Amanda Quick

The second Ladies of Lantern Street novel from Amanda Quick explores the crimes, passions and paranormal secrets of Victorian London. Under the plain gray skirts of Miss Beatrice Lockwood's gown, a pistol waits at the ready. For Beatrice is a paid companion on a secret mission--and with a secret past--and she must be prepared to fight for her life at any moment. Yet she is thrown oddly off guard by the fierce-looking man who joins her in foiling a crime outside a fancy ball--and then disappears into the shadows, leaving only his card. His name is Joshua Gage, and he claims to know Beatrice's employers. Beyond that, he is an enigma with a hypnotically calm voice and an ebony-and-steel cane. . . . Joshua, who carries out clandestine investigations for the Crown, is equally intrigued. He has a personal interest in Miss Lockwood, a suspected thief and murderer, not to mention a fraudster who claims to have psychical powers. The quest to discover her whereabouts has pulled him away from his mournful impulses to hurl himself into the sea--and engaged his curiosity about the real Beatrice Lockwood, whose spirit, he suspects, is not as delicate as her face and figure. He does know one thing, though: This flame-haired beauty was present the night Roland Fleming died at the Academy of the Occult. Guilty or not, she is his guide to a trail of blood and blackmail, mesmerism and madness--a path that will lead both of them into the clutches of a killer who calls himself the Bone Man. . . .

From the moment the stranger burst into her antiquities shop in Rome, Lavinia Lake knew he was nothing but trouble He said he was in pursuit of a killer and swore he was only trying to save her Yet Lavinia was convinced that Mr Tobias March was bent instead on destroying her... Desde el mismo momento en el que aquel extraño irrumpio en su tienda de antiguedades en Roma, Lavinia Lake supo que aquel hombre le iba a traer problemas Dijo que estaba persiguiendo a un asesino y juro que solo estaba intentando salvar la vida de Lavinia Ya entonces ella estaba convencida de que Mr Tobias March estaba en cambio decidido a destruirla...

El primer beso fue en un pasillo escasamente iluminado de la mansión de Edwin Hastings. Louisa no lo vio venir… Claro que era imposible que Anthony Stalbridge albergara intenciones románticas: el beso sólo supuso una medida desesperada para evitar que el guardia los descubriera donde no debían estar. Lo único que ambos intrusos tenían en común era su interés por los asuntos privados del señor Hastings, un hombre poderoso de quien sospechaban que albergaba terribles secretos...

Sharp-witted lady''s companion Emma Greyson has as much trouble holding a job as she does holding her tongue But lack of references can''t deter Emma; she just writes her own and finagles a new position Her present employment brings Emma to a tedious house party in the country where she spends most of her time trying to dodge the lecherous groping of the gentlemen guests... La voluntariosa asistente de damas Emma Greyson esta teniendo tantos problemas para mantener un trabajo como para refrenar su lengua Pero la falta de referencias no detiene a Emma, simplemente escribe las suyas propias y espera poder encontrar una nueva posicion...

El primer beso ocurrió en un pasillo escasamente iluminado de la mansión de Edwin Hastings. Louisa no lo vio venir… Claro que era imposible que Anthony Stalbridge albergara intenciones románticas: el

Leona Hewitt, a crystal reader, and Thaddeus Ware, a hypnotist, meet trying to steal the same relic_the aurora stone_from a private collection, but a murdered prostitute and a trap protecting the stone initially complicate their success. Thaddeus, hired by the Arcane Society to claim the stone, allows the plot's loudly grinding gears to ally him with Leona. Amanda Quick's new Arcane Society novel reveals the passionate_and paranormal_secrets of proper Victorian London.

Leona Hewitt, una talentosa experta en cristales, no es la única que está intentando introducirse en el museo privado de Lord Delbridge para recuperar una reliquia. Thaddeus Ware, un hipnotizador con habliidades psíquicas, también está embarcado en una misión similar.... Una apasionante historia que transcurrre en la época victoriana y combina romance e intriga con elementos sobrenaturales.

Leona Hewitt, disguised in men's formal evening clothes, has secretly made her way into Lord Delbridge's private museum to find a relic stolen from her family. But someone else is in the dimly lit gallery on the same errand: a tall, black-cloaked man whose very voice is enough to put her in a trance.

Imogen Waterstone has always prided herself on being a thoroughly independent young woman, but now she needs a man of implacable will and nerves of iron. That''s why she invited Matthias Marshall, infamous Earl of Colchester, to her home in Upper Strickland. Who better than the legendary explorer to help her lay the perfect trap? Her scheme is simple, really: She plans to let it be known that when she inherited her uncle''s collection of antiquities, she also inherited a map to a fabulous ancient treasure. She''s sure that her enemy would risk financial ruin in pursuit of the mythical artifact. And to make doubly sure the scoundrel took the bait, she wants Colchester to pretend that he''s out to seduce Imogene so that he, too, could get his hands on her map. Yet in all of her plotting, Imogene never anticipates Colchester''s violent reaction to her request or her own electrifying reaction to him. Neither does she expect that a malevolent threat would emerge from the labyrinth of London--sinister enough to endanger her and Colchester''s lives.