Spotlight & Giveaway: Illusion Town by Jayne Castle

Posted July 24th, 2016 by in Blog, Review / 38 comments

Today, HJ is pleased to share with you Jayne Castle new release: Illusion Town.

Spotlight&Giveaway

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.

 
Illusion TownHannah 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 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…
 

Enjoy an exclusive excerpt from Illusion Town: 

She made it into the bathroom and closed the door. One glance at her image in the mirror was enough to make her wonder if she was still asleep—maybe trapped in one of her own dream-walking dreams.
Grady Barnett’s words slammed through her. “Your profile is extremely unusual, so unusual that I’m afraid it’s borderline unstable. You must be careful to avoid stress.”
Grady had said something else about her, as well, but not to her face. He had made the comment to his research assistant. “It’s no wonder she’s single and lives alone. Her dreamlight patterns would give any normal man the creeps. Thinks she’s having out-of-body experiences on a regular basis.”
“Go to hell, Grady Barnett,” she whispered to the mirror.
She pushed thoughts of Grady aside. He was old history, and bad history at that. She had walked out of his lab and she had no intention of ever returning. There were other para-psych profilers in Illusion Town.
She focused on her image in the mirror and concluded that she looked like she’d been caught outside in a thunderstorm and zapped by lightning. She had a vague memory of her hair being done up in a flirty little twist the last time she had checked a mirror. But now it was down around her shoulders in a tangled mane.
She was sure she had not been wearing a lot of makeup yesterday morning—she never put on much for daytime. But at some point she must have spent some time with a mascara wand and an eyeliner pencil. The results were now badly smudged.
She looked like she had spent the night in a low-rent nightclub before letting a really bad boy take her back to the kind of hotel that rented rooms by the hour.
Scratch the bad-boy thing. Elias Coppersmith might be bad—the jury was still out—but he was definitely not a boy.
For the past two months he had remained simply E. Coppersmith in her files. That, in itself, was rather unusual. It was not uncommon for serious collectors to go to great lengths to protect their identities. Those who traded at the deep end of the hot rocks market—crystals, quartz, and amber—usually preferred to keep a very low profile. But Elias had been up front about his identity right from the beginning. Then again, he hadn’t had much choice. He had asked her to find a long-lost family heirloom—his ring—so it had made sense to tell her as much as possible about the family that had lost it.
But until very recently he had known her only by her online name—Finder. She owned a storefront shop, Visions, but for the most part, the relics, rocks, and small-time antiquities and collectibles she stocked there were unremarkable. Her real business was conducted anonymously in the murky underground market. It was a market that attracted eccentrics and, occasionally, dangerous people. It was only common sense to protect her identity.
Her online business was built on confidentiality and anonymity. She worked by referral only. By the time a would-be client got to her online she was reasonably certain that he or she had been thoroughly vetted.
But not long ago she had taken the rare step of identifying herself to an online client. Elias had asked her out to dinner. She had a long-standing policy of not dating clients but she remembered breaking her own rules for Elias. The email correspondence of the past two months had evolved from a business relationship into something much more intimate—at least on her end. She had accepted his invitation.
And given the way she was dressed now, it looked as if they had gone out on a date. But the invitation had been for dinner. How had she ended up in a Marriage of Convenience? Not only that, but the two of them had evidently spent their wedding night passed out in a cheap motel in the Shadow Zone. That was definitely intimate, but not in a good way.
What happened to us?

Posted by arrangement with Berkley, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, A Penguin Random House Company. Copyright © Jayne Castle, 2016.

 

 

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Meet the Author:

Jayne Castle, Jayne Ann KrentzJayne Castle, the author of Siren’s Call, The Hot Zone, Deception Cove, The Lost Night, Canyons of Night, Midnight Crystal, Obsidian Prey, Dark Light, Silver Master, Ghost Hunter, After Glow, and After Dark, is a pseudonym for Jayne Ann Krentz, the author of more than fifty New York Times bestsellers. She writes contemporary romantic suspense novels under the Krentz name, as well as historical novels under the pseudonym Amanda Quick.

 
 
 

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38 Responses to “Spotlight & Giveaway: Illusion Town by Jayne Castle”

  7. Joanne B

    This book sounds fantastic. I like a little mystery with my romance. Can’t wait
    to read it.

  14. Denise Van Plew

    Oh teaser for sure love this author love Harmony and those darling little things that are to me like gerbils anyways this one sure to be winner

  18. Michele H.

    I like the mystery element. Most of the world-building is similar in tone to her previous Harmony books, but the “how did we get married” plot is an interesting twist.

  26. Martha Lawson

    I love, love this series!! The dust bunnies just make the books. Jayne’s books are the only futuristic books I read. I can’t wait to read this one. Thanks for the giveaway.

  27. Vicki Highley

    I love this series and the books she writes as Jayne Ann Krentz and Amanda Quick. Let’s just say Jayne is one of my favorite authors.

  31. BookLady

    Great excerpt! I love the Harmony series, especially the dust bunnies.

  33. barbed1951

    I love Jayne’s Harmony series, and I’m always happy to see a new story coming. Loved the excerpt and can’t wait to read Illusion Town.

  38. Cynthia Powers

    I love all her Harmony books! The dust bunnies are too funny. This is a series I love to reread.