Raine Tallentyre keeps her paranormal abilities hidden. She saw the results when people knew that her Aunt Vella was a psychic. People were cruel, calling her aunt a crazy witch and ostracizing her. After her aunt's death, Raine visits Vela's home and detects psychic whispers filling the basement. Following the whispers, Raine locates a battered young woman in a locked storage area. Alive but terrorized, the young woman cannot identity her abductor, who the police believe to be the Bonfire Killer. The voices in Raines head continue and when a new man, Zach Jones, enters her life, Raine's psychic energy surges.
Zack Jones works as an investigator for the Arcane Society, a secret group that studies people with paranormal capabilities. Currently, he's looking into a criminal operation called Nightshade. It consists of psychics bent on infiltrating governments and corporations and gaining power. The clues lead Zack to Raine. Her family was ejected from the Arcane Society when Raine was a child. She has no incentive to help Zack except that he promises to provide the answers to the questions regarding her family and the voices within her head.
Violence explodes when the Nightshade organization sends assassins to eliminate Zach and Raine. They fight the killers and attempt to identify the serial killer. Ignoring the troubled history between their families, Raine and Zach let their psychic energy and passion explode.
Ms. Krentz writes a page-turning and imaginative paranormal suspense. The psychic elements increase the tension and leave the reader breathless in this latest Arcane Society novel. Ms. Krentz first introduced the Arcane Society writing under her pseudonym Amanda Quick in the Victorian-set story SECOND SIGHT.
When Raine Tallentyre made the mistake of revealing her paranormal abilities, her most recent romantic relationship came to a hasty end. Her Aunt Vella, a gifted but troubled soul, had told her years ago to keep her talents a secret. And now that poor Aunt Vella-her last blood relative-has died, Raine has resigned herself to a lonely life.
But when she journeys to Shelbyville, Washington, to clear out Aunt Vella's house, Raine's highly developed sensitivity leads her to a horrifying discovery: a young woman bound and terrified in a basement storage locker. The victim has survived, but the culprit is still on the loose. Without warning, a new man enters Raine's life-investigator Zack Jones. Surprisingly, Zack isn't repelled by her powers: in fact, he has them himself. While Raine hears voices, Zack sees visions and within hours of their meeting, Raine experiences an intense, thrilling intimacy- mental, emotional, and physical-she never dared to expect.
There's one complication, however: Zack Jones is working for the Arcane Society. This secret organization, dedicated to the study of paranormal phenomena, shattered Raine's family with an act of betrayal long ago, and she's not about to trust them now. But as a killer makes her his target, and a cabal of psychic criminals known as Nightshade operates in the shadows surrounding them, Raine and Zack must rely not only on their powerful abilities but on each other . . .
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