"This was a terrific book! The author writes well, and Beats a Wild Heart is not the typical romance genre novel. The multilayered story was rich, well crafted, and heart warming. Let me say straight out, I loved this book." ~ Laurel Johnson, Midwest Book Review
"Jean Adams writes a wonderfully sweet romance... her in-depth characterizations, her emotionally packed storyline makes BEATS A WILD HEART an intriguing, and enjoyable read." ~ Robin Peek
Four flames from Word Museum: "Jean Adams has written a wonderful, romantic tale that is sure to please. This is a good book for those who want to escape to the mystic, mythic moors and all the mystery that keeps them alive for the dreamer in us all."
Four stars from Romantic Times: "This wonderfully sweet romance had just a hint of mystery that made me want to finish in a hurry. Highly recommend this one." ~ Kathy Boswell
Five stars from Huntress Reviews: "Fans of the legends about King Arthur will especially adore this story. Excellent tale that I highly recommend!" ~ Detra Fitch
Five hearts from Love Romances: "Mystery, secrets and intrigue are carefully woven throughout the book, to hold your attention to the satisfying end. Not a typical romance, but alive with the mystery of the mystic and daunting moors, which seem sometimes to have a life of their own." ~ Pam
Four stars from Romantic Times: "This book grabbed me from page one and wouldn't let go until I'd finished the book. Roman was all a woman could ever ask for in a hero and I felt he met his match in Kate."
THE FIRES OF PASSION
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Every woman should know a man like Blaize Hathaway.
When Kimberley Holland shrugs off her family and relocates to the other side of the world, never does she imagine meeting the drop-dead gorgeous stranger who threatens her newfound freedom. His touch leaves her questioning far more than her good breeding, and leaves her hungry. Her grandmother's wise words encourage living life to the fullest -- but is one week long enough?
Blaize Hathaway despises wealthy women. They are predators who prey on ambitious young men, and the one he's been tasked to spy on is no different. Then he meets Kimberley who challenges all his beliefs.
Before Blaize can surrender to the fires of passion, he must escape the torments of a darkened past. Will he find the peace and love he yearns for or will he be too late?
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YESTERDAY'S DREAMS
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Release Date: January 19th, 2011
She was his strength—and his weakness.
Ten years ago, Emma Davenport gave her innocence to a blue-eyed bad boy guaranteed to break her heart. Little did she know, a teenage love would eternally haunt her dreams and change her life.
Now Kane Hunter’s back. With him comes a whirlwind of memories and unrequited dreams. He possesses the means to repair Emma's fractured world and guilt drives him to do all he can for the woman he’s never forgotten.
But when he learns he has a daughter, Kane confronts the one fear that all his success can’t negotiate. Will youthful passion become a reality, or will their love always remain yesterday’s dreams?.
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A PLACE OF HEALING
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Release Date: October 2008
Can Holly's troubled soul find peace? Can she find her healing place in Adam's arms?
Holly Spicer has vengeance on her mind. She wants to get the men who murdered her partner and she'll see it through even if it kills her. She travels to a secluded beach to calm her mind and plan her revenge.
Sexy psychologist turned movie star, Adam Benedict, is determined to stop her. He must call on his old training to keep the courageous cop alive. But nothing, not even Adam's love can stop her.
EXCERPT
Blaize answered her honestly. “Because I’m having lustful thoughts about you, and I shouldn’t be.”
“Why?”
“I can’t help myself.”
This is the first of a two-part series set in Patiki Bay, a small seaside town in New Zealand. YESTERDAY'S DREAMS comes together into a smooth read with a mysterious handsome hero, a strong heroine and a love story that transcends a decade.
As children, Emma and Kane were unlikely friends growing up in Patiki Bay. When she gave up her innocence to this blue-eyed bad boy certain to break her heart, she had no idea that he would haunt her dreams for years to come. But when he leaves Patiki Bay and her behind for a better life elsewhere, part of him stays behind and forces Emma to give up her dreams. Emma immediately earns a place in the reader's heart with her strength, commitment and drive. She needs a man equally as strong and she can find that in Kane if she allows herself to take that step.
The book actually begins when Kane returns ten years later to find Emma nearly unchanged. Kane, however, has found success as a motivating speaker with a worldwide business. With Kane's return comes a whirlwind of memories and unrequited dreams that Emma had hoped to leave behind. While she is fighting the attraction, Kane is embracing it. The author excelled in allowing the relationship to mature more naturally as the storyline rolled along. It was refreshing, and perhaps a bit more realistic, for the couple not to immediately fall into bed on their first moment of reuniting.
Kane holds the key to helping Emma out of the financial difficulty in which she has become immersed but Emma has a difficult choice to make in allowing him to help her. It is when she is forced into a corner by a corrupt bank executive that she turns to Kane for help. Her ability to ask for help exemplified her character and strength. The characterization was executed well.
The unique storyline in this love story is the introduction of their daughter, the very part of Kane that he unknowingly left behind all those years ago. Emma has been raising their daughter as a single mother but when Kane learns about her, he wants to know her. In the midst of a big storm, Emma learns to lean on Kane. The action during the storm lifted the book's momentum to a point when I wondered what could keep the book going since resolution seemed nearly imminent. But the author packed in more emotion that solidified the book as a keeper and let the ending define the book.
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ETERNAL HEARTS
Publisher: Highland Press
She found the love of her life, 3000 years too late.
When Alexandra Kelly returns a broadcollar to Egypt she is swept through a time portal on a breathtaking, yet terrifying journey to a land of majesty and splendour, the land of the pharaohs.
Death is Lord Khafra’s fate if he embarks upon his dangerous quest. Can Alex’s arrival save from his date with a lonely, fiery death?
Together they find love and face terrible danger and hardship but the sexy charioteer could make any woman believe the gods were smiling on her.
But at the next full moon Alex must return to the 21st century and Khafra will have been dead for 3000 years.
REVIEW
Romance, drama and love - what a great recipe for Jean Adams' YESTERDAY'S DREAMS.
That isn’t what I meant, but it’s very exciting. Her heart rate speeded up and her tongue flicked out to moisten dry lips.
“How do you feel about that?” He turned to look at her.
She tried to swallow. “I’m not sure.”
He looked away and out to sea. “That’s what I figured.”
“But I’m not offended.”
He turned back to her, and their gazes locked. His chocolate colored eyes turned a deeper shade of brown, and Kim knew he intended to kiss her right here, right now. She had already made a conscious decision to experience this man’s kiss, discover
exactly how it felt to be held in those strong arms, however much his virile, masculine power terrified her.
For the first time in her life, she would know passion, experience a man like Blaize, or the chance might pass her by.
As though he’d read her thoughts, he reached out to touch the delicate skin inside her arm and with excruciatingly light, slow strokes, caressed it with his thumb. She held her breath as his fingers played over her soft, sensitive skin, as though testing her reaction.
She let out a breath, but didn’t move.
A slow burn ignited in the pit of her stomach, reaching outward, downward, turning her limbs to warm honey. She stole a glance in his direction and saw that he was smiling.
“Do you like that?” His voice was low, husky..
BEATS A WILD HEART
Publisher: Highland Press
Emma Hayward has the single minded dream of becoming a world class nature photographer. Excellence means more to this naive American than money, although money would be nice too. Her goal is to do what her more experienced male counterparts have not accomplished - to capture the fabled "beast of Bodmin Moor" on film. She finds Bodmin Moor in Cornwall UK to be daunting, it's swirling fogs and mists frightening. But nothing Bodmin Moor can offer is as threatening to Emma's plans as Seth Trevelyan.
Seth Trevelyan is a man who has lost all trust in others. Nearly every hope and dream has been crushed, save one last secret plan. Abandoned in childhood by his mother, labeled an unwanted bastard by his father, and betrayed by a faithless wife, Seth has given up on any hope of love or joy. When he discovers Emma lost and injured in the fog, he provides her with shelter and medical attention. The unworldly but empathetic Emma sees almost immediately a deep sorrow in the man, along with secrets he tries to hide.
Neither Seth nor Emma have the confidence or courage to face rejection in love. Uneasily, over time, they share past disappointments and future plans with the stark beauty of Bodmin Moor as a backdrop. Instrumental in their understanding of each other is the aging, lonely beast Emma seeks and the regretful mother Seth has shunned for years. Their attraction to each other inevitably progresses to lovemaking, but that intimacy only adds to their insecurity.
About this book:
When I wrote this book, which is set on Cornwall’s Bodmin Moor, I was able to explore the legend of The Beast of Bodmin Moor. The beast is a black leopard (panther) said to stalk the moor at night. I don’t know about the beast stalking the moor, but I certainly stalked the beast. Didn’t find it, though.
I believe every legend has some basis in fact and there have been many sightings in the UK of wild animals on the moors. When I got back from my trip there was a sighting of a young lion on Dartmoor. Witnesses said it was emaciated. The police went out for days with tracker dogs but no lion was ever found. BEATS A WILD HEART won best contemporary category in the 2003 Treble Heart Books contest and it received rave reviews.
THE SABINE CONNECTION
Publisher: Treble Heart Books
Katherine Sabina Price, investigative journalist, accepts first prize in a contest she didn't enter. The prize? Two days with the sexiest man in the world. Seeing it as a chance to redeem her reputation, she means to dig out his dark secrets before he discovers hers. When love gets in the way, her reputation is the least of her worries. She knows she must lose him whether she tells him the truth or not.
Roman Steele, Hollywood hunk, despises liars and the press. Unfortunately, the woman of his dreams is both. And the truth is, once she's in his heart, he has no defense against a powerful love. Roman has more secrets that she can imagine, one so terrible that he's never confided to another soul. Can he trust her to keep his secrets from a gossip-hungry world?
About this book:
THE SABINE CONNECTION was a finalist in the best contemporary category in the 2002 Treble Heart Books contest
ETERNAL HEARTS Now Published in Portuguese as
O PORTAL DO AMOR
Publisher: Romances Nova Cultural
Ela encontrou o amor da sua vida, 3000 anos demasiado tarde.
Encarregada pelo avô de levar de volta ao Egito um precioso colar, Alexandra Kelly é arrebatada por um portal do tempo numa jornada fantástica, embora aterradora, para um lugar de majestade e esplendor: a terra dos faraós!
A morte será o destino de lorde Khafra se ele levar adiante sua perigosa missão, mas a chegada de Alexandra talvez possa salvá-lo...
Juntos, Khafra e Alexandra encontram o amor e enfrentam dificuldades e perigos terríveis, porém o sexy condutor das carruagens do rei é capaz de fazer qualquer mulher acreditar que os deuses estão sorrindo para ela...
No entanto, na próxima lua cheia, Alexandra terá de retornar ao século XXI, quando Khafra já estará morto há três mil anos...
