Lydia Smith discovered her friend dead in a sarcophagus. Emmett London’s nephew has disappeared along with a valuable family heirloom. How are these events connected? Will their physical attraction prevent them from working together? Steamy romance.
This paranormal romance takes place in the city of Old Cadence on the colony planet of Harmony. The curtain has closed, and contact with Earth is impossible. Lydia has the psychic ability to untangle illusion traps. Emmett has the psychic ability to dissipate ghosts. Both these talents are mediated through amber, which all psychics wear. To safely enter the catacombs, the team must include a tangler and a ghost hunter. Fortunately, Lydia and Emmett are the best. They work together to solve the mysteries of murder and corruption on Harmony.
In addition to the murder of Chester Brady, a disreputable ruin rat who occasionally discovers valuable artifacts, and the disappearance of Quinn, there is the discovery of a jar made of dreamstone, something thought to be impossible. “Dreamstone was well named. Small deposits of it were occasionally found, usually embedded in clear quartz. Not only was it extremely rare, but it had thus far defied any attempt to extract it from the protective quartz. It shattered at the slightest touch, simultaneously appearing to melt and fracture into microscopic shards.”
The politics of Old Cadence is bifurcated into the police, the university, and the respectable members of society (the Restoration Ball and the Society Para-archaeologists) on one side and the Guild (an organization that is only one step above an underworld mob) on the other. Lydia has been fired from her position at the university, and Emmett is from another settlement entirely. Neither is part of the establishment. None of that helps their investigation.
This is a fast-moving thriller with a lot of moving parts and surprise twists.
Lydia has a pet dust bunny. An animal with calm daylight eyes and fierce nighttime hunting eyes. “As long as all you can see are his daylight eyes, there’s nothing to be concerned about. The only time you have to worry about a dust bunny is when he stops looking like a wad of dryer lint.” Emmett raised his brows. “They say that by the time you see the teeth, it’s too late.”
This is an open-door/steamy romance.
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