"A love that survives through the centuries"

Devlin and Chantel are both haunted by dreams. Dreams of love lost, passion long forgotten. Chantel doesn't understand why she's had these dreams all her life, but they are disturbing to her. She just wants to do her job on her father's anti-terrorist task force and finally make him proud of her. Surely if she continues to risk herself for the organization, he'll realize the error of his ways, won't he?

Why can't Devlin, a Shadow Warrior made immortal by the Guardians, remember the woman whose face is so familiar, yet so different from the hated similar one in his memory? Devlin has lived an interminable existence for the last thousand years. He feels great loss but the memories surrounding that loss are clouded. A rescue attempt brings him face-to-face with the reincarnation of a hated enemy. Or is she? Although his strong sex drive has been in remission for centuries, he finds himself unaccustomedly attracted to the woman with the face of the one woman he hates. But something is different about Chantel, mistress of the Earth Crystal; something that he can't quite name. Is it her underlying softness or her kindness? Her willingness to sacrifice herself for the good of others?

Devlin and Chantel sizzle from the very first pages of this novel. Their sexual escapades may begin in dreams, but they end in all-too-real flesh meeting flesh. Although Chantel may be naïve, she has desires for Devlin that no other man has ever brought out in her. Can she trust him with her heart? Will Devlin learn to accept what's in his heart and not his clouded memories?

No one person can be taken at face value in this compelling story. Reincarnation has the Shadow Warriors and Chantel confronting old enemies in a new guise. Will they be able to detect friend from foe in time? Will their vigilance be enough to protect those that need protecting?

SHADOWED LEGACY ends with Devlin and Chantel making a commitment to each other. But the story is not over yet. There are three other crystal mistresses to be found and reunited with their mates before Jonar can be defeated for once and all. If any one couple fails to join together in love, all will be lost. Readers will be anxiously waiting for the next installment in Ms. Leigh's Legacy series.

Sensuality: Rated NC-17 by the publisher. Explicit sex, anal sex, m/m oral sex; sexually explicit scenes: 12.

Reviewed by Denise Powers
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted July 1, 2003

Summary

Devlin has waited centuries. His memories of Chantel lost within magical mists, his soul wounded, his heart crying out for that nameless, unknown memory that haunts his sleep, only to disappear when he awakens.

Until the dreams begin. Haunting. Passionate. Awakening his soul and his lusts once again. Her name upon his lips, his need for her overwhelming.

Book 2 of The Legacy Series

Sexual Content: NC-17. Genre: fantasy.