Roman Rescue
Michelle Gilliam
language
(WBD, May 20, 2016)
Maggie Dulaney runs off to Rome, Italy to help her brother with his Italian ex-girlfriend, who is pregnant with his baby. Or does she run from her newly rehabed mother and ex-boyfriend who can’t be honest? This is what Maggie does when she doesn’t want to face her own problems, dives into someone else’s. In Italy, she will meet Luke Seager, a marine at the US Embasssy, trying to protect her from the danger she doesn't see at first. Maggie is reluctant to be around Luke too much, but he is persistent and the friction between them melts boundaries. When Luke’s secrets and alterior motives collide with Maggie’s goals, she has to make decisions. But who gets hurt when she makes the wrong ones? Only when Maggie faces Fear, that she thought protected her; will she see, it has only kept her from the things she has most desired.“Slow building, hot forbidden romance, that turns upside down halfway through. You won’t want to miss this one.” In this suspenseful debut with a firecracker romance, Michelle Gilliam introduces a sassy, naïve heroine who leads with her heart—but who just might manage to save them all."- Coleen Turner, A Literary Vacation"Supernatural Romance with grit and teeth."Go here and read the inception of the novel:http://davidabramsbooks.blogspot.com/2016/11/my-first-time-michelle-gilliam.htmlROMAN RESCUE REVIEW Are new Indie books bringing deeper characters and more true to life stories? For many years now there has been a formula to novel writing. Much like the five paragraph essay in school, novels have had certain ways you tell a story and ways, you most definitely didn’t. Even literary devices go in and out of fashion. But with the new rise of Indie publishing we are seeing the rules broken and are we loving it? There is no doubt the variety of talent of the Indie book revolution is all over the map, but there are some good ones to take note of.For example, many publishers refuse a book with too much going on because they can’t market it. In other words, it doesn’t fit into a box. I found Roman Rescue, by Michelle Gilliam to be a novel just like that. A nineteen year old girl would suggest it is a Young Adult or New Adult genre. The setting in Rome, suggest a travel story, especially with the unique descriptions of a poet, being transported, leaving you with the longing to touch it for yourself. There is also U.S. Marines suggesting a Military Romance. But with the Italian mafia and Russians, this little girl gets in way over her head. But although we find the young Maggie, naive, she is also strong. You sense she is fearless, but then find out it is fear that drives most of her decisions. In the end she must overcome Fear, the paranormal element to this story while she wrestles with the power of forgiveness that is the only way she will ever learn to love again. This story deals with the physical temptations of a wounded girl, the decision and intellect of a college girl, and the spiritual world she tries to stand all of them on, confronting her own ancestry, other’s beliefs, and finally her own. This book is perhaps the beginning to new story telling. A story of a whole person and not just their parts. I welcome more like it.