In the fourth volume Quick's Arcane Society series, Leona Hewitt, a gifted crystal worker, isn't the only one sneaking into Lord Delbridge's' private museum to recover a relic.
Jayne Ann Krentz, writing as Amanda Quick, offers a new Arcane Society novel--a tale filled with dark secrets set amid the luxurious settings of late-Victorian London, where a young woman has been forced to fake her own suicide and discovers her own thrilling attraction to danger.
In the fourth volume of Quick's Arcane Society series, Leona Hewitt, a gifted crystal worker, isn't the only one sneaking into Lord Delbridge's private museum to recover a relic.
Jayne Ann Krentz, writing as Amanda Quick, offers a twist-filled tale of dark secrets amid the luxurious settings of late-Victorian London, where a young woman has been forced to fake her own suicide and discovers her own thrilling attraction to danger.
It had taken centuries for Max Bannisters family to acquire their treasures, and now hes been asked to risk his collection as bait for a master criminal.
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.
Surrender/Seduction.
Determined to stop the Earl of Anglestone from engaging her hot-headed brother in their scheduled duel, Prudence Merryweather sneaks into the earl s home to confront him and finds herself falling in love.
The owner of the Isle of Desire after her father s death, Lady Clare knows she must marry to protect her inheritance but nonetheless feels betrayed when her guardian chooses a fearsome knight, and not the poet she requested, to be her spouse.
In order to pursue his quest to catch a killer while keeping the high-society husband-hunters at bay, the Earl of St.
Regency sleuths Lavinia Lake and Tobias March stumble into the middle of a deadly mystery as they become caught up in the search for a killer who targets wealthy older men on the brink of marrying beautiful, much younger women.
Seduction And Surrender.
Adam Hardesty must hunt down his blackmailer quickly or his secrets will be revealed to all, and Caroline Fordyce joins him as they navigate the darker side of London, guarding not only their secrets, but eventually their very lives.
Hiring Gideon Westbrook, the Beast of Blackthorne Hall and a man with a scarred face and a dark past, to help her guard her caves from the thieves who would use them to store their booty, Miss Harriet gets in over her head.
Determined to prove to her betrothed, the Earl of Greystone, that she is less than a model of virtue and an unfit choice for a wife, spirited Augusta Ballinger arranges a midnight rendezvous with disastrous results.
Sophy Dorring finds herself drawn, despite herself, to her new husband, Julian, Earl of Ravenwood, a brooding, fierce lord called devil by local townsfolk, whose first wife died mysteriously in a story of romance and intrigue set in Regency England.
Private inquiry agent Lavinia Lake and her sometime-partner, Tobias March, investigate the murder of the young wife of an old friend and the theft of a priceless ancient bracelet that supposedly possesses mystical powers.
Thrill-seeking Victoria Huntington finds an exciting companion in the mysterious Earl of Stonevale and is happy to marry him after a whirlwind courtship, until she finds herself a prisoner in a crumbling Yorkshire mansion.
Saddled with raising her three hellion nephews, unmarried Olympia Wingfield spends all her spare time studying ancient legends, until the boys new tutor, handsome Jared Chillhurst, arrives.
A romance of Regency England revolves around a set of forbidden rings suffused with the powers of Aphrodite, a sinister thief, a noble necromancer, and a willful beauty.
Hired by marriage-minded women to investigate the backgrounds of their prospective husbands, Charlotte Arkendale finds herself in deep trouble when one of her clients turns up dead and she is forced to depend on Baxter St.
In search of a mysterious green crystal that holds the key to his legacy, Sir Hugh, a fierce medieval warrior, descends on Lingwood Manor and comes face-to-face with the independent, strong-willed Lady Alice.
After her shop in Italy is destroyed and she becomes the target of a blackmailer who turns up dead, Lavinia Lake joins forces with Tobias March, a private investigator, to uncover the truth and save her reputation.
Her reputation ruined by a youthful indiscretion, Emily Faringdon resigns herself to spinsterhood only to fall in love with her pen pal, Simon Augustus Traherne, Earl of Blade, a driven, mysterious man of dark secrets and hidden motives.
Nicknamed the Wicked Widow for her suspected role in her husband s death, Madeline Deveridge has a bigger problem in her late husband s ghost, which annoyingly haunts her into vowing to get rid of him once and for all.
Hiding from the advances of a lecherous gentleman during a country house party, lady s companion Emma Greyson stumbles upon the enigmatic Edison Stokes, an aristocratic sleuth on the trail of a thief who has stolen a sacred book.
When her beloved aunt falls victim to a sinister blackmailer, former schoolmistress Iphiginia Bright decides to transform herself and pose as the mistress of the infamous--and missing--Earl of Masters, but her scheme is undermined by the reappearance of t.