Needing funds to support her family, Venetia Milton accepts the strange assignment to photograph artifacts collected by a century-old secretive organization in a remote area. After meeting her employer, Gabriel Jones, Venetia decides to seduce the wickedly handsome man. She realizes with her secrets, she'll never marry and doesn't want to miss passion in her life. In the midst of her seduction, intruders break into the isolated house. Bundled off to her home, Venetia hears nothing from Gabriel until a notice appears in the paper reporting his death in a mysterious fire. Reinventing herself as his widow, Venetia opens a photography studio, calling herself Mrs. Gabriel Jones.
Gabriel Jones seeks to uncover the men trying to steal ancient secrets from his ancestor, who was an alchemist. Months before, Gabriel and his cousin unearthed the alchemist's tomb, finding a strongbox filled with codes and secrets. Arranging for its transportation to his home, Gabriel finds an unknown villain who'll commit murder to gain the knowledge the alchemist left behind -- a formula designed to enhance psychic powers. Gabriel encounters the alluring Venetia as she photographs his discovery, but thieves steal into Gabriel's home and their passionate interlude is interrupted.
Returning to London after his unsuccessful attempt to capture the thieves, Gabriel finds himself playing the role of Venetia's resurrected husband. As they acknowledge their secret psychic powers, they grow closer. However, danger stalks Venetia, and Gabriel must unearth the villain before he strikes again.
SECOND SIGHT is a familiar tale from New York Times bestselling author Ms. Quick. Fans will be pleased as the characters are drawn into an entertaining blend of danger, desire and the paranormal.
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 - had the eyes of a sorcererβ¦
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 βMrs. Jones.β 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 Venetia's
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 Society's treasures, or
photographer who catalogued them, to obtain such
knowledge.
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