Reviewer: Lori Graham
Title: Eternal Nights
Author: Patti O'Shea
Publisher: Love Spell/Dorchester Publishing
ISBN: 9-780505-526601
Release Date: August 2006
Genre/Sub-genre: Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Year/Setting: Future/Old City on Jarved Nine
Overall Rating: 5.0
Sexual Content Rating: Sexual
Language (Profanity) Rating: Moderate
Violent Content Rating: Moderate
Patti's Website: www.pattioshea
The Western Alliance has assigned a team to an outpost on Jarved Nine. This includes a team of military personnel for protection of the Old City and a team of archeologists to provide the history and delve into the past of this wonderful city and the pyramid/temple dominating it.
Captain Kendall Thomas is currently serving with the archeologists and has discovered that valuable but not easily noticed artifacts are disappearing and she is determined that no one will get away with desecrating this place. She begins an in depth investigation using her computer skills, her military skills and some skills she isn’t quite sure where they are coming from. What she doesn’t know is who she can confide in so until she does, she will wait.
Wyatt Montgomery is attached to the Special Ops Force of the assigned military contingent. He is the closest friend she has and because of past experiences (which I don’t want to give away), he can read Kendall pretty well. He knows something is wrong but isn’t sure what. He is even more sure something is wrong when he tells her he has asked his friend Hunter to watch over her while he is deployed elsewhere and she doesn’t fight him.
Wyatt makes short work of his mission to return to her side only to discover Kendall has gotten in far deeper than even she realized. As he struggles to protect her and aide her, however, whole new realms and ideas are opening up to both of them. You know what they say about a crisis bringing out emotion…well…I’ll leave you there. 
At the beginning of Eternal Nights there is a French proverb listed—"True love is friendship set on fire." This proverb gives you the best insight into this situational drama by Patti O’Shea. I almost feel like anything I offer would just be extra glitz. I know that there are readers who struggle with futuristic pieces and from time to time I have had difficulty here as well. However, Patti seems to keep that in the back of her mind because she grabs you from the very beginning of the story and you forget you are in the future.
The characters are so well delineated that the scenery is extra information. Don’t get me wrong it is obviously important to the story and she does an excellent job with it. However, the reader becomes so focused on the characters and who is doing what that the scenery becomes the background which is exactly where it should be.
The depth within Kendal and Wyatt is multi-faceted and creative. The reader is constantly jumping back and forth from one to the other as to which is their favorite—or at least this reader was. They both brought their own "baggage" to the relationship but how they finally see that baggage is very well done.
Just remember—"True love is friendship set on fire"—I can’t put it any better than that.
Lori
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