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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780373617623
ISBN number: 0373617623
Label: Silhouette
Manufacturer: Silhouette
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: May 01, 2007
Publishing house: Silhouette
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Two hundred years after the Raintree clan defeated and abandoned them on a small Caribbean Island, the Ansara wizards are rising again to take on their bitterest foes. Despite their extraordinary powers and supernatural origin, the Raintree have largely blended into the modern world. They are bankers, cops, husbands, wives and lovers in the society of humankind. But now, from Nevada to North Carolina, the rejoined battle will measure the endurance of their people. It will test their loyalties and relationships. And it will force upon them all new lives they could barely have imagined before.
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The book starts out so promising. Dante Raintree is owner of the casino in Reno the Inferno which is ironic on more than just the name level since Dante is a Level 1 Fire Master AND his casino burns down as the very first action of the book.
As Dranir ("king" of the Raintree clan) Dante is the most powerful of his family as so has some rather interesting gifts aside from being able to control fire.
When he very first meets Lorna Clay, it's because he thinks she's been cheating in his casino, counting cards or something because she continues to win without appearing to try. But she's not cheating... she just knows what cards are coming, which slot will pay off. Before he is done questioning her the fire alarms in his casino go off and Dante uses a mind compulsion to get all of the guests (and Lorna) down the stairs and into safety. He then uses that compulsion to keep Lorna with him despite the fact that she is extremely afraid of fire. When Dante is unable to calm the fire that is raging through his casino he turns to Lorna and takes her raw power to help save them from the heat and the smoke that is overwhelming them. Several hours later he takes her to his home under the pretense that he's not done questioning her and keeping her under the compulsion. By that time she's figured the compulsion thing out and is spiting mad. To make matters worse he orders her to "strip" so that he can see if she has the mark of someone of the Ansara clan (a rival and enemy) but doesn't bother to explain himself. Since she doesn't have the mark, Lorna is a "stray" as Dante calls her - not affiliated with either the Raintree or the Ansara clans which makes her inherent power and precognitive ability so much more unusual. She's untrained which is the subsequent pretense for keeping her with him.
The Ansara were the ones that set the casino on fire and it took four of them to maintain that fire and still Dante and Lorna survived. Their subsequent endeavor to kill the Dranir is with a car accident on the highway but again Dante and Lorna both walk away pretty much unscathed due to some tricky driving and a protection charm.
By this time they are on better terms with each other and really learning the extent of Lorna's power. She feels sick before each endeavor on their lives and is able to save him from the last endeavor - a marksman with a rifle outside his home. The book pretty much ends with Dante calling his two siblings, Gideon and Mercy, and warning them about the upcoming attack on the family home.
The book ends starkly even though the action is obviously nowhere near finished.
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I was intrigued by the idea of Linda Howard branching out into paranormal/fantasy romance. I thought this story was hot and intense, yet a little unfinished (but what can you expect when it's part 1 of a 3 part series). In all honesty, the other 2 books in the series are better. If you read it and are interested in the paranormal aspects of this story, check out the rest of the books in the Raintree series by Linda Winstead Jones and Beverly Barton - the middle one by Jones was especially good and actually seemed more like LH's voice than "Inferno".
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I almost didn't buy this book because of the reviews left by all those other people but since I bought Haunted & Sanctuary I needed to complete the trio and I am very glad I did. I liked the book and how the authors did the trilogy. Me and some girls from work even formed a little romance book swap club and this was one of our founding books (the entire Raintree trilogy and Call of the Highland Moon by Kendra Leigh Castle). All the girls enjoyed it and ranked it pretty high but we all agreed Haunted is the best of the trio and Sanctuary was the worst. But you can't really read one without the other 2 cause they compliment and intertwine and yet work separately. Like I said I liked the book and the girls in the club did too but where we all agreed this one was "good", Haunted was "great" and Sanctuary was....."not"-LOL-but it completed the series so we all endured it-LOL-but don't be fooled.....this book isn't as bad as the others have made it out to be....I liked it and so did my Moonlight Reads club members :)
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This book was so interesting, it kept my attention throughout the whole book. The good vs. evil theme is awesome. I am somewhat new to Linda Howard but I plan to read many more of her books. If you liked this book you will also enjoy Love Returns Through The Portal Of Time.
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I cannot believe this book was written recently and not in the rape-romance 80's. Dante's actions with Lorna are not romantic, they're violent. He mind rapes her for powers, causing her considerable pain and making her go into shock, forgetting her own name, then later tears her clothes off while she sobs and screams, stopping and saying "oops I owe you another apology." Don't read this book if you have been assaulted, it will bring things back. Scary and not sexy.
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