Product Description

Police officer Ty McIntyre was cursed to find a girl no one had seen in twenty years. And it was his job to save her from the dark forces swirling around her. He found her locked away in a psychiatric hospital, where she thought she was losing her mind. Born a witch, Irina Cooper was able to read other people's thoughts. She had never known the source of her power, or her true heritage--until now.

Irina could read Ty's true intentions and sense his deepest desires. But with a witch killer seeking to destroy the Cooper legacy, could these ill-fated souls embrace Irina's gift and end her family's curse? And beyond that, would they be able to save each other?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #746496 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 288 pages

Customer Reviews

Is This the End?
DAMNED is the third (and final) book in the WITCH HUNT series by Lisa Childs. This is a good, fast read and a great ending to the series, although there's a revelation at the end that could spin into another book if Ms. Childs chose to write it.

Well-paced and heart-wrenching
This book was among the first Silhouette Nocturnes I ever read, and one of the best of this line. I'm afraid I didn't get the chance to read the two books that are its companions in a trio of stories dealing with three witch-sisters seperated by circumstances beyond their control, but the fact that I enjoyed it as much as I did is a testament to how well the book was written. The hero and the heroine are both beautiful but flawed people, who manage to find redemption for themselves and the ones who love them and need to bring them home.

Geat start, clunky finish
Damned gets off to a great start. I loved the first half of the book as Childs develops the tormented pair Irina, the third witch sister who has spent the last few years doing drugs to try and silence the voices in her head that have threatened her sanity, and Ty a suspended cop who struggles with the self-loathing and fear that he will follow in his late father's footsteps of rage and abuse. Childs does a great job of setting up their relationship, showing the hand fate has played in establishing a connection between them and showing them both trying to find and give love and trust while both have been convinced by the people that raised them that they are unworthy of that love.

The second half of the book, kind of lost me though. It just felt a bit more stilted. The loves scenes were clunky and implausible, Irina is so sensitive that she achieves ecstasy with just a kiss. That might of worked if author Childs played up Irina's telepathy and made this sensitivity a result of feedback from her connection with Ty. Additionally, the language was repetious which also detracted from the 'action'. As far as the rest of the story, Irina and Ty do a lot of running around and angsting and finally manage to hook up Irina with her sisters from the previous two books for the climatic finish. Overall the book was fine, but I like the beginning so much that I can help but be disappointed that Childs didn't manage to carry it the rest of the way through.

Damned is the 3rd book in Childs Silhouette Nocturne Witch Hunt series, the others are Irina sister's stories:
Witch Hunt: Haunted (Book 1)
Witch Hunt: Persecuted (Book 2)