Magic of the Loch

Karen Michelle Nutt

Aug 2012 · The Wild Rose Press Inc

About this ebook

Michaela Grant travels to Scotland for a holiday, knowing this vacation is her last. A medical condition threatens her life and any chance of a future--until she meets Alan MacLachlin, a man forced to exist between two worlds. Alan is the legendary Loch Ness Monster. Once every fifty years he returns to human form in search of his soul mate, the one woman who can break his curse. He believes he has found forever with Michaela, but to claim it he must figure out how to save her life. Michaela and Alan vow to take what time has to offer, but another threat looms. A sinister shape shifter with a vendetta against Alan is making Loch Ness his personal hunting ground. Now he's threatening Michaela. Alan must discover who the shifter is and stop him before it's too late.

Ratings and reviews

This is the first book I have read written by this author and it won’t be my last. Magic of the Loch was a lovely paranormal romance with a rich suspense element running through the story. In this story Michaela Grant is on her last chance holiday. Having accepted that she has a virtually untreatable brain aneurysm she just wants to enjoy herself. She soon meets Alan MacLachlin, cursed into the shape of the Loch Ness Monster, who is only given a reprieve every fifty years so that he may find his soul mate and so break the curse. Little do they know that with Alan’s emergence a dark creature, bent on revenge, has initiated a sinister plan to ruin Alan and destroy everyone he knows and loves. Despite the seriousness of Michaela’s condition the story is not a depressing one. The reality is always there and both characters acknowledge it, but at its heart the story is a romantic one and with that there is a chance for hope. I am one those people who hates a bittersweet ending or a ‘happy for now, but it’s all downhill from here’ type ending. So for those like me, let me assure you, it is a happy ending. But how it’s done is not necessarily what you begin to expect from the beginning of the book! I’m the first to admit my detective skills are subpar, but this book kept me guessing ‘whodunit’ until the end. There are so many red herrings and redirections. Just when you think you know, something happens and you dismiss that person, only to come back to them to dismiss them again. To really enjoy a book it is so important to ‘click’ with the author’s writing style and this certainly happened here. The author’s world building was good - life as we know it with just a little twist. The characters were well developed and the author managed to avoid ‘paper cut out’ syndrome that often applies to secondary and minor characters. All were fleshed out sufficiently for the story without being bogged down in too much detail. I don’t know if this is a series, but I would love to read Hyatt’s story. He deserves a HEA too. If you are looking for a light read that will also grab your attention; a book with a romance theme but also with a strong line of suspense running through it then I can highly recommend this book. For me, it was a page turner and I couldn’t put it down until the end.