Review of Medium Rare by Meg Benjamin

There are no skeletons in her closet…only ghosts

Rose Ramos was a reference librarian, until she inherited her grandmother’s house—and the family talent for connecting with the other side…

Moving into the lovely Victorian in San Antonio’s King William District is a dream come true for Rose—and also a nightmare. That’s the only explanation she has for the man hovering above her bed. But Skag is a ghost who’s been part of Rose’s family for generations. And now he’s all hers.

When Evan Delwin, a reporter out to debunk the city’s newest celebrity, posts an ad looking for a research assistant to investigate a famous medium making his home in San Antonio, Skag suggests that Rose apply for the job. Delving into the dark side has its own dangers for Rose—including trying to resist Delwin’s manly charms. But as the investigation draws them closer together, the deadly currents surrounding the medium threaten to destroy them all…

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Excerpt

His lips drifted down the side of her throat, leaving liquid heat and need where he touched. His hands moved along the sides of her body, stroking lines of fire along her breasts, her belly, her hips.

“Rose,” he murmured against her ear, “Rosie.”

A deep ache began throbbing low in her body, and she cupped her hands on either side of his face, pulling his mouth back to hers.

His lips moved against hers again, his tongue slipping in. She tangled her fingers in his hair, rasping her own tongue along his.

Her heart rate accelerated almost painfully. Her clothes felt too tight, and there were far too many of them. She wanted to pull them off and toss them at her feet. No, she wanted him to pull them off and toss them—anywhere.

She moved her hands to his chest, fingers tugging at the buttons on his chambray shirt. His hands moved to her waist, jerking her T-shirt free and moving to the button on her shorts.

Something hard hit the window with a shuddering thump that seemed to echo throughout the room.

She jerked back from his embrace as Helen galloped into the room beside them, snarling at the curtains.

“What the hell?” Evan flipped his shirt back over his chest, but not before she’d seen a sizzling expanse of muscle and dark hair.

Well, damn!

She turned to check the front windows. A crack ran down the entire length of one of them, smaller cracks radiating from the center.

Helen danced in front of the lacy sheers, barking frantically now.

“Helen, cut it out,” Rose murmured, moving beside her. The fog still swirled, silvery and dense, just beyond the glass. She leaned forward.

A large black object ricocheted off the window next to her, shuddering the glass in the wooden frame.

Review

Medium Rare is well written, but even more important is the fact that it's interesting.  The premise is different from most romance suspense novels, even from the paranormal categories.  Readers who look for page-turning suspense and realistic characterization will gravitate to this story.  Though it's book two of a series, it works very well as a stand alone.  Ghosts, puffy-haired mediums and things that go bump in the night, move over.  There's a new ghost-hustler in town. Her name is Rose, but don't let that sweet name fool you.  She's no shrinking wall flower.  If you're looking for a fun, fast-action paranormal, this is it.

Book Bling gives this novel 4 1/2 Stars!

Meet the Author

Meg Benjamin is writes contemporary romance for Samhain Publishing and paranormal ro-mance for Berkley InterMix. Her books have won an EPIC Award for Contemp-orary Romance, the Romantic Times Re-viewers’ Choice Award, the New England Ro-mance Writers Beanpot Award, and the Holt Medallion among other honors. Meg lives in Colorado.

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