Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Aliens with big heads and huge eyes are roaming the New Mexico desert and have abducted people to snatch their babies.
The maxim write what you know certainly applies in this case. The detective in the Starlight Detective Agency series, David Lowell, like the author, is an astrologer.
It’s not easy to write the second book in a series. The author doesn’t want to bore the readers with a re-hash of the characters’ lives. Yet the new reader must be made aware of the backstory.
“The tenderness with which Ms. Reisz writes the love story that develops between these two men belies genre and stereotype. . . . This is not your mother’s Harlequin romance.”