The Legacy of the Key by S L Morgan

 We're finally back on track with my A-Z of Fiction Titles with L being The Legacy of the Key.

The blurb says:

Reece Bryant’s life changes forever when a powerful and enigmatic stranger takes her from earth and into a fascinating new world.

Reece is forced to question exactly who this mysterious man is. Why is he so powerful and what makes him alluring in a fascinating way?

Her focus swiftly changes from the man who brought her to this world, to why she was targeted by him in the first place.

The comfort of her human life is tossed into a whirlwind of destruction when she learns the truth of who she really is.

How can you go from being an average every day college student that suddenly learns you’re the most hunted individual on the planet?

I did enjoy this book.  By choosing the book based on title, I hadn't read the blurb, so as it started, I was expecting the man, Levi, to be an angel, but that wasn't to be.  Also, because I hadn't read the blurb, I didn't realise how strongly this book was meant to be a love story.  It is a romance, and that wasn't lost, but my main criticism was that both Reece and Levi profess their love for each other too soon.  She fancied him, and then after one kiss it was suddenly true love.  I think the true love stuff could have waited until later in the book.

Anyway, this book starts with Reece, a medical student who is having to sort out her dad's affairs after his recent death.  She keeps spotting two well dressed, unusually handsome, men wherever she goes, but not everyone appears to be able to see them, or at least, not react to the weird things that happens around them.  In a bid to get back to normality, she goes for a run in the morning and finds herself being attacked by muggers and then saved by one of the men, who announces that if she doesn't go with him immediately, her life will be in danger from the people who arranged the muggers...

As if that wasn't enough to take in, Reece discovers that there are multiple dimensions, and multiple planets and races within these dimensions.  All of these converge on Earth, as the gateway between the different dimensions.  However, one race is power-obsessed, and seeks to find the Key in order to control the gateways between worlds.

I enjoyed the fantasy element of the story, and I liked the cosy romance and old-fashioned gentlemanliness and protocols within the book.  It isn't a straight romance either, and there is deception and intrigue, jealousy and rivalry all mixed up in this fantasy world that isn't that much difference to our own.

This is Book 1 of a 4-book series, and I have added the rest to my Wishlist.