PC Cast is best known for the phenomenally successful young adult House of Night series that she co-writes with her daughter Kristin Cast. The series is about a vampire finishing school and it has it all: vampires, magic, danger and excitement all against a backdrop of Cherokee and ancient Celtic mythology. Before breaking into the world of young adult fiction, Cast was an accomplished fantasy romance writer and she has authored several successful series, including the Goddess Summoning and Divine novels.
PC Cast’s latest work sees her writing for the Mills & Boon ‘Nocturne’ imprint for the first time. Nocturne is a sexy imprint full of adventure, mystery, crime and romance and is released by Silhouette publishers in North America. PC Cast’s The Avenger is the third of four books in the Time Raiders series, which is about military women going back in time to specific points in history to recover parts of a sacred medallion. Each book in the series has been written by a different author. Lindsay McKenna, Cindy Dees and Merline Lovelace have written the other books.
I would never have thought that a Mills & Boon novel combining historical fiction with time travel, magic and the supernatural could ever work but it does and I enjoyed every single page of this book.
The heroine of The Avenger is Alexandra Patton, a military secret agent who, much to her dismay, can see and communicate with the dead. Despite her promises to never return to the military, Alex visits the top-secret Project Anasazi and somehow gets roped into travelling to 60 AD to ancient Britain. It is the time of Queen Boudica and the Roman Empire, a time of great brutality and upheaval and also a time when there was still magic all around Britain. Alex disguises herself as High Priestess Blonwen and adviser to Queen Boudica and she befriends druid Caradoc. Without changing the course of history, Alex must somehow find the Queen’s torque that was stolen by the Roman Centurion and she must return to the future with the missing relic.
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