Dreamlight Trilogy - Jayne Ann Krentz, Amanda Quick, Jayne Castle Audiobook

Written by Jayne Ann Krentz, Amanda Quick, Jayne Castle
Read by Joyce Bean, Tanya Eby, Ann Flosnik
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Mixed
Unabridged

In Krentz’s paranormal Arcane Society series, she bounces from contemporary romantic thriller (Running Hot) to steampunk historicals (Perfect Poison, as Amanda Quick). This trilogy kickoff concerns the present-day descendants of Nicholas Winters and Sylvester Jones, magic-obsessed 17th century rivals locked in a generation-spanning struggle….. Arcane Society fans will be thrilled with the brand-new intrigue, but newcomers will need to read earlier books to understand Krentz’s world.

Fired Up: An Arcane Society Novel
Written by Jayne Ann Krentz
Narrated by Joyce Bean

Arcane Society, No. 7, The Dreamlight Trilogy Book 1
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Released: Dec 29, 2009
Length: 10 hours

More than three centuries ago, Nicholas Winters irrevocably altered his genetic makeup in an obsession-fueled competition with alchemist and Arcane Society founder Sylvester Jones. Both men are driven to control their psychic abilities, and their decisions have reverberated throughout the family line, rewarding some with powers beyond their wildest dreams, and cursing others to a life filled with madness and hallucinations.

Jack Winters, descendant of Nicholas, has been experiencing nightmares and blackouts-just the beginning, he believes, of the manifestation of the Winters family curse. The legend says that he must find the Burning Lamp or risk turning into a monster. But he can’t do it alone; he needs the help of a woman with the talent to read the lamp’s dreamlight.

Jack is convinced that paranorma private investigator Chloe Harper is that woman. Her talent for finding objects and accessing dream energy are what will save him, but a sudden and powerful sexual pull threatens to overwhelm them both. Danger surrounds them, and it doesn’t take long for Chloe to pick up the trail of the missing lamp. And as she and Jack draw closer to it, the raw power that dwells within it threatens to sweep them into a hurricane of psychic power.

Burning Lamp
Arcane Society Series, Book 8, The Dreamlight Trilogy, Book 2
by Amanda Quick
Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
Release date: 04-20-10
Publisher: Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Psychic power and passion collide when a legendary curse ignites a dangerous desire.

Crime lord Griffin Winters rules a vast underworld empire in Victorian London, but he fears the descent of a familial curse of madness brought on by an ancestor’s alchemist experiments. Only a powerful magical artifact, controlled by a woman of rare power, can save him. Magically gifted orphan Adelaide Pyne, recently embarked on a crusade to save women from prostitution, could be that woman, and a psychic connection soon draws Adelaide and Griffin into a dangerous partnership.

London’s clandestine criminal culture provides the chilling, vividly rendered setting as Griffin and Adelaide struggle to outwit a prostitution kingpin, a power-mad killer, and other assorted villains in a complex, highly suspenseful tale that answers a few more “Arcane” questions and keeps this trilogy on target.

VERDICT With quirky humor and typical flair, Quick has penned another riveting, fast-paced adventure that drops more “Dreamlight” puzzle pieces into place and will leave readers anxious for the final installment, Jayne Castle’s “Midnight Crystal”, coming last in the series. ….2010 Library Journal .

Fast-paced and cleverly constructed, the tale perfectly balances lively adventure, passionate romance, and the paranormal against an elaborate and refreshingly original background….Publishers Weekly

Midnight Crystal
By: Jayne Castle
Narrator: Tanya Eby
Ghost Hunters, Book 7, Arcane Society, Book 9, Dreamlight Trilogy, Book 3
Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
Release date: 08-31-10 by
Publisher: Brilliance Audio, Inc.

It began with Krentz…continued with Quick…and now it will end with Castle.
Book Three of the Dreamlight trilogy.

For many earthly centuries, a legendary curse has plagued the Winters family, stemming from the tumultuous founding of the Arcane Society. But now, on the futuristic world of Harmony, the curse’s final mystery will be unraveled…
Head of the ghost hunters guild Adam Winters and dreamlight reader extraordinaire Marlowe Jones must break the curse, save Harmony’s entire underworld-and fight a passion that could destroy them both.

Plagued by nightmares after exploring a strange psi-disorienting mirror maze in the ancient underground ruins and fearing its instability could destroy Harmony’s infrastructure, Adam Winters, new boss of the local Ghost Hunter Guild, senses the ancient Burning Lamp is the key, but he needs help finding it. He just doesn’t expect aid to come from Marlowe Jones, the new head of the shadowy Jones & Jones agency and dreamlight reader par excellence. But someone else is after the lamp, too, and will stop at nothing, even murder, to get what he wants. A pair of well-matched protagonists, an evil para-sociopathic killer, and a deadly curse add up to an intriguing mystery, a steamy, psychically enhanced romance, and another imaginative foray into the haunts of Harmony. VERDICT With her classic, sassy flair, Castle brings this engrossing trilogy to a satisfying and thoroughly delightful conclusion, putting the old Winters/Jones feud to rest in a most romantic way. …..
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