Cassandra Barnes Write Words Kindle Category:  Romance Publisher: Write Words, Inc ISBN-10:  1594316228 Type: Fiction Pages: 243 Copyright: May 27, 2008 ISBN-13: 9781594316227 A contemporary sweet romance, featuring a psychic heroine.   Her psychic abilities haven’t been of much help to Gaelynn Graham lately. If it hasn’t been one thing, it’s been another. The last thing she needs in her life is a sexy contractor, especially one whose presence places her family and her career in jeopardy. Kyle Cordell is haunted by the death of his kid sister and has what he thinks is good reason to fight his attraction to the beautiful psychic. Then his clairvoyant son runs away and only Gaelynn has the key to his whereabouts. Kyle and Gaelynn struggle to overcome a legacy of fear and hate, risking all that they hold dear, with their love for each other in the balance. Can each make the sacrifices required to forge a new legacy of love?      Excerpt Suddenly the morning light shimmered, then turned gauzy. Rather than a crowd, the handsome stranger from the hospital stood in front of her, his face distorted by … by what? Anger? Fear? No, grief. This was suffering like none she’d ever before witnessed. Compassion and love welled up in her heart, and she reached out to stroke his face, to comfort, to draw him close, to … The image faded, leaving her standing there, hand outstretched. She shook her head and let her arm fall back to her side. Why did this man keep appearing to her? A sudden chill in the air made her shiver, and again a premonition of catastrophic change flitted at the edge of her consciousness.

Excellent novel
Reviewed by Linda Benninghoff for Reader Views (3/06)

Gaelynn's parents are failing. Her mother can't remember things and her father has had a heart attack. It is everything she can do to keep them out of a nursing home or--less terrifying--an assisted living facility. She's just started a new business lecturing and working as a consultant on psychic phenomena--she has intuitions and a sixth sense, the ability to foretell the future. However, her partner and best friend, Celeste, is planning to leave and take another job.

Gaelynn has always had someone to rely on--her parents, her former husband, Scott, and then Celeste. How will she weather this crisis? Will she keep the independence she seemed to be in the process of attaining--or will she become the victim of adverse circumstances, either because she doesn't trust her intuitions and inner visions or because the people she meets are cruel and thoughtless?

"Jenny's Legacy" tells the story of Gaelynn but also of Kyele, and Jenny his sister who died in a drug bust after she ran away from home to live with Master Kundalini, a sort of cult leader who also was interested in developing Jenny's psychic powers. This seems to have turned Kyle against all psychics. When he meets Gaelynn, although he is attracted to her, he has many barriers to overcome. The possibility that Gaelynn and Kyle will get together despite their differences makes this novel an exciting page-turner.

This is a story about an intelligent woman with two jobs, one being a school psychologist. It will appeal to women with education and careers. As part of Gaelynn's experience working in her lecturing and consulting business, she must fight prejudice. Her sixth sense and her knowledge about psychic phenomena are not explained in full, but what comes across in the novel makes for interesting reading.

In all, "Jenny's Legacy" is a well-plotted novel with excellent characterization and a story that will interest many readers. I particularly liked the series of coincidences which seem to occur naturally--Gaelynn is psychic and knowledgeable about psychic abilities, yet Kyle and Kyle's father feel a strong prejudice against psychics, their differences making it surprising these people even meet. The impossible dream of these prejudices being forgot and overcome makes this novel excellent.