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    Amaryllis
    Amaryllis
    Amaryllis
    Audiobook9 hours

    Amaryllis

    Written by Jayne Castle

    Narrated by Tanya Eby

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    Acclaimed for her novels of "delectably entertaining paranormal romantic suspense" (Booklist), the wildly popular alter ego of bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz takes off on a star-dusted excursion to a rich civilization where danger and passion are just a heartbeat away . . .

    Amaryllis Lark is one of the best psychic detectives on St. Helen's, the earth colony recently cut off from the mother planet, yet not so very different from home . . . . Lucas Trent, the rugged head of Lodestar Exploration, isn't keen on the prim type-and from her crisp business suit to her cool evaluation of his request to bust a corporate thief, beautiful Amaryllis is excruciatingly proper. But when a bold hunch heats up into a twisting murder investigation, by-the-book Amaryllis must let her guard down and break some rules-and a red-hot love affair ignites. Now, as they race to solve a puzzle of deadly intrigue, no power-otherworldly or otherwise-can keep them apart.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 20, 2018
    ISBN9781541448162
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    Jayne Castle

    The author of more than fifty New York Times bestsellers, Jayne Ann Krentz writes romantic suspense in three different worlds: contemporary (as Jayne Ann Krentz), historical (as Amanda Quick), and futuristic (as Jayne Castle). There are over 35 million copies of her books in print.

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    • 5/5
      This book got me interested in reading Sci-fi romance. I never considered anything alien or out of our world stories before. Had read some Jayne Ann Krentz and Amanda Quick books so figured I might as well try Jayne Castle. Good stories, some fun and, of course, there are some thrills along with the romance.
    • 5/5
      Humorous and romantic without being too graphic with the love scenes. Just enough! The paranormal aspects add a nice touch without crossing over into that weird dystopian genre. This was my third time reading it! Whenever I can’t find a good book I come back to Jayne Castle!
    • 5/5
      Great start to a new series.

      This was done with two narrators. One male and one female. Both narrators did a wonderful job. The voices fit the characters perfectly bringing the characters to life.

      The plot, worldbuilding, and pacing were excellent and entranced me. I've read this book a few times over the years and keep coming back. Definitely worth a reread. This is the first time I've listened to it in audiobook form and I'm happy to say it only enhanced the experience.
    • 5/5
      The planet of St. Helens was discovered and settled from Earth when a curtain appeared in space above Earth. However, soon after the curtain was discovered and groups of settlers from the Pacific Northwest left to resettle St. Helens, the curtain disappeared stranding the colonists. Two hundred years have passed during which the Earth technology disintegrated due to something in the atmosphere and the settlers had to learn to use native materials to survive. The settlers also began to discover that they were developing paranormal powers that are growing stronger with each new generation.In order to preserve society, the Founders decided that the family was the basic unit that needed to be strengthened. Marriages were permanent and therefore not to be entered into lightly. Businesses that did complicated tests were established to guide people into successful marriages with compatible people. Few, if any, contract marriages without going through these agencies.One important point about the paranormal powers on St. Helens is that successful use depends on pairings of talents and prisms. The talents can do things but only if they can focus their powers through prisms. In this story Amaryllis Lark is a very high talent prism. She is also illegitimate since her parents ran away together despite the fact that her father was already married. They died soon after they ran away leaving Amaryllis to be raised by her uncle and aunt in a small farming town where she was also actively ignored by her father's relatives and where she was the victim of cruelty because her parents never married. Amaryllis has made a new life for herself in New Seattle first at the university where her talents as a prism were honed and now in a business that contracts prisms to high level talents. Lucas Trent is one such talent. He has made his fortune prospecting for and selling jelly-ice which is used to power everything on St. Helens. He is a hero in the Western Islands since he gathered a group of people to defeat pirates who were trying to take over the islands and the jelly-ice business. Now he needs a prism so that he can find out why his VP is selling out his business secrets.The two couldn't be more opposite in character. Amaryllis is a definite rule follower and quite uptight; Lucas is more free-wheeling. Both are registering with a marriage bureau to find their best matches knowing that the other would never qualify. The only problem is that they are falling in love. Well, not the only problem. Amaryllis is concerned that the death of her mentor at the university was not an accident and decides to look into it. Also a local politician seems to be using his charisma talent to convince potential donors to support his candidacy for governor. And the discovered VP isn't going away quietly and would still like her revenge on Lucas.This was a fun story set in an interesting world. It was filled with adventure, danger, and witty banter. It was also an excellent romance.
    • 2/5
      I downgraded the stars because upon re-reading this book I found that I didn't like all that much and Amaryllis is really freaking obnoxious.
    • 3/5
      Review for "Amaryllis" by Jayne CastleThe planet of St. Helen was cut off from Earth two hundred years ago. The settlers have developed psychic skills. Amaryllis Lark is a focus, a person who helps another person focus their psychic talent to better effect. Lucas Trent is a business with serious abilities. In order to help Amaryllis solve a murder mystery, he will have to use all their skills. Can the unorthodox loner Lucas possibly overcome all prim and proper Amaryllis’ objections to romance?
    • 4/5
      Futuristic paranormal romance by Jayne Castle, the first in a series. Amaryllis Lark is a full-spectrum prism, able to focus high-level psychic talents. Lucas Trent is a successful businessman whose talent is off the scale. They team up to solve several crimes and fall in love in the process. But the society on their planet believes in arranged marriages. And prisms and talents are almost never matched.As usual with Castle (Krentz/Quick), the primary genre is romance, but the psychic/futuristic elements are well-enough handled to satisfy a SF/fantasy reader as well.
    • 3/5
      Amaryllis lives on another planet, where humans colonized but where they got cut off from earth. The colonists developed psychic abilities that help them survive. These abilities have to be used in pairs -- with one person being the "prism" who focuses the talent of the other. Amaryllis is just such a prism, one dedicated to the high moral principles of her field. But her resolve is testee when Lucas Trent, an off the chart talent, hires her and they uncover a politician misusing his talent to manipulate the vote--and that when they use their abilities together they are strongly attracted to one another. The exotic local and psychic abilities of the protaganists add a lot of flavor to this romance, though the way the author has them name things (tea-coff) can be kind of jarring. It's a good read for a romantic escape.
    • 4/5
      Once again, Krentz entertains with romance and suspense, and even elements of Science Fiction. On the futuristic world of St. Helens, the colonists have developed psychic powers. These powers are tempered by the fact that in order to use ones talents, one must have the services of another person, a Prisms. Prisms don't have talent themselves, but can focus for any talent. Both talents and prisms have levels of power and there exist (mostly in novels and movies) abnormally high talents, dubbed Psychic Vampires. Amaryllis is a 'full spectrum' (highly powered) prism and Lucas Trent is an off-the-scale talent. He hires her services for a security issue, but they get more than they bargained for when they detect a local politician focusing 'charisma' in order to gain votes and contributions. This discovery leads to an investigation into the recent death of Amaryllis' professor/mentor, which the police ruled an accident. As Amaryllis and Lucas get closer to the truth, those who'd like the truth to stay hidden are more motivated to injure or even kill them.This author is highly skilled in the romance genre, writing as Amanda Quick (historical romance), Jayne Ann Krentz (contemportary) and now Jayne Castle (futuristic). Her characters are always compelling, her writing is always clean and well structured, and her love scenes are steamy without being either crude or trite. This story is particularly engaging as the beginning of a series with characters you care to know more about even after the book has ended.
    • 4/5
      I am a sucker for these books - they are like potato chips, start one and you will be searching for the others.