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Your Email. Sign Up. Look Inside. On Sale: Jul 16, Release Month: Aug Then Annie gets a phone call, and a disembodied, vaguely accented male voice asks Annie if she remembers him and then hangs up.
This freaks Annie out, but after a rousing dance mix of Smooth Criminal, Annie calms down enough to remember that she sometimes gets crazy focused fans, but usually it is just teen angst and she lives in a secure building, so Annie is okay. The next day we are off to France and as Annie arrives in Paris, her bodyguards leave her with the chauffeur who is to drive her to hotel.
Except that the driver doesn't take Annie to her hotel, he takes her to an isolated house in the French countryside and keeps trying to tell Annie that she should remember who he is. Annie, who isn't able to get her gun, thinks at first that she has been kidnapped by a crazed stalker. But once they get to the house and the man starts telling her that they have met before.
Annie not only feels the thud of the Lurve Force Mojo turn the beat around, she starts remembering a green forest, a woodcutter's hut and a lot of machine gun fire- leaving her shot to the heart, with the man to blame. Annie thinks the strangely attractive man might be drugging her, or hypnotizing her or maybe he even has subversive mental telepathy and she should be creating a tin foil pot hat. However, after seeing the man's bedroom covered in pictures and paintings of herself, Annie is on the run.
There is a wild dash through the cold forest and some evasive tactics that do no good, Annie is truly caught and the man finally tells her why lights in the forest send her into a panic attack. Jura is on the Swiss border and several downed British Airmen were smuggled through the area on their way to safety from the searching German forces.
Annie's grandma was a French widow with a small son who fell in love with one of those airmen and became his lover while he recuperated from being shot down. Annie is the reincarnation of her grandma and the strange man who is keeping Annie in his house, Marc, was the British airman in hiding. In his British Airman life, he and Annie as her grandma, fell in love while she was helping him get out of France. He died while trying to distract the Germans from catching Annie when they made a surprise visit one day.
Annie's grandma never got over the loss of her True Love or the horrible he way he died from being machine gunned down and eventually she took her son and went to England. Fifty years on Marc and Annie can be finally reunited in their current lives. Annie struggles a bit against Marc's certainty, but after finding out that Marc is also the Managing Director of the French record company that is promoting Annie's European tours, Annie allows herself to fall in love, her memories are just too vivid for Marc to be telling anything other than the truth.
It is also clear that Marc firmly believes that the two of them are destined lovers, fated to be together after cruelly being torn apart by death and war fifty years earlier. What is interesting tho, is that while CL really does want us to be believe in the reincarnation and second flowering of great and true love, she also provides a little alternative option, in a very sly, CL kinda way.
CL makes it clear that Annie and Marc are going to be together, but is it because Marc is in love with his image of Annie's grandma and the fact that Annie will soon be a mega star? CL goes out of her way to show how easily Annie has been moulded and influenced by her manager and minder. In fact the last big act of drama is Annie's manager and minder displaying their own jealousy and possessiveness of their pop icon version of Annie.
They are extremely reluctant to let the 24 yr old live her own life with her own relationship choices, CL hints it is because they fear being cut out of the mega dollar producing Annie brand. On the other side of things, Annie doesn't really have a lot of self agency at any time during this story.
Marc's intense coercion seems to push her to memories that maybe she really doesn't have, but he is descriptive enough that her dreams seem to be mirroring his and we will never know if that is really so. Is Marc's insistence on reincarnated, reunited lovers real or is there something more sinister going on? This whole situation could be that Annie really is the focus of an unhealthy stalker obsession in Marc, and because Annie is pliable and open to influence, this whole reincarnation and many lifetimes ticket to ride the love train may be nothing more that an HPlandia mind meld of whacktasticness and CL is taking us all for a joyride on the mystical wild side.
Annie and Marc do get their HEA and they do decide to stay together. What that HEA actually means and which people are really participating in it is completely up to the reader, and so it all depends upon your perception of this most Unusual Mystic HPlandia outing. View all 3 comments. The romance is doled out in suspenseful measure. To tell any more would spoil the fun. View 2 comments. Sep 08, Naksed rated it liked it Shelves: harlequin-romance , reincarnation , actors-singers-dancers.
An okay story if reincarnated lovers are your thing. It was better executed than the hokey premise would suggest, because this is Charlotte Lamb. My favorite parts were the passages that hinted this may be a hoax, or worse, the sincere delusion of a mentally unhinged character. I really would have liked for those alternative scenarios to be further explored with that "winking-at-the-camera" irony that CL is so good at.
Annie is a pop star. I really wish Annie had been a bit Alanis, even though Alanis is a bit too angry to be a romance virgin anyway, but I could just imagine her with back up dancers.
As the story opens, Annie is bidding a bittersweet and brief farewell to her manager and minder, who are off on their honeymoon. When she gets back to her lonely flat, the phone rings. Sadly, her freak out is very restrained.
Annie gets on with her life, which includes getting ready to kick off her European tour in Paris. Her minder and manager have organised for to fly to Paris with burly security guards, who hand her into a limo to be driven to the fancy hotel where Frenchmen will take over the roles of burly protectors. His bedroom is covered with pictures of Annie and he has all her music, including all the foreign release and limited edition covers. If there had been life sized cardboard Annies, they would have been stapled to the ceiling above his bed.
Having it at all is really disturbing. Good looking rich people also seem normal, but that means nothing. Yes, probably. This is one of those paranormal things that perfectly normal people accept as possible, while other perfectly normal people think it absolutely crazy and made up.
You could just chat about it a lot in Paris places. I bet Alanis would never have stood for any of it. View all 11 comments. What a bizarre read this was! CL can pull off the strangest of plot lines with the sheer power of her writing style, but this is where she falters.
A bit. The slow beginning introduces us to the h Annie who's an international pop singer with a great career before her. Things are pretty mundane from thereon till she meets the H. Now, I've read What a bizarre read this was! Now, I've read Ms. Lamb's other books which featured a strong paranormal element and in general, I have been able to make my peace with them. In this book however, I struggled to truly accept what the author was trying to sell us. Too far fetched for my taste.
The angst was there and the passion too. I would still give this 3 stars though, simply because of CL's daring. This is an author who likes to take risks and usually pulls it off effortlessly. Just not this time. When Annie, a famous popstar is recuperating from her manager and best friend's wedding heartbreak, she starts getting mysterious calls saying "Remember me".
As she begins freaking out about a stalker, she decides to go on a France assignment, only to be kidnapped by a stranger Marc! But Marc insists they know each other. And he has a room full of her pictures and music. And he knows everything about her. Who is he? Ive rarely read the reincarnation "Dying for You" is the story of Annie and Marc. Ive rarely read the reincarnation plot in novellas and this was well done- I totally was into it being a huge Bollywood buff.
There were heartbreaking as well as tender scenes, and their love was beautiful. Kept me hooked, initially with the mystery, later the revelations till the end- which was sweet. May 10, Moonz rated it liked it. I enjoyed it and I must say when I read about all her pictures on the walls of his bedroom I was totally freaked out. It was perfectly normal for her to be scared and think he was crazy. I like that it was not expected and the plot got more intense.
Then however at the end blah! That's why 4 and not 5. Jul 16, Jacqueline J rated it liked it Shelves: contemporary-romance , from-the-library , harlequin. This one was interesting. The premise was interesting and it was different when you realized that the guy who was evidently stalking her was the hero. The writing was okay, while not stellar. It kept my interest. The hero has had dreams all his life about a WWII couple.
He sees a pic of the heroine and recognizes her and pursues her to get her to also remember their past lives. I had a couple of problems with the story. First he seemed to be This one was interesting. First he seemed to be so totally in love with the WWII woman that he never really seemed to love the modern woman.
Also, the woman who she was the reincarnation of was her own grandmother. That had a bit of an ick factor for me. I would have been more comfortable with her being the reincarnation of someone totally unrelated as he was. Also I might have been okay with it being someone in her family if there were a few more generations between them.
Past life Not a fan of past life stories. Wish it was in the description so money wasn't wasted. Skimmed this book Past life Not a fan of past life stories. Skimmed this book Oct 22, Nightwitch rated it it was ok Shelves: romance-contemp-category. This one involves a super creepy stalker and reincarnation. A little too much even for a Charlotte Lamb book.
Jan 14, Sara rated it liked it. This was one of Charlotte Lambs crazier books. If it had been some other author I probebly wouldn't have rated it as high as I did.
Nov 19, April Brookshire rated it it was ok Shelves: harlequin. This was definitely different than the other Charlotte Lamb books I've read. The paranormal aspect was kinda lame, even if it was romantic.
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