"fascinating romantic fantasy"

Botany professor Elly St. Clair fell in love with Aurora Springs Guild Chief Cooper Boone and thought he reciprocated when he proposed marriage. She accepted, but now knows that he does not as her father and Cooper arranged for a Guild Covenant Marriage between them as expected of the two most powerful local members. The psychic duel she heard rumors of between Cooper and Palmer Frazier over her adds to her reasoning to end their engagement and move to Cadence City, an hour and a half away, to start over.

Six months later, Elly searches for a lost friend private investigator Bertha Newell, who disappeared somewhere in the catacombs beneath the city. Cooper is in town for the first time since she returned his ring to him so Elly asks him to help find her pal, which he agrees to do. As they confront legends, ghosts, and drug dealers in their quest to rescue Bertha, his plan to win her back continues to fail because he fails to recognize that he never lost her.

Writing as Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann Krentz takes her readers back to Harmony, a fascinating world where the supernatural is the norm. The fascinating story line is made even more enchanting by the lead couple whose dysfunctional relationship enables the audience to understand guild politics. The investigation is fun to follow as the heroes battle the paranormal, the normal, and each other in a quest to rescue Bertha.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 25, 2006

Return to the fascinating world of Harmony where deadly energy ghosts lurk in the ruins of an ancient alien civilization; where dust bunnies prove to be loyal pets and where a ghost hunter will discover that a woman's heart is the most dangerous adversary of all...

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Summary

Where deadly energy ghosts lurk in the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. Where dust bunnies prove to be loyal pets. And where a ghost hunter will discover that a woman's heart is the most dangerous adversary of all...

Local Guild boss and powerful ghost-hunter Cooper Boone is everything botanist Elly St. Clair could ask for - the handsome, strong, and silent type. Maybe too silent. For when Guild secrets threaten her career at the college, Elly has to call off their marriage - and leave small-town life behind...

But starting over in the thriving metropolis of Cadence City isn't easy, especially when one of Elly's new friends disappears in the eerie catacombs beneath the streets. Cooper turns up just in time to help Elly investigate. And as the mystery deepens and dangerous ghost myths and legends come to light, Cooper makes it clear he intends to stick around - and this time he's holding nothing back...