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Johns Creek, New York, deep winter, and Amanda Pickett is all alone in her remote house when a violent storm erupts, devastating the neighborhood, and bringing a tree crashing down against her back door, leaving her in the freezing cold and complete darkness when the power supply is cut.
As she becomes ever more frightened and isolated by her predicament, there is a knock at the door. Amanda screams, but the visitor turns out to be Raif Weston, a very handsome off-duty fireman come to rescue her and the other residents of Johns Creek.
They attempt to get to the shelter where the residents are being evacuated, but the storm is so fierce that they only get a short way down the road before they hit a tree and are forced to turn back, and so they both end up trapped in Amanda's house.
"So, now that you have me here, what are you going to do with me?" Raif asks.
…. and the storm begins for real.
REVIEWS:
A bit of a rock star as romance writers go, September 13, 2011
By T. Hewtson LE ROUX
This review is from: The Storm Within (A Johns Creek Second Chances Novel) Kindle Edition)
I love watching the front person for a band who really knows what s/he is doing, who not only interacts with the audience but actually seems to share a permanent in-joke with it.
Jessica Degarmo is increasingly like that. I never stop smiling as I read her books because she is forever teasing her readers, giving us what we want and then neatly wrong-footing us with the plot.
The start of the book is really neat, keeping us guessing as to why Amanda is single, and then that very timely devastating New York storm in a book released only a few weeks after the New York hurricane. Hundreds of thousands of people have recently lived this book in its opening pages.
It is a virtuoso start with lots of warm feel-good effects, 'But where is the tension going to come?' I was asking myself. Oh, right, a baddy, well actually a couple of them, and then again buildings on fire are always good for tension.
If you enjoyed 'Hooking Up', this is a great companion piece, and my guess is that her books will just keep hitting that spot for a long time to come (and 'The Storm Within' is the first of a series about Johns Creek, New York).
She is a very reliable love machine, or her books are, anyway.
