Amaryllis

Amaryllis by Jayne Castle (Book 1 of Curtain: Futuristic World of St. Helen’s) 328 pages

Set several hundred years after groups of humans traveled through a space anomaly from Earth to this planet, and then were cut off from Earth, this tells the story of the society created after the curtain closed.  People began developing paranormal strengths about fifty years after the two worlds were cut off, and now most people have some paranormal abilities and some work as prisms that can focus these abilities for longer periods of time. Amaryllis is a prism who works for a company that provides prisms to work with different peoples’ skills.  Lucas needs to hire a prism to focus his abilities as a detector to find out if one of his employees is selling company secrets.  What they discover leads to much more than expected and much more dangerous than they planned.  In a society that puts much value in solid families and marriages, both Lucas and Amaryllis our outsiders because of their family history.  Adventure, fantasy, and romance mesh to create an exciting story not to be missed.