Joley Drake is one of seven magical sisters. Her gift is the ability to manipulate sound. A year has passed since Ilya cast a spell, marked her palm, and wormed his way into her life by telepathically communicating with her. She canʼt sleep, canʼt eat, and if he cared for her at all, heʼd step away, giving her freedom and independence.

Not Ilya Prakenskii. The mark proves their destinies are joined if he can just make Joley realize it and keep her alive. Luckily for Joley protection is in his job description. His other qualifications are anybodyʼs darkest guess. Meeting her, he campaigns to win her heart and soul on his terms and in the bargain save himself because it was Joleyʼs music, her voice pulled him back from the brink of unthinkable darkness.

Bringing Logan Voight, a band member, the message that his ex-girlfriend from hell, Lucy Brady, was about to deliver his child seemed like a good excuse to crash Sergei Nikitinʼs party. A party that normally she would not have attended, except Ilya Prakenskii is there. The man whose gifts and talents have imprisoned her thoughts and body.

Joley witnesses a thirteen-year-old girl at a party. Drugs, alcohol, and groupies are part of the music background. It doesnʼt mean that she condones the lifestyle, but the exploitation of teenagers is where she draws the line. Before she can give chase, the Reverend RJ accosts her; nearly pushing her into his limousine. Ilya stops him, but is he saving her or is he more dangerous than the degenerate RJ, more dangerous than the rumored Russian mobster Nikitin?

Because of her hectic road life (and Ilyaʼs mind games), she is surprised and angered when a mother approaches her after a concert. Her daughter, the thirteen-year-old at the party, never came home. Brian Rigger, her best friend and lead guitarist, and Jerry St. Ives, her manager, confront Dean, a road crew member and a man who had been familiar with the teenagers. Afterwards Dean is found brutally beaten. The sheer force of his murder is a message, but what?

Brian admits to Joley that he is gay and has been in a relationship with Nikitin. Sergei hasnʼt been honest about his on-going ties to the Russian mob, and Brian, like a member of her family, is over his head. She warns him of Nikitinʼs true personality, and he agrees to break it off. Will Nikitin accept it without retaliation?

Their lives are tabloid fodder. The severity of accidents to Joley increase. Previous psycho-stalker behavior explains Lucy Brady attacking Logan and Joley, but is she guilty of detonating a bomb on Joleyʼs bus?

TURBULENT SEA by Christine Feehan is a character driven novel, keeping the readerʼs emotions on a tight wire. Ms. Feehan writes the sensual scenes, making them as magical as her characters. Many secondary story lines are interwoven, and I was caught by their subplots, also. Itʼs a testament to the depth her research. The dynamics and depth of Brian and Nikitinʼs relationship and storyline left me haunted. If you like a lot of scenes with emotionally draining thoughts or acts of sex, find yourself a sex partner because this book is hot! Iʼm more of an action fan, and thank you Ms. Feehan for providing me that in the chilling action scenes with Ilya. Finally we learn who and what Ilya is.