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Liked It1 of 1 members found this review helpful “The third novel in the St. Helens series, and again very compelling. I just had to keep on reading. Orchid Adams is a writer of psychic vampire novels, and a parttime employee at Psynergy Inc. She is one of the rare ice-prisms, able to change the prism she makes to fit a talent precisely....” see full review » see other reviews » |
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Dana W wrote this review Monday, August 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Who isn't fascinated about alien artifacts and what they can do? Here we learn that things like that can be quite deadly in the wrong hands.”
Erin S wrote this review Friday, October 10 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No1 of 1 members found this review helpful“The third novel in the St. Helens series, and again very compelling. I just had to keep on reading. Orchid Adams is a writer of psychic vampire novels, and a parttime employee at Psynergy Inc. She is one of the rare ice-prisms, able to change the prism she makes to fit a talent precisely.
Aurian wrote this review Saturday, September 13 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Rafe Stonebreaker is a strat-talent, also called a Hunter, a rare talent among the many psy-talents on St. Helens. Some think a throwback, primitive. As a young man he was expected to join the family firm, Stonebreaker Shipping. Unable to take orders from someone, even his beloved grandfather, he set out to make a fortune on his own. Now he owns a big gothic mansion in an old part of town, his own firm giving investment advice and a private detective hobby for in the evenings. But now his families firm is in danger of bankruptcy if he doesn’t take over soon, and for that, he needs a wife. He employs the most goodstanding matchmaking agency in town to find himself a bride. But a strat-talent is not a great catch, because the rumor goes around that a strat-talent can tell if someone is lying or not. And that would be extremely difficult to live with, if even a polite or white lie would be detected. His talent is also off-he-scale, although he has papers saying he is a level 6.
So when the agency can’t find someone, mostly because he has a high list of wishes his bride has to live up to, he sets out to hunt his own mate, employing every full-spectrum prism he can find. His two friends have kind of found their own full-spectrum prism wives so why shouldn’t he be so lucky?
And when he finally meets Orchid he feels a connection and attraction he has never felt before. But now he has to convince her to marry him.
When he gets a case involving a missing alien artifact, he has the perfect excuse to hire Orchid exclusively for a month. But then things get complicated as the thief happens to be an other ice-prism and a friend of Orchid. She refuses to stop investigating to clear her friends name, even when things become dangerous. So Rafe just has to keep an eye on Orchid to keep her safe. They pretend to be matchmade by the agency as a cover, both wanting it to be true. And in that disguise, they meet eachothers families, who couldn’t be more different. And Rafe discovers that his biggest “hobby” is not so great if you have to live it your entire life.
Everything they discover in this case, seems to lead back to Orchid and her past, her abilities, and in the end, when her life is really in danger, a strat-talent is not a bad thing to be…
I loved this book, the new details about life on St. Helens, the plot, and of course the way Rafe and Orchid are together. They are good for each other, their very different family backgrounds really add to the story. Jayne Castle has a nice quiet humor, not really laughing out loud, but something that really fits me. Her heroines are not helpless sitting back while the hero saves the day, they participate as equals.
4 stars”
“Orchid is a top psychic hired by Rafe to find a murderer. He needs a wife too, and must make the paperwork match his desire...”
Luella S wrote this review Wednesday, September 10 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“a good romance set in another world... very enjoyable”
californiameaghan wrote this review Thursday, June 26 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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