Blog Tour Review: Dreams – Jacqueline Paige

Dreams by Jacqueline Paige
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Release Date:  September 12, 2011
Publisher:   Jacqueline Paige
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Source:  Bewitching Book Tours
Buy the book at: Amazon 

A Dream series – three steamy tales of romance, suspense with unexpected paranormal flares

In Our Dream:
Jennah Best left the adrenaline packed life of being a cop on the edge for a more peaceful place. She escaped a marriage that almost destroyed her and now lives her life working for a small police station in the town of Ridge. At her age, she’s accepted that it’s too late and too much work to start all over again, until she meets a man in a dream…

While young, Dominic Palmer has always proven he can get the job done. Or at least, that was the case before he accepted a job and agreed to go undercover as an inmate. When months go by and there’s no word from his outside contact he wonders if he’s been left on the inside for good. He’s fighting to stay alive and keep his sanity, but finds himself completely distracted by a mysterious woman he met in a dream…

From A Dream:
Jennah has found happiness. She wasn’t looking for it but isn’t about to give it up now that she has it. Everything she craved for years was now right in front of her–a man that makes her feel cherished, a peaceful life, and a job she enjoys. It all changes when she wakes up in a dark hole, alone, unarmed and unable to connect with the one man she’s grown to need.

Dominic realizes he is one of those men that wants the whole package of marriage and a family, and he’s found the woman to have that with. He’s going stir crazy having to stay hidden until the leader of a criminal organization is caught, but he’s more than willing to stay right here with her.

All of his plans evaporate when a vindictive criminal takes her from him as a hostage. He won’t rest until she’s in his arms again.

After the Dream:
Feeling less then worthy as a normal man surrounded by a team with special skills, Brody has to wonder why he’s a part of it. If it weren’t for one team mate being there, he’d transfer back to normalcy.

Tess has always felt like a freak, even surrounded by others that are different she still feels like an outsider. Only one of her team mates make her feel like an everyday person.

This book has three inter-connected stories about police officers and their under cover work.  The first two center around the same two characters, Jennah and Dominic, as they work to bring down the prison Warden who’s up to no good.  The third book still has Jennah and Dominic, but the main character focus is on Brody and Tess.

In, In Our Dream, cop Jennah Best is piecing together her life after her divorce.  Her ex-husband was abusive and managed to beat Jennah down.  But she is slowly starting to climb out of that hole.  The only problem is the fact that the holidays are right around the corner and she knows she’s going to be all alone.

Enter the sexy voice of Dominic.  He comes to her in a dream, but it’s a dream that feels all to real.  When she dreams him again, it’s almost as if she can feel him.  When she questions him about what’s happening, he tells her he’s able to speak to her and visit her in her dreams, but that he is very real.

Jennah thinks things are looking up and she won’t be alone at the holidays, until she asks Dom where he is.  When he flashes her images of Weystate Prison, she immediately assumes he’s a prisoner and doesn’t give him any chance to explain, feeling unimaginably hurt.

What Jennah doesn’t know is that Dom is an undercover cop trying to get evidence to what’s going on at Weystate Prison.  She also doesn’t know that he’s been found out.  It will take Jennah and Dom’s undercover team to get him out.

In, From A Dream, Jennah and Dom have settled into a routine of Jennah going to work and Dom hiding out in her apartment.  Since leaving the safe house, he’s been ordered to remain inside Jennah’s until the Warden, who escaped custody at the end of In Our Dream, is captured.

But being cooped up inside the apartment is driving Dom nuts.  He feels like he needs to do something so he and Jennah can move on with their lives.  But when their worst nightmare comes breaking into Jennah’s apartment, it’s going to take Dom and Jennah’s special communication skills and the introduction of a new team member with special skills to help defeat the Warden.

In, After the Dream, Dom’s undercover team has been sequestered to a safe house to work on a new case which brings evidence retrieved from a dumpster outside a government office.  While scoping out a warehouse, Tess and Brody find themselves in a sticky situation that has them crawling through a drainage tunnel trying to escape.  The only problem, Tess doesn’t like confined spaces.  Brody solves that problem by doing something he’s wanted to do for month…distract her with a scorching kiss.

That kiss and the evidence they found, has the team chasing after a councilman bent on creating a way for the bad guys to disable security devices and equipment without having to be close by.  It also has Tess and Brody feeling out the chemistry that has been popping off of them since they first met.

Can they get their bad guys and happily every after?

I liked for first two stories.  While quick and fast paced, you still got a feel for Dom and Jennah.  Through both stories we get to see how their relationship has built, despite the adversity from both the outstanding issues from the prison and Jennah’s personal life.

I could have done without the second story.  While connected, sort of, it just didn’t seem to flow with the other two.  While I was happy to see Tess and Brody get together, I really wanted more of Jennah and Dom.

Quick reads that were fun and a great way to kill a couple hours on a Sunday.