Amaryllis by Tricia McGill
Available at Wings ePress Books
This is a love story, first and foremost. Rarely have two people met and fallen so hard, so fast. And rarely have two people had so many obstacles on their path.
For one thing, Melanie is a recent widow. Her husband, and undercover agent for the police, was brutally murdered and Melanie finds herself in mortal danger when she stumbles on information about the killers. No one, it seems, can help her because the killers are part of the police. Just as she’s about to give up – help comes from an unexpected source.
Amaryllis – a planet far from earth, is dying. Water will soon cover its surface and its people are looking for salvation. Irena, a woman from Amaryllis is on earth. She was part of a survey team but she contracted a virus and is about to die. Realizing the information she carries is vital, she seeks to project her knowledge into another body – and finds Melanie.
Melanie agrees to help. Wild with grief, and not really understanding what she is getting into, she suddenly discovers she’s in a spaceship bound for Amaryllis with enough data implanted in her brain to enable her to live on that planet. Just off the spaceship she meets Reve, and nearly has a heart attack. He looks just like her murdered husband.
Reve, a native from Amaryllis, has more things on his mind than catering to what he thinks of as an inferior being. Typical of his society, he doesn’t understand the concept of marriage or love, or understand Melanie’s grief. Yet, when Melanie and Reve meet, sparks fly. In Amaryllis, females are for sex, so Reve can’t understand Melanie’s reticence in sharing her body with him. Of course, he overcomes it, and the love scenes in this book are very sensuous.
The rest of the book is about Melanie’s stay on the planet; her return
to earth (with Reve), and the ending is a neat tie-up of her husband’s
murder and Reve does fall in love with her, of course, in the end.
I won’t way any more, it will ruin the ending, but the book is a fast,
enjoyable read for those who love space travel and different planets, the
clash of cultures, and some hot sex scenes!
Reviewed by Jenny