Second Sight By Amanda Quick

Financially straitened  and on the path to spinsterhood, Venetia Milton thought her stay at the remote,  amshackle Arcane House would be a onceinalifetime 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 has the eyes of a sorcerer. But despite Venetia’s intent to seduce Mr. Jones and move on, she is shattered upon her return home to read in the press of his violent  demise. Using the sizable fee Mr. Jones paid her, Venetia 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 assumes the identity of “Mrs. Jones.” Her romantic whim, however, will cause  unexpected trouble. For one thing, Mr. Jones is about to stride, living and breathing, back into Venetia’s life. And  the two share more than a passionate memory indeed, they are bonded by a highly unusual sort of vision, one  that goes far beyond Venetia’s abilities as a photographer. They also share a terrible threat for
someone has stolen a centuries old  notebook from Arcane House that contains 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 the photographer who cataloged them, to obtain such knowledge.