Heart Journey

Informationen zum Autor Robin D. Owens Klappentext View our feature on Robin Owens's Heart Journey. New in the award-winning series of futuristic romance, fantasy, and sensual adventure. Helena, a renowned cartographer, is exploring Celta when she finds out she has a HeartMate. Yearning for a partner, she is drawn to meet him. Actor Raz Cherry is dedicated to his career. Uninterested in long-term commitments, he ignores an oracle that foretells of his HeartMate. Though passion ignites, their lifestyles clash. Only when mysterious thefts threaten their families can they overcome the obstacles on their journey to love. Leseprobe One DRUIDA CITY, CELTA 407 Years After Colonization Late Summer Raz, Cerasus Cherry, shuffled the oracle cards for his breakfast table mates, a half smile on his face. Of them all, the cards looked best in his long-fingered hands—good tools for an actor, as was his face and his smile. He had breakfast at the Thespian Club every morning—late mornings for those who were working, earlier for those who were between jobs. The full complement of the group was six, three men and three women, none of them couples. Three of their group had eaten earlier and were gone by the time the rest of them had arrived at their reserved table. A daily reserved table at the Thespian Club! His smile bloomed. They were all in their late twenties, rising fast in their careers, all talented, all ready to leap into stardom and excellent gilt. Not to mention the fame. Fame brought better, more challenging parts. “You gonna shuffle all day to look at your pretty hands?” asked Klay St. Johnswort, Johns, with his patented sneer. If you wanted a rough-hewn pure alpha male hero type, Johns was your man. Raz considered himself elegant . . . and with an edge. More versatile. “Lay out the cards, me first! “Trillia wiggled in her seat, her voice higher than usual, anxious. She’d gotten bored with the secondary lead in her play and had resigned the night before and was worried that she’d jumped when she should have stuck. Raz handed her the cards—they belonged to the club—so they’d absorb her energy. Praying under her breath, she shuffled, cut the deck thrice, and laid out a six-card pattern. Her breath whooshed out, then her praying went to muttering as she studied her divination. “Crimson Nuts of Knowledge . . . the six of blazers, Goddess of the Rising Star, the six of wands.” “Looks good,” Raz said. “New opportunities, gilt, success. But you might have to travel.” Johns said, “Could go to Gael City.” Trillia made a moue at the mention of the smaller town. “Gael City.” Raz tapped the six of wands. “Success.” “Oh, very well. I’ll go straight to the guild from here.” “Might want to wipe the egg off your chin first,” Raz said. She rubbed at her face with her softleaf then flung it at him. “Oh, you.” “I heard The Rep in Gael City was reviving Heart and Sword in an updated production,” Raz said. Trillia sat up straight. “Fern Bountry, the Nuada’s Sword’s Captain’s wife! I could play Fern, kidnapped from the cryonic tube by evil mutineers . . . Wait, wait, she was dark.” Trillia grabbed a handful of her hair and brought it in front of her face. It was fading from a blond rinse back to brown; she grinned in relief. “I can do this.” “Of course you can.” Raz collected the cards. Johns grunted. “Gonna show us all your fine fortune cards again, Raz?” Raz quirked a corner of his mouth. The cards had foretold an excellent future for him lately. “What, past, present, and future? I was just going to draw an ‘energy of the day’ card.” “And he hasn’t had all good luck,” Trillia said. “There was that break-in at his apartment. Have the guardsmen found the thieves?” “No. I didn’t lose much.” Raz frowned. Putting his space back in order had taken tim...

Product details

• Authors: Robin D. Owens
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.08.2010
• EAN: 9780425234549
• ISBN: 978-0-425-23454-9
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Series: A Celta Novel; A Celta Novel; Celta Novel
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature