Amaryllis

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Summary: It's a wonderful book
Review: I keep waiting for the next book in the series to come out. I loved all three books and want more.

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Summary: Egads
Review: I must say I prefer her Amanda Quick style to her Castle style. What's with the language?! Not for me, definitely.

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Summary: Original, Fun and Entertaining!
Review: I thought it was a fun read! I enjoyed the light-heartedness of the mystery. But wait....is it a mystery or a romance or a sci fi tale? It has elements of all three. The story is set in the future on a distant planet. Many of the inhabitants have paranormal abilities. I found the story fun and the concepts presented fascinating. Set aside your disbeliefs and let Jayne Castle take you on an entertaining jouney to New St Helens. This book is the first in a series. Enjoy!

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Summary: Great characters & storyline
Review: I've read many books by Jayne Castle(Jayne Ann Krentz) and her stories are fast moving and very now. Amaryllis along with Zinnia and Orchid are a great series.

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Summary: Phenomenal Futuristic Romance
Review: In the not-too-distant future, Amaryllis Lark is a prism, a psychic detective, in the city of New Seattle. A prism is crucial to the well-being of the colonists of St. Helen's, as they developed into two major groups: either talents, or prisms. Talents have a number of psychic abilities, ranging from the mundane (horticultural talents) to the mysterious (illusionist talents). Prisms, on the other hand, help a talent focus his energy in order to be able to use his psychic abilities. Without a prism, a talent wouldn't be able to use his ability for longer than a few seconds at most.

Lucas Trent, also known as The Iceman, hires Amaryllis for her psychic talents. He knows that a close business associate has been stealing and selling corporate secrets, and he thinks there might be more going on than simple greed. When Lucas and Amaryllis join forces, their psychic connection and attraction to each other sizzles. Soon, they're thrust in the middle of a murder investigation, and a love affair neither can resist.

Jayne Castle, who writes contemporary romances under the name Jayne Ann Krentz, and historical romances under the name Amada Quick, has written a phenomenal tale in AMARYLLIS. The romance is strong, and holds its own in a complex and interesting plot. The hint of mystery also unravels nicely throughout the book and keeps the plot moving at a rapid pace. The characters are extremely well-developed and intriguing. Her writing style is outstanding as well, as she manages to add just the right touch of detail to make the setting come alive without overwhelming the story or the characters.

If you're looking for a fun, captivating romance, look no further than AMARYLLIS.

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Summary: Out of the world romance and compelling mystery
Review: Jayne Anne Krentz, aka Jayne Castle, always has intriguing characters and often has complex puzzles. This book ranks up with the best in both - unusual characters in a world far away, but sufficiently familiar not to be totally put-offing. And when the mystery was solved and the book was far from over, I knew there was more to come (but I didn't see what/who was coming).

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Summary: SpellBinding at its best!
Review: Jayne Castle once again has written a brilliant spell binding novel. This series is a must read for all readers. I couldn't put it down until I finished. The lead characters are wonderful and realistic

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Summary: Fantastic
Review: One of the reasons Castle/Quick/Krentz is my favorite author is because of her basic romance premise & character profiling - the characters accept their attraction to one another early on rather than twist in torture to fight an attraction. She features smart, sassy, adult heroines NOT immature, whiny girls & dark/dangerous, self-aware males NOT brainless brutes with severe personality problems. Her plots evolve around the character development of the hero & heroine and development of their romantic bonds while some mystery or challenge is resolved. The mystery adds the spice of Action and Drama & acts as a catalyst.

In the Castle books, she combines psychic phenomenon, quirky settings in a contemporary-like world - similar to some of scifi-author Robert Heinlein's works 'I Will Fear No Evil' & "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress'. However, they are not SciFi Fantasy, full of truly other-world Star Trek settings & social structures as Lisanne Norman's cat-man series begun with "Turning Point".

I personally love the concept of a psychic link with your one&only -just as I do the concept that there is a one & only! I adored the fun images of coff-tea & pet dust bunnies. I found the imagery vivid & the secondary characters interesting and enjoyable.

A wonderful book - I've reread it several times since it first came out & hunted until I found a hardback version here on Amazon.

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Summary: I COULD NOT PUT THE BOOK DOWN!!!
Review: One word....WOW!! I have never read a book that captivated me from the first page. I love the character of Lucas Trent. The mysterious ice man couldn't resist the call of Amaryllis' warm heart that seared his soul and quenched his love......

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Summary: paranormal brilliance from JAK
Review: Since they repackaged two from this series under the title of Harmony, I got these out and decided to reread them, and found I enjoyed them more the second time around. This is JAK writing as the Jayne Castle she saves for her paranormal tales, and it's her best writing of late. I have been a wee tad disappointed in her last several hardbacks, especially in her Amanda Quicks (her historical romance name). She seems to have polished her diamond too much and lost some of the spontaneity that was her trademark. But in Amaryllis, Zinnia and Orchid (and later with After Dark and After Glow) the off-world of Harmony antics show JAK at her top form. These books original received mixed reviews from fans, not completely used to JAK's paranormals. I often see the complaint JAK is a great writer, but the books are too patterned. It's in her Jayne Castle works where is her most original, yet her fans were initially resistant to the paranormal theme. Now the paranormal market has caught up with her, and is so hot, these are getting better reviews. So if you missed the Harmony tales, don't hesitate to seek them out.

In this off world tale, Amaryllis Lark is a private detective, but she is also a prism. In the Earth Colony of Harmony, people evolved with two supernatural talents: either they were a prism or a psychic. The prisms serve to increase the power of the psychics by channeling their powers through them, amplifying it and keeping it stable. Even the strongest of psychics needs a prism, for without them they cannot control and maintain their powers for long periods.

Lucas Trent, the founder of Lodestar, hires Amaryllis for her prism talents. He is an off the chart psychic who need the talent of a prism of his level. A psychic and a prism have to be matched. They are rated 1-10 levels and if a psychic is stronger than a prism, the prism can experience burn-out. There are few prisms who can handle Lucas Trent's strong psychic abilities, so he is delighted to discover Amaryllis can handle whatever power he channels through her.

Lucas is concerned one of his Lodestone employees is selling corporate information to his competition. He, originally, hired Amaryllis to help catch the industrial spy, and to use her talents as a prism to help his focus his psychic talent to trap the spy. But soon they are involved in a murder mystery. In this case, opposites do attract, and Lucas and Amaryllis sizzle, their attraction amplified by the psy-power between them. However, Amaryllis is undergoing the rigors of a matchmaking
service. All solid marriages on Harmony are founded on this service. While she is falling in love with Lucas, she fears it will only be an affair. Lucas has other plans and is not about to let his true match slip through his fingers.

In order to foil nasty corporate to-dos, they are forced to join talents...and more! A super, brilliant work from the fine craft of JAK, without the narrow POV (point of view) being voiced on writers today. Simply magic!