My April theme is dragons because I'm hoarding these books like mad. I adore dragons. If I could be any mythical creature that's what I would pick. A big, mighty western dragon with jade colored wings and beautiful frills. 

Maybe i spend too much time thinking of this...

Isabella was almost sixteen and went to St. Agnes HS. Isabella’s parents had died in a fire when Isabella was eight . Even though she had been in the middle of the fire Isabella had not been hurt then she was rescued and taken to her grandmother.Isabella’s grandmother was all she had for family and together they lived at the family hotel- The Foxworthy Hotel. Isabella was an empath and felt other people’s emotions. Isabella’s best friend was Lana but she was away for the Christmas holidays. Lana and Isabella had met in first grade and knew everything about each other. The Christmas holiday is upon them and Isabella’s sixteenth birthday . But Isabella senses something strange is going on. Isabella’s grandmother disappears as well as some of the other teen’s parents. So Isabella ,Miccha, and Seth- who are brothers- Cleo, and Xander- who are twins- set out to find out what happened. Then Isabella and her friends explore the theater and other areas in the hotel. Isabella and her friends find hidden doors that lead to a whole different underground world- under the hotel. The underground world has three layers , there is a whole village down there with some nice but also not so nice individuals. The stages of that world is connected by tubes and elevators. Isabella learns that she[and her friends] must find the missing Foxworthy heir so they can rekindle the purple fire. If it goes out all Isabella’s family will lose their power and the empath society will be destroyed. As the purple fire empowers the good magic of the empaths. Isabella must do this before her sixteenth birthday.

This is a very good story and i really enjoyed it but I wish there had been more information on the underground world. I was also confused at times as to what was going on. But I did continue to read this as I was caught up in the story. I loved the characters and everything they went through trying to find the lost heir. I recommend.

I received an ARC of this story for an honest review.

This is one of the older Lynne Grahams that I read many moons ago, but I didn't remember most of it. It was a good reread. The hero in this was a jerk. I think Rosalie was nicer to him than he deserved, but she wasn't a pushover. He always managed to see her in the worst light, if not an avaricious femme fatale, than a spineless tart. I felt that he really did need to earn Rosalie's love. I like that he was so jealous of her roommate and friend, who was by all accounts, a beefcake. By the end, he was remorseful, but still a bit too high on the horse for my tastes. I like that his adopted mom guessed right away what was going on. That was pretty funny, considering all the changes they went through to hide the truth from her. Constantine would never be a favorite LG hero for me, but I really did enjoy Rosalie and I like that she held her own with him, or somewhat.

I overall enjoyed reading this book.  I had never read anything that involves empaths before and it was a very interesting take on people with this ability.  I loved most of the characters.  Some of them seemed a bit too perfect.  At some points I was confused about what was happening, but I understood eventually.  I liked a bunch of parts throughout the story, but it also had some parts that I thought were pointless.  Overall the story was interesting and it kept my attention.  Most of the characters were well written and I can't wait to read more from the people who wrote this book.