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Without Warning (Shaken, Book 1) | 
| Author: Kg Macgregor
Publisher: Bella Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 54354
Media: Paperback
Pages: 230
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 1594931208
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781594931208
ASIN: 1594931208
Publication Date: January 14, 2008
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Product Description
On a day that begins like any other, a violent earthquake strikes Los Angeles, plunging the region into chaos. Two strangers, trapped in a collapsed shopping mall, find each other amid the rubble and join forces to escape. Hampered by injury and darkness, they dig and claw their way through one crumbled store after another, emerging long after most have given up hope for survivors.
The ordeal leaves both women shaken, but their shared triumph sets them on a life-changing course together, igniting a connection like neither has ever known.
Anna Kaklis--whose perfectly planned life never included falling in love with another woman--is thrown for a loop, but she doesn't doubt her heart.
Lily Stewart--abandoned too many times by people she trusted--won't let herself believe that Anna's love will endure.
Without Warning is the story of their courageous journey through adversity, and their promise of steadfast love.
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 Unless you're a big fan of the "uber/Xena/whatever" genre... stay away! August 16, 2008
fantasmic
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I guess I shouldn't be so harsh, considering the plot and writing are more than adequate, but do the main characters have to refer to each other as "amazon" and "pygmy" throughout the entire book!? Seriously! Anyways, I might not have found "Without Warning" as disappointing had I not just read MacGregor's Out of Love, which was simply wonderful. Both books share the "across the tracks / different worlds" angle but I was never able to get into the characters in WW, which weren't hashed out enough. Maybe the author should have kept it in its original format (I believe there were three intertwined stories in one book, but I'm probably mistaken) rather than try to re-publish them as stand-alone books.
 Can Not get enough of this dear couple!! June 1, 2008
E. B. MULLIGAN (Tampa, Florida)
Awesome story with terrific and witty characters, a wonderfully endearing romance
Fantastic page turning writing. You really get to know the people. The story is a wonderful romance that develops into a relationship not only with themselves but also their families and friends. The characters are utterly endearing without being stereotypical. Wonderful humor as always from this author.
This is a six star book !
Don't miss the upcoming sequel 'Aftershock'
or miss the author's other novels
Mulligan
The House on Sandstone
Shaken
Just This Once
Malicious Pursuit
Sumter Point
Out of Love - 2007 Lambda Literary Award winner
Outstanding Story April 20, 2008
Lb
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had not read Shaken yet I had heard a great deal about the book. When I purchased Without Warning I was eagerly anticipating the story line. I was not disappointed. This is the BEST lesbian romance book I have read. I would have given it ten stars if I could have. I have read several of this authors work and this is truly my favorite. I am eagerly awaiting the sequel to this one.
I was truly amazed how I was sucked into the story to the point that I could not put the book down. I stayed up all night and read it. I love the way author developed her characters. Lily and Anna meet in the aftermath of an earthquake. The struggles they face just to survive keeps you on the edge of your seat. This was truly a great book from start to finish.
Great character development. Great Story.
Intense! Dramatic! March 17, 2008
Joyce McNeil (Metairie, LA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Life can change...change without notice...change without warning. Anna Kaklis and Lily Stewart, two women who never thought they'd be facing one of the worst nightmares imaginable. They're trapped...under tons of steel, concrete and dirt when the shopping mall they are in collapses in the aftermath of an earthquake.
With no choice but to rely on each other for survival Anna and Lily begin the arduous trek towards freedom. No easy task considering, it's dark, air is in short supply and one of them is injured. The going is slow, consuming time, energy and hope. However, along the way, both women find themselves quickly forming a tentative friendship. A friendship that may or not have a future as another crisis strikes...just as rescue arrives.
In the chaos that ensues, Lily and Anna are separated and efforts to find each other prove futile until a chance encounter brings the two together once again. Fate, it seems, has plans for both Lily and Anna, plans that bring many questions, plans causing each woman to question her own life, her own future. Questions neither woman is sure she even understands or wants the answers to. Many question fate. Will Anna and Lily? Or will they simply accept fate's plan and let a second chance lead to the possibility of a life together? Will they understand that love finds you when, where and how it wants to...even in the midst of an earthquake?
First published as a novel compilation of three stories titled Shaken, Without Warning is a new telling of an old story of the first in that trilogy, proving without a doubt that a good story, like a fine wine, only improves with age. In this re-telling of a classic adventure, KG MacGregor does an outstanding job of displaying both her growth as a writer and her skill with the written word. Fans of Without Warning will not want to miss reading her other works: the Lammy Award finalist in lesbian fiction - Out of Love, Mulligan, The House on Sandstone, Sumter Point, Just This Once, Malicious Pursuit, as well as her contribution in the anthology, Undercover Tales. Her upcoming book, Secrets So Deep is sure to be eagerly awaited by longtime fans of this author.
 An excellent re-telling for the beginning of this series March 9, 2008
B. Rabkeb (Seattle, WA USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm a big fan of this author's. Upon reading the foreword for this book, all about how she went back and fleshed out the online version of this story I read years ago, I couldn't wait to read the new version. I was not disappointed. My only quibble would probably be that she often ends her books too quickly for me. We get all this build-up throughout the book laying the foundation for the characters to get together, but then we don't get any time with them as a couple, really. However, that's especially minor here, since we know that there are subsequent books waiting in the wings.
KG really takes her time in this book, establishing the characters, their family and friends. She does an excellent job of creating "real" people. They are human, with faults. They make mistakes, but they also have triumphs.
Anna's and Lily's first meeting in the earthquake is quite dramatic, and sets a good stage. I love their humor and banter from the start. I really enjoyed following Anna on her journey through re-examining her marriage, then her life in a different context. It was nice to have her sister Kim there as a foil, pointing out observations of her own, and supporting Anna as she figures things out.
Lily was great as well, as she tries to protect herself and her heart despite her inability to resist just being with Anna. Her friends and family provide a good support system as well, something I really like to have in books.
Well-written. Well-edited. Delightfully fleshed out from the old original version. I can't wait for the sequel.
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