GHOST HUNTER

Author: Jayne Castle ISBN: 0515141402 5/2006 PARANORMAL/FUTURISTIC Publisher: JOVE

Local Guild boss and powerful ghost-hunter Cooper Boone is everything botanist Elly St. Clair could ask for—the handsome, strong and silent type. Maybe too silent. For when Guild secrets threaten her career at the college, Elly has to call off their marriage—and leave small-town life behind. But starting over in the thriving metropolis of Cadence City isn't easy, especially when one of Elly's new friends disappears in the eerie catacombs beneath the streets. Cooper turns up just in time to help Elly investigate. And as the mystery deepens and dangerous ghost myths and legends come to light, Cooper makes it clear he intends to stick around—and this time he's holding nothing back...

RRAH's THOUGHTS AND PONDERINGS:

Whether writing contemporary, historical or paranormal futuristic, Jayne Ann Krentz/Amanda Quick/Jayne Castle can be counted on to deliver lots of humor, intriguing characters and fascinating storylines.

Ms. Krentz AKA Castle's paranormal GHOST HUNTER is a rollicking good time crammed with slightly quirky characters, loads of imagination and a fast moving, well-done suspense. Oh, and GHOST HUNTER fairly drips with sexual tension, too.

GHOST HUNTER pairs a headstrong heroine with a sinfully sexy, though sometimes clueless-when-it-comes-to-women hero, who have just the right touch of sexual chemistry to make the romance interesting. These two intelligent characters, spontaneous Elly St. Clair and careful planning Cooper Boone, are perfect foils for the other in this decidedly funny romantic suspense.

This paranormal/futuristic tale isn't boggled down with a lot of high-tech jargon to put non-lovers of the futuristic sub-genre off. Although part of Ms. Castle's Harmony series,GHOST HUNTER stands alone perfectly.

GHOST HUNTER is slick, edgy, exciting, sexy and fun.

Whether she's storytelling as Krentz, Quick or Castle, this multi-pseudonym authoress is multi-talented.

Debbie Jett