Tangled Memories by Jan Scarbrough
Published: September 15, 2011
Publisher: Turquoise Morning Press
Page Count: 282 pages
Source: ebook provided by the publisher
Dr. Alexander Dominican needs a mother for his infant daughter. Motherless himself from birth, he refuses to let his daughter grow up without one. He’s convinced kindergarten teacher Mary Adams is the answer to his dilemma. When he offers Mary a marriage of convenience, he has no idea he’s setting into motion a destiny that has taken him seven hundred years to fulfill.Mary Adams needs to pay her deceased husband’s gambling debts, and Alex’s offer of marriage seems to be the answer to her prayers. But on the day of their marriage, Mary begins to have strange hallucinations—memories of another woman’s life. A life that had taken place centuries before and somehow seems frighteningly familiar.
Before Mary can figure out why she’s hallucinating, it becomes clear that someone in Alex’s house is out to destroy her. Could it be one of Alex’s sinister servants, or could it be Alex himself? Until she can learn the answer, Mary knows she must keep her distance from Alex, but he’s reawakening a hidden desire—a deep longing—that she can’t ignore. But will following her heart lead her to eternal love or to a nightmare that will never end?
The only way to discover the truth is to unravel centuries of…Tangled Memories.
Review: Ms. Scarbrough writes a lovely tale of reincarnation. If you weren’t a believer before reading this story you just make think twice about it after this story.
In writing this story at times I felt as if I could actually feel and smell the things that were happening as the descriptions were very vivid. Each time Ms. Scarbrough took us back to the 14th Century and back again it was if you were right there with the characters.
The characters were very alive; their emotions were so real and raw that I found it easy to get caught up in their story.
The crossover from the past to the present was also very believable.
Right away it is easy to fall for Mary plight. Having just lost her husband she is being eaten alive with his debt from gambling. Mary had a miscarriage which left her unable to have children and left her with a void she couldn’t fill.
Alex, Dr. Alexander Dominican just lost his wife shortly after she gave birth to their daughter to cancer.
Mary needs money to survive and Alex needs someone to be a mother to his daughter. Can a marriage born from need grow into something more?
Two desperate souls destined for each other through time as they are always brought back to one another.
Once they are married Alex finds that Mary is the best mother he could have hoped for and maybe just a little he wishes he could have had a mother like her.
As their marriage starts Mary starts having these vivid dreams and visions. She finds that she is strongly attracted to Alex in these dreams and visions and they leave her wanting him. She longs for the love that she shared with her husband.
Mary finds herself anxious at times and who wouldn’t be. The home is very gothic, like a medieval museum to the past. It has all those dark tapestries, complete with suits of amour. If that wasn’t enough to scare someone add in a housekeeper that is hateful, a servant that is mute and an invalid father that is tucked away.
Every time that Mary is taken back into time she feels as if she is observing someone else’s life but she soon realizes it is her own life that she is actually watching. Things parallel her life and the more she goes back the more she is awakened and wanting a real marriage and not just a platonic one.
She soon begins having attacks on her sanity. These attacks are real, her things are beginning to be destroyed. As this takes a toll on Mary she threatens to leave but, this only puts Alex’s daughter in danger. Alex doesn’t believe Mary she has nowhere to turn.
Because of the bond between the two of them Mary chooses to stay. As she begins to believe that the bond between them transcends time and that they are the couple from her visions.
Ms. Scarbrough weaves a very spellbinding tale that keeps you riveted to your seat, turning those pages to find out if Mary and Alex can survive the test of time and fall in love all over again. I loved how she grabs you and keeps you very entertained. A story that spans many genres for the reader in everyone.
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