CAPTIVE SOULS
BONNIE LEA ELLIOTT
ISBN# 1605635936
December 2008
Publish America
www.publishamerica.com
Trade Paperback
$29.95
376 pages
Suspense/Romance
Rating: 4 Cups

Charlie Sanders works for a Phoenix newspaper and her life is reading, books, books and more books. She spends all her extra money on books that fill her place to the ceiling. She unexpectedly receives a journal in a plain brown paper wrapper dated from 1889.

Cessoline Sommers is a young woman haunted by dreams, or rather experiences that seem like dreams. She writes in her journal all that happens to her, real or imagined including interaction with The Beast as she calls him. The man that seems to only want to take advantage of her, the problem is she seems to like it.

We are in the present, and Charlie Sanders is intrigued by the gifts she is brought anonymously, first a journal and then a charm pendant. They are beckoning her to go to New Orleans and find out about the mysterious author of the journal she reads every night and experiences for herself every time she reads it as though she were there and it is happening to her as she reads. Traveling to New Orleans has brought Charlie to the place where souls are captured in payment every hundred years. Can she break the curse that has been around for centuries or will she be next?

This enchanting tale starts with the willows weeping for a young woman whose soul is being taken by an entity because of a centuries old curse. From the first page, you will be in its grip as I was. The story follows not just one but two, almost parallel lives. An entrancing story of possible reincarnation sucks in the reader, making it impossible to stop reading until the last page is turned. This has a bit of everything a good book needs: a love story spanning the ages with mystery, magic and a mysterious stranger thrown in to keep it fresh and exciting.

Lainey
Reviewer for Coffee Time Romance & More