WHAT THE CRITICS SAY ABOUT YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU
RATED 4 HEARTS
Rachel Wells is finally free to leave the witness protection program after the man who threatened her dies. She comes back home to her old life, and to reconnect with the man she thought she loved, but he’s married. Meanwhile, his brother, Sam Hairston, who has always been a part of her life growing up, makes it plain he cares for her. She resists the idea because she has no interest in any member of law enforcement after the nine long years she spent with them controlling every moment of her life. But Sam wins her over with his caring and attentiveness--until she discovers that someone is still out there threatening her, and Sam has been poking around her past without telling her...
Shirley Hailstock’s writing will hold you captive from the very beginning with her ability to let you into the hearts of her characters. You Made Me Love You is a warm, inviting story of two people who get another chance at the life they’ve always dreamed of, the life neither thought possible.
Stella MacLean, Romantic Times
August 2005
Hailstock's top-notch African American romance is filled with suspense, sensitivity, and sensual heat.
Patty Engelmann, Booklist
2005
Shirley Haistock has a penchant for writing heroines who have had to realign their lives. With YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU, like with her novel Whispers of Love, she takes readers into the emotional side of a heroine trying to live again without the fear of looking over her shoulder. This is a warm, intense story.
aNN, The RAWSISTAZ™ Reviewers
November 2005
Do try out You Made Me Love You! I promise you it is NEVER boring, at times very romantic and constantly exciting. Shirley Hailstock said at the end of her book (a letter to the readers, very nice) that her readers could see movies in her books, they were definetly right! Bullets, highway chases, cops, black vans, watchers, love.. this book has it all! To write out action scenes like that in a book must be very hard, to make it give you the same sensation as it would if you were watching a movie, but Shirley Hailstock managed to do that very well! I could really see it all happening before my eyes. Also I liked the fact that she didn't follow the cliché of coming back years afterwards and picking up things with the long-lost friend. No she didn't do that. The guy has his own family now and I really liked that after reading too many stories where the lovers hooked back together. This one sounded more realisticly. I thoroughly enjoyed this story from the very first beginning until the very last line! I really hope that this author will write more romantic suspense novels, I'll definitely keep an eye out for them and will be one of the first to buy them!
Eveline, Euro-Reviews
July 2005
