Romance Book Review: Shawn Dalton-Smith's Ella Ever After

Author: Shawn Dalton-Smith  Series Connection: A Lespri Story  ISBN: 9781603108720  Genre: Paranormal Fantasy, Romantic Suspense, Interracial Romance and Supernatural Ghosts Publisher: Red Sage Publishing Purchase Link: Red Sage In a abusive marriage and seeing no other way out, Ella decides she has no other choice but to take her own life to escape. She hopes she will find heaven and the daughter she lost to still birth the year before.  Little does she know because of a rare gene she makes it to Haven and not heaven. While she learns to adapt to her new environment, she meets Blake and she begins to find the life she had always wanted. That is all shattered when she learns a secret her ex-husband had been keeping from her. The daughter she thought she lost and now is in need of Ella's help.  Well written short novel featuring an interesting heroine who is finally coming into her own and gain the confidence she always lacked and a sexy hero wanting to be by her side.  Description: Ella Burkette decided the only escape from an abusive marriage and the pain of losing her child is to take her own life. But fate had other plans for her. Because of a rare gene, she arrives at Haven, a world of immortals. But one man catches her eye and her heart. Blake. In Blake's arms she learns that love shouldn't hurt and her body's desires should never be denied.  Ella's and Blake's world and carefree existence are shattered when Ella finds out her daughter is alive and her husband, Yorke, gave her to a lawyer who specializes in illegal adoptions. Now Yorke needs their baby back to live, and Ella wants to make damn sure he doesn't get her. But Haven has a sacred rule—hurt no human.  Even if it is her monster of an ex-husband. In all his years at Haven, Blake has never met anyone quite like Ella Burkette. She's beautiful, spunky, and haunted. When he finally manages to break through her wall and samples all the she has to offer, he knows he would go to the ends of the Earth to be with her. But helping her could cost him everything. Including his immortality.