Harlequin Presents #1763: Dark Fate

My copy was from 1995, Harlequin Presents, and same cover as above. This one had almost too much drama for the 187 pages. What did I like? The names in this book were brilliant! Saskia is a quiet but lovely girl who was treated despicably by her husbands family and servants. Domenico is the suitably male aggressor that is angry his wife left him and he finds her after two years out with another man. The book depicts some wu-wu with Saskia being able to sense other people’s feelings like an empath. I thought that was a bit much but when it’s romance how bad can it get. The book follows with a kidnapping and then reconciliation with Domenico’s father Giovanni. Would I recommend or buy? I’m amazed with everything in the story how weak it really is. I would have been good with two people and a second chance but I really have no idea why the author would make the book so OTP. I’m more attracted to one story line and some depth. Two stars for this one! I own a copy of all of Charlotte Lamb’s books and hope to finish them all in 2022!

I really enjoyed this book, so much so that when I lost it I spent countless hours trying to find it again! Not an easy thing when you can't remember the title!!! I think the male lead character is a bit too dominate but he is Italian! A marriage of minds . . . "It's fate -- even when we're miles apart the link between us holds!" Saskia thought that two years was long enough to confirm that she would never be reunited with her estranged husband, Domenico. But it seemed there was no end to the strange bond that had existed between them: Domenico was waiting for her when she arrived on vacation in Venice! Saskia had always had the uncanny ability to read Domenico's mind, so she was unnerved to find that now he, too, knew what she was thinking. Once again, she was somehow tied to him physically and mentally, and there seemed to be no escape. Except that, in Domenico's eyes, a happy marriage should be completed with children . . .