Blurb
Amanda Harcourt had one scorching night of incredible sex with Conleth Maguire on a Galveston, Texas beach ten years ago. Then she’d left Con for a career in New York City. She’s back in Galveston now as the interior designer for the weird and wacky Castle of Dark Dreams, a theme park attraction. Old memories surface when she finds out that Con has been hired to paint the castle. Because no matter what she tries to tell herself, she’s never forgotten him or the rose tattoo on his hip.
Con remembers everything about Mandy, including the blue butterfly tattoo on her round little behind. And now that she’s back, he’s determined to make her realize what she abandoned so many years ago. Namely, him.
He wants to paint the castle in darkly erotic colors. She’s into understated elegance. But they agree on one thing. Even grumpy wizards, telepathic cats, and voyeur plants won’t stop them from finishing what began on that beach.
Review
This is a novella/prequel to the Castle of Dark Dreams
series.
Amanda and Conleth are mentioned in book 1 as the
interior designer and the painter, respectively, of the castle, and they turned
out to be Sparkle’s first victims. Errr… the lucky chosen ones Sparkle decided
to help in sexy, naughty ways. Mandy and Con are fighting their attraction to
each other every step of the way, however, and Sparkle has her work cut out for
her.
Since the book is a prequel, we get to see the castle in
the newly named Live the Fantasy theme park before it became the darkly sensual
Castle of Dark Dreams. Holgarth is as snarky as ever in his wizard outfit, and
Sparkle’s in charge of the candy store. The best part? Deimos is still there,
but his personality is different. Though he’s still shy and doesn’t care much
about sexual chaos to Sparkle’s chagrin, he’s surprisingly halfway interested
in sex, he wants to destroy things, and he’s not really interested in action
hero stuff—which is a big difference to his character in the other books.
It’s a fun story, but there wasn’t a villain or a complex
storyline. However, it was interesting to learn how the castle’s paint job,
design, and decorations came to be. I liked the story, but it’s not needed to
understand the full-length books in the series.
3 Stars
Disclaimer – I downloaded this book from Amazon and
volunteered to review it. I am not compensated in any way, shape, or form for
this honest review. I will not change or alter this review for any reason
unless at my discretion.
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