Raintree: Haunted

By Linda Winstead Jones

Their name is Raintree

It's more than a last name; more than a notation on a family tree. It's a mark of destiny. Each family member has a special gift, an otherworldly talent.

Gideon Raintree, a homicide detective, can harness electricity and talk to ghosts. He will need to wield gifts he's kept hidden to solve his newest case––a relentless serial killer unleashed by the dark Ansara wizards. But first he must deal with his reaction to Hope Malory, his alluring new partner. he'd never planned on love in the midst of battle. With evil lurking at every turn, Gideon and Hope are in a race against time to save their love, their family––and their newly conceived child.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• Release date: Aug 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781488719875

Linda Winstead Jones

New York Times bestselling author Linda Winstead Jones has written more than seventy romance books in several subgenres—historical, fairy tale, paranormal, contemporary and romantic suspense. She is also a six-time RITA® Award finalist and winner of the 2004 RITA® Award for paranormal romance. Linda lives in north Alabama with her husband of forty-two years. She can be reached via www.Harlequin.com or her own website, www.lindawinsteadjones.com.

Reviews for Raintree

[crazybatcow · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Well, as long as you know what you're getting before you get into this (I did not), it's not that bad. It's published by Harlequin which basically sums up the story. There is some supernatural in it, and some detective stuff, (sort of)... but essentially it's a romance novel: man and woman meet, fall in love within 3 days, lots of sex, lots of "how can we make this work with my magic powers/job/history/interference from ghosts...", a little bit of story. For a fantasy/scifi or a detective story it's worth 2.5 stars, for a Harlequin it's probably closer to a 4.

[amf0001 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Second in the Raintree series and actually better than Linda Howard's introduction. Jones makes much lighter work of the mythology and simply gets us to accept that this man has special powers and its genetic, his family has special powers and now can we get on with the romance... I liked him and liked the heroine (how can anyone resist someone called Moonbeam) Didn't find the magic baby too annoying. It was fun but not a keeper.

[wyvernfriend · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed the second of this series more than the first. This is the story of Gideon Raintree, a detective determined to stay single, both in his private and police life. He's partnered with Hope Malory who challenges him both in work and in his determination to stay single. As they investigate some deaths linked to the Raintree clan he's torn between telling her what he knows and how much she would believe.It's a fun series of books, I liked Gideon and his determination to do the best he can for the ghosts he sees, including the spirit that keeps appearing, telling him that she's his daughter. I intend to look up more books by Linda Winstead Jones on the strength of this one. She handles the balance of romance, paranormal and thriller well.