Audiobook Review: The Night Island by Jayne Ann Krentz

The Night Island
Author: Jayne Ann Krentz
Narrator: Eva Kaminsky
Series: The Night Files Trilogy (Book 2)
Publication: Recorded Books (January 9, 2024)
Length: 8 hours and 23 minutes

Description: The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in this new novel in the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz.

Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night they all have no memory of, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago--an experience that brought out innate psychic abilities in each of them. The women suspect they were test subjects years earlier, and that there are more people like them--all they have to do is find the list. When Talia follows up on a lead from Phoebe, a fan of the trio's podcast, she discovers that the informant has vanished.

Talia isn't the only one looking for Phoebe, however. Luke Rand, a hunted and haunted man who is chasing the same list that Talia is after, also shows up at the meeting place. It's clear he has his own agenda, and they are instantly suspicious of each other. But when a killer begins to stalk them, they realize they have to join forces to find Phoebe and the list.

The rocky investigation leads Talia and Luke to a rustic, remote retreat on Night Island in the Pacific Northwest. The retreat promises to rejuvenate guests with the Unplugged Experience. Upon their arrival, Talia and Luke discover guests are quite literally cut off from the outside world because none of their high-tech devices work on the island. It soon becomes clear that Phoebe is not the first person to disappear into the strange gardens that surround the Unplugged Experience retreat. And then the first mysterious death occurs...

My Thoughts: The second book in the Lost Night trilogy stars Talia March and Luke Rand. Both of them are trying to track down a list of participants in a test of psychic abilities that was conducted years earlier. They both believe that find the list will lead to the person or persons who are doing experiments to enhance psychic powers on unwilling list members.

They meet at a house where the seller of the list has invited each of them to come buy a copy. They find that the seller is missing and determine to track her down. Meanwhile, someone is trying to kill Luke. It appears that that someone sees Luke as both a failed experiment and a rival in the psychic assassin business.

Luke and Talia find themselves attending a retreat on mysterious Night Island where the plants have gone wild and the vibes aren't good. They are sure that their missing seller is present on the island. But so is the psychic assassin who is still determined to kill Luke. But the assassin is not the only killer on the island. When the assistant gardener is found dead with no visible cause and the guru leading the retreat also dies, Talia and Luke have to find a way off the island along with the few remaining guests before they disappear like the others. 

This was an entertaining paranormal suspense/romance. I enjoyed the way Talia and Luke went from being suspicious of each other to being partners and falling in love. 

I bought this one at Chirp November 11, 2025. You can buy your copy here.