I have a writer friend who believes that everyone has psychic powers--they just don't know it. I get hunches and just assumed everyone did.

Darci Montgomery in Forever and Always by Jude Deveraux could do a whole lot more than that. In the past she had defeated a witch, which someone wrote a book about dubbing her "The Hillbilly Honey." She also found lost people for the FBI. She was looking for her husband when the book opened.

Lincoln Aimes was an actor playing a detective in a television show when someone left him a note that his son was missing. Lincoln had never met his son, but did know he existed. He enlisted Darci's help in finding the boy.

Her visions brought them to a hokey spa in Alabama run by two sisters and inhabited by several rich women. The pair encountered various spirits in need of help while getting to know each other. Darci was determined to figure out what connection Lincoln's lost son had to her missing spouse.

Not Romance in the traditional sense, I enjoyed this book immensely and found lots of sexual tension. I was never sure what would happen next. Ms. Deveraux never lost the threads of the negatives and positives of possessing psychic powers. She also managed to inject humor into what could become a maudlin situation.

Both Darci and Lincoln were well-drawn characters. Forever and Always is a must read whether you normally like Paranormal Romances or not.

Reviewed By: Chris Redding
© July 2004