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Book Review of Captive Desires

Captive Desires
Captive Desires
Author: Diane Whiteside
Genre: Romance
Book Type: Paperback
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Fun read - it's a sequel to Whiteside's half of Captive Dreams which she wrote with Angela Knight. [Having read Dreams is not necessary, it stands well on it's own.] Like Dreams it has an action based plot but most of this one takes place on our earth at a very large Atlanta science fiction/fantasy/combat convention. [I'm assuming this is a thinly veiled reference to the real DragonCon.]

The hero, the king's brother and general of his armies, has been sent to eliminate the threat caused by Azerbhai's [the big, bad Imperial Beast introduced in Dreams] efforts to bring a new catalyst into their world from ours. Alekhsiy is sworn to prevent this at any cost.

The heroine, Danae who is a famous dancer, is a writer of fan fiction for Torhtremer. Her stories all have one hero, Alekhsiy, so it doesn't take her long to figure out who the hunky guy in the outstanding armor is. He is equally taken aback to recognize the dancer from his dreams.

Lots of page turning suspense, charming characters, and the setting of a quirky SF/F convention? Who could ask for more?