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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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“Continues the story of the ladies of Psyengry Inc. Well written & interesting. ”
Celtic_Witch wrote this review Tuesday, March 20, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“good, light read”
clyde ruth b wrote this review Thursday, September 15, 2011. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Orchid Adams is a writer of Phyic Vampire novels and Rafe Stonebraker is the black sheep of a powerful shiping empire. They met after a friend is murdered. This is the last book of the St. Helen series.”
Cecilia R wrote this review Monday, April 23, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Rafe Stonebraker our hero has come full circle. He left the family business even though he was the heir apparent because he would be at constant loggerheads with his grandfather Alfred.
hcabm wrote this review Tuesday, October 12, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
However , the company will be ruined if left to his cousin Shelby. To accomplish his mission he needs to find a wife. He has signed up with an agency so the can send him likely candidates.
He decides they are taking to long and decides, if you want to do something right you have to do it yourself.
Does he chose the right person?
All I can say is that Orchid gives him a run for his money.
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“I have to say, I am very slightly disappointed with this story. In Amaryllis and Zinnia, Rafe was a very dark and mysterious character and Orchid was a famous author. In Orchid, Rafe is still a bit mysterious, but no more so than the previous heroes, Lucas and Nick, and Orchid’s writing seems little more than a hobby that she happens to be lucky enough to make some money at. She spends almost no time working on her next novel, and no one fauns over her—“You’re Orchid Adams, the writer? For real? I can’t believe I’m actually meeting you! I’ve read all your books, I absolutely love you! Can I have your autograph?” Nope, none of that.
JackiAnne wrote this review Saturday, June 12, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
So Orchid and Rafe don’t quite live up to the hype created in the previous two novels. However, that doesn’t mean this isn’t a great story. Concluding the St. Helen’s series after Amaryllis and Zinnia, we meet Orchid, a full-spectrum ice-prism, who is hired by Rafe through Psynergy, Inc. to focus for him as he works on a few investigation cases. She doesn’t know that he has an ulterior motive—to find himself a wife. In order to take over the family business, Stonebraker Shipping, from his conniving cousin, Rafe must first establish respectability and find himself a wife. So far, his matchmaker at Synergistic Connections has been unable to match him with anyone suitable, so Rafe decides to take matters into his own hands.
From his first meeting with Orchid, Rafe knows there’s something special about her and their working relationship quickly evolves into a more personal one. But when Rafe discovers a connection between his latest case—recovering a stolen alien artifact—and the death of a friend of Orchid’s, their simple working relationship quickly grows complicated. When Orchid is kidnapped by the thief, can Rafe rescue her before she is destroyed by the power in the mysterious artifact?
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“Loved the book. ”
Juanita J wrote this review Tuesday, June 1, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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Dana @RAtChaos 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”
