Do You Believe in Magic? [Mass Market Paperback]

Ann Macela (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2007

After a bad relationship, Francie Stevens has decided to avoid any further involvements with computer wizard Clay Morgan, but the hacker plaguing her company's network forces her into an investigation led by Clay, who is determined to win Francie’s heart. Now Clay must convince Francie that magic exists in the form of an ancient force called the soulmate imperative that brings together practitioners and their destined mates. When Francie unexpectedly starts using the imperative itself against him, however, the destiny of their love is suddenly up for grabs.

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Review

"Lovers of sweet romances will enjoy this tale of magic and love."  —Joyfully Reviewed

About the Author

Ann Macela is a former university teacher and the author of The Oldest Kind of Magic, a finalist for the Best First Book award from First Coast Romance Writers. She lives outside Chicago.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 380 pages
• Publisher: Medallion Press (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933836164
• ISBN-13: 978-1933836164
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,671,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hi, I'm Ann Macela, and I write enchanting, smart, and sensual contemporary romance and contemporary light paranormal romance. Sometimes with a touch of humor, sometimes with a little sorrow, always with passion and emotion.

My award-winning Magic Series is about a group of people who can cast spells to help them with their everyday jobs. Wouldn't you like to have an ability that would help you type faster, make accurate change, fix the plumbing, or grow flowers and vegetables? Or whatever it is that you do? And these people, who call themselves practitioners, are guaranteed to find their soul mates. Ready or not, and whether or not they want one at that particular moment. As the series progresses, the magic gets more complicated and so do the relationships. Included in the series are the last two in the series, never before published.

Windswept won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Romance, Small Press, 2008, and several other awards. Writing this standalone contemporary with a historical twist took me back to my first love, the study of history, and it definitely shows off my Texas roots. There's a terrible secret in the papers of the Windswept Plantation . . .

I'm a native Gulf Coast Texan, now living in The Frozen North of Chicagoland. I started life reading mysteries, then sci-fi and fantasy. When I discovered romances, I saw a way to combine all the aspects of books that I liked into my own stories. And what a welcome difference from writing computer manuals--my old job and which has no magic about it at all.

Let me know what you think of my stories. Contact me either at [e-mail] or [e-mail]

P.S. Those of you interested in how my magic works, check out the article, A Theory of Magic, on my website.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous romantic fantasy, October 6, 2007

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Do You Believe in Magic? (Mass Market Paperback)

When magic practitioners meet their lifemate, the legendary soulmate imperative arises immediately between them insuring love at first sight. No one can remember ever hearing of a case in which one of the soulmates reject the feelings and in turn the other.

Computer wizard Clay Morgan encounters his soulmate when he meets Francie Stevens. However, instead of jumping into his arms, she denies any feelings for him. He learns she was hurt by a man and so rejects romantic entanglements. Still she needs Clay to uncover the hacker causing havoc with her company's data systems. He plans to identify the culprit and persuade Francie they belong together; but first he must get her to believe in the magic of love.

The sequel to THE OLDEST KIND OF MAGIC, DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? is a fabulous romantic fantasy with the twist that the hero knows who his soulmate is, but she rejects his belief system and his love; two direct hits to his heart. Clay is a fine lead male mage as a frustrated wannabe lover; but the story line is owned bell, book, and candle by the disbelieving Francie; who disavows magic or love exist.

Harriet Klausner

5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it, December 23, 2011

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Carol Blackhurst (Orlando, FL USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Do You Believe In Magic? (The Magic Series) (Kindle Edition)

This is my favorite of Ann's Magic series. Loved, loved, loved the basketball scene. Very well done. I'll read it again and again.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Reading, January 9, 2010

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Linda D. Eger (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Do You Believe in Magic? (Mass Market Paperback)

I enjoyed all three of the books by this author, MaceiLa. Though there were simularties in the books they were very enjoyable and I reccomend them to anyone who enjoy fantasy books and books about witches and magic. It does have some explict sex in it and that does make it in apporpriate for younger persons I would say not for kids under the age of 17 at least. Parents should use their judgement on buying for anyone under age.