Click here to buy this book! Lulu Red Rose Publishing Category:  Romance Publisher: Red Rose Publishing Type: Fiction Pages: 71 Copyright: December 2008 ISBN-13: 9781604351996 When an unwilling apprentice angel is sent to earth to help a struggling author, it's a battle for both of them. Emma Bradshaw: Unhappy widow, bored school teacher, aspiring writer.  Emma doesn’t know it, but she’s about to be touched by an angel—in more ways than one.   Ted “Mac” McNabb: Best-selling author in life, reluctant Apprentice Angel in death.  Mac just wants to finish his missions and move on to his Personal Heaven—and he doesn’t care how many rules he has to break to get there.   Can Mac earn Emma’s trust and point her in the right direction to meet her destiny—without incurring the wrath of Archangel Gabriel and ending up in Angel Exile? Excerpt “I see dead people.” The whispered, somewhat embarrassed words of a child from a popular movie several years back echoed dully in Emma’s mind. Squeezing her eyes shut, she took a deep breath, counted to ten before opening them again and…the dead man was still there. Shaking her head to clear it didn’t make him disappear, squinting only made him a tad blurry, and tilting her head to either side like a curious dog just made her dizzy. No matter what she did, he remained right where he was, leaning with studied nonchalance against the wall beside the newspaper rack in KC’s, arms and ankles crossed, smiling at her like she was the answer to all his prayers. “I see dead people.” The child’s voice was insistent now with a slight plea as if begging her to believe him. A shiver ran up her spine. She believed, oh how she believed. It was a chillingly accurate statement as far as she was concerned. The dead man, ghost—whatever the heck he was—cleared his throat and drew her attention back to him. Oh, man, I heard that. Wrapping both hands around the steaming cup of coffee, she reveled in the heat as she studied the…apparition. I’m one up on you, kid. I not only see dead people, I hear them too. He looked up and gifted her with a charming smile then went back to perusing the headlines on that day’s newspaper. He doesn’t seem to know he’s dead. Should I tell him? If I do, will he disappear? Just Poof! Could it be that easy to get rid of him? He lifted his eyes, frowned at her then shook his head as if he knew what she was thinking. Jiminy Christmas, did he know what she was thinking? He winked, straightened away from the wall, and walked in her direction. Yikes! Dead man walking! She heard him laugh then the air around him seemed to shimmer and shift as he passed through a rack of candy bars—directly through it as if he were made of nothing more than smoke—and the old Almond Joy/Mounds commercial ran through her mind, “Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don’t.” Ye gods, it was official. Emma Bradshaw, bored elementary school teacher, depressed widow, aspiring young-adult novelist, just tripped the light fantastic, took to the air and flew around the bend into La-la land.

Amelia Richard, eCata Romance
With its fascinating storyline and dynamically engaging characters, UNWILLING ANGEL will have readers smiling plus being touched by the earnest premise of this holiday tale. The conversations between characters will amuse while the emotional aspects will stir your own feelings, as Caitlyn Hunter brings a story about hope and love to life.

As a young child, Emma Bradshaw came to comprehend she was different from others when she realized everyone did not possess psychic abilities like her. She learned to keep her gift a secret from those around her, yet Emma has a difficult time keeping her surprise hidden when she sees a dead man watching her one day, a first for even her. The elementary school teacher intended to hopefully finish her first novel during the Christmas break as she has done nothing special with others since her husband died, but the appearance of the deceased well-known author who says he is now an angel certainly disrupts her plans.

When he was a writer, Ted “Mac” McNabb could always create a satisfactory plot for his stories. Unfortunately, as an Apprentice Angel, he is not the one calling the shots and must do as instructed by the Archangel Gabriel on his first assignment if he wants to ever reach his own Personal Heaven. Mac would rather concentrate on what he feels is harsh personal problems, but he begins to see the wisdom of following the strict directives if he wants to finally achieve his individual goal. Now he just has to convince Emma to once again be aware of what is important in her life and strive for it.

Caitlyn Hunter knows how to craft stories filled with convincing scenarios even when the plot is remarkably miraculous. The opening sentence of UNWILLING ANGEL will draw you into the paranormal aspects of the story, but it is the emotional issues confronting the depressed heroine and an unlikely angel which will keep you reading with much anticipation. This inventive author has a way with expressing the thoughts of her characters which will completely pull you into the lively discussions taking place throughout the story. The rousing verbal exchanges created by Caitlyn Hunter for her characters often come across as humorous yet with plenty of underlying meaning. There were times when I found myself laughing out loud from the cleverly worded banter between Emma and Mac, and then there were moments when their genuine heartaches had me feeling their sorrow. However, there is never a time when this likable pair did not have me caring about the outcome of their venture together. With some skillfully depicted scenes, the futures of Emma and Mac take on a true-to-life feel and had me wanting to consider each situation could actually take place in the real world. UNWILLING ANGEL enchants with its heartwarming message of believing in the extraordinary.



Whitney, Fallen Angel Reviews
Emma Bradshaw is in a bad place. Elementary school teacher and aspiring young adult novelist, Emma is currently about as low as she has ever been. Severely depressed since the death of her husband two years ago, she is about to give up on everything – her novel, her friends, and her life. While this seems like a viable option to her, Heaven appears to have other plans, and so the angels send Emma her own personal angel to get her back involved with life again.

Ted “Mac” McNabb isn’t really an angel. He’s more of an Apprentice Angel, and Emma is his first assignment on his road to his Personal Heaven. In life, Mac was Emma’s favorite author, but one pack of cigarettes too many, and he is somewhere between angel and ghost. He’s not exactly overjoyed about it, either. He’s got a stubborn woman to help and an interfering Archangel on his back, and only the threat of Purgatory is keeping him from telling Gabriel to stuff it…sideways.

Will Emma allow Mac to guide her towards a happier and more fulfilling life? She’s pretty sure that she must be going crazy when she starts seeing handsome dead guys at her coffee shop. It’s going to take more than just a little gentle persuasion for Mac to convince her to trust his guidance, but if he fails, he might never make it to his Personal Heaven.

Caitlyn Hunter’s Unwilling Angel is a story about a woman reclaiming her life after the devastating death of her husband. She has a little help in the form of the angel of her favorite novelist, but essentially she must decide for herself that her life is worth living again. This is a sweet story that is quite humorous in places, and the two main characters are very appealing. Emma’s internal conversations reveal a wry wit, and her somewhat barbed interactions with Mac show her to be stubborn and rather feisty as well. Mac is equal to her in strength of personality and has a comic edge of grumpiness to him that is very entertaining. He is definitely not the angel Clarence from It’s a Wonderful Life. When he argues with the Archangel Gabriel, readers will root for him to get the best of the Archangel, even though we realize that arguing with an angel is a self-defeating exercise.

This story is not all conversations with an angel, however. Ms. Hunter adds a dash of danger to the story that will keep the reader from getting too bogged down in philosophical musings, and it is just enough to add an element of suspense at the end. Overall, readers will find Unwilling Angel to be a charming story that is both entertaining and amusing.