Review : One More Valentine by Anne Stuart

Title : One More Valentine 

Author : Anne Stuart

Genre(s) : Contemporary Romance, Paranormal Romance, Time Travel

Published : January 1st 1993 (1st Edition), September 30th 2017 (2017 Edition)

My Rating : 4 of 5 Stars

When James Rafferty died in a hail of bullets in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, that should have been it. But for almost 90 years he’s returned to Chicago on February 14th, just long enough to fall in love and break the curse.

But Rafferty doesn’t believe in love. Not until he runs afoul of district attorney Helen Emerson, with her huge family of cops and her luminous brown eyes, and maybe, just maybe, his time in limbo is over.

But one of his old friends is in trouble, another is on a murderous rampage, and Helen is in the midst of everything, determined not to give in, even to him.

He knows she loves him, but is it enough? Or will a murderer manage to get to her before Rafferty can stop him?

Does he have a chance in hell of learning to love in a short 48 hours?

What will you do if you'll find yourself keep returning from the dead every year just to disappear to nothing after 48 hours?

James Sheridan Rafferty had been dead for sixty-four years, brutally killed on tragic massacre that happen one day before Valentine Day.
But then he found himself back to the world every year with no specific reason or clue on how and why he 'come back' to the place he used to live.

For two days, James will spend his 'precious' time from moving from  bed to another bed with different women before he going back to the non-exist wold and waiting for another year pass before he come back to the Chicago. Living what he so called 'a useless life'...

But there's something different with James 'visit' on this year. For the first time he met with the woman who make him 'feel' and he want not just one night with her. 

When he know that her life is in danger, James start doing things to keep the woman life from being kill. But with only 48 hours limit time he have, will he save the woman who had captive his heart in less than 48 hours time?

What will happen if fate then sucked him back to the non-exist world before he could do something to prevent her life from the killer who want her life?

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The story was originally published at January 1993 and no, I didn't know this book until I accidentally saw the new cover that successfully grab my full attention. And when I read the blurb, I get curious even more.

So I decided to read it and finished it in one sitting.

For a short story, the story successfully gripped me right from the start and consumed me until the last page in a very short time. And I WANT to know what will happen next with James and the woman he start to love.

With all the suspense things that happen, you can still found the humor side in the story when James have this 'culture shock' every time he come back to the world. That what will happen if you only have 48 hours to 'live' a real normal life every year!

With the author notes that she  made this fiction based on the true events about a massacre that happened on the morning of February 14, 1929, in an old garage in Chicago, I must admit that it grow the curiosity even more.

It fun and quick reading but I feel satisfied when I finished this book.