Amanda Quick

Vuelve la reina de la intriga romántica ambientada en la epoca victoriana. Calista Langley regenta en el Londres victoriano una agencia de "presentaciones" dirigida a damas y caballeros respetables que buscan pareja. Desde hace un tiempo, esta recibiendo obsequios siniestros -un espejo negro, una corona funebre, una campanilla de ataud...- todos con sus iniciales grabadas. Convencida de que obtendra ayuda de la policia, Calista recurre a Trent Hastings, un solitario escritor de novelas de misterio poco afecto a las relaciones sociales. Mientras Trent y Calista revisan los archivos de los clientes rechazados con la esperanza de identificar al acosador, comienza a ser obvio que la clave podria proceder del pasado secreto de Calista... y que la vida de esta corre peligro.La critica ha dicho..."Quick sabe lo que las lectoras esperan, y lo entrega con creces en su ultima y fascinante novela romantica historica. La ambientacion victoriana, perfectamente conseguida, le añade un toque de sabor gotico a la historia, y la trama, de buen ritmo, ofrece los suficientes escalofrios y momentos de sensualidad para hacernos suspirar de satisfaccion. La guinda de esta novela irresistible es la agudeza caracteristica de Quick, tan deliciosa como

Déjate sorprender por esta fabulosa novela romántica de Amanda Quick que te permitirá conocer a una pareja hecha para amarse y las aventuras que les unirán para siempre.La agencia de secretarias de Ursula Kern proporciona servicios profesionales a una exclusiva clientela, y Anne Clifton era una de sus mejores empleadas. Sin embargo, la señorita Clifton ha sufrido un tragico destino, y Ursula esta convencida de que no se debe a causas naturales.Slater Roxton, arqueologo y aventurero, cree que la señora Kern se esta inmiscuyendo en un asunto demasiado peligroso. Si la misteriosa y guapisima viuda insiste en agitar el avispero, no tendra mas remedio que estar cerca de ella mientras ambos deambulan por el lado mas tenebroso de la alta sociedad.Para descubrir la identidad del asesino, tal vez tengan que desvelar sus propios secretos...Reseñas:Amanda Quick es una narradora excepcional.LosAngelesDaily NewsDeliciosa en muchos sentidos. Una novela que encantara por igual a los amantes de las novelas romanticas y las de intriga.BookPageUna trama agil que nos sumerge una yotra vez en el sordido submundo londinense.The Seattle TimesUna novela romantica historica de primer nivel, que ofrece una perfecta combinacion de dialogo chispeante, personajes atrayentes y abundante pasion.BooklistAmanda Quick en estado puro... Una historia de amor habilmente urdida.Examiner.comCon ingenio descarado, un toque mistico y deliciosa sensualidad, Quick arrastra a las lectoras a otra deliciosa escapada, llena de humor, que los dejara sonrientes y satisfechos.LibraryJournal

Calista Langley operates an exclusive 'introduction; agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. But now, a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable only for those in deepest mourning - a black mirror, a funeral wreath, a ring set with black jet stone. Each is engraved with her initials.Desperate for help and fearing that the police will be of no assistance, Calista turns to Trent Hastings, a reclusive author of popular crime novels. Believing that Calista may be taking advantage of his lonely sister, who has become one of her clients, Trent doesn't trust her. Scarred by his past, he's learned to keep his emotions at bay, even as an instant attraction threatens his resolve.But as Trent and Calista comb through files of rejected clients in hopes of identifying her tormentor, it becomes clear that the danger may be coming from Calista's own secret past - and that only her death will satisfy the stalker...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s California--where the most dazzling of illusions can't hide the darkest secrets... After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover. In Burning Cove, no one is who they seem. Behind facades of glamour and power hide drug dealers, gangsters, and grifters. Into this make-believe world comes psychic to the stars Madame Zolanda. Adelaide and Jake know better than to fall for her kind of con. But when the medium becomes a victim of her own dire prediction and is killed, they're drawn into a murky world of duplicity and misdirection. Neither Adelaide nor Jake can predict that in the shadowy underground they'll find connections to the woman Adelaide used to be--and uncover the specter of a killer who's been real all along...

Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex.Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives - an arresting stranger too daring, too determined, too dangerous to be her new man-of-affairs. Still, perhaps he was the perfect person to help Charlotte investigate the recent murder of one of her clients. So she gave him a chance, never realising that Baxter, a gifted scientist, would soon conduct a risky exploration into the alchemy of desire, with Charlotte as his subject. But even as he sets out to seduce Charlotte, a twisted killer lies in wait, ready to part the lovers...or see them joined together forever - in death.

A lady with a secret past. A man in search of a killer. They thought they had nothing in common- until their first kiss.

Leo Drake, the "Mad Monk of Monkcrest," is notoriously eccentric and unquestionably reclusive.But he is also a noted antiquities expert, which is why Beatrice Poole has demanded his reluctant assistance. The freethinking authoress of "horrid novels," Beatrice is searching for the Forbidden Rings of Aphrodite, a mythic treasure she suspects played a role in her uncle's death.Beatrice finds Leo every bit as fascinating as one of the heroes in her novels--and she's convinced he's the only one who can help her.But after only five minutes in her company, Leo is sure he's never met a woman more infuriating...and more likely to rescue him from boredom. Yet the alliance may well prove to be the biggest mistake of their lives.For a villain lurks in London, waiting for the pair to unearth the Forbidden Rings--knowing that when they do, that day will be their last....

Mischief 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.

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 está 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 posición...

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.

Quick (aka Jayne Ann Krentz) delivers her reliable blend of sex and suspense in her latest Arcane Society novel. In Victorian London, spinster botanist and psychic Lucinda Bromley meets her match in Caleb Jones, a member of the Arcane Society and descendant of an alchemist family that makes him the stuff of myth and legend. Together, this paranormal pair of snoops sets out to track down a thief who made off with a dangerous plant implicated in the death of a wealthy lord, but wind up uncovering a sinister secret order. Quick invents two dazzling 19th-century sleuths who combine paranormal prowess and raw sexual heat. But if they excel at fooling Mother Nature, it's their all too human nature that brings this uncommon Victorian duo to life.

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The seductive new novel of late-Victorian-era passion and intrigue from New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick, an exceptional storyteller who sets the standard for historical romance.