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Escape The Past

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To read ESCAPE THE PAST is to be immediately plunged into a dark and dangerous adventure tale, with gripping characters and superb romance. THIS is what all fantasy romance should read like: heroines and heroes with intense emotions and agendas. Not a simpering wimp in the bunch. Get over your aversion to ebooks and grab this. Nothing in paperback compares. Heroine Madryn is Sigourney Weaver-worthy. Hero Val ranks right up there with Gibson's "Braveheart". McAbee's plot, pacing and tension is top of her craft. Fall in love and have a rip-roarin' good time along the way!

For killing his owner, he is to be executed in the human and the hounds playful manner of the elite. Thus the hounds and their aristocratic owners pursue the condemned slave. Valerik's flight for life seems futile until he meets Madryn, who rescues him from certain death. However, though he has little choice, Valerik wonders who the mysterious woman is and if he has entered the fire after escaping the frying pan?

Thugs attack them and they are fortunate to survive. Other adventures follows as dueling sorcerers plot their fate. While Valerik ponders deserting his hostess, Madryn distrusts him though she intellectually knows she needs him to succeed on her quest. Though attracted, they fight to thwart the feelings that bind them together, but love blossoms anyway. With Garet the thief tolerated as an unwanted appendage, Madryn and Valerik continue on her mission, which looks more hopeless than a relationship between an aristocrat and a slave, if that is even their true identities.

ESCAPE THE PAST is an interesting romantic fantasy starring an engaging heroic pair and an insightful, irritating (to the lead couple but not the reader) young thief (mindful of Broderick in Ladyhawke). The story line is fast-paced but similar to other sub-genre novels as side adventures test the mettle of the hero and heroine during their epic journey. K.G. McAbee provides fans with a fun fantasy filled with delightful protagonists struggling to endure on a vividly described world of magic.

Harriet Klausner

I highly recommend this book as it takes your attention from the first chapter and holds it until the very last page. The characters are well defined and throughout the story the reader gradually learns more and more about them, until the final twists of the book shake out. I'd recommend this to anyone. And considering the cost, it is a bargain. I look forward to his next work.

K.G. McAbee is now an auto-buy author for me. This tale is a nonstop action, suspense, adventure fantasy that kept me glued to the pages. Valerik is the epitome of any woman's hero and Madryn is a strong, mystical match for him. Good prevails over evil; and I mean EVIL! Whew.

K.G. McAbee has an imagination that knows no bounds and I look foward to reading her other unique books - as soon as I can find them all!

Fantasy romance is an underserved genre-- this one is really worth catching. An usual romance with a darkly romantic plot. A page-turner.

The slave Valerik has known the thrill of the gladiator's ring, and the humility of servicing the noble class. Turned out as quarry, he flees for his life, hounds baying at his heels when the mysterious Madryn rescues him from the back of her black stallion. Yet the question remains, has he plunged headlong into even greater danger? And how long can he accompany this extraordinary woman when he doesn't even know where they are going?

And what cold, dark magic drives their fate? Dreams only partly remembered of another's man's life; what can memories of nobility mean to a slave? Answers lie within a ragamuffin thief-child and the memories of a dead man. But at journey's end, is that enough to save Valerik and Madryn and preserve their love?

K.G. McAbee's voice is fresh and original as we see the world through the eyes of the slave Valerik. Moreover, her compelling characters hold our attention as we become increasingly caught up in a journey determined to "Escape the Past."

McAbee deserves a huge audience. From her plotting to her amazing details, she is a master of the craft.

Valerik had been a gladiator and then a slave. When he murdered his Mistress, he was sentenced to death by hunting. So Val was released to be prey and the hounds were shortly released afterward to kill him.

Saved by the mysterious and lovely Madryn, Val accompanied her on her self appointed mission. Unknown to them, they were to become the champions of some magical guardians in a war against a sorceress and her evil brother.

*****K.G. McAbee seems to breathe life into her unforgettable characters! From the opening sentence, until the last, it is non-stop thrills which is destined to captivate readers! I am proud to recommend it to everyone!*****

Valerik had been a gladiator and then a slave. When he murdered his Mistress, he was sentenced to death by hunting. So Val was released to be prey and the hounds were shortly released afterward to kill him.

Saved by the mysterious and lovely Madryn, Val accompanied her on her self appointed mission. Unknown to them, they were to become the champions of some magical guardians in a war against a sorceress and her evil brother.

***** K.G. McAbee seems to breathe life into her unforgettable characters! From the opening sentence, until the last, it is non-stop thrills which is destined to captivate readers! I am proud to recommend it to everyone!

I was enchanted from the beginning of the book. The characters are vividly drawn and the details are well-done.