by Jayne Castle
Part of Harmony
First published 2025
Leona Griffin has built her career digging through the Underworld on the planet Harmony, and a recent discovery has made her famous. That fame lands her an unusual job: authenticating relics for a secretive society of elite collectors. At a glittering reception, she identifies one submission as Pandora's Box, a powerful artifact from the Old World. She is not the only one who notices it. Oliver Rancourt is in the room too, a man with a paranormal talent so unsettling that people say you never see him coming. Before Leona can act on what she knows, she trips over a dead waiter bearing the mark of a dangerous cult. Then a police raid erupts and the whole event collapses into chaos. Leona slips out with Oliver to avoid arrest. The decision costs her her job. Now the two of them must work together, following the investigation to the small town of Lost Creek, where locals trade stories about a dead cult leader and illegal paranormal experiments conducted long ago. Leona trusts the evidence. What she is slower to trust is her own pull toward Oliver, a man she knows she should never underestimate.
Genres: science-fiction, romance, mystery, adult, paranormal
Vibes: atmospheric, fast-paced, mysterious, romantic-tension, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, forced-proximity, found-family, slow-burn
Setting: Harmony, Underworld, Lost Creek
316 pages · Kindle Edition · Berkley
Content warnings: death, murder