Stealing Midnight

Continuing on with the her 4th book, Tracy may have outdone even herself. I find myself questioning which is my favorite. I am left wanting more every time. This family is hypnotic and Tracy is using that to her advantage. Once you start on this journey with her, you must follow her until the end. And all I can hope is that this book IS NOT the end. Please, keep them coming, don't keep me in suspense! This is romance and adventure at it's best!

i thoroughly enjoyed this book - the story line was different and I enjoyed reading something other than the typical. Good read.

One always holds their breath when reading a sequel, hoping that it will be every bit as good as the one that came before it. Surprise! Surprise! It's even better than than the then the last one! Let me just say "I loved it!" As I read the novel Olwyn was such a likeable heroine, so interesting and yet believable and Aidan was so easy to fall in love with. The descriptive passsages made it easy to feel as though you were really there. The best novels are always the ones you are sorry to finish because the characters are so real that you miss them. If you read this novel you will find yourself wishing for it not to end.

I loved Stealing Midnight. The heroine is unusual, outspoken, and incredibly brave, the hero is quite honorable. The storyline is excellent and original too. Stealing Midnight has a fantastic first and second chapter. Resurrection men have brought to Heroine Olwyn Gawain's home two bodies. One is bloated and almost putrid the other is a handsome man, recently pronounced dead. Olwyn's father is obsessed with dissecting corpses to discover the mysteries of life. He keeps Olwyn a virtual prisoner and the one time she did try to escape her home, her father loosed his ferocious dogs on her. She is rightfully terrified to try to escape again. Autopsies are performed in the keep dungeon and here the author does an excellent job of creating the ghoulish, dark morgue. Her descriptive narrative was chilling. Olwyn feels a sense of kinship with the handsome corpse her father is about to dissect. He is beautiful. However he is not dead, to be discovered only when the first dissection cut wells up with blood. This is not a detriment to her father, who has every intention of murdering this man and carving him into pieces. Olwyn will not have it and she quite literally throws herself over the unconscious man and manages to escape with him. This was an incredibly brave and selfless act on her part as her father is screaming all kinds of curses at her, promising revenge. Hero Aidan Mullin awakens days later to find himself in a small hut with a beautiful woman. The two spend only a few days together before Aidan's twin brother finds them but they are surely enchanted days. For the first time Aidan finds peace in female company. His father is a Duke and so often he wonders if he is really admired and sought after for himself or his forthcoming title. Olwyn is enamored with Aidan but knows nothing permanent can come of her feelings as he has a fiancé, named Mira who is completely self centered, shallow and manipulative. Aidan is completely drawn to Olwyn but honorable too. This tension plays out throughout the novel and one aspect of Aiden's character which I truly enjoyed was that he was not blind to his fiancé's faults. Neither is Olwyn who stands up to Mira's sniping quite admirably. The leads share an uncommon longing and even the people around them recognize their close bond. There are some very sweet moments in this novel demonstrating their devotion and attraction to one another. Olwyn sees her time with Aidan as a fairy tale come true. Ms. MacNish has created conflict from both outside characters, (Olwyn's father is out to harm her and Mira is venal) and inner struggles (Olwyn wonders about her self worth and ability to fit into an aristocratic family). There are times the protagonists act a bit rashly but the lovely trait about these characters is they recognize their mistakes quickly without having half the book transpire before they self correct. This is a marvelous story; I stayed up late into the night to finish it. I

In 1806 in Pemarlag, England Rhys Gawain uses grave robbers to supply him the corpses he studies at night on his crumbling estate. The "medical researcher" who drove his wife away a decade ago leaves the details of paying the venders to his daughter Olwyn while he dissects the bodies in his lab. Olwyn also draws pictures of body parts. The latest delivery from the Chester grave robbers proves a bit of a problem when Olwyn finds Lord Aidan Mullin breathing. He is totally confused with what happened and how he ended up with his angel. Olwyn absconds with the living corpse before her dad can practice on a live subject as she vows to escort him home. On their trek they fall in love, but he conceals a secret from her and her obsessed father follows them; she is unsure whether it is to bring his daughter home or his latest subject. Although the lead couple is a terrific pairing especially with how capable the heroine is as a chip off her maternal block, her father brings a sinister sense of doom as he instills chills and thrills to the story line. Regency romantic suspense fans will want to travel with Rhys and Olwyn as she takes him home while her dad is in deadly pursuit. Harriet Klausner