Title: Ghost Hunter
Author: Jayne Castle
Publisher: Jove
ISBN: 0515141402
On the planet of Harmony, Elly St. Clair breaks her engagement when she thinks Cooper Boone, the Aurora Springs Guild boss, wants to marry her because of her family’s standing in the ghost hunter guild. She moves to Cadence to start a life away from her guild family, who all have psi abilities except for her. She does have a strange affinity with plants, but her mother warned her when she was an adolescent not to mention it.
In her herb shop in Cadence, Elly surrounds herself with caring neighbors. When one of them, a tough ruin rat, disappears, Cooper appears in the city in time to help Elly find her. The rescue raises more questions–dangerous questions. Some of the answers are in the catacombs beneath the surface of Cadence. Elly finds out she and Cooper are both more than they seem on the surface too.
The theme of GHOST HUNTER is discovery, giving the reader a fun journey from beginning to The End. Jayne Castle, aka Jayne Ann Krentz, always writes solid, fast reading books with likeable heroines and alpha heroes with a touch of beta. My one complaint is the info dumps to explain the world, but although they slowed the story, they weren’t long enough to stop it. If you like your JAK with a dash of paranormal, GHOST HUNTER is the book for you.
Just picked up the GHOST HUNTER, Edie. I’m looking forward to reading it. Loved Jayne Castle’s previous futuristics.