Where the Heart Is [Paperback]

Ally Blue (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2009

While visiting friends in Carrboro, North Carolina, paranormal investigator Dean Delapore comes across a case he cant turn downa haunted inn. The Blue Skye Inns melancholy apparition intrigues him. The inns owner, Sommer Skye, intrigues him more. Sommer is hot, intelligent, and Deans aggressive dream man between the sheets. Dean expects a few weeks of hot sex with Sommer. What he doesnt expect is to fall in love, or to face an impossible choicethe life he knows, or the love hes just found.

Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Samhain Publishing; First Print edition (October 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1605044253
• ISBN-13: 978-1605044255
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,216,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ally Blue is acknowledged by the world at large (or at least by her heroes, who tend to suffer a lot) as the Popess of Gay Angst. She has a great big suggestively-shaped hat and rides in a bullet-proof Plexiglas bubble in Christmas parades. Her harem of manwhores does double duty as bodyguards and inspirational entertainment. Her favorite band is Radiohead, her favorite color is lime green and her favorite way to waste a perfectly good Saturday is to watch all three extended-version LOTR movies in a row. Her ultimate dream is to one day ditch the evil day job and support the family on manlove alone. She is not a hippie or a brain surgeon, no matter what her kids' friends say.

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I've been waiting for this story since early on in the BCPI series, October 17, 2009

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Rating: 7/10

PROS:
- It's about Dean! Yay! I've been a pretty big fan of Dean's ever since BCPI Book 2, What Hides Inside. And it was about halfway through Book 3 that I started wishing Dean could have his own happily ever after. And now here it is. Sigh.
- I found the sex pretty hot...more so than in the other BCPI books. Dean and Sommer are both out, for one thing, so there's not as much timidity with regard to displays of affection. And Sommer is just a hint on the dominant side and Dean just a hint on the submissive side, which I've discovered I think is rather sexy. (see cons below also)
- The plot isn't just absolutely fantastic and hair-raising and breathless, nor is it terribly involved, but I did enjoy reading about a paranormal investigation that had something other than interdimensional portals at its center. (I know, I know...I harp on this.)

CONS:
- The guys sleep with each other the same night they meet, which I'm never a huge fan of. I'm all for emotional, loving sex rather than the hormone-driven, back-scratching kind, and much of the sex in this book is the latter. (We do see Dean starting to fall for Sommer pretty much right off the bat, though, which lends a degree of emotional intimacy to the sex scenes.) Sommer also says something before they sleep together for the first time that led me to believe something would happen in their sexual relationship before the story ended, but that thing never DID happen.
- There's a period of angst that's just long enough that it made me a little anxious but wasn't long enough that I became really uncomfortable. I do think that the wronged guy forgives his lover a little too easily/quickly, though.
- I thought the ending was just a little disappointing. The grand gesture made by one of the guys is touching, and they're together at the end and everything, but there's no frantic "I'm so glad we're together and I must make love to you (or even just REALLY kiss you) now" scene. The final scene is very...controlled.

Overall comments: This might be just sort of an okay story if you're not already familiar with the character of Dean from Blue's Bay City Paranormal series. I was hard-pressed not to like this book simply because a) Dean's the star of this one, and b) he and Sommer are sweet together and have a decent amount of pretty hot sex.