The Breath of Dawn

4.5 stars
Grabbed this on the bargain shelf and took a chance on it, even though I started “Secrets” by this author months ago and never finished it (ebooks being frequent casualties of my crazy reading habits)...but the good deal and the cover got me. I dove right in without looking it up and discovering that it's actually the third of a series. To make matters more complicated, I even have the first waiting on my shelf. Go figure.

So it's a really good thing that this story stands well on its own. It starts pretty quietly and builds to a page turner with a creepy deluded-prophet sort out to get the main lady, Quinn. There were some asylum cellar scenes that I really shouldn't have read at night, but I couldn't put the book aside (coughing too much to sleep) and shivered through them. I definitely will be reading more of her writing, though I think I'll be keeping an eye out for hard copies instead of ebooks!