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Starlight Child
Starlight Child
Starlight Child
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Starlight Child

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When terrorists kidnap the Great Healer’s daughter, Mara Hendricks offers her extrasensory powers to help rescue the child. She joins Cmdr. Deke Sage on a journey to the distant planet Yanura, but their mutual passion threatens to distract them from their goal. Sage is unwilling to open himself completely to this tempting woman—until he realizes that without her powers their mission will fail. Book #3 of the Light-Years Trilogy. Futuristic Romance by Nancy J. Cohen writing as Nancy Cane; originally published by Dorchester/LoveSpell
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 1, 1995
ISBN9781610844116
Starlight Child
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Nancy J. Cohen

Nancy J. Cohen writes the Bad Hair Day Mysteries featuring South Florida hairstylist Marla Vail. Titles in this series have been named Best Cozy Mystery by Suspense Magazine, won the Readers’ Favorite Book Awards and the RONE Award, placed first in the Chanticleer International Book Awards and third in the Arizona Literary Awards. Her nonfiction titles, Writing the Cozy Mystery and A Bad Hair Day Cookbook, have earned gold medals in the FAPA President’s Book Awards and the Royal Palm Literary Awards, First Place in the IAN Book of the Year Awards and the Topshelf Magazine Book Awards. Writing the Cozy Mystery was also an Agatha Award Finalist. Nancy’s imaginative romances have proven popular with fans as well. These books have won the HOLT Medallion and Best Book in Romantic SciFi/Fantasy at The Romance Reviews. A featured speaker at libraries, conferences, and community events, Nancy is listed in Contemporary Authors, Poets & Writers, and Who’s Who in U.S. Writers, Editors, & Poets. She is a past president of Florida Romance Writers and the Florida Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. When not busy writing, Nancy enjoys reading, fine dining, cruising, and visiting Disney World.

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    Starlight Child is the third book in The Light-Years Series trilogy. Just like Circle of Light and Moonlight Rhapsody before it, it’s the perfect blend of science fiction and romance, an exciting story that is strange and familiar at the same time. Author Nancy J. Cohen has created a world populated by well-developed, fascinating characters – human and not-so-human – that are mysterious and dangerous, sometimes appealing, sometimes repulsive, but always keeping you turning the pages to find out what will happen to them next.Four main characters introduced in the first two stories of the trilogy now take center stage. They are brave and determined and strong willed and sometimes dangerously stubborn. They have varied skills and backstories, unfinished business, old slights and hurts, needs to prove themselves, and desires and fears that they can’t always control. Some of them are otherworldly enough to satisfy your science fiction urge, but they are all sexy and sensual enough to make you sigh (and maybe blush!) and satisfy your romance needs. The search for the kidnapped child tugs at your heartstrings.Author Cohen has a real knack for blending the amazing with the routine, mixing the exotic with normal everyday phrases and actions. One moment you feel as if you’ve stepped aboard Star Trek’s USS Enterprise, on a ship with transporters, beaming, and cloaking devices. Or maybe the ship isn’t really a ship at all but rather some sort of winged beast, with a security bar lowering over the lap of the rider that feels like a Disney World ride. Some of the characters look and act like you and me, but some are more like frogs, dogs, birds or bendy beings with a long, long reach. The next moment, as the adventure begins, you suddenly forget about all of these oddities and it’s just a story of a crew hunting for a missing child, unsure of who to trust and where danger will come from. Relationships form with all the pleasure and difficulties that go with them. You are absorbed in the action, the excitement, the romance. The plot is smooth and fast-paced with twists, turns and surprises.Mara and Deke and Wren and Hedy are an interesting group in this third story. They are talented and capable but most of them have bought a lot of pre-conceived notions and baggage with them, and at times it’s hard for them to get past that and their behavior is immature and childish. Stubbornness becomes intractability and they refuse to listen to conflicting viewpoints. These faults also contribute to their strengths, but emotions – and sexual attraction – are strong, so much so that at times it seems they are like teenagers, stopping for a (very heated) romantic interlude before getting on with the rescue or the rest of their mission. It’s very well written and quite entertaining. This is a likeable, highly-charged group that argues a lot, and it was fun to go on this journey with them. I wish it would continue; I’d like to follow them through their lives.As always in a book by this author, you can count on descriptions of ships, tools, weapons and environments that are detailed and technical. The pictures are rich and well-drawn: reeds and cattails swaying in the breeze at the water’s surface, gnarled tree roots, broad leaves of tropical plants, tangles of vines. It is easy to get lost in this world, and apparent that a lot of thought and research and imagination has gone into creating it.Thanks to author Nancy J. Cohen for providing a copy of Starlight Child. This is a delightful science fiction romance story and series that grabs you and keeps you engaged all the way through. I am sorry to see it end. Read it – I loved it and highly recommend it. All opinions are my own.

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