D Is For Desire by Jianne Carlo

D Is For Desire by Jianne Carlo
Publisher: Siren-Bookstrand, Inc.
Genre: Contemporary, Paranormal, Suspense/Mystery, Time Travel
Length: Full (346 pgs)
Other: M/F
Rating: 4.5 Cherries
Review by Lilac

Appointed Barbados’ acting Attorney General, Dee Bloom, failed witchy healer, wants one last fling. Alex Mayfield, West Palm playboy fits the bill perfectly. Doesn’t he?

An orphan, Alex is engaged to a Mayflower debutante, but he’s obsessed with Dee.

Sparks erupt when they meet in Trinidad on Carnival Monday. Belly-button tequila shots, Dee’s scanty costume, mud baths, dancing in the streets, explodes into a week of sexual ecstasy. Stunned by his reactions to Dee, Alex retreats.

Three months elapse. A pregnant Dee makes network news when she’s kidnapped by a drug-lord.

Show and tell time.

Dee agrees to marry Alex. It’s the end of her career, the end of her witchy healing, until her best friend’s diagnosed with cancer. At six months pregnant, Dee awakens in a pool of blood.

Can she learn to control her powers? Cure her best friend? Will her baby survive? Will Alex ever trust her again?

Magic, mayhem, and romance, this fascinating and touching story has a little bit of everything.

The main couple of this story was first introduced to us in T is for Temptation, the first book in the Witchy Women series, as secondary characters. And while D is For Desire can be read alone, I would recommend that you pick up the first one unless you don’t mind a few spoilers.

As for this story, the feisty heroine of the story is Dee Bloom, the acting Attorney General of Barbados, who also just happens to be a witch with the ability to heal others. Dee is very career-focused and determined to succeed at her job and goals. Her current goal is to see a known murderer and drug-lord brought down for his crimes and she is willing to do anything to make it happen…even use herself as bait.

Because of her goals and job, she has no time for a relationship, but when she meets up with Alex Mayfield, an attorney from the U.S., at their friends’ home during Carnival in Trinidad sparks fly and the two feel a connection and passion they can’t deny. For example, selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors which are widely used as antidepressants can also be viagra pill used to delay sex climax. Presence of active ingredients like fulvic acid helps in preventing free viagra no prescription the action of free radical mechanism. These are available in stores and men also cialis in india can get it online from a licensed U.S. pharmacy. It is advised to take the pill for a longer time and so the pill comes up with an affordable price so each and every person can afford and buy order free viagra http://cute-n-tiny.com/page/39/. Having met Dee at their friends’ wedding and talking with her over the last few months, Alex Mayfield is obsessed with wanting Dee, but is very much a playboy and she is not sure she can trust him. But the hedonistic activities of Carnival soon lead the two to explore the passion between them. But a tragic event changes everything for the pair as Dee is forced to use her healing abilities as a witch and soon the couple parts ways.

As time passes, Alex is still determined to win over Dee, but she continues to focus on her job and mission to bring down a drug-lord murderer, but things don’t quite go as planned when Dee gets some unexpected news and her life is put in jeopardy.

As secrets and omissions threaten to destroy the couple’s budding relationship, the couple faces quite a few unexpected events and each new revelation surprised and enthralled me. I could hardly wait to see what would happen next in this twist-filled story. Dee and Alex make for an interesting couple as both are headstrong individuals who seem to want different things out of life, but who are actually perfect for one another. I wasn’t quite sure about Alex at first but he goes from being a bit of an egotistical jerk to a kind man as the story progresses. He shows great growth and development throughout the story as does Dee as she adjusts to the many changes in her life. I really enjoyed their relationships with one another as well as with the other characters of the story.

Some of the events of the story are quite emotional and I found myself wiping my eyes a time or two. This story and its characters will really touch you and pull at the heartstrings. But even with the emotional and heartbreaking events, there is still some humor and levity to the story that I found quite enjoyable and well-placed.