Amaryllis (St. Helen's Series #1)
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| ISBN-13: | 9780671569037 |
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| Publisher: | Pocket Books |
| Publication date: | 10/01/1996 |
| Series: | St. Helen's Series , #1 |
| Pages: | 336 |
| Sales rank: | 364,603 |
| Product dimensions: | 4.18(w) x 6.75(h) x 0.70(d) |
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Purchased to replace an old missing copy, this is one of those guilty pleasures that are great for rainy days, beach days, 'I need a break' days.
Enjoy!
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The Whole Trilogy (Zinnia, Orchid, and Amarylis) is the best out of all of Castle's books. I wish, wish, wish she would go back to THESE stories!! I've tapered off reading her most recent ones over the last couple of years because they just don't keep me as enthralled as this World does. MUST READ
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Review for "Amaryllis" by Jayne CastleThe planet of St. Helen was cut off from Earth two hundred years ago. The settlers have developed psychic skills. Amaryllis Lark is a focus, a person who helps another person focus their psychic talent to better effect. Lucas Trent is a business with serious abilities. In order to help Amaryllis solve a murder mystery, he will have to use all their skills. Can the unorthodox loner Lucas possibly overcome all prim and proper Amaryllis¿ objections to romance?
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I am a sucker for these books - they are like potato chips, start one and you will be searching for the others.
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Amaryllis lives on another planet, where humans colonized but where they got cut off from earth. The colonists developed psychic abilities that help them survive. These abilities have to be used in pairs -- with one person being the "prism" who focuses the talent of the other. Amaryllis is just such a prism, one dedicated to the high moral principles of her field. But her resolve is testee when Lucas Trent, an off the chart talent, hires her and they uncover a politician misusing his talent to manipulate the vote--and that when they use their abilities together they are strongly attracted to one another. The exotic local and psychic abilities of the protaganists add a lot of flavor to this romance, though the way the author has them name things (tea-coff) can be kind of jarring. It's a good read for a romantic escape.
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Futuristic paranormal romance by Jayne Castle, the first in a series. Amaryllis Lark is a full-spectrum prism, able to focus high-level psychic talents. Lucas Trent is a successful businessman whose talent is off the scale. They team up to solve several crimes and fall in love in the process. But the society on their planet believes in arranged marriages. And prisms and talents are almost never matched.As usual with Castle (Krentz/Quick), the primary genre is romance, but the psychic/futuristic elements are well-enough handled to satisfy a SF/fantasy reader as well.
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Once again, Krentz entertains with romance and suspense, and even elements of Science Fiction. On the futuristic world of St. Helens, the colonists have developed psychic powers. These powers are tempered by the fact that in order to use ones talents, one must have the services of another person, a Prisms. Prisms don't have talent themselves, but can focus for any talent. Both talents and prisms have levels of power and there exist (mostly in novels and movies) abnormally high talents, dubbed Psychic Vampires. Amaryllis is a 'full spectrum' (highly powered) prism and Lucas Trent is an off-the-scale talent. He hires her services for a security issue, but they get more than they bargained for when they detect a local politician focusing 'charisma' in order to gain votes and contributions. This discovery leads to an investigation into the recent death of Amaryllis' professor/mentor, which the police ruled an accident. As Amaryllis and Lucas get closer to the truth, those who'd like the truth to stay hidden are more motivated to injure or even kill them.This author is highly skilled in the romance genre, writing as Amanda Quick (historical romance), Jayne Ann Krentz (contemportary) and now Jayne Castle (futuristic). Her characters are always compelling, her writing is always clean and well structured, and her love scenes are steamy without being either crude or trite. This story is particularly engaging as the beginning of a series with characters you care to know more about even after the book has ended.
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Strong characters lot to think about intriguing on how the whole plot worked out kept you guessing all the time.
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Told with her trademark sense of humor, adventure and love this, the first in a trilogy is a truly fun read. Jayne Ann Krentz writing as Jayne Castle builds an incredible world and you are a sucked into it and don’t want to leave even after the last page has turned. Opposites attract and fall in love against all odds. Off to read the next in the series.
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Books by Jayne Castle are impossible to put down!
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On a beach or sitting on your back porch is how this quick, fun romantic read is great for.
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