El primer beso fue en un pasillo escasamente iluminado de la mansión de Edwin Hastings. Louisa no lo vio venir… Claro que era imposible que Anthony Stalbridge albergara intenciones románticas: el beso sólo supuso una medida desesperada para evitar que el guardia los descubriera donde no debían estar. Lo único que ambos intrusos tenían en común era su interés por los asuntos privados del señor Hastings, un hombre poderoso de quien sospechaban que albergaba terribles secretos...
Quick (aka Jayne Ann Krentz) delivers her reliable blend of sex and suspense in her latest Arcane Society novel. In Victorian London, spinster botanist and psychic Lucinda Bromley meets her match in Caleb Jones, a member of the Arcane Society and descendant of an alchemist family that makes him the stuff of myth and legend. Together, this paranormal pair of snoops sets out to track down a thief who made off with a dangerous plant implicated in the death of a wealthy lord, but wind up uncovering a sinister secret order. Quick invents two dazzling 19th-century sleuths who combine paranormal prowess and raw sexual heat. But if they excel at fooling Mother Nature, it''s their all too human nature that brings this uncommon Victorian duo to life.
El primer beso ocurrió en un pasillo escasamente iluminado de la mansión de Edwin Hastings. Louisa no lo vio venir… Claro que era imposible que Anthony Stalbridge albergara intenciones románticas: el
Leona Hewitt, una talentosa experta en cristales, no es la única que está intentando introducirse en el museo privado de Lord Delbridge para recuperar una reliquia. Thaddeus Ware, un hipnotizador con habliidades psíquicas, también está embarcado en una misión similar.... Una apasionante historia que transcurrre en la época victoriana y combina romance e intriga con elementos sobrenaturales.
Leona Hewitt, a crystal reader, and Thaddeus Ware, a hypnotist, meet trying to steal the same relic_the aurora stone_from a private collection, but a murdered prostitute and a trap protecting the stone initially complicate their success. Thaddeus, hired by the Arcane Society to claim the stone, allows the plot's loudly grinding gears to ally him with Leona. Amanda Quick's new Arcane Society novel reveals the passionate_and paranormal_secrets of proper Victorian London.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s California--where the most dazzling of illusions can't hide the darkest secrets... After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover. In Burning Cove, no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers, gangsters, and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda. Adelaide and Jake know better than to fall for her kind of con. But when the medium becomes a victim of her own dire prediction and is killed, they're drawn into a murky world of duplicity and misdirection. Neither Adelaide nor Jake can predict that in the shadowy underground they'll find connections to the woman Adelaide used to be--and uncover the specter of a killer who's been real all along...
