![]() ![]() Her employer is traveling (so he claims) & needs someone to help his housekeeper water the plants & cuddle his beloved Egyptian-bred cats he also allows Wing free access to all the amenities & his extensive library on Egyptian history - a good gig, really. Wing, a novelist with a passion for ancient Egypt, is emo upon the death of her near-fiancé, so she accepts a posh house-sitting job at Aspenhoff Hall. an isolated Maine fishing island with small village & evul modern overlord who converted his ancestral Victorian mansion into a Bast-worshipping temple o' doom. But really, what sets this one above others is threefold:ġ) Likable heroine (Wing) who is neither afflicted with Teh Dumbz nor afraid of her attraction to the hero Ģ) Likable hero (Bjorn), a blonde, bearded, hulking fisherman who is descended from Vikings (& I really wish he'd had more pagetime) ģ) Wonderfully bizarre setting/villain, i.e. ![]() The prose was okay - serviceable at worst, surprisingly pretty and/or succinctly deep at best. Hilarously OTT (& tragically HTF) pulp from my beloved Satanic Gothics line. ![]()
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