Her Dear and Loving Husband (The Loving Husband, #1)

by Meredith Allard

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Her Dear and Loving Husband by Meredith Allard is the first novel in, the Loving Husband Trilogy. Set in the town of Salem, Massachusetts, which has cashed in on the witch craze with a Wiccan on every corner and a witch logo on the side of its police car. Here in this picturesque landscape bustling with tourist, there is a world of witches, vampires and were. This contemporary romance was a quick, easy, enjoyable read.

Sarah Alexander has recently relocated to Salem from the West Coast, after her marriage of ten years ended. She works as a librarian at the local college and is being haunted by dreams. She dreams of a faceless man, a house and the Salem Witch trials. One night she is drawn to an old home in town, and finds herself entering the gate, touching the tree and creeping up on the porch to peer in the windows. The front door opens, and the porch light temporality blinds her, but the man who steps out looks eerily like the man in her dreams. At work she discovers that he is James Wentworth, an English professor at the campus. The tale that unfolds has Sarah discovering that witches, vampires and weres are real, and that her dreams are somehow tied to James. The romance is clean and sweet, as James struggles between his late wife’s memories and his emerging feelings for Sarah. Someone threatens to expose the unusual residents of Salem, and James may need to sacrifice himself to protect the others.