helle are determined to make it to the happily ever after. Unfortunately, Sam Woolf will stop at nothing to crush them. That ride into the golden sunset seems awfully far away at times…
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EXCERPT
Halfway through their meal, Nigel rang.
“We’re eating. Can I call you back?” Jason had the phone on loudspeaker.
“No. Turn on the telly. Now!” Nigel uttered a string of invectives that made Helle gape. Jason stretched for the remote; moments later, the TV lit up.
“…as we reported earlier, the London businessman Percy Wilkinson was found dead this morning. Mr Wilkinson was currently on vacation when the bungalow he shared with his family burst into flames.”
“Accident, you think?” Nigel asked sarcastically. Helle stared at the screen, trying to make sense of the words “unexpected blockage to the door”, “restrained” and “inexplicable”. The spokesperson went on to say that Mr Wilkinson’s wife was shocked but alive, as was their daughter.
“Do you think…” Helle swallowed back the rest of the question. People didn’t end up tied to chairs while their bungalow burnt to ashes by accident. “Woolf?” she said instead. Poor, poor Percy! Her stomach heaved, as she imagined Percy in his favourite pin-striped suit, peering at his attacker over his bifocals while begging for his life.
“Who else?” Jason replied. “Punishment for selling him out.”
“Oh my God,” Helle groaned, covering her face with her hands. “This is my fault! If I hadn’t—”
“No.” Jason cut her off. “This is not your fault, lioness. Percy knew Woolf, knew he was taking a risk. He took the decision to make a deal with us, not you.”
“But—”
“That’s not all,” Nigel interrupted. “I’ve just sent you a link.”
Sam Woolf had finally broken his silence. In a black suit, a crisp shirt and black tie, he looked sombre, his dark hair framing a pale face in which the eyes looked darker than normal. He’d lost weight, Helle concluded, and those beautifully sculpted lips were set in a tight line, as if he was gritting his teeth. He turned to face the journalist, and the four parallel grooves she’d marked him with glowed an angry red. She couldn’t tear her eyes away from the claw marks, surprised that they should still be so unhealed, several months after their confrontation at Netley Abbey.
Helle curled her fingers and stared down at her hand. She’d done that, even if she had no memory of doing so. Her fingers, her nails, had left Woolf looking as if he’d confronted a big cat.
“Apt,” Jason muttered, pulling her down to sit in his lap. “In that first life, one of your tame lions marked him just like that—the night you fled from him.” The night Woolf had tried to take her by force, laughing as he told her that in spite of her royal father, Samion of Kolchis had no intention of making Helle his consort but she’d serve him well as an obedient concubine.
“So you’re saying all these accusations are unfounded?” The journalist sounded polite and remote, eyes intent on Woolf who was sitting on a bright red sofa.
“Of course.” Woolf’s voice was as smooth as always—velvet with a rasp. “I don’t know how, but someone has planted all this so called incriminating evidence in my computer system.”
“You’ll excuse me for saying that sounds like a very weak explanation,” the journalist said, shuffling his papers. “Photos, lists of girls, of their…umm…talents, records of expected deliveries, of meetings in the middle of the night…”
“None of it has anything to do with me,” Woolf snapped.
“No?” The journalist held up a photo, showing a male hand wearing a ring stamped with a wolf’s head. The hand was covering a girl’s mouth.
Woolf laughed. “Really, Henry,” he said, smoothing the fabric of his pants. “I don’t have to resort to violence to get laid.” He sat back, arms spread out along the sofa’s back, and Helle could imagine thousands of women nodding in agreement, eyes feasting on this perfect specimen of the human male. Even the ugly scars enhanced the sheer physicality of him.
“So you’ve never had violent sex?” Henry asked.
Woolf’s angular brows rose slightly. “I didn’t say that, did I? But I can assure you my partners have never said no.”
“I bet they never got the chance to do so,” Nigel muttered, his voice tinny on the phone.
“So what will your next step be?” Henry asked.
“To prove my innocence.” Woolf turned the full force of his eyes on the camera. Helle’s head began to ring, her throat narrowing until it became difficult to breathe. Those eyes, eating into her…Woolf raised two fingers to his ruined face. “And to punish the bastards who’ve torn my reputation to shreds.”
Helle gulped. Jason’s arms tightened round her waist.
“Punish, Mr Woolf?” Henry drawled.
“A figure of speech,” Woolf said with a shrug. He spread his legs and smiled at the camera. Sex on legs. Dangerous, destructive sex on legs, but should Woolf need to, he’d have the female members of a jury eating out of his hands in seconds. And, to judge from the pink tone of Henry’s cheeks, quite a few men.
Author Info
Had Anna been allowed to choose, she’d have become a time-traveller. As this was impossible, she became a financial professional with three absorbing interests: history and writing. Anna has authored the acclaimed time travelling series The Graham Saga, set in 17th century Scotland and Maryland, as well as the equally acclaimed medieval series The King’s Greatest Enemy which is set in 14th century England. (Medieval knight was also high on Anna’s list of potential professions. Yet another disappointment…) With Jason and Helle, Anna has stepped out of her historical comfort zone and has loved doing so.
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