Midnight Rain

I've read some Holly Lisle before and was expecting something more in the Urban Fantasy line but this was a Romantic Suspense story with some supernatural elements. It was good and well written

Phoebe Rain has moved well away from her sadistic ex-husband. He's in a coma a thousand miles away. The last time he tried to kill her she put him there. Then there's a voice on the phone and it's his.

She turns to her neighbour, Dr Alan MacKerrie for help, he's not sure if he should believe her, after all she does Tarot Readings but he's finding it hard to disbelieve her.

As the relationship between them develops the events keep happening and Pheobe is doubting her sanity.

The story kept me reading and I enjoyed it, it reminded me a bit of some of show more Nora Robert's stories with a taste of paranormal. I would read more in this series. show less

This was a lot better than I was expecting! I didn’t know much about this author, but I would definitely read another book by her. I was quickly sucked into Phoebe’s story and found myself rooting for her even when no one else was. There’s just a little taste of the supernatural here, but enough to require some suspension of disbelief.

I can't say enough good about this book--I've been recommending it to everyone I know.

Midnight Rain is about Phoebe Rain, a tarot card reader for a psychic hotline, who's hiding out from her ex-husband even though he's in a coma. It seems her fears are justified when she gets a threatening phone call on her work line. The caller's voice is that of her ex-husband, and he used her real name, despite the precautions she's taken.

Then she sees the ghost of a little girl, the daughter of the E.R. doctor, Alan MacKerrie, next door, who asks Phoebe to go see her daddy.

The threats escalate, and Phoebe begins seeing her ex-husband in her dreams, dreams from which she can't awaken. Meanwhile, she's attracted to Alan, but tries to keep her show more distance, as she's kept away from people all these years, fearing that someone else will be hurt when her ex-husband finds her again.

I was a little dubious at first, with the ghosts and dream-visitations--I'm not a big fan of supernatural explanations in suspense stories, much preferring a logical explanation. So Midnight Rain had to work against my prejudices, making it all the more remarkable that I liked it so much. The supernatural was handled in a very believable way, and I especially liked Phoebe's matter-of-fact approach to her tarot card reading. Before the threats from her ex-husband, she was a math and science teacher, and that logical intelligence shows through.

The romance between Alan and Phoebe is also very well done--there are no easy answers for either of them, and the emotional obstacles were honest and realistic, as was Alan's grief for his dead daughter.

I suspect that the reason the supernatural elements were handled so well is that Ms. Lisle's other books appear to be fantasy. I'll be checking them out. show less

Midnight Rain was a very good mystery that had me stumped during the first half of the book. It bothered me that I wasn't given more of the background of the villain, Michael. All I knew as I read was that he was evil. The background of the main characters was well developed, but I would like to have known more about their personalities. There wasn't much to make them stand out as characters. Overall, however, a good mystery romance and a good read.

Midnight Rain was a very good mystery that had me stumped during the first half of the book. It bothered me that I wasn't given more of the background of the villain, Michael. All I knew as I read was that he was evil. The background of the main characters was well developed, but I would like to have known more about their personalities. There wasn't much to make them stand out as characters. Overall, however, a good mystery romance and a good read.

This was a pretty good book. I almost quit reading it about half-way through when it got a little too super-natural. The main character reads tarot cards and there's a ghost in the book, but I kept reading and it all made sense in the end.
Pheobe Rain is in hiding, living a quiet life alone after escaping her very abusive ex-husband when she meets Alan, her neighbor. Her ex-husband, who is in a coma, seems to be stalking her and nobody believes her, because he is in a coma. Alan, her new lover, is ready to give up on her, thinking she's making up all the drama, when they find out the man in the coma is not her ex-husband, and she's been telling the truth all along. The ex-husbands ends up dead and Alan and Pheobe live happily-ever-after.