Maple Leaf Harvest by Catherine Anderson – Review & Giveaway

 

 

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Description:
Lane Driscoll has been having nightmares where she’s chased by a strange man. When she has a threatening run-in with someone who looks just like the man from her dreams, she decides to leave her hometown until she figures out what’s going on. Lane seeks refuge in beautiful Mystic Creek, where she gets a job working at the local perfume shop. Soon after she arrives, a handsome customer seems to think he recognizes Lane, but calls her by the wrong name.
 
When Jonas Sterling, a local psychologist, encounters his ex-girlfriend, Veneta, in town, he can’t believe his eyes. He hasn’t seen her for years. Jonas is even more baffled when it turns out the woman is a total stranger to him. There’s no way two people could look so similar without being related. Jonas discovers Lane was adopted at the age of three and is now twenty-six years old—the same as the woman he dated.
 
After initial shock at the idea she could have a twin, something clicks inside Lane—and now she needs to locate her missing sister. A romance blossoms as Jonas agrees to help her. But when the man from Lane’s nightmares shows up in her dreams again, Jonas and Lane realize Veneta may be in grave danger, and their search for Lane’s sister turns into a heart-pounding race.

 

 

 

Review:

Maple Leaf Harvest by Catherine Anderson is the 7^th book in her Mystic Creek series.  Lane Driscoll, our heroine, has been having occasional realist nightmares since she was a child; her parents have sent her to doctors, but nothing has ever helped.  With time passed, her nightmares are less, but out of nowhere she has a terrible nightmare, about someone hitting her, and wakes up to notice she has bruises.  The next day at the store, the same man in the dream, sees her and shouts “how did you escape”, but she manages to get away.  Soon after, Lane decides to leave her hometown, to escape the possibly of this person finding her, and try to figure out what is happening.  She ends up in Mystic Creek, and starts a new job in a perfume shop.

Jonas Sterling, our hero and local psychologist, is shocked to see his ex-girlfriend in the store.  When Lane decides to find a psychologist to help her find a cure to her nightmares, she ends up in Jonas office, and he throws her out.  Lane is surprised, since he calls her by another name, and despite her saying that is not her name, he wants nothing to do with her.  But Jonas, being a nice guy, will bring Lane back to the office, and will learn that his ex must be the identical twin of Lane. Jonas will discover that Lane was adopted (which she knew) when she was three years old; but also find out that her identical twin was adopted by someone else, which is against the law to separate twins. 

Lane and Jonas will embark on a journey to find ‘Neta” (the other twin), especially since Lane continues to get violent nightmares, which show her twin is in danger, suffering torture. But finding her is almost impossible. Can Lane and Jonas find the villain in time to save her life?

What follows is a slow build romance between Lane and Jonas; they made a great couple with sizzling chemistry.  I really liked them together.  I did not like when Lane made a wrong decision regarding Jonas, without knowing all the facts; and giving up too easily.  To tell too much more would be spoilers, and this is an excellent mystery thriller, which I do not want to spoil.

Maple Leaf Harvest was very exciting, emotional, tense and intriguing story, as they race to find the sister she never knew, in time.  I loved the secondary characters, such as Jonas’s friends, and Lane’s adopted parents.  Catherine Anderson once again gives us another great addition to her Mystic Creek Series.  I suggest if you have not read the Mystic Creek series, you need to do so soon and start with the first book.

Reviewed by Barb

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