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Description edit
Dear Reader:
Welcome back to my other world--the rules are a little different here.
Life is complicated for Lydia Smith. She's working at that tacky, third-rate museum, Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, trying to salvage her career in para-archaeology--and dating the most... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Lydia Smith: a para-archeologist, ephemeral-energy para-resonator, an illusion trap tangler
- Emmett London: ex-boss Resonance City Guild, dissonance-energy para-resonater, a ghost hunter
- Fuzz: dust bunny, Lydia's companion
- Lawrence Maltby: ex-professor and talented tangler
- Mercer Wyatt: the Cadence City Guild boss
- Melanie Toft: secretary at Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, Lydia's best friend
- Shrimpton: owner of Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, Lydia's boss
- Tamara Wyatt: Wyatt's wife
- Jack Brodie: Melanie's boyfriend, a ghost hunter
- Gannon Hepscott: CEO of Hepscott Enterprises
- Sandra Thornton: Mercer Wyatt's ex-lover
- Alice Martinez: Detective Cadence City Police
- Troy Burgis: a college student who disappeared in the Dead City 15 years ago
- Lloyd Verwood: Cadence Guild Security Chief
- Foster Dorning: Cadence Guild Council member
- Perkins: Wyatt's administrative assistant
- Master Herbert: founder of a religious order, called the Greenies
- Zane Hoyt: Lydia's 13 year old neighbor
- Charles: fashion designer
- Amatheon: ancient Harmonic philosopher
Quotes edit
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“There was a saying about dust-bunnies. By the time you see the teeth, it's too late.”
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“"Keep it simple. Short sentences and no more tha two syllables, okay? After all, I'm a hunter remember? I don't do big words."”
Emmett London to Lydia Smith
Organizations edit
- Order of the Acolytes of Amatheon: followers of the teachings of Amatheon, called Greenies
First Sentence edit
THE TINY BURNER and the little bowl next to the body told the sad story.
Glossary edit
- UDEMS: unstable dissonance energy manifestations, called "ghosts"
- Ghost Hunter: a dissonance-energy para-resonator
- Tangler: ephemeral-energy para-resonator, illusion trap tanglers
Series & Lists edit
This is book 3 of 10 in Harmony World. (standard series)
Preceded by After Dark, and followed by Ghost Hunter.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jayne Castle (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Jove
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 2004
ISBN: 0-515-13694-8
Page Count: 343
Publisher: Jove
Country: USA
Publication Date: March 2004
ISBN: 0-515-13694-8
Page Count: 343
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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