Starred review from September 1, 2022
It isn't a real date. At least, that is what Ravenna Chastain tells herself. If Ravenna accompanies Ethan Sweetwater to a business reception, he will consider it payment in full for Ravenna's so far failed attempts to play professional matchmaker for him. Plus, Ethan will accompany Ravenna to an upcoming Chastain family event, for which Ravenna has yet to secure a date. However, what starts out as a fake date soon turns into something much more real when the two become the target of a dangerous cadre of criminals who are determined that neither Ravenna nor Ethan will have any kind of a future either together or apart. In the latest stellar addition to her Harmony series, Castle (aka Jayne Ann Krentz) once again brilliantly draws on her own bewitching brand of literary magic to concoct a beguiling novel of futuristic romantic suspense that expertly fuses propulsive plotting, deftly incised secondary characters (including a dust bunny with a penchant for pens), and a pair of protagonists whose sexual chemistry goes from simmer to sizzle in sixty seconds flat.
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