Dei Ex Machina MM Paranormal Romance
Dreamspinner Press
April 15, 2020
86
Captured young and enslaved by the Romans, Sabbio died while building Diocletian’s palace. For seventeen hundred years he has haunted the city of Split, watching and listening as people pass through the old palace; but he is always alone. One afternoon he spies a handsome but sad man at a café, and Sabbio is intrigued.
Eight months earlier, landscaper Mason Gould’s husband was randomly murdered. In an attempt to comfort him, friends and family take him on a trip to Croatia. A local woman offers to help him contact his husband’s spirit, but they connect to Sabbio instead.
Mason and Sabbio quickly make an emotional connection. But Sabbio is a ghost and Mason must return to California. For two men centuries apart, it’s going to take a miracle to make love work.
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
This was a beautiful love story, a story of faith and belief that brought two men together that were born seventeen hundred years apart.
Sabbio was a Roman slave who died while building the palace for Emperor Diocletian he never moved on because he was never loved and so for all these centuries he has watched as humans and civilization changed, languages, dress and the buildings and towns built up around him. It was while watching that he saw a man who was extremely sad, an American with his family all enjoying the City of Split, all but him.
Eight months ago Mason Gould lost the love of his life, his husband Carl lost to a bullet while walking on the grounds of the university he worked in. Just another random act of violence perpetrated by a man with a heart full of hate. Now his family and friends have dragged him on vacation hoping to finally bring him back to the living but it would take a seance with a psychic that would connect him not with Carl but with another soul, Sabbio the slave.
This was a short story and I won’t go into much more about what happens between the ghost who never knew love and the man who knew love and lost it.