A reincarnated evil is stalking the women of Houston, Texas. With each murder, the madman quotes an excerpt from the Oscar Wilde poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Selected verses from 'The Ballad' along with Christopher Cross's song lyrics from, Think of Laura, are also interwoven throughout the story.
A huge smokestack belching smoke and a ragged flea market double-breasted wool coat and an old antique picture frame with the Warrior's Creed, bring the distant past back to haunt Houston Homicide Detective, Sean Jamison.
With those catalysts, Jamison knows who he was in a past life - Emil - and that he lost the only woman he could ever love in Emil's time. Searching for his reincarnated mate becomes Jamison's raison d'être as he and fellow detectives scour Houston for a brutal serial killer.
When Jamison finds his soulmate she doesn't recognize him, nor can she recall a past life as his wife. His efforts to reclaim her are derailed when he discovers the same fiend who took her from him in the past is stalking her again.
The memory of timeless love drives Jamison's dogged search for a serial killer determined to finish what he started decades earlier. Each clue brings Jamison closer to unmasking his old nemesis.
Tenacious police work, lessons learned in the past, and intuition may be the only weapons Jamison has in preventing history from repeating itself.
My Review:
Love conquers all, even time and reincarnation. The author did a great job of making the reader understand what Emil was feeling. To lose his love devastated him. However in his next life he meets his love again and is willing to learn from his past mistakes. He refuses to lose her again. The same enemy resurfaces and wants to redo the past without changing the outcome. The chase for the killer was the best part of the book for me. It was fast and left me wanting to read the author's next book. I also really liked the romance. To have a second chance at love added a dimension to the book that made me forget there was a serial killer on the loose. The paranormal was also present in the book. The ending was also well written. I am giving this book a 5/5. I was given a copy to review, however all opinions are my own. Vicky (deal sharing aunt) from Kindle Book Review
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