Reviews for When We Touch

The average rating for When We Touch based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-07-06 00:00:00 Matthew Brannon 4.5 Stars When I looked at the average rating of this book, I basically started dreading reading it but now that I have I'm actually glad I did. I loved this book and while it's definitely historical and there is romance, the romance part is just half of what made it good. Maggie is a widow, she's also an anomaly because while she is a member of the peerage her late husband was not. He was a policeman, she didn't care but everyone else did. She plays an active part in helping woman who have no means to help themselves, where being a sex worker is the only way to keep these women alive. She vows never to fall in love and never to remarry after losing her husband. But when her brother gambles the family fortune away and their home and his title are at risk, she's forced to enter an advantageous marriage with Charles who is old enough to be her grandfather, she does this to save her family's title and their home. Things are made even more difficult when she develops a strong attraction to her Charles' nephew, Jamie. Jamie and Maggie's interactions are brief and filled with tension. Neither wants to he around the other for too long, perhaps because they realise how close they are to throwing caution to the wind. With the arrival of Charles' daughter, Arianna tension worsens because of her obvious disdain for Maggie. Arianna's detests Maggie, and one would as far as saying the hate she feels for Maggie is dangerous. While this is happening the very real tale of Jack the Ripper is being told. Graham interweaves fiction with fact when Maggie and Jamie attempt to fight their attraction all while the danger of the ripper is just outside their door. Add in the influx of charlatans posing as mediums who can speak to the dead and Maggie being deadset on exposing each and everyone of them, and you have a very entertaining story. This was my first book by Heather Graham, and I was really impressed. This was the perfect blend of historical romance, suspense and a little bit of a whodunnit! Definitely recommended!

Review # 2 was written on 2016-07-27 00:00:00 Richard Binion When We Touch, A Graham Novel, is by Heather Graham and is a stand alone story. It's the story of widowed Lady Maggie Graham. In order to save her brother from bankruptcy, their uncle sets up a marriage for her with Viscount Langdon. He is a kindly gentleman, but also very old, and certainly not the kind of man Maggie would choose to marry. She knows of the man, and how kind and caring he is, and she just hopes that he will be happy with companionship and won't want a sexual relationship. He has adored Maggie since she first came out into Society, and now that she is widowed, and the opportunity has been presented to him to marry her, he is unbelievably desperate for her to agree to the marriage. When she meets him, she also meets his grand nephew, Jamie. They are instantly attracted to each other, but Maggie won't allow anything to come of it because she intends to be a faithful wife. Jamie is annoyed that he is attracted to her because he thinks she is a disgusting gold digger, so he too is determined that nothing will come of any attraction. Besides, even if she wasn't out to use his poor Great Uncle, he wouldn't hurt the man for the world, so would still keep away from Maggie. Maggie likes to help the poor, and often goes to the East End of London to help give out food to the poorest women. She also tries to teach them about contraception, anything to help them. Jamie follows her whenever she goes out. Initially he wants to make sure she isn't meeting with lovers, or doing anything that will harm his Great Uncle. He is surprised to find that she spends much time helping others, but he also gets very angry the more he realises that she is putting her life in danger each time she goes to the East End. It's bad enough that she is in a rough area, and at one point gets herself in trouble trying to debunk a supposed medium at a séance, but she is also frequenting the East End during the time of Jack the Ripper, where no women is safe on the streets. Can Jamie keep her out of trouble, will she marry his Uncle, and how will both of them cope with that situation when it's obvious that they have feelings towards each other. What of the charlatans that Maggie is trying to uncover, will she see sense and stay away from that cause. When she marries the Viscount she has to think of him first and foremost, not to mention his daughter, only a few years younger than Maggie who despises her. Time and attention needs to be paid within her soon to be new family. She really shouldn't be putting herself in dangerous situations. I did enjoy this story. The time it was set in was one of my favourite eras and I really enjoyed the Jack the Ripper story running through the latter half of the book. The book had both suspense, and romance, and of course there was the passionate feelings between Maggie and Jamie that were always close to boiling point. I loved the will they, won't they aspect of the story and was happy with the way that the author dealt with their relationship. The historical facts around the telling of the Ripper story were a bonus, and I enjoyed how artistic license was taken when it came to a particular character in the story possibly being Jack. The only negative thing I could say about the book is that it did seem a little slow in places, and at one point perhaps there seemed more emphasis on the suspense part of the book rather than the romantic. All in all though I was hooked until the end. I was given a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.