This classic Jayne Ann Krentz title is filled with her snappy dialog and intriguing characters.

Eugenia Swift is the director of the Leabrook Glass Museum in Seattle. She's smart, she's arty, and she has an amazing intuition about art and artists. Cyrus Chandler Colfax is a former cop turned private investigator.

When art collector Adam Daventry dies and leaves his collection to the Leabrook, Eugenia feels compelled to catalog the collection herself. She regrets introducing her friend Nellie to the collector who collected artists as lovers as well as their art. Eugenia as always thought of Daventry as a vampire who sucked all the good out of people. And when Nellie disappears in an apparent boating accident the day after Daventry is found dead at the bottom on a staircase in his Mansion on Frog Cove, Eugenia feels she needs to investigate.

Cyrus Chandler Colfax is hired to go along with her to protect her. He also has his own agenda, three years earlier, Cyrus's partner Damian Marsh tried to kill him, did kill his wife Katy, and absconded with a unique, ancient, and very precious glass cup known as the Hades Cup. Cyrus has been determined to track down Marsh and get justice for the death of his wife. He's heard that Daventry is currently in possession of the Hades Cup.

It was wonderful watching this couple discover that despite Cyrus's penchant for wearing very loud Hawaiian shirts and Eugenia dressing like a lady catburglar the two have more in common than they would have expected. They share core values and attitudes and are perfect for each other. Of course, the fact that both of them are stubborn and used to leading and wary of falling in love doesn't make the journey an easy one.

I liked the setting and all the information about glass. I liked both Eugenia and Cyrus very much and was pulling for them all the way. ( )

Decent Krentz contemporary romance. I hadn't read it before. It doesn't have any paranorma; elements so that was a plus. It's biggest failing as a mystery is that the bad guys (two separate villains) always make a long speech explaining how and why they've done what they've done. Krentz writes decent dia;og and keeps the story moving but she really writes the same h/h characters over and over. Despite the paint-by-numbers effect, I do like reading her books because they move fast and are not overly angsty. Light reading. ( )

You know something of what you're getting into when you open this book and look at the epigraphs:
Forged in fire, neither liquid nor solid, capable of transmitting or reflecting light, glass is proof that there is magic in the world. - From the introductory notes of the Catalogue of the Leabrook Glass Museum by Eugenia Swift, Museum Director

The finest glass is a glass that's filled with really good beer - Cyrus Chandler Colfax, Private Investigator

And these are our two main characters, she's going to Adam Daventry's house to catalogue his collection to prepare it to include in their collection. He's been asked to investigate Daventry's death, who fell down a set of stairs. Unbeknownst to Eugenia he also suspects that a rare piece of glass, the Hades Cup, a cup that his former firm was supposed to deliver, however his former partner disappeared and his wife ended up dead. Close proximity of the two main characters causes them to find more regard for each other and they find that while they are quite opposite in many ways, they're quite similar in others.

It's a romance, you know what to expect there but the thriller end of things had a lot of twists and turns and kept me guessing.

A fun light read. ( )

Eugenia Swift, curator of Glass museum. Trying to find out what happened to her friend. Her protector,Cyrus Chandler Colfax is trying to find the murderer. ( )

The Hades Cup is a beautiful piece of ancient Roman glass. And it has a long dark history - when it changes hands, someone dies.

Director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, Eugenia Swift has a legitimate reason for traveling to Frog Cove Island. She's there to inventory a private glass collection. And a second, private reason that has everything to do with discovering why her friend, an accomplished woman on the water, apparently washed overboard and drowned.

Security expert Cyrus Colfax's private reasons for traveling to the island have everything to do with the Hades Cup. But he has a legitimate reason for traveling to the island, as well - he just needs a cover story, and Eugenia will do nicely...

A complicated plot, and a well-matched pair of main characters. It may stretch the realms of credibility, but that's what fiction's for, right? ( )