This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Dec 28, Julie jjmachshev rated it really liked it Shelves: This is the fourth book in her 'Lost Touch' series and while each story is loosely connected, each is also a stand-alone read which doesn't require any knowledge from previous books to understand and get the full story. Tolnitch has a deft touch with romance and manages to capture my attention anew each time I pick up one of her books. Padruig is the rightful Laird of both Castle MacCoinneach and his clan. Now, thanks to a visit from the ghost of his dead sister, he's headed back home to set things right.
But first he needs some allies and heads for the home of Laird de Grantham, a friendly clan from his father's time, to request his aid. Despite Padruig's protests, the Laird is firm and so Padruig agrees--vowing to do all he can to protect and spare the lass from his own fierce desires. Aimili has dreamed of marrying Padruig since she was a small girl, but the Padruig of her dreams is NOT the same scarred man who appears at her father's gate asking for aid.
When she learns of her father's demand, Aimili is furious!
While it's true she has some unusual talents and would rather spend time with animals, her father shouldn't have to force any man to marry her! But in the end, Aimili has no choice but to marry a man who doesn't appear to want anything to do with her. Although neither of them know it yet, clan MacCoinneach has an old and powerful enemy lurking within the walls of the castle. An evil man with strange talents who escaped his captors and harbors a grudge against 'the MacCoinneach'. They, and the clan, will need allies more powerful than mere humans to defeat him.
Sensuous romance, high fantasy, and lyric prose come together in "A Lost Touch of Magic" to create a smashing fairy tale for the older crowd. Even though I found some rough spots and a few plot holes, none of it was enough to keep me from devouring this book like a box of chocolates. The characters, including the secondary cast, were all complex with interweaving motives. The story itself unfolded smoothly with increasing tension and suspense towards the end.
Set in Scotland, with sexy highlanders and mysterious Fey, fans of both historical romance and paranormal romance will enjoy the latest by Amy Tolnitch. Nieca rated it liked it Nov 17, Lori rated it it was amazing Mar 16, Sarah rated it it was amazing Jul 08, Tolnitch rated it it was amazing Mar 17, Krys rated it liked it Sep 11, Meg Kinch rated it really liked it Nov 06, He soon is forced to have Jake institutionalized, and then works with a social worker named Clea Gugu Mbatha-Raw and a professor specializing in gifted humans named Arthur Teller Danny Glover to figure out what his mute son is trying to tell everyone through the use of numbers, specifically in this episode, the number Clea continues to force Martin to return Jake to the board-and-care home, which he does despite his new-found communication with Jake.
However, Jake gives his father the number , which leads Martin to a pawn shop owner named Arnie Jude Ciccolella. Moments later a robber comes in and shoots Arnie, and although Arnie survives he does not look pleased that he did. Jake escapes the institution to help Martin piece things together; at the same time a flight attendant Amy Sloan helps a young Indian man Karan Soni carry his father's ashes to the New York Stadium ; a Russian boy realizes that the reason he may have no friends is because his father hurts people; Arnie attempts to commit suicide as he is suffering from terminal cancer and fears that he has no one to love him.
In the end, the Russian boy's father was the employer of the robber of the pawn shop, who gives him a second chance in life. The flight attendant was Arnie's daughter, who arrives abruptly chasing the Russian boy's dog who Martin accidentally let loose in the airport and agrees to stand by him. The young Indian man finds an entrance to the stadium that the robber left open after he went back to settle his own issues, and spreads his father's ashes in the center of the field in hopes of finally making his father proud.
Jake gives Martin the number "", which leads him to finding another person with the same skills as Jake Rob Benedict. With the help of him and Jake, Martin exposes a corporate conspiracy. Meanwhile, a South African woman gathers her courage to support her little brother's wish to enter a worldwide dance competition, and protect her friend from an abusive man. Jake offers Martin the next number, 9. Jake releases a kite into the air and they follow it into the city, leading it to the man's apartment.
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Martin surveys Sarah's datebook to see that she was to visit a jeweler on September 5. The number 22 figures in this episode as Jake's evaluation draws near, but mainly as a fractal pattern instead of just a number. The number leads Martin to a bus and a young woman named Mirasol seeking revenge on the man who murdered her family. Teller tries to reach out to Maggie, his daughter, who works as a nurse at Memorial Hospital. Meanwhile, a dishonest man tries to measure up to his daughter's wealthy stepfather, and two rebellious Middle Eastern girls take a road trip, and find a woman about to give birth.
Martin and Clea team up to learn more about her past and her mother. Will, a jazz-loving businessman, meets a woman and ends up with her seat on flight He then survives a plane crash long enough to save Clea's mother's life. The woman he met realizes she narrowly escaped death and decides to have a baby. Teller visits Jake at a facility and learns that all the numbers are part of the "Amelia Sequence", but soon after that is found dead in his car.
Meanwhile Jake adds a 6 to Martin finds a key labeled that Teller left to Jake before he died. Natalie, a hopeless romantic who owns a video blog, tries to help Paolo, an Italian young man, to find a French girl he had briefly met, Celeste. Jake's aunt, Abigail, comes to the facility and tries to take custody over Jake. Martin follows the number on the key to a poker game, in which he must win in order to get information from another player. Jake gives Martin another pattern, this time a triangle in cat's cradle.
With it and the number , Martin must reunite a mother, father and twin sisters after they were separated by a corrupt obstetrician years ago. Meanwhile, an astronaut, named Allegra, desperately tries to regain comm with her fellow astronaut, Gio, who exited the International Space Station in order to fix a malfunction.
At the facility, Jake makes a melody on a computer tablet using the numbers Martin takes Jake out for the day but discovers that Jake has picked up a gun from the city streets. Martin is frustrated with Jake until he realizes the gun is labeled with the same number, This number leads them to a year-old troubled young man named Elliot, whose brother Andre is crippled and mute due to brain damage. Elliot must deal with a corrupted parole officer which causes Martin to intervene.
Meanwhile, Felipe Louis Ferreira , a Portuguese guitarist with dreams of living and playing music in New York, sells his guitar to share a life with Yarah Linara Washington , a Brazilian woman. When Martin is mistaken for a criminal, he must involve himself with a heist crew in order to win back an innocent dock worker's job, but more is at stake than he realizes. Clea uncovers some surprising documents about Jake, while Martin and his late wife's sister, Abigail Catherine Dent meet to make a pivotal decision.
Martin and Abigail join forces as Aster Corp's interest in Jake increases; connections are revealed between events that seem unrelated. Martin finds proof that Amelia's death was faked, but he is attacked and robbed. Martin loses custody of Jake, apparently with Clea's cooperation. On the day Jake is to be transferred to a distant facility, Clea arranges his escape. Martin and Jake leave the city with help from Avram and Randall and travel to California.
In the bonus episode, Martin's car mysteriously breaks down in the town where he got his start as a reporter. When he begins to suspect that his mentor is involved in illegal activities, he risks breaking up their friendship in order to search for the truth. Martin meets Amelia's mother Lucy Maria Bello , who has been looking for her daughter for three years. Jake's numbers lead them to a motel with a mysterious man and, presumably, Amelia inside. Martin and Amelia's captor fight after she apparently escapes. The man is able to flee in a car, from which Martin writes the plate number.
Martin asks his news syndicate contact Trevor Wilcox Greg Ellis to track down the car. Calvin, believing he is close to discovering the god sequence, wishes to quit Aster as he knows the company will not use the sequence in a good way. Lawyer Pearl informs him that he will lose everything, work included, if he quits.
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Martin is able to access Pearl's computer to find Jake's recent numbers—, an address where they find the private detective and the runaway girl, who reveals that she is Pearl's illegitimate daughter. Jake finds a map in the girl's backpack that she claims another girl gave her on the beach. Trevor's hacker Reuben Ray Santiago informs Martin that Pearl's computer contained death certificates of people with their dates of death left blank, one of which was Jake's. At home, Calvin talks with the real Amelia, who asks him to let her go, while he claims her birth parents gave her up.
After seeing Calvin's breakdown online, Martin views him as a common Aster Corps enemy and wishes to speak with him. Knowing that reaching Calvin will be difficult, Martin turns his attention to Vikash Nayar Dileep Rao , a man interested in Calvin as an employee.
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Martin learns Vikash's father has been kidnapped and ultimately saves Vikash at botched ransom drop. The drop was supposed to be a way for Vikash to be killed, due to his involvement with Calvin and taking his money from Aster Corps. Vikash and his father are reunited when Jake secretly places Martin's phone onto Vikash's person. Martin and Lucy track it to where the men are to be executed. He informs the captors the police are on the way, and they let the two men go. Meanwhile, Jake meets a girl named Soleil Isabella Acres at an amusement park and rides a ride with her, since her mother gets sick on them.
He later ends up at Soleil's school where he meets her grandfather Carl Randy Oglesby , who has been seen as the boyfriend of Frances Linda Gehringer. Calvin messages Martin an address where they will meet. Martin asks Trevor's advice and is made a journalist of his news syndicate, not only as a cover but also as a job. Calvin tells Martin he should also talk to an Aster Corps international sales employee Mallory Kane Audrey Marie Anderson that has also become disenchanted with the company. However, Mallory has been captured on the border of Pakistan and is about to be taken to a remote prison, possibly on orders from Aster Corps.
Meanwhile, Jake helps Lucy track down another connection to Amelia. A military soldier informs them that his mother, who had a gift similar to Amelia's and Jake's, had been killed. Lucy and Jake talk to the soldier's aunt.
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She had witnessed the attack and tried to fight off the assailant by stabbing him in the neck. The grieving aunt, Jake and Lucy are helped by Nazim Farzat Sanjay Chandani , a passing driver who is later revealed to be the contact Martin needs to free the trapped employee.
Lucy then shows Martin a group photo with her and Amelia that Jake had found. In the photo's background is Guillermo Ortiz with a scarred neck. Lucy knows he is the one who killed the mother and fears for Amelia's and Jake's safety. Calvin arrives home to greet his mother Frances and Amelia, asking her if she is ready to work. This action reveals that Calvin has Amelia, who is shown to be wired to a pachinko machine to predict its results. After previously being told by Martin to not go to the police, Lucy goes to the police about Amelia. However, she is perceived by them to be crazy.
Jake's popularity at school grows, leading Soleil to announce they are a couple. Ortiz goes to Martin and Jake's old address and is confronted by Avram, who calls him an "enemy of the 36". Martin, Lucy and Jake are spotted by one of Calvin's men who is told to follow them.
Martin later subdues the man but is forced to release him before getting any information. At the news syndicate, Martin informs Trevor about Jake and Amelia's gift. When Martin makes it known that Amelia is kidnapped and Jake could be in danger, Lucy needs persuading to not venture out on her own. Jake later plays with Soleil while her grandfather Carl is nearby. Jake manages to get Carl's cell phone and calls Amelia. He punches in the code and she knows its meaning. Both later meet and Martin and Lucy soon arrive, but Amelia is whisked away by Calvin's man and Frances. Trevor later tells Lucy that Calvin's foundation has bought a loft in town.
She stakes out the place and Calvin arrives. She runs him down with her car. Meanwhile, Ortiz confesses his murderous ways to a priest in Mexico and admits to being one of the "36". Ortiz later kills the priest for not absolving him of his crimes. Fearing the missing Lucy has gone to the police, Martin and Jake prepare to move out. Jake tunes all radios to Amelia hears a sermon on her radio and tells Frances: Trevor informs Martin about giving Lucy Calvin's address.
Alone, he goes to the address but no one answers when he knocks. Inside, Calvin and Lucy make a deal. He'll give her Amelia, if she delivers Jake to him. She agrees and he gives her an address. When she learns of her father's demand, Aimili is furious! While it's true she has some unusual talents and would rather spend time with animals, her father shouldn't have to force any man to marry her!
But in the end, Aimili has no choice but to marry a man who doesn't appear to want anything to do with her. Although neither of them know it yet, clan MacCoinneach has an old and powerful enemy lurking within the walls of the castle. An evil man with strange talents who escaped his captors and harbors a grudge against 'the MacCoinneach'. They, and the clan, will need allies more powerful than mere humans to defeat him. Sensuous romance, high fantasy, and lyric prose come together in "A Lost Touch of Magic" to create a smashing fairy tale for the older crowd.
Even though I found some rough spots and a few plot holes, none of it was enough to keep me from devouring this book like a box of chocolates. The characters, including the secondary cast, were all complex with interweaving motives. The story itself unfolded smoothly with increasing tension and suspense towards the end. Set in Scotland, with sexy highlanders and mysterious Fey, fans of both historical romance and paranormal romance will enjoy the latest by Amy Tolnitch. Padruig returns to take his rightful place as Laird, only to find the castle and family are in chaos.
The ghost of his dead sister is haunting him, his remaining sister was promised to a sadistic monster and there is a bad laird sending the clan into ruin. In order to take back control, Padruig makes a deal with a neighboring clan for support, but in exchange, he must marry the willful Aimili.
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Aimili loves her horses and is happy to live her life taking care of them instead of running the castle as is expected. She had dreamed of marrying Padruig nearly all her life, but the reality is nothing like she expected. Padruig sees her as a child and deserving of more than his scarred and unworthy self.
While Padruig and Aimili try to find their way through the situation life has thrown them into, they discover that there is more to their problems than they thought. A dangerous magical creature has escaped from a hidden land called Paroseea and is intent to cause havoc and take his revenge on Padruig. The story lines here are complicated and the first part of A Lost Touch of Magic is hard to get into. But the more I read, the more I got into the story and wanted to know what happened next.
Padriug's self-hatred is a bit tiresome, but Aimili is an excellent character and fun to read about. I expected to hate this book and ended up really enjoying the resolution. Not a light read, but definitely enjoyable. Niki Lee Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed. However, when his late sister's ghost demands he go home to protect their sibling and their clan, he does so by becoming the chieftain a role he disdained.