When artist Emma Beck visits the small town of Benina to find out more about her birth mother, she discovers the house that has been haunting her dreams since she was five years old.  She immediately purchases the house and hires contractor Mike Ruhl to make it livable again.  When she finally meets Mike, besides feeling as though she has always known him, Emma discovers that he is the man that she has been painting for years.  And people suddenly dying when she starts to ask questions about the past.  Who or what has been directing her steps from childhood, and who is killing people to keep Emma from finding out the answers to her questions about her parents? 

NIGHT ECHOES by Holly Lisle is a first class romantic suspense with a strong touch of the paranormal.  The entire tone is so eerie that this reviewer recommends only reading on a bright sunny day.  Emma, upon the death of her adopted parents, decides to research her birth parents just to discover the house and Mike.  As unlikely events keep occurring she starts to question both her sanity and her attraction to Mike, though the only way to survive is to learn to trust him.  Mike is an all around good guy, the boy next door type.  He has never really let a woman get close to him even though he has been married before.  However, there is no way to control his attraction to Emma and possibly no way to protect her from the events that are occurring. 

This reviewer has been a fan of Ms. Lisle since the beginning when her genre of choice was fantasy, and I really have to say that Ms. Lisle has definitely found her niche in romantic suspense.  If you are looking for a book to keep you up at night then look no further than any of Ms. Lisle’s offerings.

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