Sage Fire Reviews

Crossing the Line

Frustrated psychometrist seeks guardian detective for LTR.

When someone comes up to you and tells you a little girl's life is in danger, you do so something about it.  Especially if you are Detective
Conner Galbraith.  Who cares if the tip came from a psychic or a school teacher?

Simone wanted to be a Math instructor not a psychometrist, ... nor a parlor psychic, like her great aunt and grandmother. But when she brushed Connor, she got lots of visions.  Not all of them were wishful thinking about her and Connor alone kissing.

Synopsis:

An evil seed, Morgan, has been stealing the visions of psychics for decades. He has been ruining as many lives as he can in the process of advancing himself.  In short ... the life of a typical ganster.  In the end it might well be his own nemisis. 

Conner has no clue of his real past or the role Morgan has played in it. Nor for that matter does Simone.  She might be the only one equiped to find out the truth, dispite the contradictory guidance of her training by her grandmother and great aunt.

How Simone mis-steps her way into the arms of Conner, a dective cut right out of the 50's is  this author's tour de force, and a great afternoon's read.

Impression:

A classical style romp into the myth of the knight in 'shining armor', updated to the hard hitting take no prisoners dective story; Crossing the Line, examines the roles we  love to read.  The "knight" --Dectective, who has no idea of his own strengths, the lady -- psychic who loves him but has not idea of how to help him, the 'villian' who outstetches even his own evil.  Catherine Stang displays great writing strength with a modern 21st century fairy tale. 

Of particular note, is Catherine Stang's correct usage of the major arcana terms.  There is a subtle additional authanticity underlaying the novel simply by recognizing that the term "psychic" encompasses psychometry, divination, and pre-cognition.  Giving each one to a different character, added to that feeling.

Crossing the Line is a convivial, riveting, fascinating but lengthy afternoon's read.   Its the type of read to pull up the pillows on the couch, load your E-book reader and forget the sounds around you. 

Crossing the Line is highly recommended.

RATING:  9 Campfires

Citations:

General Romance, Mystery / Dectective, Teen and up
1 flame for mild sexual content.

Author's credentials:

Catherine is a hopeless romantic, who has been reading and writing romances for as long as she can remember. She lives in small town in Kansas with her husband, teenage son and two very active papillons, who are therapy dogs. She, her husband and the dogs enjoy their weekly visits to the nursing home.

Reviewer & reviewer credentials:

MD Johnson is a mountain northwest regional -- freelance author, living in Payette, Idaho. His writing interests include poetry, romance, westerns, science fiction, travel, and history. His work has appeared in a diverse range of publications including True Romance and Ballyhoo Stories. He is currently republishing the 1935 western classic historical novel, “The Bitterroot Trail” as the anthologist.

If you have a book or an ARC, you would like Mr. Johnson to review, please address your questions to him at queries@pencraft.biz.