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After Glow (Ghost Hunters, Book 2) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jayne Castle
Publisher: Jove
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 84550
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0515136948
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780515136944
ASIN: 0515136948
Publication Date: February 24, 2004
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Product Description
Para-archaeologist Lydia Smith has spent her entire adult life digging into the past, and building a career. But all that changes when she finds herself lost in the catacombs below the city, with no memory of how she came to be there. Now it's her own past that is eluding her; and the secret of what happened to her will endanger everything she's worked to rebuild, including her new marriage to Emmett London, who has a dangerous past of his own to overcome.
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 great read November 18, 2008
Jayne Ann Krentz or Jayne Castle is a great writer and if you like a little bit of other wordly reading this one is great. Love the dust bunnys! Nice get away read! I highly recommend these books
sci-fi fantasy treat October 10, 2008
Jayne Castle writes a very good tale of another world earthlings have developed. I love this series.
Freakin' AWSOME SEQUEL!!!! January 31, 2008
I love you Emmett London!! I tell you, he has to be one of the sexiest men ever written!! Thank you Jayne!! I have to say, that I couldn't wait to read this MASTERPIECE, and it was well anticipated! I am so glad that I read After Dark, and now After Glow....I am sure that these will be re-read by me a few times in the future! And is definately a keeper, I wish that all books were this entertaining, but luckily I have rest of JAK's collection to read through, but I am sure that Emmett will ALWAYS be one of my FAVS.....Happy Reading!! I'm sure you will also love this book, but be sure to read the 1st book in the sequel first, because that is what draws you into the world of Harmony...
Write more Jayne! October 2, 2007
I loved the Orchid series books she wrote. And then I really enjoyed the two books in this series. It was different, but same kind of interesting setting as the Orchid series. For years I've been checking back at book stores hoping she has written more in these series. But no such luck for me.
Follow up to "After Dark" and another good fun outing April 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book follows "After Dark" which includes the same characters and describes how Lydia Smith and Emmett London met. It isn't necessary to have read the first book to understand this one (in fact I read this one first and didn't have any difficulties in understanding what's going on) but it does rather give away some of the events in the first book, if you haven't yet read it.
The events in After Glow take place a month after the end of the previous book. Lydia is still working in Shrimpton's museum, is continuing her relationship with Emmett London, and is getting along quietly with her life after the excitement of the murders and the discovery of the dreamstone jar in the previous book. However she finds herself at the scene of another death - this time a former professor of archaeology who appears to have overdosed on drugs. As she waits for the police to arrive Emmett London meets up with her and she discovers that the head of the Cadence Guild, the local Ghost Hunter organisation which sometimes seems rather like its own private army, has been shot. Emmett is now acting head of the Guild, for reasons which he eventually explains to Lydia.
The first section of this book is taken up with Lydia coming to terms with Emmett's position in the Guild. She's not sure about their relationship - how seriously he takes it - and has strong misgivings about the Guild. But when she discovers there's a threat to Emmett's safety with this new position she does all she can to protect him, involving some surprising actions. The threads of events start to click together for Lydia and she realises the death of the Professor might have something to do with her 'Lost Weekend', a 48 hour amnesia that she experienced 7 months ago and which put an end to her highbrow career. When events get nasty Lydia has to fight for her safety and freedom as well as understanding more about her relationship with Emmett.
Jayne Castle (aka Jayne Ann Krentz and Amanda Quick) is good at writing books that are well paced and interesting. Her worldbuilding in this book isn't brilliant - there are a lot of irritating repetitions of things like "rez" to apparently show it's a different type of world but the whole underlying Ghosts and Traps ideas are enough and some of her writing seems to be rather silly. Still, the characters are good, particularly Lydia who is feisty and honest and appealing, and the relationship with Emmett isn't the main focus of the book, there's more about the plot and whodunit aspect to keep the reader's attention. It's a worthy sequel to the previous book and one that I can recommend.
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