Almost Taken is a
historical romance novel with a slight hint of suspense. The
action takes place in London, in 1825. Immediately, the reader meets Ava Fychon as she is desperately
trying to stay afloat in the sewage-filled Thames. At first, the reader knows very
little about Ava. In fact, when the
young girl is brought to Deran Morrisey Earl of Atherton on the charge that she is trying to stow away on one of his ships, Ava does not even speak. Soon enough though, we learn that Ava in on a quest to find her sister and brother. Essentially, Ava had been both mother and father to the young
children since the death of their father. The children had been separated from each other when a man claiming to be their uncle had kidnapped them with the intension of selling them as indentured servants. Throughout the story, Ava obsession is to reunite her siblings. However, life’s events have a way of distracting her a little. Intertwined within the main story, Almost Taken contains a hot romantic adventure. The author has the unique ability to make a kiss so utterly exquisite and breathtaking that the sexual tension can’t be ignored. The action just gets steamier from there.