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Whispers on the Wind (Futuristic Romance)

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Living high in the Rockies, she first heard the voice caressing yet pleading with her to come to him, but Lenore Hemming figured it was another effect of burnout. She begins to have sensual dreams of a bronze hunk who calls out to her to come to him. Hard physical exercise fails to eliminate the plea until she pinpoints it coming from a nearby cavern.

As crazy as it seems to Lenore, she cannot help investigate the "source." To her shock, she has either totally lost it and is hallucinating or she has found a gorgeous but wounded man inside the cave. Jonallo needs Lenore's help to survive. Beyond that she insists on assisting him when Jon tries to find his sister and save his planet. As Lenore and Jon become acquainted on two levels, they fall in love, but he comes from some place that is light years ahead of earth.

WHISPERS IN THE WIND is an exciting futuristic romance that stars two intrepid, but hurting lead characters. The story line is a vessel for their relationship and their efforts to save a world. Fans of the sub-genre will relish Judy Gill's glimpse at a future filled with love.

Harriet Klausner

I really had a hard time with this book. it was boring, jumbled, dull and I had to struggle to finish it. I have never wanted to throw a book away more. I thought it would be a wonderful futuristic romance but it never lived up to the cover. I found the characters very underdeveloped and the story didn't have a strong plot line. I felt like I had come into the story when it was almost over. I'm sorry but I cound't recommend this book at all.

Mid Twenty First Century Earth:

Joy and sorrow follow each other in quick succession as Jonallo's Aazoni Octet discovers the location of his kidnapped birthmate, Zenna. The eight, held together by a psychic bond, had encountered a severe solar storm immediately following translation through a transitory window to the planet Earth. The storm had broken their concentration and scattered the Octet far beyond Jon's psychic reach. Only one small warm light glows in the darkness. Too injured to heal himself, his mind searches for aid. If only he can make the woman come to him.

The dreams are back, a new one this time, yet another manifestation of her deepest desire, to have a child. Lenore had sought refuge from her mental exhaustion in a rustic cabin in the Canadian Rockies, to enjoy mindless pursuits, to escape three years of dreams about the child.....the child that need her help. That dream was gone, replaced by another.

It was a deeply erotic dream, fulfilling a deep desire that she didn't even know she had. Warm, passionate, gloriously handsome...he teased her senses, bring her to the height of desire, then withdrawing from her. "Come to me", he called. Where? She must be going insane to think for even one moment that this was real. Yet the dreams come, like the other, even when she is awake.

She is compelled to search a mountain cavern that she and her best friend had discovered as children. Empty, just as she knew it would be. She would spend the remainder of the night in it's shelter, before returning to her real home in the city. So much for escape from stress!

Morning does not find her alone. A beautiful and badly injured man is sharing the cave, sharing her mind -- a stranger.....yet not. He is Jonallo, of Aazonia, a galactic law enforcement officer, leader of the Octet sent to apprehend a cosmic drug dealer, who had poisoned souls throughout the galaxy. The criminal had kidnapped Jon's twin sister over three years ago, taking with him the experimental telepathy enhancer she'd been developing. The enhancer allowed him to translate without an Octet, through smaller and less stable windows, making it easier for him to travel between Earth and Aazonia, to reap and distribute the botanicals used to formulate the addictive chemicals.

Though she finds it all hard to swallow, there is something about Jonallo that makes it impossible to refuse him. She feels a deep connection. It is as if she's always known him, known of his kind. Connection is what Lenore has missed all her life, having been abandoned by her mother, left behind with a distant, unaffectionate father. Time is of the essence, the window they had traveled through would soon close, not to reopen for another decade. She would help him find his Octet.

But then he would leave, wouldn't he, leaving her emptier than ever before?

WHISPERS ON THE WIND is a story that makes you want to believe...in love, and in life on other worlds. The bond between Jonallo and Lenore is inspirational, as is their courage, honor, and their willingness to sacrifice their own happiness for the good of others. The well deserved happy ending will bring tears to the eyes. Highly recommended. -- Reviewed for Paranormal Romance Reviews

It made me laugh and cry. When a book can do that, than it is a winner.

I had never read a judy gill novel before, and I'm sure glad this was my first. The story, with a few slow points, moved along pretty quickly. The characters were endearing and different from the norm with an older "ordinary" looking heroine and her greek god looking hero. A definate keeper.

Return this book if you haven't read it yet. I was extremely disappointed in this book. I had read books by this author in the loveswept line and thought she was entertaining and charming. She doesn't know how to write this genre and I struggled to finish it - it just didn't improve. One major problem with the book is the narrative style where the author attempts to explain new technologies compared to present day while everything takes place 50 years in future. Some of the characters also constantly use cliched old-fashioned methods throughout the book like woodburning fires, cooking foods, driving vehicles, etc and comment on how much better life used to be when people did these things - what is the point of reading a futuristic book where everyone wishes they were in the past? If i wanted to read about people enjoying the past i would read a HISTORICAL book not a FUTURISTIC one. I can't think of a single instance the heroine enjoyed any technology she used in the book - when on her vacation she went to a primitive cabin and chopped wood and made the food sound awful. The ENTIRE book would have flowed a lot better if set in present day America without all the extraneous fake disasters and technologies that are poorly incorporated. There were also major problems with the paranormal aspects of the book - the descriptions were unbelievable and contradictory. There are so many minor characters in this book that you can barely shake a stick at them and you hope the villain will kill a bunch off just so they stop interferring with the storyline. Also the maternal urges and the child are sickeningly sacchrine. I would return this book if you haven't read it yet. If she was trying to set up a sequel to this book it didn't work I never want to read about any of the characters again and I resented the minor characters for making me learn a bunch of names and details that could have easily been combined into one person they were so flat and one dimensional. I would give this book a zero rating if it was an option.