Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #153671 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 336 pages

Synopsis
Psychic romance novelist Orchid Adams meets her match on the space colony of St. Helen's when an assignment with a lone-wolf private investigator puts her mind and her heart on a collision course.

Customer Reviews

JAK as Castle is at her best
Orchid is the follow up book to the futuristic stories Amaryllis and Zinnia, in the off world old Earth colony of Harmony on the planet of St. Helens. When the first children of this colony grew up, it was discovered they were gifted with one of two talents: psychic ability or what they call a prism. The psychics were powerful, but they cannot control this ability, focus it for long periods of time. For that they need a prism. A prism channels their power and amplifies it. However, a psychic and a prism must be of the same level of strength or the psychic can overload and burn out the prism.

Orchid Adams is a strong prism, and she is just what Rafe Stonebreaker needs: a wife! He is trying to take over control of his grandfathers shipping cooperation, and to do that he needs a wife to make him appear settled. Only problem: is he is an off the chart psychic talent that has made placing him with in the Harmony romance matching agencies a bit of a problem. He has contracted Orchid to help him with some private investigations, but he soon decides to do some matchmaking of his own, and encourages her to enter in a Harmony temporary marriage, a cover to aid him in taking power of the shipping business.

When Orchid's friend steals an ancient artifact, Rafe and she are tangled into a deep mystery of a mad killer desperate to cover his mistakes.

Once again, Jayne Anne Krentz, writing under the Castle name, gives us the dazzling shine of her talent! This is some of her best writing over the last decade, JAK at her very best.
Early this year, they released the first two tales Amaryllis and Zinnia under the title HARMONY. So if you enjoyed them, you will most definitely wish to have Orchid as well. After Dark and After Glow are set on this same world, too.

People that love Nora Robert's JD Robb series should snap these up. These are in the same style. The romance sizzles, the banter is dazzling - it just does not get any better than this.

3rd in the Offworld Romance that is Dream!!
Orchid is the follow up book to Amaryllis and Zinnia, in the off world old Earth colony of St. Helens. When the children of this colony grew up, it was discovered they were gifted with one of two talents: psychic ability or what they called a prism. The psychics were powerful, but they cannot control, focus it for any period time, without a prism. A prism channels their power and amplifies it. However, a psychic and a prism must be of the same level of strength or the psychic can overload and burn out the prism.

Orchid Adams is a prism and she is just what Rafe Stonebroker needs:a wife!! He is trying to take over control of his grandfathers shipping cooperation, and to do that he needs a
wife to make him appear settled. Only problem is he is an off the the chart psychic talent that has made placing him with the romance matching agencies a bit of a problem. He has contracted Orchid to help him with some private investigations, but he soon decides to do some matchmaking of his own.

When an ancient artifact is stolen by Orchid's friend, they are tangled into a deep mystery of a mad killer desperate to cover his mistakes.

Once again JAK gives us the dazzling shine of her talent!! Some of her best writing in years!!

If you purchase the soon to be release reprint of Amaryllis and Zinnia under the title HARMONY, you will most definitely wish to have Orchid as well!!

People that love Nora Robert's JD Robb series should snap these up. I am surprised JAK is not getting better attention with these books since these are in the same vein.

Another WINNER!!!
I loved it!!!! Ms. Castle further developed the world of St. Helens which she created in Amarallys and again her characters of Orchard and Rafe were wonderful.

I hope that Ms. Castle will contine with this series and further develop this world or perhaps a special book about their (Amarisllis,Zinnia,Orchard) children?