Beloved Stranger

Beloved Stranger
Patricia Crossley
NovelBooks, Inc
ISBN: 1-59105-023-3
Fiction, Historical Romance
Reviewed by Dr. Tami Brady

Beloved Stranger is a love story generations in the making. Sarah MacMillan has just bought the original house of her ancestors. Captain George MacMillan of the Queens Volunteer Calvary, in Upper Canada, had built the house for his wife Mary and his son Harold. Soon after the house was built, in 1838, George mysteriously disappeared. Rumours of the day suggested that George had a lover named Isabelle Tremblay. Tremblay was the wife of Armand Tremblay and mother to sons Robert and Philippe. Many people at the time of George’s strange appearance speculated that George had been murdered by Isabelle’s husband. However, the mystery of George’s disappearance was never solved.
That is until a strange turn of events began to take place. A Sergeant Pierre Tremblay Martin arrived at Sarah’s house one day demanding to rent a cabin. Pierre, an undercover RCMP officer was investigating a local money laundering and drug trafficking ring that was thought to be running from out of the MacMillan house. Soon after Pierre’s arrival at the house, however, Sarah started to have strange dreams about her ancestors and hearing strange voices.
Beloved Stranger is a multi-dimensional romance novel. The present day love story is both enhanced and complicated by the reflections of the past. The parallels between the characters of the past and the present day are extremely well thought out and develop in predictably realistic ways. These aspects create a more interesting and multi-layered storyline.