An Angel for Emily

Jude Deveraux

Emily is the head librarian in Greenbriar, North Carolina, a small town that everyone leaves. In her spare time she delivers books to homes in the rural Appalachian Mountains and researches the ghost mansion outside of town. She is engaged to Donald Stewart, a television reporter.

She is given an award for her charitable work. Donald doesn't make it to the awards dinner or the romantic weekend she has planned. She is angrily driving back to her hotel when a man appears in the road. She isn't able to avoid him and knocks him off the road. When she goes to help him, he doesn't appear harmed. She takes him back to her hotel to make sure he is OK. He tells her he is Michael and he is her guardian angel. Yeah, right...

He has take the body of an escaped dead convict (yeah, the convict was dead when he escaped...) and sought her out. She is in grave danger and he is trying to protect her. He also wants to prevent her marriage to Donald. He has watched her throw herself away on the wrong man for too many lifetimes. Michael wants Emily to have a man who is worthy of her and her goodness.

How can Emily believe such a story? Even when they find a bomb on her car, she is sure he is the target. After all, the FBI are looking for him - or a man who looks just like him. He refuses to leave her side even after she returns to Greenbriar and the small town gossip.

An Angel for Emily is a charming, lightweight Jude Deveraux novel. Michael is full of amusing malapropisms. Emily is a woman discovering her own sense of worth and strength. And the mystery conclusion was a surprise - there are no real clues that lead to it before the end (other than Donald's weaseliness which is a partial red herring).

I've been reading a lot of darker romantic suspense or romantic novels that take themselves seriously recently. This one is just for fun and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Notice: Strong sexual content

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