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Amaryllis

Title: Amaryllis

Author: Jayne Castle

Publisher: Pocket Books / 1996

From The Back Of The Book:

Amaryllis Lark is undeniably beautiful. She is also one of the best psychic detectives on St. Helen's, the earth colony recently cut off from the mother planet, yet not so very different from home---a place where loves still defies the most incedible odds. Lucas Trent, the rugged head of Lodestar Exploration, isn't keen on the prim and proper type---and, from her neatly buttoned business suit to her cool evaluation of his request to bust a corporate thief, Amaryllis is excruciatingly proper.

Amaryllis may have psychic powers, but she can't read minds---least of all his own. When a bold hunch leads them from a wild murder investigation ro a red-hot love affair, Amaryllis is shocked, Lucas is delighted---and no power on heaven , earth, or St. Helen's can keep them apart.

Review:

The people of St. Helen's have developed psychic powers in the two hundred years since the orignal colonists had been stranded on this planet. They were divided into two groups, prisms and talents. The two just seem to go together in every way.

Amaryllis Lark is a security expert for Psynergy Inc. She was also a highly trained prism. She had no true paranormal talent, as Lucas Trent did, but she had the unique ability to help people with psychic power focus thier gifts.

Lucas, needed help finding a traitor in his company, so he hires Amaryllis to help him find out who it is and why they would betray him. Lucas was also looking for a wife, but in this new world all marriages were matched thru an agency to be sure that they lasted. Lucas and Amaryllis would never be matched, would they? They were much to different to be compatible, weren't they?

This is an intriguing concept, even though St. Helen's and Earth are very much alike in alot ways, it still has a very futuristic feel to the story. With just enough differences to keep it interesting.

EXCELLENT

Jo Anderson
A.L.R. Reviews