Welcome to Harmony—where the rules are a little different.Life is tough these days for Lydia Smith, licensed para-archaeologist. Seriously stressed-out from a nasty incident in an alien tomb, she is obliged to work part-time in Shrimpton’s House of Ancient Horrors, a very low-budget museum. She has a plan to get her career back on track, but it isn’t going well. Stuff keeps happening.Take the … happening.
Take the dead body that she discovered in one of the sarcophagus exhibits. Who needed that? Finding out that her new client, Emmett London, is one of the most dangerous men in the city isn’t helping matters either. And that’s just today’s list of setbacks. Here in the shadows of the Dead City of Old Cadence, things don’t really heat up until After Dark.
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First book in one of my all time favorite series. I love the unique setting that’s a blend of futuristic earth colony that still has the familiar feel of a contemporary paranormal. A great combination of romance, adventure, unique psychic abilities and humor. Also adorable alien pet ‘dust’ bunnies.
Dust Bunnies forever!
Loved it!
I love Jayne Castle and her wonderfully constructed sci-fi fantasy world of Harmony. So it seemed strange to me that I had never read any of the Ghost Hunters series before now. I didn’t know until I read After Dark that there is a whole part of Harmony, involving para- archaeology I have been missing. It’s like Indiana Jones in the future! Jayne has not only created this spectacular world of Harmony she has developed these great characters with paranormal talent to explore that world. Ghost Hunters are not the Ghost Hunters you see on TV trying to capture ghosts on camera in some derelict haunted house. These are people who can sense and manipulate “ghosts” of alien energy that disrupt pyschic abilities ,interfering with the discovery of relics on Harmony. After Dark is book 1 in the series that introduces these special teams of para- archeologists. Like other Jayne Castle novels, After Dark is dripping with suspense and mystery. The plot is full of twists and turns that keep you on edge from the first page to the very last. There is also off the charts romance and hot sex that is enhanced by the paranormal energy that pours from they main characters like sweat! After Dark is Jayne Castle at her best! Like I said, I have no idea why I haven’t read this series before but I will definitely being reading it for awhile now!
I have read many books by this author and so far I have not found one I do not like.
The Harmony world paranormal romances by this author are always full of heart, action, and intrigue. They are well written and not too serious. This is a very enjoyable book.
I love this series.
I loved all of Jayne Castles books,( Jane Ann Krenzt) it was a great series, but she stopped writing it!
Fabulous start to a fantastic, paranormal series
Lydia Smith is a licensed para-archaeologist, but some months ago, her university career was destroyed by a serious case of on-the-job burnout. Fortunately, she has high hopes that her obviously wealthy, mysterious, new client, Emmett London, might be her ticket out of her current dead-end job at a low-rent museum, Shrimpton’s House of Ancient Horrors, in the Dead City of Old Cadence, on the planet Harmony.
I originally bought this futuristic romance novel when it was first released in 2000 as a mass market paperback. I have since re-purchased it in Kindle and audiobook format, and I have read and listened to it numerous times. I love it, and I never get tired of it.
I’m a big fan of Jayne Ann Krentz, and I have read almost every book she has ever written (the vast majority of which have been re-released in Kindle format, and many in audiobook format as well). During the course of her incredibly prolific writing career, stretching back to 1979, she has written 187 books, and counting, as of the end of 2020. Though she has definitely written many, many entertaining series over the years, for my personal taste, the Harmony series is the best of her best.
In the case of this particular novel, JAK did something she has rarely done. Though the book does not end on a cliffhanger, it has a sequel, After Glow, written four whole years after this book came out. It was worth the wait, though, and thereafter, she wrote 11 other books in the series, most published yearly, up until 2016. There has been nothing since, but we diehard fans of Harmony live in hope that JAK will, someday, revisit Harmony.
This is the whole Harmony series, so far:
1. After Dark, 2000, audiobook narrated by Joyce Bean
2. After Glow, 2004, audiobook narrated by Joyce Bean
3. Ghost Hunter, 2006, audiobook narrated by Laural Merlington
4. Silver Master, 2007, audiobook narrated by Joyce Bean
5. Dark Light, 2008, audiobook narrated by Joyce Bean
6. Obsidian Prey, 2009, audiobook narrated by Joyce Bean
7. Midnight Crystal, 2010, audiobook narrated by Tanya Eby
8. Canyons of Night, 2011, audiobook narrated by Joyce Bean
9. Lost Night, 2012, audiobook narrated by Joyce Bean
10. Deception Cove, 2013, audiobook narrated by Joyce Bean
11. Hot Zone, 2014, audiobook narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
12. Siren’s Call, 2015, audiobook narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
13. Illusion town, 2016, audiobook narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
The audiobook versions of all the books in this series are very well done, and they are all a real treat to experience. I must say, though, that my absolute favorite narrator, of the four different actors who have narrated these books, is the inimitable Barbara Rosenblat. She is absolutely fabulous!
I rate this book as follows:
Heroine: 5 stars
Hero: 5 stars
Subcharacters: 5 stars
World-building: 5 stars
Romance Plot: 5 stars
Suspense Plot: 5 stars
Writing: 5 stars
Audiobook: 5 stars
Overall: 5 stars
I always enjoy Jayne Krentz books. I especially enjoy this series and the dust bunnies.
You can’t lose with Jayne castle
Fun read; dust bunny hero.
Paranormal mystery with a twist of romance. Such a great read!
Thoroughly enjoy her books.
Great fantansy-suspense story with strong characters and exciting twists to keep this interesting.
Very enjoyable reading. Didn’t want to put it down. Get to know the Dust Bunny.
I like the series, I like the author, having read the series I may be a harsher critic and too overloaded to be fair.
Loved the world of Harmony. That alone makes this book worth the read. Not a typical love story and who could love a story with a dust bunny?
This should be the next Netflix series
Great book!!
This is the first book in a duo-logy and its lots of fun. The protagonists Lydia and Emmett are a wonderful couple and her dust bunny Fuzz provides humour. The book has mysteries and suspense through a series of murders and although the main questions are answered the balance are dealt with in the follow up book After Glow. This is a great romance novel with a sci-fi twist and I recommend it for the persons looking for anyone that needs a good book to read to unwind.