I can always count on Krentz to serve a fabulous story with a sprinkle of mystery, suspense, and romance. I always love the characters with their quirks and social awkwardness and attraction. I eat these stories for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack- yummy! ( )

The Night Island by Jayne Ann Krentz
The Lost Night Files series #2. Psychic paranormal romantic suspense. Can be read as a stand-alone but better as part of the series. Alternating POV’s, slow burn.
Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rovers, bonded after being lured to a hotel where they believe they were psychic test subjects but they have no memories of the event. The three created a pod cast to cold cases and investigate cold cases.
Talia March is following up on a lead from listener Phoebe who has disappeared. Luke Rand is also looking for Phoebe and the two end up at a retreat offering an Unplugged Experience.

Que the music.
A fun horror-esq troupe: desolate, remote island, cutoff from the outside, a murderer on the island and no way to communicate with the outside world. And bonus! Carnivorous plants!
I enjoyed this second novel in the series and loved finding the Easter eggs from other series.
A page-turner by an author who delivers consistently.
4.5 ( )

Talia March is following up a tip to the list she and her partners at the Lost Night Files podcast are searching for when she discovers that her informant is missing. Luke Rand, who suffered a lost night of his own, is also looking for the informant and the list. The two are immediately suspicious of each other but agree to team up mostly to not let the other get a head start on the investigation.

Clues lead them to an isolated island off the Washington coast where they discover even more myteries and, unfortunately for Talia, more dead bodies. Finding bodies has been a consequence of having her psychic abilities ramped up during her lost night.

Luke's ability to read people via their emotions has also ramped up. Now, he is afraid that he has become a psychic assassin who can kill people with his talent. Talia tries to convince him that he's wrong because an ability still requires choice, and she knows he won't choose to become an assassin. Unfortunately, Luke wasn't the only one who had his powers ramped up to become and assassin and the other man who feels his ramp up was more successful is determined to kill Luke.

Not only do Talia and Luke have to deal with the psychic assassin but Night Island was once the site of botanical experiments, and the plant life has gone feral and dangerous. Avoiding an assassin and lethal vegetation give Talia and Luke a strong incentive to work together and learn to trust each other and, finally, to admit that they love each other.

This is the second of a trilogy which means that readers of the first book have more information about the ultimate evil doer who is behind both characters' lost nights and what the ultimate aim is. It was entertaining to watch Luke and Talia gather more pieces of the bigger puzzle as they fell in love. ( )