Book Review: Moonbow in the Mist

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

Moonbow in the Mist     Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Dia Hunter
Class/Genre:   Romance
Leisure, Jul 2001, $5.50, 368 pp.

In 1859 Tennessee, Naomi Romans leans over the edge of Blueberry Bluff to get a closer look at the hunk below with the yellow-green eyes. However, running to get a closer look, she bangs her head in an accident. The man she was checking out, Shaw Lawson comes to Naomi’s aid, but her two raccoons, Skillet and Jug, seem poised to attack him if he gets too close. Still he manages to help her.

When she awakens in Shaw’s arms she remembers nothing about the last two years of her life as Naomi. Instead she insists she is Prima Powell, heiress to a shipping company rather than the granddaughter of a mountain healer. Prima turns to Shaw for comfort as she struggles with the friends and family she has loved for the last couple of years. However, as Prima heals she wonders if she can trust this outsider who already owns her heart once he realizes she really is the missing heiress.

MOONBOW IN THE MIST is an entertaining historical romance that will excite fans of regional Americana tales. Prima and Shaw are a wonderful couple because they seem so displaced in Tennessee which adds to their struggles to resolve personal demons and other issues. However, this tale belongs to the grandmother of "Naomi" and two matchmaking, berry stealing raccoons, who effortlessly abduct the hearts of the audience. Dia Hunter has written a fun to read pre Civil War romance.

Harriet Klausner

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