A new adventure begins on Harmony… With its opulent casinos and hotels, the desert city of Illusion Town is totally unique—and will take you on a thrill ride you’ll never forget. Hannah West isn’t the first woman to wake up in Illusion Town married to a man she barely knows, but she has no memory of the ceremony at all. For that matter, neither does Elias Coppersmith, her new husband. All … Elias Coppersmith, her new husband. All either can remember is that they were on the run…
With Hannah’s dubious background and shaky para-psych profile, she could have done much worse. The cooly competent mining heir arouses her curiosity—as well as other parts of her mind and body. And even her dust bunny likes him.
But a honeymoon spent retracing their footsteps leads Hannah and Elias into the twisting underground catacombs, where secrets from both their pasts will come to light—and where the energy of their clashing auras will grow hot enough to burn…
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once again jayne castle aka jayne ann krentz has pulled me into her world of harmony!!! i loved this book. like all her harmony books the characters are bold,passionate men and women, in this new book we are in illusion town and her characters are hannah west and the hot and sexy elias coppersmith when they wake up together in bed and find out that their married, neither remembers how it happened but little by little what happened that night comes back to them and these two will have to uncover the truth of what happened that night and at the same time stay ahead of a murder who’s out to get them. i love these mysteries and the dust bunnies are so cute,and hannah’s is virgil hes adorable!!! great story i give it 5dust bunnies stars!!!
Love this series. In serious dust bunny with drawel!!
I loved this whole series. While leaving earth isn’t a new trope what she did on the new world was and I enjoyed every minute.
Good read.
I just can’t get enough of this series. I have read each one enjoying how they complement the characters then the next one fits right were they are left off but building on it. Quite the adventure fantasy.
I love Harmony! I also love Jayne Castle and all her alter egos. I find the books about Harmony never get old. In a our world where there are a million plus books that I have never read (and want to one day) I know if I really, really NEED to escape my reality for awhile I can pick up one of Jayne’s books regardless of whether I have read it or not and get my fix. Re-reading the Harmony books is one of the high lights of my life and this book is as awesome as the rest.
Futuristic fun – alternate world with all its problems but great fun!
Elias Coppersmith had been interacting online with Finder online for two months. When the dreamlight worker had found his ring – a lost family heirloom – Elias wanted to continue their communication in a far more personal, and less professional, manner. Hannah had gone to great pains to keep her work persona as Finder separate from her real life, but something in her urged the lowering of her guards. Neither Hannah nor Elias expected to wake up the morning after their first dinner date in a seedy hotel room with heavy after-burn amnesia and a licence in Elias’ pocked showing they’d got married the evening before. Is the whole thing an illusion – or is something far more interesting at play?
I have to admit I’m a total sucker for all of Jayne Ann Krentz’s personas and adore her writing. I have a particularly soft spot for her paranormal/sci-fi/fantasy ish series on Harmony with her writings as Jayne Castle. I’d been holding onto this book – apparently her last under this pseudonym for quite some time – because not only did I know it would be a deliciously fun romp through her paranormal world, but the plot holds a throw-back to pretty much every “Vegas” or “hangover” style of plotline going around. I love a good Vegas/hangover/wake up married and lost kind of plotline and so I knew this would be a winner for me.
I was in no way disappointed. This story is pure gold.
It certainly fits all the “Krentz/Castle drinking game” sort of tick boxes. Strong, alpha and powerful hero, strong, intelligent and perfectly capable heroine. A good, solid mystery plot. An adorable and strongly characterized dust bunny companion. Evil henchmen and bad guys roaming around. Add in other well-used Castle elements – strong para-psyche profiles, the horrid ex who ruined the heroine’s reputation and a few mysterious artifact or three – and I can understand why some readers might feel like this is a similar story to many of her others. But when you’ve found a good formula and you can make it work, why mess with it? I loved the Vegas overtones, adored Joe (the Elvis wedding impersonator) and found the plot was well written, well paced and I did enjoy watching Elias and Hannah retrace their steps and try to work out what had happened during their disastrous first date and how they got into the pickle they awoke to find themselves in.
With vibrant characters, a good pace and a really firm, steady plot this was an exceptional book and one I was really sad to finish reading because there doesn’t appear to be more coming down the line soon. I will absolutely be rereading this – and a number of the other Castle books preceding it – and I can strongly recommend this book. It stands perfectly well by itself and can easily be read as a stand-alone book but readers familiar with Castle’s Harmony world and already enjoying the other stories in this setting should not miss this exceptional addition. Highly recommended.
Fun, light series.
Loved it.
I like how she writes about the same families in her past, present, and future books.
I love this author!
Hannah and Elias travel through mysterious Alien catacombs, the Rainforest, and Illusion Town in search of answers, accompanied by Hannah’s delightful dust bunny companion Virgil. Long time Harmony readers will not be disappointed by Virgil, who steals every scene simply by being himself (and having a fondness for cupcakes and Arizona Snow). Hannah and Elias are both great, strong characters who work well together. I especially liked Elias. His dry humor, understated strength and talents, and engineer’s views of life (like always bring a toolkit on a date and make sure your car can take care of itself) made him a lot of fun to read and another great Castle hero. Elias never makes the mistake of treating Hannah as anything less than an equal. Despite a rough start to life, Hannah is a confident woman who doesn’t let “expert” opinions of her para-psych profile and unusual dream light talent question how she views herself or affect her confidence It was fun watching Hannah evade thinking about the marriage and brushing it off as temporary while Elias was confident almost from the beginning that he quite liked being married to Hannah and plotting how to make it permanent.
Castle fans will enjoy Illusion Town’s referrals to previous Amanda Quick/Jayne Ann Krentz books: the Midnight Carnival’s way of keeping Arcane Society history alive, Mrs. Bridewell’s mysterious clockwork toys/weapons, and Arizona Snow. We get to explore new areas of the underground tunnels and new paranormal talents. Readers new to the Harmony or Arcane Society series won’t feel left out, or like they are entering a world they can’t keep up with, but hopefully by the end of the book they’ll be hooked and go on to read at least the rest of the Harmony series, if not all Amanda Quick’s and Jayne Ann Krentz’s books as well.
Full of passion, suspense, and dust bunnies, Illusion Town is a great read for Jayne Castle fans and a great introduction to those only now discovering the world of Harmony. I hope we’ll continue exploring this new aspect of Harmony in future books.