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Attempting to recover a relic stolen from her family years ago, gifted crystal worker Leona Hewitt secretly makes her way into Lord Delbridge's private museum. But who she finds there is more entrancing than the crystal she seeks.
Thaddeus Ware is a mesmerist with powerful psychic energy—that doesn't seem to be affecting the woman before him. Instead, Leona seems to exert a rather hypnotic power over the hypnotist himself. After she gives him the slip, absconding with the crystal they recovered, Thaddeus fears for her safety. For he is on assignment for the secretive Arcane Society and knows that the crystal holds the potential for great destruction. It is the key to Lord Delbridge's membership in a shadowy group known as the Third Circle. The nobleman killed before to acquire the crystal, and Thaddeus has no doubt that he will kill again.
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Release date
August 8, 2023 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9798765089613
- File size: 294468 KB
- Duration: 10:13:28
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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The fourth installment of the Arcane Society series keeps up with the Victorian-era Joneses in the quest for the powerful Aurora stone. Thaddeus Ware, a mesmerist and Jones family member; Leona Hewitt, a crystal worker; and a host of villains are after the stone. Although the full series moves back and forth between nineteenth-century England (written by the author as Amanda Quick) and modern-day America (written by the author as Jayne Anne Krentz), each book can be enjoyed as a stand-alone. After a slow start with an extremely busy plot, narrator Anne Flosnik picks up the pace of her performance and characterizations. Flosnik is at her best in several humorous scenes involving the lore of "Sybil, the Virgin Sorceress" and in the romance between Thaddeus and Leona. G.O. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine -
February 18, 2008
In Quick's (Jayne Ann Krentz's pseudonym) mediocre latest installment to the Arcane Society series, 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. Both Leona and Thaddeus are sensible and pragmatic, qualities that make for efficient sleuths but passionless lovers, and Quick has to try unusually hard to make their romance believable. The story fares better when it focuses on the crystal and its connections to secret societies, to the Midnight Monster (a hackneyed serial killer) and to Leona's personal history. When the plot threads finally pull taut and the villains' motives and schemes are completely (if clumsily) exposed, Leona is endangered in a suspenseful climax. This is unlikely to garner Quick any new fans, or even delight her devotees, but it will tide them over until the next episode.
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