Haunted Souls [Paperback]

Denise A. Agnew (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 21, 2008

Third in the Deep Is the Night series. A last battle is brewing. As Halloween approaches friends will band together to defeat an evil more potent than anything they could have imagined. Clarissa Gaines remembers Pine Forest as a sedate, creepy little town of her childhood. Determined to add Pine Forest to her book of haunted places, she wanders the night in search of the supernatural. Vampire Ronan Kieran has fought the ancient one and knows he must make a mortal woman fall in love with him in order to defeat the world's oldest vampire. While necessity and overwhelming desire bring Ronan and Clarissa together, she fears the powerful emotions she is starting to feel for him. And Ronan finds he will do anything to protect her, do anything to make her his as a battle between good and evil rages around them.

Product Details

• Paperback: 380 pages
• Publisher: Ellora's Cave (November 21, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419950150
• ISBN-13: 978-1419950155
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,772,842 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Denise A. Agnew is the author of over thirty-five novels, novella's and short stories. Denise pens romantic suspense, erotic, historical, fantasy, contemporary and paranormal romance. Romantic Times Book Review Magazine gave her novel PRIMORDIAL the coveted TOP PICK. She's received the EPPIE Award for her historical romance LOVE FROM THE ASHES as well as finaled in and won a Passionate Plume Award. Her interest in archaeology and archery sometimes find their way into her books. Denise has recently become a paranormal investigator. She lives with her husband and a Mini Schnauzer.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Memorable Reading, November 22, 2005

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This review is from: Haunted Souls (Paperback)

This is the third book of a must series. Finally, the Irish vampire Ronan Kieran knows what he needs to do to defeat the ancient one -- find a mortal woman and make her fall in love with him. He detests the idea of using someone, but knows it's their only chance to defeat this horrible evil. Clarissa Gaines returns to Pine Forest for her own reasons, and because horrific visions have compelled her to try and save the city. It's lust at first sight when these two people meet in a cemetery, but can lust turn to love in time to stop a dark evil bent on destroying the town?

A long-time fan of Ms. Agnew's work, Haunted Souls does not disappoint. It is important to read the earlier books in the series to understand the relationships and the evil Ronan and Clarrisa fight, but that's no chore with her wonderfully evocative writing. The character depth makes Clarissa feel like a good, trusted friend. Ronan takes your breath away from his first appearance in the earlier books and proves he's a hero worthy of his own stories.

Lush descriptions of the haunted town made the tale delightfully spooky and a great fall read. I finished the book close to Halloween, and it was quite the atmospheric read. Her love scenes sizzle off the page, and the plot twists and turns will keep you reading long into the night.

A wonderful book by a wonderful author.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Characters and story were not interesting. Everything dragged. I skimmed a bunch. Sex scenes were boring., February 12, 2010

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This review is from: Haunted Souls (Paperback)

STORY BRIEF:
This is the third book in a series. Clarissa is psychic and can see things in the past or currently. She left Pine Forest twelve years ago. Now she is back to take pictures of haunted places for her third book. In town there is an evil presence and two vampires. One vampire is evil and is called the ancient one. The second vampire is Ronan who is good and has been trying to kill the ancient one for years. A seer tells Ronan that the only way to defeat the ancient one is to truly love a human and get her pregnant.

REVIEWER'S OPINION:
Parts of the story were not realistic, for example: A and B are fighting. A is knocked unconscious. B needs a particular item to kill A. B has time to go get the item, but he doesn't. B just leaves the scene, and A wakes up later and leaves. C kidnaps D and plans to kill D, but for some strange reason it doesn't happen and D easily escapes. The final fight scene was not detailed enough or interesting. I also wanted more information about Clarissa, her psychic talents, her past, why she left the town, and her books.

Cover pictures are wrong. Cover girl has long black hair. Clarissa has copper penny red hair in ringlets down to her waist. Cover guy is wearing blue jeans. In the book Ronan wears black jeans and black dress slacks.

DATA:
Swearing language: strong, including religious words. Sexual language: strong with rear door activity. Number of sex scenes: 9, most of them a few pages long. Setting: current day Pine Forest, Colorado. Copyright: 2004. Genre: paranormal romance.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ronan is one hot vampire, August 22, 2009

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D.B. (KANSAS CITY, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Haunted Souls (Paperback)

I really enjoy Agnew's writing. She really does the paranormal action and sex scenes well. But the pacing and building of the relationships in her novels, in general is very good. I also appreciate that the plots are well thought out and the book length is usually 300 plus pages which I believes helps considerably. This is the 3rd book in this series which I recommend highly. I suggest that these books be read in order since the characters are recurring and the stories are connected. Also, Ronan (the hero) has been a shadowy back-figure in the previous books and finally gets his much deserved story in this final book. Ronan is one of the best alpha vampires around. Smoking hot! But just my opinion. Again, I recommend this series and Denise Agnew.