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Deception Cove (Rainshadow, #2) (2013)

by Jayne Castle(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

145588216X (ISBN13: 9781455882168)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Brilliance Audio

series

Rainshadow

review 1: I absolutely loved this book. This series is written in the future where Aliens have built underground catacombs before leaving the planet, realising that they couldn't live on the surface. Alice meets Drake Sebastian, who's family is very powerful and has different powers. Alice has just lost her job as a magician with her dust bunny pet, Hoodini. Alice has a power that can help Drake save Rainshadow. She agrees to help him. Everything that happens is unexpected, captivating and it makes the book hard to put down. Can't wait to read more!
review 2: Setting: Crystal City; theatre/alley in shady part of town; Green Gable Tavern; Dead City Suites – inexpensive apartment; Crystal City Courthouse; Rainshadow – town, Shadow Bay, Preserve with its crystal caves, ... moreUnderworld tunnel from cemetery to Preserve, Whitcomb mansion, pyramid in Preserve housing 2 of the stones from earth, Marina Inn Tavern; Drake’s townhouse in the Old Quarter; Theme: what is happening in the Preserve that is causing the psifog around the island, leading to its evacuation; trusting in love at first sight;Characters:Alice North: trying to make a living with Alien Illusions Magic show – where she uses her invisibility ability to make Houdini disappear; great grandfather partners in a seafaring business, and hid 3 stones in a cave on the Preserve; an orphan; MC with a rich guy a year earlier, and when he died (ruled of natural causes), his rich mother blamed her, and made it her job to ruin her – losing every job, evicted… she changes identities and getting to the end of her rope;Houdini: alice’s dust bunny companion; part of her magic show (he’s the ‘magician’, she the assistant);Drake Sebastian: CEO of Sebastian Industries; due to attack/lab accident with ex fiance, he cannot stand light/sun, always wears glasses, but can see psi energy, and has adjusted; the one to track Alice, to gain her help in stopping the disaster on Rainshadow; Dr. Zara Tucker: fake Dream Chamber Project; Drake’s exfiance; she paid the matchmaking agency to match them, wanting access to his money and labs; when he broke up with her, she assaulted him with a laser, blinding him… then she shifted to another plan, on Rainshadow, in the Preserve, stealing artifacts, and trying to command dreamlight enhanced with the 2 Keys/stones hidden by Sebastian and North; Quinton aka Egan: body guard aka spy/ Enlightenment groupie; Tucker’s lover; wondering around town, and reporting to her via the tunnels that start at the cemetery;Karen Rosser / Pete Banks: research assistants duped by Dr. Tucker; Tucker sending them into the psi cloud in the pyramid to retrieve the rocks, with a rope tied around their waist… psy energy getting stronger, and they pass out quickly… she escapes, and runs into Drake and Alice;Ethel Whitcomb / Fulton Whitcomb: Fulton duped by Tucker – they want Alice’s talent and reading of the diary to control the power on Rainshadow, and he agreed to court Alice – all thinking she’d be an easy mark as an orphan; Alice only agreed to a MC, and when they tried to exploit her, Summary:Drake, powerful, talent of seeing what others don’t turning women off, tracks down Alice North, to access her great grandfather’s records to try and locate the Keys/stones on Rainshadow, before the island is destroyed… though not planning to, in response to her draw to him, he insists on a marriage of convenience to protect her from her ex-mother-in-law… their feelings of attraction, and understanding, and acceptance of each other grows quickly…As they are figuring out what is happening, and what they might do, she is kidnapped… and Tucker sends her into the pyramid… she senses Drake nearby, creates her invisible bubble to protect herself from the stormy psi power, and even when the rope is cut that would pull her out, she waits patiently for Houdini and drake to rescue her (he can see in the psi storm)… they retrieve the stones, and the island starts to calm down…He proposes a covenant marriage.Memorable scenes:“In that moment he’d seen everything he needed to know about her – she was the kind of woman who would never give up, regardless of the obstacles. No matter what life threw at her, she would just keep going.”Woken up from a restless sleep, uncertain, she starts to fade: “She felt the energy level rise a little in the atmosphere and knew that Drake had jacked up his talent so that he could see her. If her found that necessary, it meant she was doing a fade… She had to give Drake credit… most men would have freaked at the sight of a woman jumping out of bed and disappearing into thin air.” less

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