Amaryllis by Jayne Castle [Review]

Amaryllis (St. Helens #1) by Jayne Castle
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: February 3, 2024

St. Helens
1. Amaryllis - Paperback | Kindle
2. Zinnia
3. Orchid

Jayne Castle (AKA Jayne Ann Krentz)
| Website | Amazon |

Synopsis (Goodreads):

Amaryllis Lark is one of the best psychic detectives on St. Helen’s, the Earth colony recently cut off from the mother planet—and a place where love defies the most incredible odds. Lucas Trent, the rugged head of Lodestar Exploration, isn’t attracted to prim and proper women and takes no interest in Amaryllis, with her crisp business suit and her aloof evaluation of his request to bust a corporate thief.

But when a bold hunch leads them from a wild murder investigation to an electrifyingly red-hot love affair, no power on heaven, Earth, or St. Helen’s can keep them apart.

Thoughts on Amaryllis: I'm rereading this series out of order (because why not, amirite?) and I'm excited to see Amaryllis and Lucas sparking off one another again. These two have a serious opposites attract thing going on. To start with, he's an off the charts talent and she's an off the charts prism and EVERYBODY knows those two don't match well together. Except these two do.

Then there's the matter of Amaryllis's rather upright stance on ethics and how a talent or prism should act. Which is to say, she holds herself to high standards and she expects others to do the same. Lucas, on the other hand, knows that a certain flexibility to those standards could potentially keep Amaryllis from getting tangled up in a dangerous situation. In other words, sometimes it's best to turn a blind eye to things if he hopes to get himself (and Amaryllis) safe.

Unfortunately, Amaryllis disagrees with that and soon she's knee-deep in following scraps of clues and visiting unsavory establishments to try to piece together what's going on and how it ties in with her mentor's (possibly) accidental death.

More than a little danger, secrets, family ties, a man who knows a good woman when he finds her, and a lady who is willing to go to any lengths for the people she loves. *thumbs up*