Midnight Rain

by Holly Lisle

Phoebe Rain's sadistic ex-husband lies in a coma a thousand miles away-a coma she put him the last time he tried to kill her. Yet Phoebe knows the voice on the other end of the line belongs to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451411757
• ISBN13: 9780451411754
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Onyx Books
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

One of her best!

Definitely a page-turner. This is more of a typical romance than Lisle usually writes (although her work often has a romantic element). The paranormal elements are very well handled, as is the tension--it isn't dragged on too long, bits and pieces come out as you go--a very satisfying read.

Wife Loved It

This is the first review I've done on a book I didn't read, but I will try to make it helpful despite that fact. Having stumbled across Holly Lisle's fantasy books, I decided to purchase Midnight Rain for my wife. She is an avid suspense/thriller reader. My wife could not put the book down. She stayed up late on a work night to read the last 100 pages. Now, this is pretty rare around our house. Very few books she reads captures her attention like Midnight Rain did. Holly, my wife wants more along the same style. Get writing!

Midnight Read!

I had no intention of reading this book! I read detective fiction, and was so taken by Lisle's "Last Girl Dancing" I thought I should check this one out. But I put it off. I don't read paranormal, or 'that kind of stuff' (Meaning romance, of course.) But when I finally took a moment to read the first page or so... I realized I was 30 pages in and I was going to be SERIOUSLY late for work! This book grabs you. Finishing 'Midnight Rain' I realized Lisle writes better than almost any contemporary author I've read in the last 10 years. She creates people, not 'characters.' They live, and love, and hurt. If you like well written books that make you care about the people and what happens to them, this is your kind of book. Even if you think you don't read 'that stuff.'

Chilling And Riveting Reading!!!

Holly Lisle is an author that after only one read I've added to my "must read" list of romantic suspense authors. "Midnight Rain" is a compelling read that is both chilling and riveting. I was totally absorbed into the fast paced read from the very beginning. Phoebe Rain's life has never been simple, easy, and safe. She lives in hiding fearing that her abusive husband will finally finish what he started years earlier. Working as a tarot card reader for a phone network and living without friends or family is starting to take it's toll. Just when she thinks that maybe...just maybe she can start opening up she starts getting phone calls from her husband that should be in a coma. She knows that it's him and she knows it's only a matter of time before he makes good his promise to see her dead. If this was not enough on her already full plate she has developed a friendship of sorts with her next door neighbor. She finds herself drawn to Alan and hopes that she manages to live long enough to see what being truly loved and cherished feels like. Problem is she has been told that her husband has died and the person she's being stalked by could in no way be Michael. Does this mean she's being haunted and stalked by a ghost or is her nightmare truly a flesh and blood person? This book offers the ultimate nightmare situation. This book was chilling and the evil element in this story is truly amazing. Phoebe and Alan are dynamic characters' that come with their own individual problems but at the same time are open and willing to trust. Their relationship is slowly built over the course of this read and therefore believable for the reader. It has been a very long time since I've read a book that made me want to keep the lights on after I put the book down. For spine chilling read I highly recommend "Midnight Rain" as your reading choice. Official Reviewer for www.romancedesigns.com

Inventive Plot - FABULOUS Read!!!!

This romantic thriller has just about everything you could ask for in an action packed story filled with suspense, intrigue, a broad brush stroke of the paranormal, and topped off with a great romance that makes it sizzle. Phoebe Rain had survived 8 years married to a sick psychopath. She evaded him for two years until the day he finally tracked her down showing up in her classroom to create total mayhem and killing two of her students before she was able to stop him. Struggling with the injuries she sustained from the gunshot that blew out most of her knee, Phoebe was ever vigilant just knowing that he still lived, even though he was still in the coma she'd put him in for the last two years. When threatening phone calls started, Phoebe didn't want to believe, but knew that the voice belonged to the twisted man who had vowed to never let her go. Once before, Phoebe had ignored the warnings she'd heard from beyond and disaster had struck. She would not ignore the warnings again and when the apparition of a young girl appeared to her begging her to go and help her neighbor, Phoebe listened. At 3:00AM in the morning, she went and knocked on the door of her neighbor, Dr. Alan MacKerrie, to warn him of the danger. Extremely apprehensive of the warnings from a comparatively stranger, a young woman he'd lived next door to for two years, he found her story hard to believe except that he himself had received warnings from the same young child - and he knew that child to be his very own daughter who had died five years earlier. Using an inventive plot the author pits these two wonderfully needy protagonists together to battle inexplicable threats from a psychopath killer lying thousands of miles away, in a coma, reportedly at death's door. Phoebe who hadn't dared to dream of a happy ending for herself, and Alan who had ceased to believe in living after the fiery death of his beloved daughter were drawn together by need and a mystical connection through his daughter's warnings. To put it bluntly, this was one heck of an absolutely riveting suspense/paranormal romance - totally AWESOME! Hello, Hollywood this could be a blockbuster! Frankly from Chapter 21 on I was having such an adrenaline rush, I could have jumped out of my skin for all the suspense and terror. BOTTOM LINE - This is superbly, fascinating ride of a suspense filled romantic thriller that culminates with a perfectly wonderful heart wrenching soggy tissue ending! Do yourselves a BIG favor and find this book for a FABULOUS read. --- Marilyn Rondeau, for www.allromancewriters.com ---