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Date read: May 22, 2022
Arcane Society
1. Second Sight - Paperback | Kindle
2. White Lies
3. Sizzle and Burn
4. The Third Circle
5. Running Hot
6. The Perfect Poison
7. Fired Up
8. Burning Lamp
9. Midnight Crystal
9.5. The Scargill Cove Case Files
10. In Too Deep
11. Quicksilver
12. Canyons of Night
Amanda Quick (aka Jayne Ann Krentz)
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Financially straitened and on the path to spinsterhood, Venetia Milton thought her stay at the remote, ramshackle Arcane House would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to engineer her own ravishment. She was there to photograph the artifacts collected by a highly secretive organization, founded two centuries earlier by an alchemist. And the alchemist's descendant-her employer, Gabriel Jones-has the eyes of a sorcerer.Thoughts on Second Sight: I'm heading back to the beginning of the Arcane Society series and it was EVERYTHING I was expecting. Danger, psychic phenomena, simmering looks, and a lot of tangled threads to unravel.
But despite Venetia's intent to seduce Mr. Jones and move on, she is shattered upon her return home to read in the press of his violent demise. Using the sizable fee Mr. Jones paid her, Venetia establishes a new life, opening a gallery in London. Of course, posing as a respectable widow makes it easier to do business, so-in a private tribute to her lost, only lover-she assumes the identity of "Mrs. Jones."
Her romantic whim, however, will cause unexpected trouble. For one thing, Mr. Jones is about to stride, living and breathing, back into Venetia's life. And the two share more than a passionate memory-indeed, they are bonded by a highly unusual sort of vision, one that goes far beyond Venetia's abilities as a photographer. They also share a terrible threat-for someone has stolen a centuries-old notebook from Arcane House that contains a formula believed to enhance psychic powers of the kind Gabriel and Venetia possess. And the thief wants to know more-even if he must kill the keeper of the Arcane Society's treasures, or the photographer who catalogued them, to obtain such knowledge.
Gabriel's plans to smoke out a thief are thrown into disarray when Venetia sets herself up as Mrs. Jones. Admittedly, Venetia had no clue what she was getting herself into when she did this since Gabriel (quite understandably) didn't clue her in on everything going on. Seeing as Gabriel comes from a long line of people who are notoriously time-lipped with secrets AND with trusting those outside their circle, Venetia has to practically pry information out of him.
As it turns out, Venetia is pretty darn good at keeping her own secrets, so throwing Arcane House secrets into the mix isn't all that much of a hardship for her.
A seduction that pans out but also somehow goes awry at the same time, a dangerous baddie, an origin story (or origin death story, maybe) that makes me laugh, some danger, and a few steamy encounters. The Jones family is complicated and dangerous in their own right (as we know from future books) and I am SO here for their historical adventures.
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