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“Zinna Spring and Nick Chastain are the two romantic leads in the second book of this series. Nick is a Casino owner and Zinna is a Prism. They team up to solve a murder. The story mixes the genere of romantic-thriller with touches of Science fiction.”
Cecilia R wrote this review Monday, April 23, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Castle plays with Psychic energy's and intrigue in the stories that will lead to her Ghost Hunter & World of Harmony series.”
Celtic_Witch wrote this review Tuesday, March 20, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Zinnia Spring the heroine is a wrongly accused scarlet woman. Does this get her down? Absolutely, however she comes out fighting. She embraces the color red
hcabm wrote this review Tuesday, October 12, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
as her signature look. She also is one who will fight for the underdog.
This is why she confronts Nick Chastain in his den. She wants to know if he is involved in the disappearance of one of her clients.
Sparks fly from this moment on.
Oh how I love a feisty heroine and the men who love them.
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“It was ok; however, for some parts I thought I was re-reading Orchid. I'm assuming that this series formed the ground work for the Harmony series which I much enjoyed”
Shari H wrote this review Wednesday, October 6, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Continuing the St. Helen’s series after Amaryllis, Zinnia follows Miss Zinnia Spring, interior designer and prism, someone with the ability to focus the psychic powers of others. While most prisms can lend their ability to just about any talent, Zinnia’s prism works best with matrix talents, making her a highly-prized prism at Psyengery, Inc.
JackiAnne wrote this review Thursday, June 10, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Casino owner Nick Chastain is a matrix-talent, someone with the ability to see all possible angles of any given situation and pick the one with the best outcome. Where others see chaos and random events, Nick sees patterns and connections between events. When he inadvertently links up with a matrix-prism at his casino, he’s stunned to discover there’s someone who has the ability to absorb the full force of his abilities, where before he’d always had to control the amount of power he fed to a prism.
The link is abruptly broken and Nick is desperate to reconnect. Before he has a chance to seek out the creator of the prism, Zinnia bursts into his office and demands to know why he’s kidnapped a client of hers.
As the illegitimate bastard of the Chastain clan, Nick’s main goal in life is to buy himself respectability. For that he needs a respectable wife. But so far, the best match-making agency on the planet has been unable to find a woman meeting Nick’s requirements. He also needs his father’s journal, detailing the Third Chastain Expedition into the wilds of the Western Islands. Officially, the expedition was cancelled by the university, but Nick believes otherwise and the journal—which Zinnia’s missing client claims to have access to—is the proof.
Reluctantly, Nick allows Zinnia to partner with him as he works to find out what exactly happened to the book dealer and to his book. Who would have the most to gain by keeping the book hidden? What secrets could it possibly reveal? And how would they handle the irresistible attraction that flared between them whenever his matrix-talent linked with her matrix-prism?
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“Loved it.”
Juanita J wrote this review Tuesday, June 1, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Great beginning to a new series.”
Cheri H wrote this review Friday, December 4, 2009. ( 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
“Second book that takes place through the Curtain. Just as enjoyable as Amaryllis, if not more so. The chemistry between the two main characters is great. I like how their psychic powers complement each other.”
Erin S wrote this review Friday, October 10, 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This is the second novel in the St. Helens series. Nick Castain is a casino owner with very bad taste and an off-the-scale Matrix Talent. Someone who sees patterns and connections, normal people don’t see. Unfortunately, it also comes with a big dose of paranoia. What Nick wants more than anything, is respectability. And with his amount of money, he thinks he can buy it. Have the best matchmaking agency in town find him a wife from one of the best families in the city-state. He already bought himself a nice estate from someone who got into debt at his casino, and he plans to become a member at the Founders club, and do some large donations to the museum and such.
Aurian wrote this review Saturday, September 13, 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
But then one evening he meets a very strong prism on the metaphysical plane, someone who can channel his full powers. He has never encountered someone that strong.
The prism happens to be Zinnia Spring, an interior decorator. When her parents died the family company went bankrupt, and the rest of the family is urging her to marry money. Only she has a good excuse not to, the matchmaking agency declared her unmatchable. So the young man she was seeing at that time cut her loose. And some months ago she was set up as a scapegoat in a scandal as the mistress of a married man, to conceal the fact that he and his wife were involved with a highranking female politician. The gossip papers labeled her the Scarlet Lady, and from that day she only dresses in red, to defy them all.
Zinnia bluffs her way into Nick’s office to blame him for the disappearance of one of her Matrix clients, who was in the middle of selling Nick the lost diary of his father, who disappeared 35 years ago while on a expedition in the Islands. Nick claims innocence, he had no reason to kidnap the man, he would have paid anything for the journal. He is baffled, most people are afraid of him, or want to beg him for something, and she shows no such thing. She treats him as an equal. So he sets out to stay in touch with her, but Zinnia doesn’t respond to his plotting as he anticipated she would.
Later that night they find the bookdealer murdered, and a reporter from a gossip rag taking their picture, and insinuating they are having an affair. They become entangled in the murder, and in the search for the truth about what happened to Nick’s father. And of course their attraction to each other on the normal and on the metaphysical plane.
I enjoyed this book a lot. A great lovestory, with two well written characters. Passion and stubbornness, they complement each other perfectly. The plot was good, and again the villain not someone I would have suspected. The pieces with the nutty professor and his garden of horrors are great too. I am really looking forward to the third book, Orchid.
4 stars.”
