A Coral Kiss [Hardcover]

Jayne Ann Krentz (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1992

After a scuba diving incident in the South Pacific leaves her with a dark mystery and a memory of fear, Amy Slater shuns the company of men, until Jed, a man with a secret of his own, enters her life.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Severn House Pub Ltd (February 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0727842994
• ISBN-13: 978-0727842992
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,264,868 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The author of over 50 New York Times bestsellers, JAYNE ANN KRENTZ writes romantic-suspense, often with a psychic and paranormal twist, in three different worlds: Contemporary (as Jayne Ann Krentz), historical (as Amanda Quick) and futuristic (as Jayne Castle). There are over 35 million copies of her books in print.

Building on the success of her DREAMLIGHT TRILOGY in 2010, Jayne is now focused on writing the LOOKING GLASS TRILOGY. This series will follow the Quicksilver Mirror (a paranormal artifact) through all three of Jayne's worlds covering a time span of several hundred years.

The first LOOKING GLASS book, IN TOO DEEP, will feature Fallon Jones, a recurring character from Jayne's contemporary ARCANE SOCIETY series of novels.

When she's not writing, Jayne can be found at her favorite social networking site posting messages to her fans.

Customer Reviews

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Romance in Pacific Island, February 25, 2000

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This review is from: A Coral Kiss (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a delightlful book. The development of love between a man and a woman who had friendly platonic relationship is very well written. A man who has a mysterious job mission and frequently out of country for weeks at a time and a science fiction writer with a nightmarish past begin a slow friendship in a tiny coastal town in California.

A trip to an island in Pacific Ocean unravels the hidden past and a new threat to their very survival. The story is intriguing and the suspense in the underwater cave is very real to readers.

Jane Anne Krentz has done a wonderful job of writing a modern love story between the two people whose courage and love for each other overcame their pasts and enabled them to build a new life for themselves.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good read in 21st century for an 80s book, February 18, 2006

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Jedidiah Glaze is a covert government agent running from internal demons. Amelia Slater is a writer dealing with demons of her own. When Alpha Jed and precocious Amy become more than friends, each must help the other deal with their private demons.

The plot from this 1987 JAK is clich?d, but entertaining and well-written. JAK's attention to detail of the off-the-beaten-path island of Orleana and the emotional reality of murder and blackmail on the main characters is potent.

Amelia - Amy - is strong for a female character written at this time, though she does have bouts of feminine temper that remind me of the books where it was OK for a male character to threaten to beat the female.

Still, this work is a good read - and one of JAKs greatest early works. It's been republished, so check for used copies before you purchase new.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Readable, but not recommended., February 9, 2008

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Nothing surprised, delighted me or held my interest. I bought this book after reading All Night Long, hoping for something similar. The two books are very different. All Night Long was published in 2005 and had me laughing out loud many times due to wonderfully creative dialogue. A Coral Kiss was published 18 years earlier in 1987. The dialogue was ordinary. There was nothing witty or fun about it. The plot was ok, kind of predictable, nothing special. The hero was ok, but the heroine was lacking. I was not emotionally drawn to her or the story. On one occasion, she panicked while diving, but she refused to admit it to Jed. She got angry at Jed for trying to help her, and she slapped him.

CAUTION SPOILER: The violence level was mild. When thugs try to kill the hero, he responds by just making them unconscious rather than killing them. One bad guy accidentally kills himself.

Sexual language: mild. Number of sex scenes: seven. Setting: the small town of Caliph's Bay near Monterey, California and the island Orleana a few hundred miles beyond Hawaii. Copyright: 1987. Genre: romantic suspense.

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For a list of my reviews of other books by this author, see my 4 star review of "Sizzle and Burn" posted 2-09-08.