Breath of Magic: A Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

Teresa Medeiros (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 25, 2009

Precocious Puritan and aspiring witch Arian Whitewood spends her lonely nights dreaming of magic and excitement. She gets more excitement than she bargains for when she crash lands straight out of a witch hunt into the 20th century and the arms of Tristan Lennox, a reclusive billionaire. Arian blows through Tristan's climate-controlled existence like a breath of magic, only to discover that the spell he weaves around her heart is more compelling than any enchantment.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Arian Whitewood is a beautiful seventeenth-century enchantress who learns the power of her mother's amulet when she's suddenly whisked three hundred years into the future and into the arms of a handsome, cynical billionaire. Can Arian cast enough spells to save Tristan from his enemies? --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

From Publishers Weekly

Boy millionaire Tristan Lennox, a pagan satyr in a $2000 suit, throws an annual magic contest in Manhattan to try to trace his former partner, who stole a magic computer program named Warlock and disappeared into the ether. Smack into the middle of his special event, riding her willow broom, flies Arian Whitewood, a 17th-century witchlet from Massachusetts, who rubbed her emerald amulet and conjured herself away from the mob of Puritans who were trying to drown her. Arian, petite and fiery, has to contend with the new magic of the 20th century; and Tristan has to learn to trust again, as is the vogue. Medeiros is unrelievedly cute as she shuttles her characters back and forth across the centuries. It's a fairy tale wherein Prince Charming carries condoms.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (August 25, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553592793
• ISBN-13: 978-0553592795
• Product Dimensions: 4.2 x 1 x 6.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #553,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #73 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Romance > Time Travel

More About the Author

New York Times bestselling author Teresa Medeiros wrote her first novel at the age of twenty-one, introducing readers to one of the most beloved and versatile voices in romance fiction. All of her books have been national bestsellers, appearing on the New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. She currently has over 10 million books in print and is published in over 17 languages. She was chosen one of the "Top Ten Favorite Romance Authors" by Affaire de Coeur magazine and won the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award for 'Best Historical Love and Laughter'. She is a seven-time RITA finalist, two-time PRISM winner, and two-time recipient of the Waldenbook Award for bestselling fiction. Teresa lives in Kentucky with her husband and two lovably neurotic cats. Her latest Scottish historical THE DEVIL WEARS PLAID was released in 2010 and her first contemporary women's fiction novel GOODNIGHT TWEETHEART was released in January 2011. You can join her on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/teresamedeirosfanpage or follow her on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/teresamedeiros . You can visit her website at http://www.teresamedeiros.com

Customer Reviews

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Splendid Modern/Sci-Fi/Fairytale, September 2, 2000

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MellyH "withthewookie" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breath of Magic (Mass Market Paperback)

This is my first Madeiros book and I am pleased at the talent I discovered. She writes a story, that at first is modern, then twists into a time travel novel and fairytale, then swirls into science fiction.

We have an unlikely hero, Tristan Lennox: a cold-hearted tycoon who has built his own technology empire (a little vagueness on exactly what his cooperation DOES). Then we have our heroine, Arian Whitewood (good witch name): a seventeenth century girl accused of witchcraft. Arian's not exactly the perfect Puritan, though. She was brought up in France by her free willed mother and brought to live with a good Puritan stepfather.

She is not exactly the perfect witch either; it seems the key to her magic lies in an amulet her mother gave her. Unwittingly, Arian uses the amulet to escape persecution and travels by broomstick to the twentieth century. She lands in on a magic contest given by Lennox.

Lennox, needing answers, drags her to his penthouse (ingenious) in Lennox Tower to escape the media. She soon learns she's three centuries away from everything she knows and that she may be the winner of a magic contest that could give her freedom.

For Lennox, the contest wasn't just about fairytales and nonsense. He hoped to draw someone out and if she was that someone, then the woman he dearly wanted to trust would be the one to shatter his will forever.

Teresa's characters did give off that lonely and alienated feeling that makes me love them, even dumb Sven. I also laughed throughout her book. Very few writers can give readers true humor in such poignant situations. Brightly woven, thank you Teresa!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Gem of a book!!!!, September 20, 1999

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This review is from: Breath of Magic (Mass Market Paperback)

It is so hard to find a novel that includes so many different facets. I am so pleased that I finally found one. Breath of Magic is a wonderful tale filled with romance, intrigue, humor and of course...magic. Every chapter is a delight and you will fall in love with all the characters. This is a keeper

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One word; wow!, April 8, 2000

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Jeanine - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breath of Magic (Mass Market Paperback)

I read the series backwards; first I read "Touch of Enchantment" and then "Breath of Magic," but it didn't really matter in what order they were read. At first I was a little wary about picking this book up because of the not so positive reviews I had seen. However, I disagree, this is a wonderfully imaginative and captivating novel. Furthermore this novel can be viewed in a much broader context than cheesy romance. I've just finished reading "A Room With a View" and "Satanic Verses" and am feeling philisophical and completely inspired by everything I read. This novel has the common theme of good versus evil with Tristan Lennox and Arthur Finch, also known as Reverend Linnet. Tristan reminds me of Neo from "the Matrix" as the "christ" that liberates mankind; "free your mind!" Actually I think I'm getting a little carried away; the other major theme is that Arian Whitewood makes the transition from holier than thou "Puritan" to a free-love girl. Just like "Touch of Enchantment," there were parts in this novel that made me crack up. Hmmm...I was reading it in the bookstore and I'm sure that some people wondered what I was reading? Just a piece of advice for those who read romance; this is purely fiction and a lot of impossible things can happen because of the genre, so when I read romance I try to concentrate on the emotions that develope, not the storyline:)...because we all know that witches don't exist?