Man of My Dreams [Mass Market Paperback]

Short stories are not one of my favorites. Somehow you feel they need just alittle more information. These four stories are somewhat unique in the fact that they don't leave you feeling empty, in fact the first one by Sherrilyn Kenyon only takes 68 pages. But the story is wonderful. The paranormal influence in each makes for a fantastic read.

In the Sherrilyn Kenyon story Livia must loose her virginity or be wed to an 82 year old lech. How she overcomes her problems and finds the man of her dreams is touching and delightful.

Maggie Shayne gives us a psychic who need someone to believe in her, The man of her dreams is a detective who finally fulfills her needs, but not before she saves him from a curse.

Suzanne Forester gives us a heroine who really doesn't know who the man of her dreams is. But someone or fate has placed him in her path a few weeks before her wedding. Will her eyes be opened or not? It is amazing who gives fate a hand.

Virginia Kantra tells us about a woman who lost her love 14 years ago. Now on a dark night she finds the man of her dreams is caught in the net of a fairy queen. But if he is the man of her dreams does that mean she is the woman of his dreams?

A very entertaining read. I enjoyed it very much.

Sherrilyn Kenyon. After five years, Adron still regrets his actions and drowns his sorrow at the Golden Crona rejecting all company. Princess Livia sneaks out of her father's castle seeking a male to deflower her so she would be unfit to marry her sire's choice Clypper. She chooses Adron who surprises himself as she lights a fire inside him.

Maggie Shayne. In Pinedale, bakery owner Megan has a vision of the missing woman so she calls Police Chief Skinner. When she is proven right he sends Detective Sam to investigate Megan.

Suzanne Forster. In Blanchard's Department Store customer Lucy tries to buy an attaché case for her finicky fiancé Frederick, but someone else beats her to it. Afterward the stranger gives her the case as a wedding present. Not long afterward, she meets him again as Noah owner of Hightower Electric works on her building. When her appliances go batty she asks Noah to help her although she thinks she needs an electrical exorcist instead.

Virginia Kantra. Wade County librarian Janet travels a remote area in a North Carolina forest when she runs into Rod. He looks just like her beloved Ross who vanished without a word, but shows no aging or physical changes from the man she last saw fourteen years ago.

These four paranormal novellas share in common the mystic, terrific protagonists, and delightful magical romantic story lines that readers will have trouble putting down once a tale is started.

Harriet Klausner

Fire and Ice - Sherrilyn Kenyon --- Adron was a scarred bitter man living with a broken body, and wanted only to continually drown himself in liquor to block out the world. Livia Typpa Vista was a princess, expecting to forge an alliance between families she was to be wed to a lecherous man twice her fathers age and knew her only way out was to lose her virginity before the court's physicians examined her and announced her fit for marriage. In desperation, Livia was determined to lose that which once had been precious to her and Adron was to be the lucky recipient of that gift. Discovering that inside Adron beat a loving heart, Livia was ready to sacrifice even her life to save the man she'd come to love. --- Proving that when written by a great wordsmith, even short stories can be emotionally fabulous and endearing. Loved this! --- Rate (5*)

Daydream Believer - Maggie Shayne --- Waking from a dream, shaking, and in a cold sweat, Megan Rose felt that finally she would be able to do some good. Having had `visions' all her life - she knew that this time someone would just have to believe in her. She phoned the police department to report where they could find the missing woman whose picture was flashing across the TV screen that had gone missing. The police chief didn't quite believe in `psychics' - took her information, and gave nothing away that she was `dead on' in everything she told him. Instead he assigned detective Sam Sheridan to find out what he could about her - thinking she was somehow connected to the murder/rapist stalking young women in the area. Megan took one look at the handsome police officer and knew him - his was the face she'd been dreaming of since she was 12 years old, and somehow her destiny was to save him. ---- This was an exceptional story with two very likeable leads. Megan's psychic connections and hard hitting visions were terrific vehicles pulling the reader in and creating a fast and moving storyline along with a tastefully done sensual romance where Megan almost makes the ultimate sacrifice for the `man in her dreams'! --- Rate (5*)

Shocking Lucy - Suzanne Forster --- This was about Lucy, a very successful mediator who was about to marry a man who fit `just about all her of the qualifications' of a list she'd made in high school. Two weeks before the wedding while shopping for a wedding gift for her groom to be she accidentally meets Noah Hightower, who for some reason wants to change her mind about getting married. --- The beginning was a little slow, and the heroine did not endear herself to me. Noah on the other hand was a definite hottie, and I loved the dialogs along with the surprise twist at the end. --- Rate (4*)

Midsummer Nights Madness - Virginia Kantra --- In a modern day version of the 1729 ballad of Tam Lin - thirty-six year old Janet, the heroine of this story, wanders through a forest only to come across a man who looks just like an old boyfriend who left her 14 years ago - only it couldn't be him looking like a 22 year old, or could it? Ross has been caught in a fairy trap. With the assistance of a kindly leprechaun, Puck, who reveals the secret to Janet of how to save Ross, she would have to decide if she would risk her heart in saving him only to have him walk away from her again. --- Interesting re-telling of an old tale. Very short quick read - sensual. --- Rate (3*)

Overall Rating of Anthology - (4*)