Second Sight

< b>A New York Times Bestselling Author< /b>< P>While photographing artifacts collected by a highly secretive organization founded two centuries earlier by an alchemist, Venetia Milton falls for the alchemist's descendant - and her employer - Gabriel Jones. Together they will face danger and the threat of death to find a centuries-old notebook that has been stolen from the collection Venetia was hired to photograph. < P>Simultaneous Publication with G. P. Putnam's Standard Print Edition.

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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 alchemists descendant - her employer, Gabriel Jones - had the eyes of a sorcerer But despite her intent to seduce the man and move on, she is shattered to return home and, just a week later, read of his violent demise in the press. She uses the sizable fee Mr. Jones paid and 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 takes on the identity of Mrs. Jones. But her romantic whim will cause unexpected trouble. For one thing, Mr. Jones is about to stride, living and breathing, back into her life. And the two share more than a memory of passion - indeed, they are bonded by a highly unusual sort of vision, one that goes far beyond Venetias abilities as a photographer. They also have in common a terrible threat - for someone has stolen a centuries-old notebook from Arcane House, containing 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 Societys treasures, or photographer who catalogued them, to obtain such knowledge.

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The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Lie by Moonlight" takes readers into the simmering passions and paranormal secrets of the Victorian age as she introduces the Arcane Society, a highly secretive organization begun by an eccentric alchemist with unusual powers.