Krentz, Jayne Ann - Crystal Flame

Title: Crystal Flame
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Series:
Pub: Warner Books
Pub Date: 1986
ISBN: 0-446-60081-4
Genre: Futuristic
Time Period:
Setting: Lost Colony planet
Hero: Ridge (Fire Whip)
Heroine: Kalena

Summary:

HE WAS FIRE... SHE WAS ICE... TOGETHER THEIR PASSION WAS A CRYSTAL FLAME

A woman of glittering eyes and cool celestial bearing, she is Kalena, the last survivor of a proud heritage. Now, disguised as an innocent country girl, she is on a deadly secret mission -- to destroy her family's enemy at any cost.

Only one man can stop her, the soldier they call the Fire Whip, the stranger commanded to tame her, the lover who instead awakens her sleeping desires and threatens to melt her frozen heart. In their world of fire and ice, light and dark, and terrible, clashing forces, only the Fire Whip--the hottest of flames--can touch Kalena, the coolest of women. For only the passionate union of the Fire Whip and his woman will have the power to burn through the growing darkness that threatens their world.

Excerpt:

It was understood throughout the great Northern Continent of Zantalia that assassins were invariably male.

Clutching the marriage contract in one hand, Kalena stood on the wide threshold of the Traders' Guild Hall and considered what it meant to be an exception to that rule. She had been waiting since the summer of her twelfth year to carry out the lethal task that would set her free. Now she was finally on the brink of a future she had only been able to dream of in hazy images; a future as a freewoman with obligations to no one but herself.


Comments:

The Lost Colony novels, originally written as Jayne Castle. Also available in one volume with the ISBN 0-446-53137-5.

Book one: Sweet Starfire
Book two: Crystal Flame