Heart Choice

It is said that when the heart speaks a person should listen, for without the beating there is not heart to find it's mate. After years away, Straif Blackthorn is going back to his ancestral home T'Blackthorn alone. A Celtan Angh virus has wiped-out the entire Blackthorn family he is the sole survivor. On his way there, a telepathic familiar named Drina greets him. Now he does not have to face his return home unaccompanied. Once Straif reaches his home, it is in great need of love and care. With Drina's helpful guidance, they go to the design store of one Mitchella Clover. Not only does Straif appreciate Mitchella's decorating skill and talent; there is also an instant sexual attraction between them upon meeting. What will happen in the future to a man without his Heartmate and his family? What about sweet Mitchella who is facing a future without the ability to conceive a child? The possibilities are endless. Sometimes what is in the heart is the most important thing of all and it can change the person's destiny. HEART CHOICE is by Robin D. Owens. This is the fourth book in the Heart series. Heartmate (2001), Heart Thief (2003) and Heart Duel (2004). This book could easily be a stand-alone, but after reading it, you will want to rush out to purchase the remaining series! This book is a proclamation of victory and pure genius. Ms. Owens writing talents are expediential. The story keeps pulling at you, until you become one with the characters and their futuristic realm. You will not be able to deny them nor will you want too. Ms. Owens writes to her own beat. It is a rhythm rich in form and imagination. The storyline is unique and faultless. The dialogues and thought sequences flow with horizontal grace. There are also some valuable lessons imbedded deep within this tale of love that we all could learn from. This reader loved the cohesiveness between the characters and their telepathic familiars. Also, the wonderful ways they compliment each other and play-off one another is special. Drina is a prissy little beauty of a cat, with a piercing howl that can rattle the brain. Straif and Mitchella are like a chemical meltdown, hot and over flowing with passionate desires! Straif with his arrogant mannerisms and Mitchella with her barren future, can these two make up for all their differences? HEART CHOICE is a book you do not want to miss! This reviewer highly recommends it. With the popularity of the other books in the series, it is sure to be a sellout, so buy your copy today! Reviewed by © Janalee Ruschhaupt, 2005 Courtesy of Love Romances www.loveromances.com

Robin Owens takes us back to the wonderful world of Celta. This fourth in a series brings back our favorites and adds several more including a few new Fams. Mitchella Clover is a warm, beautiful, loving woman. She has faced the fact that due to a childhood illness she can never have a child of her own. But Mitchella knows that children are not just born, they can also be discovered. And love can make any child a child of her heart. She has faced her demons and found one child already, Anteen Moss is the child of her heart and she will add more until she has the loving family she wants for herself. She may even find a man to share her life with, but it won't be a greatlord, because they only want children of their bodies to increase the flair in their lineage. knowing this and abiding by her decisions are two different things. A heart is not easily reclaimed when it follows where love leads. Straif Blackthorn is the last member of his greathouse left. They have a defective gene which allows a common virus on Celta to kill them. He has searched for 17 years for a cure and now he has come home to Druidia to repair the family mansion. While aquiring a Fam he is led to Mitchella, who is a wonderful designer and interior decorator. Straif knows he has a heartmate but he is unwilling to find her until he has a cure for the affliction of his family. He is very attracted to Mitchella and decides an affair is fine for now. Mitchella is fasinated by Straif and doesn't realize he is a greatlord until she has fallen under his spell. Straif hires her to repair his residence, unknowing that both of their lives and strengths are about to be tested. She thinks he knows she is barron and can't have children. He is unable or unwilling to give up the hope for an heir of his own body. Although he knowa he has a heartmate his feelings for Mitchella are so deep and full of passion he doesn't know if he can live without her. While fighting for control of their love they find that Straif is being attacked in counsel by a blackthorn he never knew was alive. And someone or something is trying to hurt or kill Mitchella. The wonder of their love and the conclusion of their story is full of pitfalls and vipers. Sometimes the only way to save everything you need is to loose everything you have. Wonderful book. I loved it.

I really enjoyed this book. This has the quality and the intensity that she hasn't matched since Heart Mate. If you liked Heart Mate, get this book. It'll also answer the question as to whether T'Blackthorn's father knew of T'Ash's use of his shed.

On Celta, after years away mourning the deaths of his loved ones due to the Celtan Angh virus, thirty-two years old Straif Blackthorne comes home to Druida City. He plans to find a cure, marry a fertile woman, and repopulate his line of which he is the last "Mohegan". Straif hires For Leaf Clover designer Mitchella Clover to fix up his neglected home. She is the only sterile member of a very fertile family as she suffered from Macha's Disease as a child. Mitchella recognizes Straif beyond just his being a First Family with incredible power and the man she loves, but though he loves her too he refuses to have anything more than a fling with her because he rejects a barren spouse. The fourth Celta fantasy romance is filled with plenty of heart and flair as Mitchella knows she found her life's Heartmate and willingly gifts her heart to him, but Straif insists that though he loves her he has a duty to continue the Blackthorne line. The lead couple is a delightful pairing because he stubbornly clings to his belief of siring the next generation so that he fails to see the obvious. Straif's feline familiar adds comic relief though some readers will feel Drina interrupts the exhilarating love story of two stupendous genial scarred souls who belong together. Harriet Klausner

I have been waiting for Straif Blackthorne's story since Heartmate, the first of the Celta books from talented Robin D. Owens. There was something about this solitary man that called for his own story. I am delighted to see in this, the fourth book in the series his story, is finally realized.Straif is the only descendent of his family line, years he has mourned this loss, years he has searched for the reason why. On Planet Celta family is everything. Ancient descendent from planet Earth, they value their lines, rites and traditions, and being the head of a first family carries great honor and responsibilities. Only Straif is the last Blackthorne. His ancient family estate has stood empty, unloved as he has journeyed hard and long trying to unriddle the curse that has plagued his family, but failed to claim him. Finally coming home to Druida City, he hires Mitchella Clover to bring alive the long neglected manor house of his estate. Mitchella has the key to discovering her heartmate and is determined to find him, but Blackthorne keeps cloaking the fact he is the one, knowing he cannot marry this woman. To do so would seal the end of the Blackthorne line. As with each set of lovers in Owens very original series, the premise is there is a Heartmate for true lovers. As young men and women come of age they go through a series of three passages and if the have a heartmate they will generally glimpse this person. Straif has glimpsed a woman, but like the family that bore him, their romance is doomed. He must marry to produce heirs to carry on the Blackthorne line - heirs he hopes can survive. The woman in his visions is Mitchella Clover, a woman who cannot have children. This is very painful to her, as she comes from a very fertile family. Her lack of the ability to have children is only magnified with so many nieces and nephews around her. She longs for her own family, but knows her having suffered Macha's Disease stands between her growing love for Straif. Mitchella soon learns Straif is her heartmate but he refuses to accept her because he believes it would be the end of the Blackthorne family.There is a dark menace killing young first familiar members and as Straif tries to stop him, he fears the evil shall claim the one thing he loves - Mitchella.Of course, there is another darling FamKitty. This one is Drina. Ah, sigh, if Straif and Mitchella would just listen to the smart know-it-all Drina!! But such is the lot of a FamKitty!!Owens paints with pictures, not mere words, pulling you into her very intricate world of Celta and kitties with telepathy and the power to speak. One cannot wait for the next Celta tale.