Shadowlight
With just one touch, Jessa Bellamy can see anyone’s darkest secrets, thanks to whoever tampered with her genes. What she doesn’t know is that a biotech company has discovered her talent and intends to kill her and harvest her priceless DNA... Gaven Matthias is forced to abduct Jessa himself so...
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With just one touch, Jessa Bellamy can see anyone’s darkest secrets, thanks to whoever tampered with her genes. What she doesn’t know is that a biotech company has discovered her talent and intends to kill her and harvest her priceless DNA... Gaven Matthias is forced to abduct Jessa himself so he can protect her, but Jessa has a hard time believing the one man whose secrets she can’t read. As a monstrous assassin closes in and forces them to run, Jessa will have to find another way to discover if Matthias is her greatest ally—or her deadliest enemy.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451412782 (0451412788)
Publish date: October 6th 2009
Publisher: Onyx Books 2009-10-06
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Series: Kyndred (#1)
"Jessa Bellamy kann mit einer einzigen Berührung die Geheimnisse anderer Menschen in Erfahrung bringen. Obwohl sie ihre Gabe immer für sich behalten hat, ist die Biotech-Firma GenHance hinter ihr her. Aber noch bevor diese zum Zug kommen kann, wird Jessa von dem undurchsichtigen Gaven Matthias entfü...
I really enjoyed the Darkyn series (5 stars for all) but this spinoff wasn't up to par. It was very hard to get into and jumps back and forth in time (ancient Rome, 1998 and 2008) with different, seemingly unrelated characters and newspaper clippings that totally came out of left field. Over half...
This book was good, but being the first book in the series there were couples in here which I didn't remember and I have a few of the Darkyn books so I was looking. Also the beginning was a little confusing and then throwing in a character who mentions the heroine's old love's name but with no expl...
Not as compelling as the earlier ones in the series.
I loved the original series, the Darkyn, but this one, not so much. This book just seemed to drag, and I had no interest in the main couple. I was more interested in a secondary character. Hopefully, as the secondary character takes center stage in the next book, the series will pick up.