Storm Crossed
Book 4 of The Grim SeriesStorm Crossed
Book 4 of The Grim Series
About the Book
Heir to a noble fae house, Trahern is forced to watch helplessly as his twin brother is cruelly changed into a grim—a death dog—as punishment for falling in love with the wrong person. Trahern doesn’t believe love exists, but he will do anything to keep his brother alive—even join the Wild Hunt and ride the night skies of the human world.
Lissy Santiago-Callahan believes in love but has no time for it. She’s busy juggling her career as an academic and her home life as a single mom to a young son with Asperger’s. Her hectic life in sleepy Eastern Washington is made even more chaotic with the sudden arrival of a demanding fae and his unusual “dog.”
Mortal and immortal have nothing in common, and the attraction between Lissy and Trahern surprises them both. But when their desire places Lissy and her child in the path of a deadly faery feud, will the connection last, or will their separate worlds prove too great a divide?
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From DelightedReader.com
Storm Crossed is a cross between settings in the fae realms and the human. It divided the narration between Trahern, a fae prince and rider of the Wild Hunt, and Lissy, a human widow who teaches science and cares for a son with Asperger’s.
The author has created a fantastic fae world and I liked how it sat juxtaposed beside the modern human world. The fae world was exotic and alien. I felt she got it just right. There is the wonder of an all magical world with beings of timelessness and age, magic, and all different rules. I can’t praise it enough.
And her circle of characters – human and fae – were all well drawn and engaging. There were the truly evil ones, the shades of gray, and the good, yet vulnerable and flawed. I enjoyed watching both Trahern and Lissy grow along the journey of this book.
From Bonkers about Books
Two things stood out for me in this latest Grim story, one was that it had a Fae hero not a human cursed by the Fae, and the second was that Fox was a very lovable kid and Dani’s descriptions of his life with Aspergers has made me rethink how I look at parents with children who are ‘misbehaving’ in public.
As for the story itself it was, as usual, a great story with lots of myths and legends woven in, with a fair bit of magic and mayhem going on, yet it still managed to be a hot, sexy romance too. I loved it and can’t wait to see where Dani takes the Grim series in the future. This is a stand alone book, so if you like your romance stories full of Magic and Faery Lore then I highly recommend reading this book.
An Excerpt from Storm Crossed
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Darkness held no terrors for the boy. Shadows were soft, colors veiled, sounds muted. A relief from the overbright and noisome day that jangled his senses and hurt his head. And when the moon rode the indigo sky, everything was brushed with silver: his rock collection, his coloring markers in their lumpy clay cup, his bookshelves, and even the rows of crazy copper-wire creatures on his desk had paled to a gentle pearl gray. The moon’s light created a magical and comfortable world just for him.
Tonight, the moon was round and fat. The boy lay on his side in bed, where he could watch through the tall window. Once, his teacher had read a story about a man who lived in the moon. But although the boy always looked, he didn’t see the man.
The moon was his friend, though. And sometimes, the moon’s light showed him things: hazy images of new places or new people. The boy understood that it was sort of like a television show—they weren’t really in his room with him. But he knew they would come into his life soon. A few days, maybe a week or two, but they would come. It was nice of the moon to tell him ahead of time, as if it understood that new things made him uncomfortable.
The light of the night was soft and silent as it inched over the floor and crept across his bed. Just as it brushed his Squishy Bear, the silvery glow rose like gentle smoke and shimmered to form a picture. A man and a dog. The man was tall, with long white hair and strange eyes, but there was something else different about him . . . Try as he might, the boy couldn’t see what it was. Besides, what he really wanted to look at was the dog. It was crazy big, bigger than any dog he’d ever seen, maybe even the size of a lion. The boy liked dogs, even big ones. Animals were always easier to understand than people. Easier to be around, too.
Gradually the picture faded and sank into the sheet of moonlight atop his blanket. But the man and the dog were fixed in his mind. They’re coming. Soon.
And they were going to need his help.
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